Wendy Altınörs

Profile

I have worked as an English Language teacher (EAP, EFL, ESOL, EAL, ESP) for over thirty years in a wide range of contexts - including Japan, Turkey and the UK Higher Education and Further Education sectors. I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (Advance HE). I have been a teacher trainer (CELTA and DELTA) for over twenty years and have substantial International Foundation Year (IFY) course and module leadership experience. This includes IFY Maths and Social Sciences modules. Additionally, I have developed, taught and held module lead roles on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. I also have dissertation supervison experience at undergraduate and Master’s level including MA ELT, MA TESOL and MA Education courses.

Research interests

My research interests are related to migration, integration and belonging. I am especially interested in multilevel, historical effects of ethnic boundary making.

My current PhD study explores intergenerational perceptions of integration through a family case study of Turkish migration to Germany using an analytical framework of positioning and ethnic boundary making.

Conference Presentations:

• August 2021 - European Sociological Association 15th annual Conference, Barcelona (online) "Second-Generation” Youth: Acts and Lived Experiences of Citizenship.
• October 2020- Centre for Teaching and Learning, Leeds Beckett University, autumn forum reflections on online teaching.
• July 2017 – Centre for Teaching and Learning, Leeds Beckett University, Conference workshop delivery on effective student induction.
• June 2017 - Centre for Research and Innovation in Childhood, Education and Society (RICHES), Leeds Beckett University research seminar presentation. The Other Turk: Perceptions of integration in Germany through an intergenerational lens.
• April 2006- IATEFL Conference, Harrogate: Expertise in text exploitation for language learning (with Heather Buchanan, York University).

Publications:

• Altinors, W. (2021) Carnegie Education. ‘Any other’ mixed ethnicity: reflections on census 2021, 30 March. [Online]. Available from:< https://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/blogs/carnegie-education/2021/03/any-other-mixed-ethnicity/>
• Holmes, M., Flint, A and Altinors, W. (2012) International Foundation Student Conference. InForm, 10, October, pp. 11-12.

Qualifications

• BA (Hons) Modern History
• MSc Education and Training
• PGCEA
• DELTA
• CTEFLA

Professional memberships

• Advance HE
• BALEAP
• ESA
• IMISCOE

Student education

I am a lecturer in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) working on a range of programmes in the Language Centre.

Research groups and institutes

• Language Centre