Teaching and teaching interests

My role is teaching-focused, and as such I explore many areas that relate to the teaching and learning of Academic Skills and of EAP. I have particular interests in:

• reading and writing/composition processes
• student-generated learning
• the relationship between content and skills in university education
• the genres of academic writing
• the role of writing in the learning process
• source-use and issues surrounding plagiarism

Professional interests

My professional interests centre on teaching and learning.  My role as Faculty Liaison for Management, Economics and Law involves collaborating with academic departments in the design and delivery of subject-specific academic skills support.

 As a member of CeDAS’s Teaching and Learning Committee, I am involved in ensuring consistency and maintenance of QA across all of CeDAS’s portfolio of courses and programmes, as well as helping shape the pedagogical direction of the Centre.

• ‘Avoiding “de-plagiarism”? Fostering creative academic writing that doesn’t need to plagiarise in the first place’ – Writing Development in Higher Education, Plymouth, 2016
• Wrigley, S. (2016) ‘How universities can help students avoid plagiarism: get them to write better’, The Conversation, 12 January.
• ‘Embedding academic literacy development on a Master’s programme: a case study’ - 
• European Association of Teachers of Academic Writing, Technical University of Tallinn, 2015
• ‘Innovations in teaching research skills in an EAP context: a dissertation course for Pre-master’s students’ -  British Association of Lecturers of EAP, Leicester, 2015
• ‘Adapting “Scaffolding Academic Literacy” pedagogy for an EAP context’ – British Association of Lecturers of EAP, Nottingham, 2013
• ‘Academic listening in testing times: the search for authenticity’ - British Association of Lecturers of EAP, Nottingham, 2013
• ‘Towards a “Literacy for Academic Purposes”? How Academic Literacies might contribute to our understanding of the academic writing of international students’ - European Association of Teachers of Academic Writing, University of Limerick, 2011

• BAAL
• BALEAP
• EATAW