Ms Helen Phillips

Professional biography

I have spent my career working in Higher Education where I initially started teaching French for commercial language training purposes. This exposed me to a broad base of language learners in a range of different contexts and led me to be involved in developing creative and innovative ways of delivering language teaching for different contexts. I have since worked primarily in the development, management and operational delivery of applied foreign language provision for undergraduates, postgraduates and students of Lifelong Learning. My background as Director of an Institution Wide Language Programme (IWLP), Deputy Director of a Language Centre and now Staff Tutor Languages has given me considerable experience of developing HE language programmes and managing and mentoring large teams of language teaching staff. I am particulary interested in the creative process of delivering online and distance learning tuition, including desinging and testing new and evolving approaches to teaching language skills in an online environement. 

Global Futures Wales 

I am a member of Global Futures; a National Steering Group for Wales which aims to support multilingulism in schools and increase the number of young learners studying languages. In collaboration with the OU in Scotland I manage the Teachers Learning to Teach languages in primary schools programme (TELT) for Wales and through Global Futures engage directly with the Welsh Government and Welsh Education Consortia to recruit teachers to this Continual Professional Development programme.

I have held external examiner posts at the Royal Holloway Langauge Centre and the Sussex Centre for Language Studies, University of Sussex