
Dr Eve Smith
- Position: Lecturer in English For Academic Purposes
- Areas of expertise: academic literacy, academic English, research methods, digital research, media and cultural studies, Terry Pratchett, engagement, audience studies, fan studies, comedy studies, SFF, genre theory
- Email: E.D.Smith@leeds.ac.uk
- Phone: +44(0)113 343 1799
- Location: 2.02 15 Blenheim Terrace
Profile
I gained a 2:1 Joint Honours Degree in Drama and German from the University of HUll in 1995, this was followed my MA Film and Drama from the University of Reading in 1996.
I then left academia and worked as accountant studying for the professional qualifications of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, despite many achievements in this role I found that the training aspects of this role were the most enjoyable and eventually took the leap of returning to academia.
In 2004 I began a PhD alongside sessional teaching at Liverpool John Moores University, where I also gained the PG Cert in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. As well as teaching and squeezing my doctoral research, I worked as a research assistant on a number Teaching and Learning projects, such as looking at Reflective Writing as a method of assessment and how students engage with feedback. For many years I also acted as the main conference assistant for the Association for Research in Popular Fiction.
In 2007 I first taught Liverpool John Moores University’s BA (Hons) Mass Communications International Summer Programme, which began my work with International Students. I remained a core member of teaching staff for this programe until 2014, when the partnership with TAR college in Malaysia was discontinued.
In 2010 I began also teaching English and Academic Skills at Liverpool International College, where I taught students from around the globe on pathway courses into undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the University of Liverpool.
In 2018 I joined the Language Centre and Leeds University for the first time and was glad to return in 2019 teaching on a variety of courses including working with students at the UoL/SWJTU Joint School in Cheng Du. In 2022, I became module leader for a new on-line summer pre-sessional course in English for General Academic Purposes.
<h4>Research projects</h4> <p>Any research projects I'm currently working on will be listed below. Our list of all <a href="https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/dir/research-projects">research projects</a> allows you to view and search the full list of projects in the faculty.</p>Qualifications
- PhD Media, Culture and Communication
- PG Cert Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
- MA Film and Drama
- BA (Hons) German and Drama
Professional memberships
- FHEA (Advance HE/Higher Education Academy)
- ACMA/CGMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants)
Student education
Before coming to Leeds I taught a variety of Media and Communicatioon modules including research methods and theory modules, alongside this I taught English and Academic Skills for international students. My role at Leeds invovles teaching English for Academic Purposes and English for Specific Academic Purposes, where I have combined my subject knowledge in Media and Communication with my experience of teaching EAP to international students.
Research groups and institutes
- Language Centre