Philip Nathan

Biography

I am an Associate Professor and have a number of different roles at the English Language Centre. From October 2012 to 2016, I was Head of Teaching and Learning in the centre. I am currently Chair of the Departmental Undergraduate and Postgraduate Boards of Examiners and chair the department's Research and Scholarship committee. I am Director of the Centre's Academic Writing Unit which focuses on provision of academic writing support within the range of University departments, for example through providing extended courses to first year undergraduates in the Business School and a range of introductory and other academic writing focused sessions in various departments from Chemistry to Public Medicine and Health, to Applied Social Sciences to Politics. The Academic Writing Unit is also responsible for the department's one-to-one consultation service which I oversee and which delivered more than 1100 consultations in 2015-2016. The AWU also provides doctoral writing support sessions to doctoral students in the university.

Research Interest

My applied lingustics doctorate involved a study of business case report writing at UK universities, but I have a range of research interests from academic business writing, to disciplinary writing, to the use of language models.