Staff Research

A summary

This provides a sample of published research from staff in the International Academy.

Name Subject Interests Publications
& work in progress
Iliari Boncori Linguistics and Management
  • cross cultural communication
  • second language acquisition
  • Chinese language and culture
  • international management
PhD in Management at the University of Essex (topic: Chinese Business Etiquette)
Tony Clohesy Politics, British Culture and Society   Publications:
Contemporary Political Theorists in Context (co-author), Routledge, 2009
The Politics of Empathy: ethics, solidarity and recognition, Routledge, 2010
‘Provisionalism and the (im)possibility of justice in Northern Ireland’, Discourse theory and political analysis, Manchester University Press, 2000
‘The Human Rights Act: politics, power and the law’, Discourse Theory in European Politics: Identity, Policy and Governance, Palgrave, 2005
‘Britain’s invisible dividends’, Politics, Vol. 23, May 2003
‘New Labour ideology: assessing the post-marxist critique’, Journal of Political Ideologies, Vol. 7, February 2002
‘Partition’ Encyclopaedia of Democratic thought, Routledge, 2001
‘Democratic Deficit’ Encyclopaedia of Democratic thought, Routledge, 2001
Collection of Essex papers published by the department of Government, University of Essex.
Nilufer Demirkan-Jones

Linguistics

  • Reading strategies;
  • Teaching Young Learners;
  • Intercultural Communication

May 2006 ‘Exploring the importance of identity for the East Asian students in an EAP context: A case study’ The East Asian Learner: An Academic Journal for Teachers and Researchers Volume 2, No. 2, May 2006, available here.

Spring 2000 ‘Case Assignment in Turkish and English’ Journal of the Social Sciences Institute. Refereed Journal. Erciyes University, Kayseri. Number: 9, pp.359-367

June 1999 ‘Improper Use of Turkish and Role of Mass Media’ Dil ve İnsan: Language and Language Teaching Journal, TÖMER Publications, Ankara University, Ankara, May/June 1999. No.19. pp. 13-19

June 1999 ‘Factors Affecting Language Teaching Materials Evaluation’ Philologia Department of English Language and Literature Annual Journal. Erciyes University, Kayseri. pp. 6-11

Cindy Leaney  
  • English Language Teacher development, Reading, Young learners.
  • Vocabulary teaching and learning, Blended Learning
Books:
Dictionary Activities, Leaney C. (2007) Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers, CUP
Pollution - Your Environment, Leaney, C. (2005), Franklin Watts.
In the Know, Leaney C. (2005) CUP
Junior Dictionary and Thesaurus, Leaney C. (2005) Bardfield Press
Friendly Phonics Series (24 titles), Leaney, C. (2004), Rourke Classroom Resources
The Hero Club Series, (12 titles), Leaney, C. (2003), Rourke Classroom Resources
My First Fun Thesaurus, Leaney C. (2002), Miles Kelly Publishing
My First Fun Dictionary , Leaney C. (2001), Miles Kelly Publishing
Oprah Winfrey, Leaney, C. (2000), Penguin Graded Readers
The Rainmaker, adapted by Leaney, C. (1999) Penguin Graded Readers
Book Chapters:
Richards, J and Sandy, C. Passages Level 1 - 2 ed. (2008) CUP: Review and Self-study units
Richards, J and Sandy, C. Passages Level 2 - 2 ed. (2008) CUP Review and Self-study units
John Pisokas Electronics Engineering and Computing
  • Artificial Intelligence
    Robotics
  • Spatial Cognition
  • Virtual Worlds for Teaching and Learning
Book chapters
John Pisokas and Ulrich Nehmzow, "Experiments in Subsymbolic Action Planning with Mobile Robots",
In Book Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems II, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. 2005.

John Pisokas, "Subsymbolic Planning for Space and Planetary Exploration Robots", In Student Book of
the 5th E.S.A. Student Participation Program to the 54th International Astronautical Federation,
European Space Agency Education Office, Germany, 2003.
      Journal articles
John Pisokas and Ulrich Nehmzow, Subsymbolic Action Planning for Mobile Robots,
Special Issue of the
Journal for Robotics and Autonomous Systems.
John Scott

Virtual Worlds for Teaching and Learning

  • Use of Virtual World applications for Teaching
    and Learning within HE and Schools.
Gardner. M., Scott, J, Horan B.,
EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 43, no. 5 (September/October 2008)

Click here for the link.
   
  • Currently deploying experimental systems for use within
    International Academy and Health and Human Sciences.
Callaghan V, Gardner M, Scott J, Shen L, Shen R, Wang M, Horan B (2008). ,
"A Mixed Reality Teaching and Learning Environment".
International Conference on Hybrid Learning 2008 (ICHL 2008)
   
  • Working on a Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)-funded sustem for an Immersive Mixed Reality Language Learning
Gardner M, Scott J & Horan B (2008). ,
‘Reflections on the use of Project Wonderland as a mixed-reality
environment for teaching and learning’.
ReLIVE 08 conference, Open University, UK.

 

 

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