Our People
The NSC has a director, four permanent members of academic staff, and two members of professional support staff. You can find out more about who we are by clicking on the relevant name below.
The Director
Academic Staff
Professional Support Staff
Honorary Title Holders
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Lalita worked at the NSC for 20 years (Sept 2003 - Jan 2024) and is an Honorary Fellow of the NSC. During her time working at the NSC she taught modules in Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis and Global Englishes to more than 23,000 visiting students from Norway, supervised more than 70 master's theses for the Department of Education and was an invited visiting Associate Professor at the University of Oslo. Prior to this she was at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands, and the University of Sheffield, as well as teaching Applied Linguistics at a teacher training institute in India (1991-1996). Her latest research is into Iconicity in Telugu and teaching Global Englishes in the English Classroom. |
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Email: gweno.williams@york.ac.uk Gweno joined the permanent NSC staff team as a teaching fellow in 2015, teaching literature and pedagogy, and retired in 2025. She first guest lectured for the NSC (at Micklegate House) in 1982. Following her retirement, and in recognition of her long and happy academic connection with the NSC and Norway, she was awarded an Honorary Professorship from the University of York. Gweno also holds an Emeritus Professorship from her previous time at York St John University, where she was Professor of English and Academic Head of C4C Collaborating for Creativity, a HEFCE-funded Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. She was Visiting Professor at NTNU for two years teaching on the MA programme. She has given guest lectures and spoken at conferences at Norwegian HEIs including Oslo, Bergen, NTNU, Agder, UiT, Halden. |
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