Our staff
The NSC has a director, four permanant members of academic staff and two members of administrative staff. We are also fortunate to have a number of experienced associate staff who also provide teaching on some of our courses. You can find out more about who we are either by clicking on the relevant name below, or simply scrolling down the page.
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Guri Figenschou Raaen Email: guri.raaen@york.ac.uk Guri Figenschou Raaen is acting as NSC Director, 2012-2013, and has leave of absence from her work as Associate Professor of English at Nord-Trøndelag University College. She has many years experience as an English teacher and teacher trainer. Her main fields of teaching and research are (formal) language teaching, cultural/intercultural competence and EFL writing development. Her contact with the Norwegian Study Centre goes back to 1986, when she attended a two-week course for upper secondary teachers. Since then, she has been back on a regular basis - with teacher trainee students and teachers on in-service courses. |
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Email: tim.vicary@york.ac.uk Hi. I’m Tim Vicary. On my short course modules I teach about political issues in Britain today - politics, education, crime, the problem of terrorism, Britain’s special relationship with the US, and the role of the press. I currently teach a fordypnings course called The Special Relationship: America's Friend or America's Poodle? Before coming to the Norwegian Study Centre I was a schoolteacher, and my publications include several coursebooks for students of English in Norwegian videregende schools, and many graded readers in the Oxford Bookworms series for students of English as a foreign language, published by Oxford University Press. In 2010 and 2011 my books Titanic and The Everest Story were each declared winners of a Language Learner Literature Award by the Extensive Reading Foundation. I have also published three crime novels set in York, and three historical novels. All of these are available online on the Amazon Kindle. You can read more about them (and me) on my website www.timvicary.com. I’m married, and have two grown-up daughters. I try to keep fit by running and horse riding. |
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Dr Megan Roughley Email: meg.roughley@york.ac.uk BA & MA (University of British Columbia), DPhil (University of York) Current research interests: Race Relations in the UK; History of Racism; Modern/Post-Modern Literatures; Critical Theory; Children's Literature. Megan has taught in universities in Canada, Australia and in the UK in the areas of Literatures in English, Critical Theory, Media Studies and Women’s Studies. She has been with the NSC since 1998. In the Spring term, Megan also teaches an MA module on Children’s Literature for the Department of English and Related Literature. |
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Dr Lalita Murty Email: lalita.murty@york.ac.uk I joined the Norwegian Study Centre in 2003 after completing my post doctoral research in spoken word recognition in Holland. My main research interests lie within the field of applied linguistics and range from World English to issues of intelligibility of accents. At the NSC I teach courses on Spoken Interaction, English as a World Language and Discourse Analysis. I come from India where I worked for 5 years before coming to the UK to study for a Ph.D. |
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Email: beck.sinar@york.ac.uk Beck is on leave for the academic year 2012-2013. Whilst she is on leave, some short course linguistics modules on variation and change will be offered by Dr Hazel Richards (September-February). BA, MA, PhD, University of York Beck came to York University in 1997 for an undergraduate degree in linguistics with literature, and since then she has simply refused to leave. She now teaches all kinds of things about the English Language (yes, even the swearwords!), whilst continuing to do research into variation and change in the History of English. When not doing this, Beck can usually be found crawling around the floor with her dog, Jack, and daughters, Zoe and Amy. |
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Felicity Jones Email: felicity.jones@york.ac.uk Felicity is the office manager. She is responsible for departmental finances, purchasing, school visits, and many other “bits and bobs”. She organises accommodation for the fordypning students and together with the NSC Director and Fordypning Coordinator administers the fordypning and MA courses. A music graduate of Bretton Hall College (Leeds University), she is a keen amateur musician. In her spare time she plays in several York amateur orchestras: York Guildhall Orchestra, Academy of St Olave's, York Symphony Orchestra, a couple of chamber ensembles and sings in the village choir. She and her husband Peter have a handsome cat. |
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Lisbeth Mathers Email: lisbeth.mathers@york.ac.uk Since then she has lived in Oman and Kuwait for nearly 20 years before coming back to the UK. She has been with the NSC since September 2001 and deals with all the short courses. She lives on a farm outside York with her husband and golfing son. |
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Part-time tutor, Department of English and Related Literature Email: jbn4@york.ac.uk Dr Jonathan Brockbank has worked short-term contracts for the Department of English and Related Literature since 1985, lecturing and teaching on various modules including Approaches to Literature, Shakespeare and His Contemporaries, Romantics, Seventeenth Century & Victorians. He currently provides the seminars and tutorials for the English Literature component of our English Fordypning programme. |
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Email: gweno.williams@york.ac.uk Gweno Williams is delighted to be Visiting Professor at the NSC from 1 October 2012, on 40% secondment from her full-time post as Professor of English at York St John University in the centre of York. Gweno has had a long and happy connection with Norway, having given guest lectures by request at the NSC on literature, drama and film since 1990. She has also enjoyed visiting a number of Norwegian colleges and universities. Her academic specialisms are drama and literature of the age of Shakespeare, women’s writing and contemporary fiction, and literature for teenagers and children. Gweno was awarded a British National Teaching Fellowship in 2002; she is committed to interactive learning as a key element in successful classroom pedagogy. She is passionate about the importance of literature and theatre in culture and society; she regularly supports the Bronte Society and Yorkshire Literature Festivals by chairing literary events. One of Gweno’s future ambitions is to swim in a fjord. |
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