Innovations in Internationalisation at Home

Dr Anthony Manning is Dean for Internationalisation at the University of Kent, UK. His area of academic specialism is internationalisation of the curriculum and the teaching and assessment of English for Academic Purposes (EAP), Modern Foreign Languages and academic skills. His recent publications are associated with training for educators in the assessment of EAP, and he is one of the principal authors of The Transferable Academic Skills Kit (TASK). He is a Principal Fellow of AdvanceHE’s Higher Education Academy, and a Trustee for the British Accreditation Council.

Dr Silvia Colaiacomo is a Lecturer in the Arena Centre for Research-Based Education at University College London, where her main area of responsibility is overseeing the teacher training provision for Postgraduate Teaching Assistants. Her background is in the history of art and modern foreign languages, and her current focus is academic development programmes for teaching and support staff. She is particularly interested in internationalisation of the curriculum, and exploring the interaction between space, pedagogy and technology in different disciplinary settings.