Dr Martin Ward

Profile

After graduating from the University of Leeds in 1999 with a B.A. in Chinese and Japanese Studies I went to Hiroshima University in Japan as a Monbusho Scholar, where I gained my M.Ed (2003) and PhD (2006) in Asian Culture in Japanese .

I later spent a number of years in Taiwan working in a non-profit organisation, followed by teaching at a university in mainland China.

Returning to the UK, I joined East Asian Studies at Leeds in the summer of 2017.

I am a member of the British Association for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language

Responsibilities

• Lecturer in East Asian Studies

Research interests

I am engaged in on-going research into the teaching of Japanese translation at British universities.

Qualifications

• PhD (Asian Culture)
• M.Ed (Asian Culture)
• B.A. Chinese and Japanese Studies

Professional memberships

• BATJ

Student education

I mainly teach Chinese to English and Japanese to English translation at undergraduate and post-graduate levels, as well as other areas.

Research groups and institutes

• Japanese