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Dr Navaporn Snodin

Lecturer in Cross-Cultural Communication

  • Address: School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences,
    Room 2.24, King George VI Building, Newcastle University
    Queen Victoria Road
    Newcastle upon Tyne
    NE1 7RU
Background

Navaporn Snodin is Lecturer in Cross-Cultural Communication at Newcastle University, UK, where she is teaching English in the World and Language and Intercultural Communication modules. She is also contributing to Research Methods modules on the topics of collecting interview data and thematic analysis. She is the lead Degree Programme Director (DPD) for the MA Cross-Cultural Communication (MA CCC+) suite of programmes.

She has published in various books and journals, including World Englishes, Asian Englishes, System, RELC, Asia Pacific Journal of Education, Lingua, Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, the Oxford Handbook of Southeast Asian Englishes, and the Routledge Handbook of English Language Teacher Education. She has spoken to audiences worldwide such as in the US, UK, Austria, Russia, Greece, Dubai, Japan, and Thailand, primarily on the topics of the globalisation of the English language, Internationalisation of higher education, and academic migration.

She was PI for three Newton Fund-funded projects and has been involved in numerous collaborative research, receiving funding from the British Academy, the British Council, and the Thailand Research Fund.  Her current projects concern (1) the politics of the English language and inequality within Higher Education and (2) the experience of culturally diverse faculty in academic environments. She is also interested in exploring whether English Medium Instruction/ Education (EMI/ EME) contributes to intercultural communicative competence and the development of global citizenship.

Prior to taking up her role at Newcastle, she was Assistant Professor in English and Applied Linguistics at Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand. In 2018, she participated in a staff exchange programme, funded by the ASEA-UNINET, at the Department of English and American Studies, the University of Vienna, Austria.

Due to her previous work on academic migration, she was invited to join the Steering Committee for the Academic Mobilities and Immobilities International Network (AMIIN). The network is an international, inter-university collaboration, with co-chairs based in Switzerland (Lausanne) and the UK (Warwick and Dundee). She is also a coordinator for the ELINET -- Education, Language, and Internationalisation network (elinet.org.uk) whose members come from all corners of the world. The network aims to raise awareness of the globalisation of the English language and its impact on education. Two key subject areas which are Global Englishes (GE) and English Medium Instruction (EMI) and the internationalisation of higher education are the main foci of the network.

From 2017-2020, she was the founder and sole operator of the www.academicmigrationtothailand.co website, an internet portal encouraging the inbound mobility of international students and academics into Thai universities. She engaged the policymakers at the national level, for example, the Bureau of International Cooperation Strategy, and the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation of Thailand, to achieve impact.

She was a reviewer for the British Academy's Youth Futures Programme and for Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, Computers & Education, Sojourn, Thoughts, Kasetsart Journal and the Cambridge Handbook of Multilingual Education.

At Newcastle, she is ECLS's EDI (Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion) Committee, and NU's Race Equality Charter (REC) Research Stream Committee.


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Teaching

ALC8009 English in the world

ALC3011 Working in Intercultural Settings

ALC2011 Language and Cross-Cultural Communication


ALC8002 Sociolinguistics (for the Academic Year 2020-21)

ALC8007 Professional Communication (for the Academic Years 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22)


I am also contributing to ALC8003 Research Portfolio and ALC8020 Research Methods in Applied Linguistics on the topics of collecting interview data and thematic analysis

Publications