Dr Alison Standring

Alison's role includes coordinating the Language Centre’s taught provision to ensure that it meets the needs of LSE learners, coordinating the EAP (English for Academic Purposes) programmes, and overseeing academic mentorship for undergraduate students on our BSc International Relations and Chinese and BSc Language, Culture and Society programmes.

Prior to LSE, Alison lived and worked in Zambia, Papua New Guinea, Botswana, Bahrain and Poland. She has a BA in Politics and International Relations from Warwick University, an MA in English Language Teaching from Nottingham University and an EdD from Bristol University. Alison's main areas of interest are language learning policy and practice, communication, course design, corpus analysis and genre analysis.

Expertise

Communication, Course Design