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Dr Eve Smith

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