Co-directors:
Professor Julia Gillen Lancaster University,

Professor Uta Papen Lancaster University,

Members:

Dr Oksana Afitska  Lancaster University

Dr Julianne Burgess Western University
I am a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at Western University in Canada. I obtained my PhD in 2022 from Brock University. My research interests include literacies and early learning, translanguaging and sociomateriality, multiliteracies, and arts-based and decolonizing pedagogies and methodologies.

Professor Euline Cutrim Schmid University of Education Schwäbisch Gmünd
Euline Cutrim Schmid is full professor of Applied Linguistics and TEFL at the University of Education Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany. She has a PhD in Linguistics and an M.A. in Language Teaching from Lancaster University, and she also holds an M.A. in Applied Linguistics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She has published and conducted research projects in the areas of computer-assisted language learning, language teacher education, and plurilingual pedagogies in foreign teaching and learning.

Dr Jamie Duncan
Dr Jamie Duncan’s publications include Researching protest literacies: Literacy as protest in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro (Routledge). Based in Brazil, Jamie Duncan is one of the co-convenors of the LLRC PhD student and ECR Network.

Dr Christopher Eaton University of Toronto
Christopher Eaton is an Associate Professor, Teaching Stream at the Institute for the Study of University Pedagogy (University of Toronto Mississauga). Broadly, he focuses on how students can inform writing, literacy pedagogies, and curriculum development. His recent work has examined the intersection of artificial intelligence, multimodal literacy and assessment, and multiliteracies.

Professor Rosie Flewitt Manchester Metropolitan University
Dr Rosie Flewitt is Emeritus Professor of Early Childhood Communication at MMU. Her work centres on how young children make meaning through combinations of spoken and written language, gaze, gesture, movement, images and sounds as they engage with the different people, places and artefacts they encounter at home, in care, education and community settings. Her research is driven by a commitment to respect individual children’s communication preferences, to enable all children to be listened to, heard and respected, to challenge barriers to inclusion, and to promote the development of inclusive pedagogy and education policy.  An interwoven thread which adds texture to this body of work is innovative research methodology, notably multimodal, visual, ethnographic and participatory approaches to conducting research with children and their families.

Dr Mel Hall Manchester Metropolitan University
Dr. Mel Hall is a Senior Lecturer in Childhood and Education Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University, with expertise in literacies as they relate to families, relationships, and childhoods. She was the Research Associate on the ESRC-funded project Understanding Drivers and Barriers to Shared Reading and is co-author (along with Professor Rachael Levy, UCL) of Family Literacies, which explores shared reading practices across diverse family contexts.

Professor Rachel Heydon Western University
Rachel Heydon is Professor of Curriculum Studies and Studies in Applied Linguistics at Western University. Her forthcoming publications include Heydon, R. & McTavish, M. Constructing Meanings: Teaching language arts K-8. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Dr Winnie Ho
Dr Winnie Ho is based in Hong Kong. She studied for her PhD at the Lancaster Literacy Research Centre.

Dr Catherine Hua Lancaster University
Catherine Hua, visiting researcher at Department of Linguistics and English Language, PhD in multimodal discourse analysis, research interest: multimodal discourse analysis, multiliteracies

Dr Kathrin Kaufhold  Stockholm University
Kathrin Kaufhold is Associate Professor in English Applied Linguistics at the Department of English, Stockholm University, Sweden. Her research interests include multilingual academic and professional writing as well as institutional communication. She is co-editor of Language Perceptions and Practices in Multilingual Universities (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) and Language and the Knowledge Economy: Multilingual Scholarly Publishing in Europe (Routledge, 2025).
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1925-0686.
Email: kathrin.kaufhold@english.su.se

Sebastian Muth Lancaster University

Diane Potts Lancaster University

Soledad Montez Sanchez Lancaster University
My research interests include academic literacies, writing during life course transitions, and the relationship between writing and inclusion in higher education. Currently, I am working on my Ph.D. thesis, which explores how economically disadvantaged students navigate transitions across contexts, genres, and identities as they move from school to university.

Dr Sabina Savadova University of Edinburgh
I am a Teaching Fellow in Childhood Studies and Practice at Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh. I hold a PhD in Education from the University of Edinburgh. I teach several courses across the BA Childhood Practice programme, where I also serve as Academic Cohort Lead for the programme. Recently, I was a Global Research Data Fellow at Childlight – Global Child Safety Institute and Research Associate for the Toddlers, Tech and Talk project at Lancaster University. I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

Dr Kerry Scattergood Solihull College
I am a lecturer in adult literacy and ITE, and have been teaching in further and adult education for over 20 years. My PhD explores social practice approaches to adult literacy learning in a Functional Skills classroom. I am also chair of the Research College Group and Research Lead within my college, with a passion for raising the capacity for practitioner research within the FE sector.

Junaity Sine Lancaster University
Junaity is the current co-convenor of the PhD student/ECR network.

Dr Paul Smith Manchester University
Dr Paul Vincent Smith is a Lecturer in Education at the Manchester Institute of Education. His primary interest is in academic writing in higher education, undertaken with the help of a variety of sociological approaches.

Dr Rachel Stubley
I taught ESOL and adult literacy in London, before moving into post-compulsory teacher education at the University of South Wales in 2002. One thing that kept me sane during my last (increasingly stressful) decade there was doing my PhD at Lancaster with Uta! My thesis was “Writing in post-compulsory teacher education: identities, practices and the profession”, and Uta and I are about to publish a paper based on this work in the Journal of Vocational Education and Training. I left USW in 2023 and have since returned to teaching and volunteering in my local community in Newport, South Wales.

Professor Karin Tusting Lancaster University

Dr Johann Unger Lancaster University

Honorary Lifetime Fellow: Mary Hamilton