JAROSLAW KRIUKOW
PERSONAL DETAILS
Nationality: Polish Address: 6 Parkhead Grove, Edinburgh EH11 4RZ Telephone number: +44 7450 227922 E-mail address: [email protected] Date of birth: 17.02.1985
PROFILE
- A pro-active and creative researcher with excellent planning, organisational and negotiation strengths, experienced in conceiving and conducting research projects, with proven analytic skills and the ability to use software for quantitative and qualitative data analysis.
- Familiar with, and experienced in, all of the aspects and challenges of conducting research, from funding bids preparation and designing research to data collection and analysis, and disseminating research, networking and facilitating knowledge exchange.
EDUCATION
2013 - 2017 PhD Education (Full-time)
The University of Edinburgh: Supervised by Dr Nicola Galloway and Dr Joan Cutting
Thesis title: ‘I can express myself, but not my self’: Investigating the English Language Identity of Polish migrants in Scotland’
Research suggests that the Polish migrants in Scotland do not integrate well with the local communities and tend to work below their qualification and education level. This is alarming, given the Government’s goal of retaining migrants as a way to address the issues of Scotland’s aging population and insufficient labour force. I investigated the relationship between the migrants’ sense of self and the English language to test the hypothesis of the way they perceive themselves as users of the language influences many aspects of their experience, including socialization practices and professional standing. I used the findings to initiate a project entitled “Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Community Engagement: facilitating collaboration with the current TESOL provision in Scotland” (see the Other Relevant Experience section).
2011 – 2012 MSc TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) (Full-time)
The University of Edinburgh
Dissertation: ‘The relationship between having a native English teacher and identity as an English speaker’
This Master’s programme prepared me well to both work and conduct research in the context of teacher education, course design, materials development and language assessment. I developed
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knowledge of how to apply the theories of language teaching and learning to classroom instruction, assessment, materials development and curriculum design.
2006-2009 BA English Language Teaching
The University of Zielona Gora (Poland)
EXPERIENCE (RESEARCH)
2017 January – 2018 January Research Assistant - University of Oxford
I worked on a project entitled “Global Englishes Language Teaching (GELT): Bridging the gap between theory and practice”. This is an investigation into the attitudes, and the reasons underlying these attitudes, of pre-service English teachers on an MSc TESOL programme towards GELT before and after taking the Global Englishes for Language Teaching option course via questionnaires, interviews and focus groups. My responsibilities included: - compiling literature reviews, - conducting interviews and moderating focus groups, - transcribing interview data, - analysing interview (n=40) and focus group (n=6) data, - analysing open-ended questionnaire responses (n=82), - developing thematic frameworks, - conducting within- and cross-case comparisons in NVivo, - running data queries in NVivo, - composing data tables and visualisations, - describing the data analysis procedures and results for 2 book chapters and 3 academic articles, - creating lists of references in Mendeley.
2015-2017 Research Assistant - The University of Edinburgh
I was employed by Dr Nicola Galloway to help with a variety of projects. The most recent project was entitled “Internationalisation, Higher Education and the growing demand for English: an investigation into the global English Medium of Instruction (EMI) movement and the use of academic English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) in non-Anglophone Higher Education Institutes (HEI)” (funded by the British Council English Language Teaching Research Partnership Awards).
My responsibilities included:
- conducting and writing literature reviews, - analysing the data from 63 interviews, 13 focus groups and open-ended responses from 600 collected questionnaires, - reporting on the data analysis procedures and results for 6 different journal articles and a report for the British Council.
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2016 Research Assistant - The University of Edinburgh
Dr Heath Rose (University of Oxford) and Dr Nicola Galloway (The University of Edinburgh) employed me as a research assistant for two funded projects that would lead to book and article publications. My responsibilities included:
- Typing a large amount of written material (39 students’ reflections on presentations about the global varieties of English, 46 students’ reflections on a debate about the same topic and 129 students’ poems about the global spread of English), - Inputting the data into NVivo, - Organising and sorting the data.
2013-2016 PhD Research - The University of Edinburgh
My PhD study was a mixed methods research, consisting of both qualitative and quantitative components, and included interviews, electronic journals and questionnaires. I used a detailed grounded theory approach to analyse the qualitative data set (20 participants) and to create a theoretical framework, which was later tested with a quantitative questionnaire (378 respondents). I used NVivo10 for the qualitative, and SPSS22 for the quantitative, data analysis.
OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
2016 “Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Community Engagement: facilitating collaboration with current TESOL provision in Scotland”
This research project I conceived aimed to develop a partnership and collaboration between The University of Edinburgh and several public and private sector organisations involved in English language teaching policy and provision, migrants’ well-being and social research in Scotland. The goal of this collaboration was to investigate the ways that EU migrants are currently taught English in Scotland, to investigate whether these classes provide the opportunity for the students’ self- growth and self-esteem and, ultimately, to improve the quality and effectiveness of the English language education provided to migrants in Scotland.
2015 - 2016 ELF Teacher Development Project
I collaborated with Dr Nicos Sifakis (Hellenic Open University) and Prof Yasemin Bayyurt (Boğaziçi University) to introduce their large ERASMUS + funded project aimed at educating English teachers in light of the global spread of English as a lingua franca to the Polish context. I developed partnerships with secondary schools in Poland, recruited participants, organised and jointly co-ordinated teacher development workshops and was responsible for monitoring the participants’ progress throughout the programme.
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PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
Publications
Kriukow, J. (in press). “I can express myself, but not my self” – English Language Identity of Polish migrants living in Scotland. Journal of Language, Identity & Education.
Kriukow, J. & Galloway, N. (in press). Internationalisation and the growing demand for English in Japanese Higher Education: Undertaking doctoral study in English. In K. Murata (Ed.), English Medium Instruction from an ELF perspective. Taylor & Francis.
Galloway, Kriukow and Numajiri (2017). Internationalisation, higher education and the growing demand for English: an investigation into the English medium of instruction (EMI) movement in East Asia. ELT Research Papers. A report for British Council.
Galloway, Kriukow and Numajiri (2017). Pre-service teacher attitudes towards English as an International Language: An exploratory study of MA TESOL students studying Global Englishes”. Manuscript submitted for publication.
Lectures and presentations
September, 2017. Polish Psychologists’ Association (PPA) Open Day event in London. I was invited by PPA to deliver a series of workshops devoted to communication in English. The workshop was aimed at Polish migrant community in London and covered the topics of links between self-esteem and the language, language anxiety, stereotyping and prejudice, and the role of English as a global lingua franca.
June, 2017. "I can express myself, but not my Self" - Investigating the English Language Identity of Polish migrants in Scotland. Unheard Voices, Unseen Communities: Perspectives on Polish Ethnicity in Scotland. I was invited by Dr David Worthington to give a talk at this one-day workshop at University of Highlands and Islands.
March, 2016, 2017. English and identity. A lecture delivered to MSc TESOL students in the Global Englishes for Language Teaching option course at The University of Edinburgh.
January, 2016. Managing supervision: the PhD students’ perspective. PhD Induction Day, The University of Edinburgh.
2015 – 2017. ETAL “Think & Drink” seminars. I was in charge of organising Edinburgh TESOL and Applied Language (ETAL) “Think & Drink” seminars – a series of social events comprised of research presentations followed by group discussions. The speakers (both students and established academics) presented on areas related to teacher education, reflective practice, language studies, language policy, language education, intercultural communication and the internationalisation of higher education.
September, 2015. Investigating the English Language Identity of Polish migrants in Scotland: the case for ELF-oriented pedagogy. Moray House Interweaving Conference, The University of Edinburgh.
July, 2015. Investigating the English Language Identity of Polish migrants in Scotland: initial findings. Cutting Edges Research Conference, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury.
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June, 2015. Investigating the English Language Identity of Polish migrants in Scotland: initial findings. Linguistics and English Language Postgraduate Conference, The University of Edinburgh.
June, 2015. Managing dissertation writing and research time. ETAL Dissertation Training Day, The University of Edinburgh.
March, 2015. Two studies of non-native English speaker identity in light of English as a Lingua Franca. A presentation for MSc TESOL students at The University of Edinburgh.
September, 2014. Two studies of non-native English speaker identity in light of English as a Lingua Franca. 7th International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca, Athens, the American College of Greece.
REFERENCES (AVAILABLE ON REQUEST)
Dr Heath Rose Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics Department of Education University of Oxford 15 Norham Gardens Oxford, OX2 6PY
Tel: +44-1865-274033 Email: [email protected]
Dr Nicola Galloway Lecturer in TESOL The University of Edinburgh Charteris Land, Holyrood Road Edinburgh, EH8 8AQ Email: [email protected]
Dr Joan Cutting Senior Lecturer in TESOL The University of Edinburgh Charteris Land, Holyrood Road Edinburgh, EH8 8AQ Email: [email protected]
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