The TILTED Research Group brings together teachers and researchers who want to ensure that future language teachers develop professional knowledge around the different ways in which one’s identity is constructed and how those ways may create sites of privilege and marginalisation. We believe that embedding an intersectionality perspective in the language teacher education curriculum could be a powerful and sustainable way of supporting teachers and creating inclusive practices. We inform and are informed by theories that include:criticalfeministqueercomplexitysocioculturalWe are open to others. Aims To propose new perspectives in research and pedagogy for initial and in-service language teacher educationTo support intersectionality in formal, non-formal, and informal (teacher) educationTo design, implement, and promote innovative research methodologies with societal impactTo develop synergistic professional development by promoting intra-/inter- institutional collaboration (research, submitting papers for publication, engaging in research and knowledge exchange activities and submitting applications for research grants) Areas of interest Main areaIntersectionality in language teacher education curriculum developmentSub-areasdifferent dimensions of intersectionality (e.g., race, class, gender, etc., depending on our interests)research methods and methodologies (e.g., arts-based methods, walking methodologiesnarrative inquiry,netnographyduo/multi-ethnographies)curriculum design, resourcesteacher education and the communityactivismcrossing professional borders Study Members of our group teach on the following courses and programmes:MSc TESOLSecond Language Teaching Curriculum (course organiser: Dr Darío Luis Banegas)Second Language Teacher Education (course organiser: Janet de Vigne)Conceptualising Research: Foundations, Assumptions and Praxis (course organiser: Dr Sal Consoli) PhD studyWe welcome students interested in pursuing a PhD with us. You can find more information about postgraduate studies, including potential supervisors' availability and areas of interest, on our Postgraduate Research Degrees pages. Postgraduate research degrees Podcast Listen to our podcast series in which we discuss our take on intersectionality in language teacher education. TILTED podcast on Spotify TILTED events 2nd TILTED Conference, 28 March The 2nd TILTED Conference on 28 March 2025 will feature talks around the theme: Towards intersectionality in language teacher education: Further steps.Intersecting lives, transforming classrooms: (Re)Imagining language teacher education through intersectionality (Dr. Veronico Tarrayo, University of Santo Tomas, The Philippines)Can recent history count as a defining intersectionality dimension? Reflections from the Global South? (Dr. Maria Marta Yedaide, National University of Mar del Plata, Argentina)Unravelling intersectionality from identity to practice: How intersectional identity shapes pre-service teachers’ perspectives on teaching practice (Qianyu Yang, Huixin Wang and Jiaqi Tian, University of Edinburgh, UK) Register and view the TILTED conference programme (on Eventbrite) Integrating Critical Anti-Racist Pedagogies into Language Teacher Education: An Online Conference, 12-13 June Integrating Critical Anti-Racist Pedagogies into Language Teacher Education: An Online Conference will take place on 12 and 13 June, 2025. The call for papers is open until 28 February. Details about the keynote speakers and the call for papers can be found at the link below. More information about the online conference TILTED members Members of the TILTED Research Group TILTED research The TILTED group’s research interests. This article was published on 2024-10-07
