Paula Villegas
@dr-paula-villegas.bsky.social
Associate Lecturer in Academic English & TESOL. I am interested in Academic Literacies, FL, OL, Multimodality, Motivation, Feminist pedagogies, Open Education and Aerial Arts. Own views.
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What to do about predatory journals and conferences? patthomson.net/2025/07/16/o...
on predatory academic journals and conferences
I’m often asked about predatory journals. So I recently went on a hunt for something other than lists and found a 2022 report on predatory journals and conferences from the InterAcademy Partnership…
patthomson.net
July 16, 2025 at 6:53 AM
What to do about predatory journals and conferences? patthomson.net/2025/07/16/o...
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Newly published article in The Use of English. This is the first piece based on the ideas I shared in my IATEFL plenary earlier this year.
Download a copy: www.danielxerri.com/uploads/4/5/...
Download a copy: www.danielxerri.com/uploads/4/5/...
July 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Newly published article in The Use of English. This is the first piece based on the ideas I shared in my IATEFL plenary earlier this year.
Download a copy: www.danielxerri.com/uploads/4/5/...
Download a copy: www.danielxerri.com/uploads/4/5/...
‘On top of this, if a student complains about their grade, there is automatically more work for an academic who needs to review it and potentially respond to seniors or others in university management’ This article is a fantastic read for all of us in #HE
July 7, 2025 at 9:19 AM
‘On top of this, if a student complains about their grade, there is automatically more work for an academic who needs to review it and potentially respond to seniors or others in university management’ This article is a fantastic read for all of us in #HE
Favourite students’ feedback of the year ‘ the presenter is just another level. Her positive attitude raises people from their grave’ 10/10 no notes ☺️
June 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Favourite students’ feedback of the year ‘ the presenter is just another level. Her positive attitude raises people from their grave’ 10/10 no notes ☺️
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🤍💙🤍Hoxe, 17 de maio, celébrase o Día das Letras Galegas, unha festa que honra a literatura e a lingua galega. Desde 1963, Galiza lembra a autores que enriqueceron a súa cultura. É un día para valorar e promover o galego, unha lingua viva que une a súa xente.
May 17, 2025 at 5:50 AM
🤍💙🤍Hoxe, 17 de maio, celébrase o Día das Letras Galegas, unha festa que honra a literatura e a lingua galega. Desde 1963, Galiza lembra a autores que enriqueceron a súa cultura. É un día para valorar e promover o galego, unha lingua viva que une a súa xente.
I’m excited to be presenting at #ALDCon25 with the brilliant Dr Lucy Hall! Come to the Wed 18/06, Parallel session 9, from 13.30 – 13.55 (Room 1) to learn about our work in scaffolding the writing for publication process. Thrilled to be a part of #ALDCon25 aldinhe.ac.uk/aldcon25 #LoveLD #StudyChat
May 13, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I’m excited to be presenting at #ALDCon25 with the brilliant Dr Lucy Hall! Come to the Wed 18/06, Parallel session 9, from 13.30 – 13.55 (Room 1) to learn about our work in scaffolding the writing for publication process. Thrilled to be a part of #ALDCon25 aldinhe.ac.uk/aldcon25 #LoveLD #StudyChat
As I ponder next career trajectory a colleague has suggested setting up a farmer’s shop and this honestly sounds 💜💜💜
May 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
As I ponder next career trajectory a colleague has suggested setting up a farmer’s shop and this honestly sounds 💜💜💜
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Contemplating professional recognition in Learning Development? Read this lovely reflection by Vic Boyd sharing her journey to achieving CeLP. aldinhe.ac.uk/accreditation/recognition/professional-recognition-case-studies/vic-boyd-2 #LoveLD
April 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Contemplating professional recognition in Learning Development? Read this lovely reflection by Vic Boyd sharing her journey to achieving CeLP. aldinhe.ac.uk/accreditation/recognition/professional-recognition-case-studies/vic-boyd-2 #LoveLD
That’s a wrap for BALEAP 2025! I had a fantastic time attending stimulating talks and catching up with colleagues. It was so fun to talk about a project very close to my heart, a series of workshops empowering doctoral candidates to engage in the writing for publication process ☺️
April 17, 2025 at 1:42 PM
That’s a wrap for BALEAP 2025! I had a fantastic time attending stimulating talks and catching up with colleagues. It was so fun to talk about a project very close to my heart, a series of workshops empowering doctoral candidates to engage in the writing for publication process ☺️
I am attending (and presenting!) at the upcoming BALEAP conference in Plymouth. My talk ‘it took the mystery away’ is about implementing a collaborative approach to unpacking the publication process with doctoral candidates. It will be on Thursday at 10 come say hi if you are around! ☺️
April 12, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I am attending (and presenting!) at the upcoming BALEAP conference in Plymouth. My talk ‘it took the mystery away’ is about implementing a collaborative approach to unpacking the publication process with doctoral candidates. It will be on Thursday at 10 come say hi if you are around! ☺️
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Happy April Fool's Day from my good friend and cognitive scientist Dr. Amy Smith! blankslatetech.medium.com/spaced-retri... #EduSky
Spaced Retriever Practice: How to Train Your Golden Retriever Like a Cognitive Scientist
Ah, the Golden Retriever. A majestic, floppy-eared Einstein of the canine world, if Einstein had a penchant for eating socks and rolling in…
blankslatetech.medium.com
April 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Happy April Fool's Day from my good friend and cognitive scientist Dr. Amy Smith! blankslatetech.medium.com/spaced-retri... #EduSky
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New issue:
Journal of Academic Writing - Vol. 15 No. S1 (2025): Academic Integrity and Academic Writing: Education and Research in a Changing World
publications.coventry.ac.uk/index.php/jo...
New issue:
Journal of Academic Writing - Vol. 15 No. S1 (2025): Academic Integrity and Academic Writing: Education and Research in a Changing World
publications.coventry.ac.uk/index.php/jo...
Journal of Academic Writing
The Journal of Academic Writing is an international, peer-reviewed journal that focuses on the teaching, tutoring, researching, administration and development of academic writing in higher education i...
publications.coventry.ac.uk
February 26, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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New issue:
Journal of Academic Writing - Vol. 15 No. S1 (2025): Academic Integrity and Academic Writing: Education and Research in a Changing World
publications.coventry.ac.uk/index.php/jo...
New issue:
Journal of Academic Writing - Vol. 15 No. S1 (2025): Academic Integrity and Academic Writing: Education and Research in a Changing World
publications.coventry.ac.uk/index.php/jo...
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This applies to all layoffs across industries 👇
The point of sudden mass layoffs isn't just to shrink the federal budget. It's to create a climate of fear that makes workers across the economy too scared to speak out.
February 26, 2025 at 8:18 PM
This applies to all layoffs across industries 👇
Following the inspiring EAP conference at St Andrews I got my doctoral candidates to write a haiku on their articles in progress. A lovely activity to start thinking about abstract in a creative way
February 12, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Following the inspiring EAP conference at St Andrews I got my doctoral candidates to write a haiku on their articles in progress. A lovely activity to start thinking about abstract in a creative way
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Exciting News! 📚✨
My paperback copy of "Collaboration in Higher Education: A New Ecology of Practice" has just arrived! ❤️
www.bloomsbury.com/ca/collabora...
The book is also available as an open-access ebook—completely free to download.
🔗 www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...
My paperback copy of "Collaboration in Higher Education: A New Ecology of Practice" has just arrived! ❤️
www.bloomsbury.com/ca/collabora...
The book is also available as an open-access ebook—completely free to download.
🔗 www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...
Collaboration in Higher Education
Collaboration in Higher Education, an open access book, focuses on the opportunities and challenges created by engaging in collaboration and partnership in high…
www.bloomsbury.com
January 30, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Exciting News! 📚✨
My paperback copy of "Collaboration in Higher Education: A New Ecology of Practice" has just arrived! ❤️
www.bloomsbury.com/ca/collabora...
The book is also available as an open-access ebook—completely free to download.
🔗 www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...
My paperback copy of "Collaboration in Higher Education: A New Ecology of Practice" has just arrived! ❤️
www.bloomsbury.com/ca/collabora...
The book is also available as an open-access ebook—completely free to download.
🔗 www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...
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Maybe I should post something on here….
I’ll be talking about ‘Tailoring and enhancing EAP to support students across the wider university’ on the 8th February at the ‘EAP and Beyond’ Conference organised by the University of St Andrew’s. How exciting! 🥳
I’ll be talking about ‘Tailoring and enhancing EAP to support students across the wider university’ on the 8th February at the ‘EAP and Beyond’ Conference organised by the University of St Andrew’s. How exciting! 🥳
January 27, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Maybe I should post something on here….
I’ll be talking about ‘Tailoring and enhancing EAP to support students across the wider university’ on the 8th February at the ‘EAP and Beyond’ Conference organised by the University of St Andrew’s. How exciting! 🥳
I’ll be talking about ‘Tailoring and enhancing EAP to support students across the wider university’ on the 8th February at the ‘EAP and Beyond’ Conference organised by the University of St Andrew’s. How exciting! 🥳
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Important talk on re-valuing the art of the #BookReview as contribution to knowledge & disciplinary reflexivity.
Relevant to & beyond #AppliedLinguistics & English for Academic Purposes (EAP) communities
#AcademicReading #AcWri #HigherEducation #SlowAcademia #tleap
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8xw...
Relevant to & beyond #AppliedLinguistics & English for Academic Purposes (EAP) communities
#AcademicReading #AcWri #HigherEducation #SlowAcademia #tleap
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8xw...
Book Reviews - Alex Ding
As part of the Research and Publications Book Review project, Alex Ding talks about book reviews in EAP offering insights into how we might like to take the ...
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November 30, 2023 at 9:12 AM
Important talk on re-valuing the art of the #BookReview as contribution to knowledge & disciplinary reflexivity.
Relevant to & beyond #AppliedLinguistics & English for Academic Purposes (EAP) communities
#AcademicReading #AcWri #HigherEducation #SlowAcademia #tleap
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8xw...
Relevant to & beyond #AppliedLinguistics & English for Academic Purposes (EAP) communities
#AcademicReading #AcWri #HigherEducation #SlowAcademia #tleap
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8xw...
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The recording of my talk on widening access to higher education w/ lecture recordings as part of a @jisc.bsky.social & Echo360 event on accessibility is now available. If inclusivity & why lecture capture is a terrible yet vital form of UDL sounds good to you, check it out!
youtu.be/k2PBA3o-5qU?...
youtu.be/k2PBA3o-5qU?...
Eliminating accessibility barriers with Echo360
YouTube video by Jisc
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December 18, 2024 at 4:28 PM
The recording of my talk on widening access to higher education w/ lecture recordings as part of a @jisc.bsky.social & Echo360 event on accessibility is now available. If inclusivity & why lecture capture is a terrible yet vital form of UDL sounds good to you, check it out!
youtu.be/k2PBA3o-5qU?...
youtu.be/k2PBA3o-5qU?...
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#ResearchIntegrity and academic writing - a 3-post series by Shaun Khoo on RW all published now!
First post: Can you publish too many papers? https://buff.ly/48vEY47
#AcademicSky #PhDsky #AcWri
First post: Can you publish too many papers? https://buff.ly/48vEY47
#AcademicSky #PhDsky #AcWri
Can you publish too many papers?
Competition for jobs and grants in academia has never been tougher. The constant drive to “publish or perish” can make you feel like your career will end unless your output is superhuman. Sometimes…
researchwhisperer.org
December 11, 2024 at 9:03 PM
#ResearchIntegrity and academic writing - a 3-post series by Shaun Khoo on RW all published now!
First post: Can you publish too many papers? https://buff.ly/48vEY47
#AcademicSky #PhDsky #AcWri
First post: Can you publish too many papers? https://buff.ly/48vEY47
#AcademicSky #PhDsky #AcWri
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The challenge of being a practitioner-researcher where you’re simultaneously too academic and not academic enough, depending on who you’re talking to.
a man in a sweater is standing in front of a gumball machine and saying umm
Alt: A scene from the comedy series Schitt's Creek. Actor Dan Levy is a young, white man with black hair. He's standing in a living room in front off a large window with curtains half-open. He's wearing a black and white patterned jumper and white trousers and gestures with his hands as he tilts his head to one side, asking "umm, what are you, what are you doing here?"
media.tenor.com
December 18, 2024 at 7:42 AM
The challenge of being a practitioner-researcher where you’re simultaneously too academic and not academic enough, depending on who you’re talking to.
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Y'all I get to do my favourite thing. Recruitment thread! We have a learning development job going in the team. On the other place, I did a few threads to support people thinking of applying to work w/us, &I'm really excited to do one here! First, the job! (www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...)
Learning Developer:Oxford Road
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk
December 17, 2024 at 7:22 PM
Y'all I get to do my favourite thing. Recruitment thread! We have a learning development job going in the team. On the other place, I did a few threads to support people thinking of applying to work w/us, &I'm really excited to do one here! First, the job! (www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...)
‘I have so little time or mental capacity anymore to do any of the things I’m ostensibly good at, the things for which I’m uniquely qualified’ must read 💜
December 15, 2024 at 11:28 PM
‘I have so little time or mental capacity anymore to do any of the things I’m ostensibly good at, the things for which I’m uniquely qualified’ must read 💜
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“If anything, the AI cheating crisis has exposed how transactional the process of gaining a degree has become.”
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘I received a first but it felt tainted and undeserved’: inside the university AI cheating crisis
More than half of students are now using generative AI, casting a shadow over campuses as tutors and students turn on each other and hardworking learners are caught in the flak. Will Coldwell reports ...
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2024 at 11:02 PM
“If anything, the AI cheating crisis has exposed how transactional the process of gaining a degree has become.”
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Research from @kspoon.bsky.social & ...
"“People don’t want to be in a workplace if they feel disrespected, if they feel like their work isn’t valued, if they feel like they’re not seen,” she notes. “And I do think that in many, many academic workplaces, that is the experience that women have.”"
"“People don’t want to be in a workplace if they feel disrespected, if they feel like their work isn’t valued, if they feel like they’re not seen,” she notes. “And I do think that in many, many academic workplaces, that is the experience that women have.”"
Women faculty feel ‘pushed’ from academia by poor workplace climate
The gender gap in faculty attrition worsens after tenure, according to a new study
www.science.org
December 9, 2024 at 10:45 PM
Research from @kspoon.bsky.social & ...
"“People don’t want to be in a workplace if they feel disrespected, if they feel like their work isn’t valued, if they feel like they’re not seen,” she notes. “And I do think that in many, many academic workplaces, that is the experience that women have.”"
"“People don’t want to be in a workplace if they feel disrespected, if they feel like their work isn’t valued, if they feel like they’re not seen,” she notes. “And I do think that in many, many academic workplaces, that is the experience that women have.”"
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Special issue launch! Join the editors online for the launch of a new Special Issue of @herdjournal.bsky.social on ‘Reimagining Higher Education Learning Spaces: Assembling Theory, Methods, and Practice’
Wednesday 29 January 2025, 8-10am UK / 7-9pm Aus Eastern
→ www.linkedin.com/posts/jilldi...
Wednesday 29 January 2025, 8-10am UK / 7-9pm Aus Eastern
→ www.linkedin.com/posts/jilldi...
Dr Jill Dickinson on LinkedIn: 2025 Special Issue Launch ‘Reimagining Higher Education Learning Spaces'
It’s happening!
Join us for the Launch of a new Special Issue of Higher Education Research & Development on ‘Reimagining Higher Education Learning Spaces:…
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December 9, 2024 at 9:44 PM
Special issue launch! Join the editors online for the launch of a new Special Issue of @herdjournal.bsky.social on ‘Reimagining Higher Education Learning Spaces: Assembling Theory, Methods, and Practice’
Wednesday 29 January 2025, 8-10am UK / 7-9pm Aus Eastern
→ www.linkedin.com/posts/jilldi...
Wednesday 29 January 2025, 8-10am UK / 7-9pm Aus Eastern
→ www.linkedin.com/posts/jilldi...