Role
Lecturer, Academic Placement Manager
Malena Williams is a Lecturer in Academic and Professional Development as well as a Placement Manager in the Department of Computer Science, Nottingham Trent University.
Career overview
Magdalena Williams spent six years lecturing English for Academic Purposes at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland where she mainly taught postgraduate students and PhD candidates. She was also responsible for material development and curriculum design.
In 2018, 2019 and 2020 she was contracted by the University of Nottingham to be a pre-sessional tutor of Academic Purposes in the School of English Language Education supporting international students with their academic language development.
Magdalena Williams joined Nottingham Trent University in 2018 as an English for Academic Purposes Lecturer in the Nottingham Language Centre (now NILIC). She moved to the Department of Computer Science in 2021.
Research areas
Research Areas
Magdalena Williams is a PhD candidate in applied linguistics at Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany where she has been researching academic writing and participating in Chemnitz Africa/Asia Symposium on English (CASE) seminars for over 10 years.
Magdalena Williams received her MA in English Language and Corpus Linguistics from the University of Lodz, Poland, Postgraduate Certificate in Career Development from Nottingham Trent University, Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education from the University of London and Postgraduate Certificate in Economics and Management from the University of Economics in Cracow, Poland.
The focus of her work is academic writing, curriculum design, material development and supporting non-English speaking academics with their publications and professional development. Her work on making language and academic writing university curricula for PhD candidates more inclusive, skills-based and authentic gained her a Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy in 2022.
Magdalena is also a qualified level 7 Career Advisor.
External activity
Professional Bodies Membership
AGCA- Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services - Full Membership.
Advance HE. Senior Fellowship (SFHEA) March 2022.
Advance HE. Fellowship (FHEA) October 2019.
Publications
Publications (Peer-reviewed)
Williams, M. & Wilson, F. (2021). Thriving in Isolation: Facilitating Doctoral Candidates’ Confidence and Writing Success. In J. Schmied, J. Dheskali, M. Ivanova (Eds.). Research in English and Applied Linguistics. From Uncertainty to Confidence and Trust. REAL 18, (pp. 147-164). Göttingen, Germany: Cuvillier Verlag.
Rogozinska, M. (2015). Attaining academic literacy: University language instruction reforms for Polish PhD students. In J. Schmied (Ed.). Academic Writing for South Eastern Europe: Practical and Theoretical Perspectives. REAL 8, (pp. 53-67). Göttingen, Germany: Cuvillier Verlag.
SELECTED CONFERENCES
2022. Nottingham Trent University. TILT Annual Learning and Teaching Conference. Delivering a workshop: “Expanding Horizons – growing academic and professional skills for life-long success.”
2020. The British Association of Lecturers in English for Academic Purposes Conference (BALEAP). Exploring pedagogical approaches in EAP teaching.
2019. The University of Nottingham School of English Language Education. English for Academic Purposes Symposium.
2019. Nottingham Trent University. Nottingham Language Centre Conference: Language Teaching and Scholarship – Making the Link.
Delivering a presentation: Research Informed Teaching. The application of hedges in EAP teaching.
2017. Chemnitz University of Technology. Culture in Language, Academic English Variation in Research, Germany
Delivering a lecture: “Thesis and Dissertation Writing: A Case of Hedges in Academic Writing by Polish, German and English PhD Candidates.”
2017 Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland
Delivering a seminar “English for Publication Purposes” at the scientific event “Tydzien Jakosci Ksztalcenia”.
2016 The National University of Ireland, Galway. The 13th ESSE Conference.
Delivering a presentation: “Hedges in Polish and German PhD Dissertations. A corpus-based study”.
2016 Education First, Warsaw, Poland.
Teaching for Success: Towards Innovation in Language Education.
2015 Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany. English as an Academic Language Colloquium. Presenting a paper: “It strikes me that you are apparently mistaken. The challenges of stance in academic writing”.
2014 Joint LSSA, SAALA, SAALT Annual Conference, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Delivering a presentation: “Hedges in Academic Writing by Polish and German University Students.”
2013 Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany. Culture in Language, Academic English Variation in Research.
Delivering a presentation: “Hedges in Academic Writing. A corpus-based analysis