Christina has extensive and varied experience in English language teaching and management, having worked in the ELT sectors in Spain, Japan and the UK prior to joining the University in 2002, where she now specialises in academic writing and EAP in the Centre for Academic English and Skills. She holds the Trinity College Licentiate Diploma in TESOL (1997), and her research interest for her MA Applied Linguistics/TESOL (2003) was ‘The perception of lexical items across different speech communities’. She was also a member of the English Language Studies team in the School of Humanities 2009-2021, lecturing in areas such as the history of English and multilingualism.
Jo has worked in Higher Education for the past 25 years and has taught EFL, EAP, TEFL and Italian at the University of Worcester since 2008. She gained her MA in Applied Linguistics (TEFL) in 2003, specialising in first- and second-language acquisition and has a 1st class BA (Hons) degree in Modern Foreign Languages and TEFL. She was approved as Assistant CELTA Tutor by Cambridge English in February 2015. Prior to working in EFL she taught French and Italian in Further and Adult Education, in addition to running the Italian teaching programme at Aylesbury High School, and also worked as a specialist language tutor and freelance translator/interpreter for a number of commercial organisations.