Introduction

Sharon received her Master in Education (TESOL) from the University of Exeter and her PGCE from the University of Reading. Her dissertation investigated the impact of extensive reading programs on Speakers of Other Languages. She enjoys learning different cultures and this has led her to living and teaching in a number of countries including Japan, Vietnam, Palestine, Romania, and Greece as well as Australia and her home country England.  She has extensive experience teaching exam courses, including IELTS and Cambridge English.  In the department she currently teaches composition and rhetoric courses as well as working as a Writing Centre Consultant tutoring students on research dissertations and  academic reading and writing skills. . 

Her interests include online teaching and learning, and she enjoys integrating a number of pedagogically sound Ed-Tech solutions into her classes. She is a Certified Apple Teacher and  has worked extensively using iPads in the classroom. Other interests include student motivation, independent learning, as well as teaching goal setting for academic success and journal writing.

She is an educator whose career deeply meshes with the love of encouraging health and wellbeing. After gaining a Post Graduate Certificate in Nutrition from Deakin University, Australia, she taught ESP/CLIL on a number of degree programs within the College of Natural and Health Sciences (CNHS). She has also provided a number of workshops on healthy eating for the university.  Sharon also now dedicates some of her time working with the Student Counselling Centre as a Mental Health Facilitator, a role which serves the local community in increasing access to mental health support. She is currently in pursuit of her Mindfulness Teacher Training with the University of Oxford’s Mindfulness Centre.