Daniel Devane

Responsibilities:

Lecturer in English for Academic Purposes.
International Study and Language Institute's [ISLI] Academic Language and Literacy Liaison [ALLL] for the School of Humanities; School of Agriculture, Policy, and Development; and the School of Politics, Economics, and International Relations.
As a teaching-intensive lecturer in English for Academic Purposes I have responsibilities for convening, coordinating, designing, and delivering provision on the discipline-specific, general, and support academic language and literacy modules, courses, sessions, and webinars listed above.
Each department at Reading has a dedicated Academic Language & Literacy Liaison contact from our Academic English Programme. Since 2022, I have been the Liaison for the Schools and Departments also listed above.

Areas of interest

As a practitioner, particular areas of interest include: Digital Accessibility, Technology Enhanced Learning, Equity and Accessibility within Higher Education, Learner Autonomy, Internationalisation and Mobility, and Decolonising the Curriculum.
Broader research interests include: maximising state secondary school student performance, participation, and engagement; compulsory state secondary education structuring, funding, and syllabi; and equity and accessibility within the secondary state sector.

Module Convenor for the following discipline-specific language and literacy in-sessional modules:
- IL3AECEN Academic Writing for Economics [Undergraduate UG],
- ILMAECEN Academic Writing for Economics [Postgraduate PG],
- ILMAECDN Dissertation Writing for Economics [PG],
- IL3APIRN Advanced Oracy Skills for Politics and International Relations,
- IL2APIRN Academic Skills and Language for Politics and International Relations.
Coordinator of the academic language and literacy provision on the Personal and Professional Development Programme for International Students [IDM089] in the Graduate Institute of International Development, Agriculture, and Economics [GIIDAE].
Course tutor of general language and literacy in-sessional courses in Speaking; Social English; Pronunciation; Essay Writing; Core Academic Writing Skills; Dissertation and Thesis Writing; Academic Grammar; and Presentation Skills.
Session lecturer for the Academic English Programme's [AEP] webinars in Writing Genres; Building Blocks of Writing; Dissertation Writing; Grammar; and Vocabulary.
Teacher on the following language and literacy modules on year-round and summer Pre-sessional [PSE] courses: Integrated Academic Language and Skills 1-4; Academic Practices and Genres [UG and PG]; Communicating Academic Ideas; and Processing Academic Texts.
Academic Tutor for summer PSE courses and for writing and presentation consultations.

I have over 15 years teaching, pastoral, welfare, and leadership experience in primary, secondary, further, and higher education, both in the state and commercial sectors in the UK and abroad.
My expertise centres on creating and delivering bespoke content and language integrated learning [CLIL] project-based courses, as well as with language and subject-specific assessment and testing provision.
I joined the University of Reading in 2019, teaching on Pre-sessional English courses before joining the International Foundation Programme [IFP] the same year. Whilst with the IFP, I was responsible for coordinating the International English module and for reviewing, and redesigning, the syllabus and materials for blended flipped-learning.I have been part of the Academic English Programme since 2021 and have recently been working on a project to enhance reporting of digital accessibility needs across all ISLI programmes and modules. I have also been working with colleagues on reviewing and redesigning the pre-sessional curriculum.