Alex Ding

you can read a short blog post about the book if you are interested celt.leeds.ac.uk/news/book-pu...

If you have an interest in SOTL and reflexivity you might be interested in this talk mymedia.leeds.ac.uk/Mediasite/Pl... where i discuss scholarship as a potential remedy against various forms of deceit, epistemic vices (especially those now considered virtues in neoliberal universities)

Seminar: Scholarship and Reflexivity | Alex Ding Looking forward to discussing issues affecting the field of language education, how reflexivity can develop collective lucidity, and how this lucidity can lead to greater agency. I'll also be discussi...

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Oh that's very nice to hear, thank you. I'm glad you found the book of interest and I'd be very interested to know what colleagues think of it, if you manage to get a reading group going.

Short visit to the University of Indonesia in Jakarta. Lovely students and cats.

Imagine the banality of a university where the only ratified areas of study are ‘complex analysis’ and ‘critical thinking’. Thinking about what? We have already seen what happens when we unleash a cadre of overrated, narrowly-educated adolescents whose only thought is of their own exceptionalism.

I hope you find it interesting!

"Labels dehumanise us and inevitably lead to deficit narratives"

🗣️ Ramzi Merabet's brilliant keynote at BALEAP 2025 problematizing the 'international student' label 🏷️

@ramzimerabet.bsky.social @wilhardman.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1002/asi.... Self-citation and self-reference: Credibility and promotion in academic publication
Ken Hyland

I'm not expert on these matters... having read an article where the author berates the field for not acknowledging their contribution to the field (in so many words) their article includes 30% self-citation. I know average %s vary depending on the field and status of the academic but seems odd to me

You might be interested in the volume Laetitia Monbec and I co-authored and just published. Monbec, L. & Ding, A. (2025). Recovering Language in Higher Education: Social Justice, Ethics and Practices (Palgrave Macmillan).
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

So glad this is out and we can offer a platform for colleagues to share their scholarship on Spanish language teaching and learning: cvc.cervantes.es/ensenanza/bi...

Profs. Bee Bond and Alex Ding - Joint Inaugural Lecture We invite you to join us for our joint inaugural lecture entitled "Language and Legitimation in Higher Education"

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/profs-bee-... Bee Bond & I are giving a hybrid talk ‘Language & Legitimation in Higher Education’ Wednesday, November 20 5-7pm at the University of Leeds This is our joint inaugural public lecture to mark our promotion to Professor of EAP details in the link

Profs. Bee Bond and Alex Ding - Joint Inaugural Lecture We invite you to join us for our joint inaugural lecture entitled "Language and Legitimation in Higher Education"

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/profs-bee-... Bee Bond & I are giving a hybrid talk ‘Language & Legitimation in Higher Education’ Wednesday, November 20 5-7pm at the University of Leeds This is our joint inaugural public lecture to mark our promotion to Professor of EAP details in the link

Leading universities urged to take no more than 10% of students from private schools Expanding access to Oxbridge and other leading institutions would boost social mobility, say authors of new book

www.theguardian.com/education/20... It would be interesting to know the socio-economic backgrounds of academic staff and how many had been educated in private schools. And whether there are disciplinary differences in staff privately educated

sounds interesting! The book is pretty dark in places - well the first half - but it does offer something more positive and something we hope to talk about this year at Leeds and elsewhere.

🧵It was a pleasure to write this with Laetitia and she was very much the architect of this book. I’m glad I could contribute to it. It was also uncomfortable to write as we came to arguments and conclusions that we think will provoke. A short extract ...

🧵We have tried to discuss social justice and Higher Education by considering the role of language ontology, of ethics and social theory, and of pedagogy. We use social semiotics and Bourdieu's field theory to address these issues.

🧵It’s an uncomfortable read and as we write ‘the opinion and judgments expressed in the volume might go against readers’ positions, or unquestioned thoughts’.

🧵Laetitia Monbec and I have just submitted our manuscript to Palgrave and our book ' Recovering Language in Higher Education: Social Justice, Ethics and Practices' should be published in the next few months.

agreed! and just using only first names when talking about colleagues (usually senior) in a meeting (clearly indicating the status and social/professional circle of the person name dropping)

'Only a cog in a machine?: Reappraising institutionalized EAP teacher identities in a transnational context' doi.org/10.1016/j.je... An interesting read for EAP practitioners and anyone involved in EMI