Dr Milada (Millie) Walkova

Profile

Since I joined the University of Leeds in 2018, I have been teaching on a variety of courses of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) for postgraduate researchers and taught undergraduate and postgraduate students. I also teach on the online MA programme in Teaching English for Academic Purposes (Text Analysis, CPD and Scholarship, and Dissertation/Portfolio modules). As a visiting lecturer, I have also taught doctoral candidates in Slovakia, France and Indonesia, and trained university teachers in the area of doctoral education in Indonesia.

I am an active scholar and I promote scholarship in EAP. I have served as the Administrator of the Baleap Critical Friend Network (2023-2025) and on the editorial board of several journals – the Language Scholar, ESP Today and Ostrava Journal of English Philology. Within the university, I am a member of the Pedagogic Research in the Arts (PRiA) working group.

I am interested in supervising PhD students in the area of linguistic approaches to written academic texts. Students interested in my supervision should get in touch with a topic that is clearly related to linguistic aspects of academic writing.

Responsibilities

• Module (Co)Leader of MA TEAP modules Text analysis and Dissertation/Portfolio
• Module Leader of pre-sessional for PGRs

Research interests

• EAP in doctoral education, with a current LITE-funded project on a theory-informed, co-constructed pedagogical framework for the development of academic language and communication.
• EAP teaching and learning materials development, with a current project focusing on theory-informed materials developed by EAP practitioners.
• Various aspects of academic writing; author of Teaching academic writing for EAP: Language foundations for practitioners (2024, Bloomsbury) reviewed in STLE.
  

• Linguistic approaches to EAP; editor of Linguistic approaches in EAP: Expanding the discourse (2024, Bloomsbury) reviewed in JEAP and JSLW.

• Scholarship of EAP/Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL); convenor of EuroSoTL SIG Learning to do SoTL.

• PGRs’ development of academic language and communication: How do PGRs wish to be supported in addition to supervisory feedback?

Qualifications

• PhD in English Linguistics
• DELTA Cambridge, with specialism in English for Academic Purposes
• HEA Fellow
• MA in British and American Studies, with thesis in English for Academic Purposes
• PG Cert in English Language Teaching

Professional memberships

• BALEAP (The global forum for EAP professionals); BALEAP SIG Doctoral Education
• EuroSOTL Network; EuroSoTL SIG Learning to do SoTL
• European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing (EATAW)
• International Doctoral Education Network
• International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL)
• Warwick International Higher Education Academy (WIHEA)

Student education

English for Academic Purposes; Teaching English for Academic Purposes