Dr Karin Whiteside
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+44 (0) 118 378 5392
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Associate Professor
- Head of English for Academic Purposes (EAP)
- Academic Language and Literacy Liaison (ALLL) for the Doctoral and Researcher College, teaching thesis-writing workshops and ‘Language for Research’ sessions in the ÌÇÐÄVlog Researcher Development Programme (RRDP).
Areas of interest
From a researcher and practitioner perspective, I am interested in genre and disciplinary discourse analysis in the field of academic English.  My PhD research in Applied Linguistics involved a corpus-driven discourse analysis of undergraduate writing in humanities and social sciences subjects. I have since published on research investigating postgraduate written coursework genres, research grant proposal texts, and the affordances of Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL) in the teaching of doctoral writing.
I served on the EAP Steering Group for the Council for at risk academics (Cara) Syria programme (2017-2024), co-founded the BALEAP (British Association of Lecturers in EAP) Special Interest Group for Doctoral Education convening this group from 2021 to 2025, and currently chair the BALEAP Accreditation Scheme (BAS), a specialist quality assurance scheme for EAP provisions. I am a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of English for Academic Purposes. Â
Background
I have worked in English for Academic Purposes since 2004, and started working at ÌÇÐÄVlog in 2014. In my current role as Head of EAP, I have academic oversight of both the Pre-sessional English Language Programme and the Academic English Programme.
Academic qualifications
BA, BA Hons History & MA Applied Linguistics (Victoria University, Wellington, NZ), PhD Applied Linguistics (Warwick)
CELTA (A), DELTA
Professional bodies/affiliations
Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy
Member of BALEAP (Global Forum for EAP Practitioners), EATAW (European Association for Teaching Academic Writing) and BAAL (British association for Applied Linguistics)
Assessor, BALEAP Accreditation Scheme (BAS)
Reviewer: Journal of English for Academic Purposes, Journal of Academic Writing, Studies in Graduate & Postdoctoral Education