Professor Richard Andrews

  • Qualifications and position:
    • Dean of Faculty
    • Professor in English
  • Faculty:
    • Faculty of Children and Learning
  • Department:
    • Department of Culture, Communication and Media
  • Summary:
    • I focus on research in the fields of language education, argumentation, writing development, multimodality, rhetoric and e-learning. With colleagues I designed the MA in English Education.
  • Teaching:
    • MA in English Education
      MA Literacy Learning and Literacy Difficulties
      Discourse Analysis: multimodal perspectives and methodological issues (Doctoral School)
      New York University summer school
  • Research Projects:
  • Postgraduate Research:
    • Research students:
      • Anna-Maria Andreou: Input- and output-based instruction in the teaching and learning of English reflexive pronouns
      • June Parnell-Parmley: Dynamics of e-learning
      • Ling Xue: ICT training for EFL tutors in England and China
      • Evanthia Tsaliki: Intercultural education in Greek primary schools
      • Sun-young Choi: The perceived influence of ICTs and hybrid instructional models/blended learning on English learning as a foreign language in Korean higher education
      • Reyhan Luttman: Turkish supplementary schooling in London and Melbourne
      • Ching Ching Lai: Past tense use in English in Hong Kong
      • Ho-Won Kang: The effect of key words captions on Korean EFL learners' listening comprehension
      • Tetsuko Watanabe: English teaching in an international school in Japan
  • Professional Activities:
    • English Board (DfES), 2006-2009

      I am on the editorial boards of:
      • London Review of Education
      • Argumentation (US/The Netherlands)
      • Learning, Media & Technology (UK)
      • Informal Logic (Canada)
      • English in Australia
      • Educational Research Review
      • Changing English
      • International Journal of Computer Assisted Language Learning (China)

      I am chair of the international advisory board for the Cambridge Schools Shakespeare.
  • Conferences/presentations:
    • 'The changing nature of dissertations or theses in higher education', Beijing Foreign Studies University and Beijing Language and Culture University, Octber 2011

      'The changing picture in dissertation design, submission and examination', Internet and Learning: a decade of transformation in learning practices, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, Septmber 2011

      'Computer and information literacy: new discourses in e-learning', ECER, Berlin, September 2011

      'Reading in the academy: the reading and assessment of new doctorates', Centre for Academic Literacies one day conference, Institute of Education, June 2011

      'New forms of the doctorate, considering the influence of multimodality and digitization on the nature and format of theses',BELMAS one day conference, Institute of Education, March 2011

      'World languages:English, Mandarin, Spanish', British Council/Virtual University of Monterey (Mexico) podcast, March 2011

      'Writing development in the digital and multimodal age', Chiba University, Tokyo, March 2011

      'Argumentation in school and higher education', Chiba University, Tokyo, March 2011

      'La relación entre la investigación y la enseňanza en la education superior' ['The relationship between research and teaching in higher education'], Innova-CESAL 2nd international conference, Universidade Téchnica de Lisboa, March 2010

      'The relationship between research and teaching in higher education' at Beijing Normal University; Southwest University, Chongqing; and Chongqing Normal University, March 2010

      'Mandarin and English as world languages: a changing picture' at Capital Normal University,Beijing; British Council, Chongqing; Sichuan International Studies University; and Chongqing University, March 2010
  • Personal Country Knowledge:
    • China: I taught English in Hong Kong in the 1980s
      USA: I am visiting professor in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development and have taught on the English Education programme there; I also run the annual summer school for NYU students in London and Oxford.
  • Languages Spoken:
    • French, Italian, Spanish at basic level; learning Mandarin
  • Languages Written:
    • French, Italian, Spanish at basic level; learning Chinese
Professor Richard Andrews

Contact details

Contact details

  • Name: Rachel Shaw
  • Email:
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  • Address:
  • Department of Culture, Communication and Media
    Institute of Education
    University of London
    20 Bedford Way
    London WC1H 0AL

  • Office Location:
  • Room 641
    20 Bedford Way, WC1H 0AL

Publications

  • Andrews, R. Borg, E. Boyd Davis, S. Domingo, M and England, J. (2012) Handbook of Digital Dissertations and Theses. London: Sage.
  • Haythornthwaite, C. and Andrews, R. (2011) E-learning Theory and Practices. London: Sage.
  • Andrews, R. and Smith, A. (2011) Developing Writers: teaching and learning in the digital age. Maidenhead: Open University Press/McGraw-Hill.
  • Wyse, D., Andrews, R. and Hoffman, J. (eds) (2010) The Routledge International Handbook of English, Language and Literacy Teaching. Abingdon: Routledge.
  • Andrews, R. (2010) Re-framing Literacy . New York: Routledge.
  • Andrews, R. (2010) 'Writing: Advanced' In Baker, E., Peterson, P. and McGaw, B. (eds), The International Encyclopedia of Education, 3rd Edition. Oxford: Elsevier.
  • Andrews, R. and Hertzberg, F. (2009) 'Introduction: special issue on argumentation in education in Scandinavia and England', Argumentation 23:4, 433-6.
  • Andrews, R. (2009) Argumentation in Higher Education: improving practice through theory and research. New York: Routledge.
  • Andrews, R., Torgerson, C., Low, G. and McGuinn, N. (2009) 'What is the evidence for successful practice in teaching and learning with regard to argumentative non-fiction writing for 7-14 year olds?', Cambridge Journal of Education 39:3, 291-310.