As well as presenting at the #IATEFL2026 #TDSIG and #ESOLSIG PCE on Monday, I’m also presenting at the main #IATEFL26 conference. My talk has the cheery title “What have we done? ELT, global destruction and a more transformative model”. Thursday 23 Apr at 11.20 in the Charlotte Room. See you there!
Looking forward to this!
Teaching the Teachers.
Innovation. Challenges. Teacher Development.
Join Steve Brown, Naeema Hann, and Harry Kuchah at the IATEFL 2026 Pre-Conference Event, brought to you by ESOL SIG & TDSIG.
📅 20 April 2026 | 📍 Brighton
👉 Register now: Pre-Conference Event
This joint Pre-Conference Event, organised by IATEFL ESOL SIG and IATEFL Teacher Development SIG, brings together teacher educators, researchers, and practitioners to explore how teacher development responds to innovation, inequality, and real classroom challenges.
📍 Brighton
🗓 20 April 2026
#PCE
Who might benefit from a sudden rise in oil prices? Maybe a country that recently used force to take control of another country that happens to have the world’s largest oil reserves..? Is this what the war with Iran is really about?
Our first event for the Future Skills for TESOL project!
This is a series of events that we are integrating into our courses, designed to give our students opportunities to engage with local English language learners in order to develop useful language teaching and research skills.
Thanks to all!
This initiative adds a useful practical dimension to our #MScTESOL, allowing students to engage meaningfully with local #ESOL learners to gain insight into their needs, priorities and lived experiences. I think the ESOL learners are benefitting too 😃
What about the carbon footprint?
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My bit on why languages are brilliant and multilingual education is good for all
www.thenational.scot/politics/256...
People fleeing war and persecution aren’t asking for much - just to be treated with dignity and given the chance to rebuild their shattered lives.
Everyone has the right to be safe and to feel like they belong.
In light of recent protests trying to prevent local residents from attending ESOL classes in the Glasgow area, an open letter has been published in defence of ESOL. If you work in education and support ESOL provision for local residents, please sign here:
actionnetwork.org/petitions/ed...
Scotland’s leading academic on refugees warns that British political rhetoric is taking the UK ‘into the foothills of genocide’
Professor Alison Phipps, Unesco chair in refugee integration at Glasgow University, says demonisation will end in deaths
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2544663...
No surprise here
I’m at the #baal2025 conference at @uofglasgow.bsky.social . Lots of the sessions are taking place in the GU Union, and I’m getting flashbacks to my undergrad years. I’m pretty sure I saw the Tom Robinson Band here back in the day.
Elon Musk « x@elonmusk•6h Remigration is the only way Steve Laws @Steve_Laws_•18h Go anywhere in the UK and look around, you'll just see foreigners everywhere. It's truly sickening the damage that has been done to our nation and our people....
Steve Laws & @Steve_Laws_ X.com Epping is everywhere. 12:02•8/29/25 • 275K Views Elonmusk All Britain is Epping @Steve_Laws_ Keep highlighting this Elon, we appreciate it.
It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.
A graduate in tartan trousers.
A laughing graduate standing in the quads.
A graduate in a tent holding a blue folder with the word 'Graduation' written in gold.
A graduate in the quads holding up the peace sign.
Smiles all round at graduation! ♥️
We love see our happy graduates on campus. All your hard work has paid off. Enjoy this moment!
#UofGgrad25 #TeamUofG
🚨 Join the 1st #BAAL #LanguageCurriculum SIG Symposium! 🗓 19 June 2025 | ⏰ 9am–12pm BST | 💻 Online & Free for #BAAL members🎤 Plenary: Dr Suha Alansari + 6 talks
🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/baalsig2025
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Great to watch some of my former students from @uniwestscotland.bsky.social and current students from @uofgtesol.bsky.social presenting their research at the Scottish TESOL/Applied Linguistics Research Conference
THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM
My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.
The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.
Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Nice to get name-checked at an #IATEFL2025 plenary 😃. Thanks, Neil
High point of #IATEFL2025 coming up, Neil McMillan’s plenary on #tblt followed by @seburnt.bsky.social’s talk on inclusive materials 😬😃
Post-presentation pint with good friends and colleagues who I don’t see enough of #IATEFL2025
Nice cosy room for my #IATEFL2025 talk, starting at 3.05pm today. Maybe see you there?
All set for #IATEFL2025. Edinburgh this year, which seems strange to me for some reason. Lovely weather - so far.
“Sponsored by…” 🙄
At this year’s #IATEFL2025 conference in Edinburgh, I’ll be exploring the concept of “empowerment” and “empowering ELT”, a popular phrase which, in my view, doesn’t adequately encapsulate what needs to be done. Come and join me on 8th April at 3.05pm.
Last year I reviewed 5 books for the #ELT journal, which you can read here: academic.oup.com/eltj/article/7…
Next Thursday at 4.30pm I’ll be presenting and discussing the relevance of these books to the UK #ESOL context. You can register free here: forms.office.com/pages/response���
