Responsibilities

Teaching

Web Design (1st-year); Management, Information Systems and Organizations (Foundation); Knowledge Management (3rd-year / Masters)

Background

Research Interests

Modern Foreign Languages teaching and pedagogy and its relationship with ICT; the music and writings of Erik Satie

Professional Interests

Founder and manager of the Real Language project including the RealFrench.net and RealSpanish.net websites.

Qualifications

2002-03 University of Sheffield, MSc Information Management

1988-93 St. Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, DPhil in French Literature, thesis entitled "Erik Satie Viewed as a Writer"

1984-88 Reading University, BA (Hons) French Studies

Biography

2003- Lecturer, Department of Information and Communications, Manchester Metropolitan University

1994- 2003 Lecturer, Department of Languages, Manchester Metropolitan University

1991- 93 Translator-lexicographer, Oxford-Hachette English-French Dictionary project

1993- 94 Technical translator, LCI , Jouy-en-Josas, France

Publications

‘Menus propos modernistes: Absurdity in Erik Satie's “La Journée du musicien”’, Nottingham French Studies, 44/2 (2005)

‘Erik Satie’s Sententious Writings’, Journal of Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association, 95 (2001), 55-74

‘Erik Satie’s Vexations - An Exercise in Immobility’, Canadian University Music Review, 21/2 (2001), 29-40

‘Grammatical and metalinguistic knowledge among post-A students of French Grammar’, Cahiers of the Association of French Language Studies, November 1999

‘CALL and the debate between communicative and structural approaches to grammar teaching’. Paper given at Exeter CALL conference on 11 / 9 / 99 and published in conference proceedings, CALL and the Learning Community, Exeter: Elm Bank Publications, Sept 1999