Jane Heath

Profile

Recent presentations:

Heath, J., Butt, H. and Smith, E. Trialling a ‘students as partners’ approach to co-design a curriculum for an EGAP pre-sessional course. September, Language Centre summer 2022 conference, University of Leeds.

Heath, J. 2021. Whose voice is loudest in EAP tutorials? November, BALEAP PIM, online.

Butt, H., Heath, J. and Plug, L. 2021. Flipgrid for teaching, learning and assessment. October, Digital Workshop, School of Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of Leeds.

Heath, J. 2021. Who is the expert here? When EAP tutors are not experts in their students’ discipline(s). July, University of Leeds Language Centre summer 2021 conference, online.

Heath, J. 2021. Digital Inclusivity: Allowing students to choose their own breakout rooms. January, Pedagogic Research in the Arts (PRiA) Digital Lunch, University of Leeds.

de Pauw, D. and Heath, J. 2020. “If we were on campus....”: reflections on managing the multiple spaces of online teaching. October, BALEAP TELSIG 2020 conference, online. 

de Pauw, D. and Heath, J. 2020. Reflections on managing the workload of online teaching, from two module leaders' perspectives. August, University of Leeds Language Centre summer 2020 conference, online.

Heath, J. 2020. Lessons learnt: Assessing students through online presentations. August, University of Leeds Language Centre summer 2020 conference, online.

Heath, J. 2019. Differentiation in EAP: Why and How? August, University of Leeds Language Centre summer 2019 conference, Leeds.

Heath, J. 2019. Time to Think: Building Thinking Time into our Lessons. August, University of Leeds Language Centre summer 2020 conference, Leeds.

Recent and upcoming publications:

De Pauw, D. and Heath, J. 2022. “If we were on campus...”: Reflectiong on managing the multiple spaces of online teaching. The Language Scholar.

Heath, J. 2021. Supporting student learning in an emergency remote teaching situation through the provision of support and sharing of good practices across a large teaching team. BALEAP Special Edition. 

Heath, J. 2020. Lessons learnt on delivering a pre-sessional EAP course online. 8 June. Centre for Excellence in Language Teaching Blog. [Online]. Available from: https://celt.leeds.ac.uk/lessons-learnt-from-delivering-a-pre-sessional-eap-course-online/ 

Heath, J. 2020. Reflections on Webinars. 8 June. Centre for Excellence in Language Teaching Blog. [Online]. Available from: https://celt.leeds.ac.uk/reflections-on-webinars/ 

Current research projects:

An exploratory study of student experiences of online consultations on a pre-sessional EAP course. 

Co-creating a curriculum with business in-sessional EAP students.

Responsibilities

• School Digital Education Academic Lead
• Programme Leader (Business strand of the Content Based Pre-sessional Programme)
• Module Leader (Academic English for Postgraduate Study Level 3 and Language for Marketing)

Qualifications

• BA Modern Languages, University of Durham, First Class Honours, 2010
• MA Applied Translation Studies, University of Leeds, 2011
• Cambridge DELTA, 2013
• PGCE Secondary MFL, 2015

Professional memberships

• Advance HE Fellowship, 2020
• BALEAP Fellowship, 2023

Student education

I am currently the Language Centre’s Digital Education Academic Lead.

I am programme leader for one strand of the Language Centre’s Content-Based Pre-sessional Programme. 

Additionally, I lead two pre-sessional modules.

Research groups and institutes

• Language Centre