MsJune Hammond

June is a senior teaching fellow at the Centre for Academic English (CfAE). She has a strong background in project management in education, and has therefore been heavily involved in CfAE's ongoing project work. Because she has a particular interest in using technology for learning, she has been pivotal in setting up CfAE's self-study and online provision. This included launching the first version of CfAE's self-study personalised pathways in 2023/2024. These pathways allow students to identify areas they need to develop so they will become more competent in communicating their science more effectively and clearly. She is now Head of CfAE's commissioned departmental collaborations programme.

She also teaches and develops a range of workshops on academic communication in STEMM disciplines, with a particular focus on academic writing. She is currently engaged in the CfAE doctoral academic writing provision and has co-authored the online Doctoral Academic Communication Requirement training. She also delivers workshops for doctoral, master's and undergraduate students, which enable them to communicate their science effectively. She has a strong background in discourse analysis and pedagogic theory which she is now applying to teaching STEMM communication.

BACKGROUND
June has 25 years’ experience of English language teaching and teacher training which includes designing and teaching a range of academic language, literacy and teacher training programmes in Australia, China, Italy, the USA and the UK.

Prior to joining Imperial, she designed and taught English for Academic Purposes courses at the University of Sydney and the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). At the University of Sydney, she designed and taught courses for cohorts of senior Chinese government officials and senior visiting academics in the university's Faculty of Science. At UTS, she taught on both the extensive 50-week and intensive 5-week presessional courses.

June is also an experienced and highly-motivated teacher trainer. She has designed and delivered courses for Bachelor’s and Master’s in Education degree programmes in Sydney, Shanghai and the UK. These courses included curriculum design and development, discourse analysis and pedagogic methodologies. At the Universities of Wollongong and Sydney, she designed and delivered the teaching programme for visiting teachers from the Hong Kong Institute of Education.

Previous careers include software engineering,  project management and being a curriculum team manager of the ESOL and Science departments in a further education college.

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES
Fellow of Advance HE (formerly the Higher Education Academy).

British Association of Lecturers in English for Academic Purposes (BALEAP)

European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing (EATAW)
International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL)