Vander Viana

Dr Vander Viana (he/him) is Senior Lecturer in Language Education at the University of Edinburgh and a Senior Fellow of Advance HE (formerly known as Higher Education Academy). He has extensive first-hand experience of language teacher education in UK higher education, having worked in England, Northern Ireland and Scotland. He has wide international experience as well, having delivered guest lectures in several countries (e.g. Germany, Hungary and Japan) and having been invited to teach postgraduate courses in countries such as Brazil and Ukraine.  His research work on gender is embedded within the education and the practice of language education.

Key research interests include:

• Applied Linguistics, English language and Education.
• Teaching English to speakers of other languages
• English for academic purposes
• Language teacher education
• Corpus linguistics
• Data-driven learning
• Academic/pedagogical discourse analysis.

Current and notable research projects/ publications:

• Dr Vander Viana has led and contributed to several externally funded projects (e.g. British Academy, British Council, Newton Fund), involving numerous colleagues in large interdisciplinary teams. One of his most relevant gender-related research projects is “Gender-ing ELT [English language teaching]: International perspectives, practices and policies”, funded by the British Council, which was conducted in 10 countries eligible to receive official development assistance (Bangladesh, Botswana, Brazil, China, Colombia, Indonesia, Morocco, Philippines, Ukraine and Vietnam). The project examined the contribution that English language education can make to United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 5 on gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls.