Scholarship Strand on Impact
Led by Prof. Bee Bond, this group focuses its scholarship on impact in higher education.
English for Academic Purposes (EAP) teaching is now embedded across a range of Schools in the University at PGT level, with EAP teachers working alongside subject academics to support students for whom English is an additional language to develop their understanding of disciplinary academic discourse and literacy requirements. This research aims to evaluate and measure the impact of this intervention, with different researchers in the research group approaching the question from a variety of angles in order to build a rich picture that takes into account the range of perspectives involved in this aspect of taught student education. This research is a longitudinal study that will make use of a highly mixed methods approach to data collection and analysis. Whilst there is one overarching research question, the projecwilt l be composed of a range of more localised investigations, carried out by those with insider knowledge. The sum of these different projects will enable a rich description of how local enactments and differing disciplinary concerns and understandings around how knowledge is created and communicated interact with the human participants. The research will consider what, if any, generalisations can be made across a whole University or whether individuals and their contexts are key.
Outputs:
Visit the insessional website for a range of outputs from this Scholarship Strand.
Bond, B. 2024. ‘An exploration of the ethics of scholarship in EAP: Collegial connections and ethical entanglements’ in Ding, A & Monbec, L. (eds) Practitioner Agency and Identity in English for Academic Purposes. Bloomsbury.
Bodin-Galvez, J. 2026. Perspectives on the impact of embedded in-sessional EAP: Looking beyond student performance to student experience. ESP today. 14(1). pp.134-159 Available from: https://doi.org/10.18485/esptoday.2026.14.1.7
Hulme, A. and Evans, M. 2025. Evaluating the Impact of Embedded Academic Language and Literacies Provision in a School of Education and School of Music. ESP Today, 13(2) p. 419–440. https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/227455/7/esptoday-2025-13-2-8.pdf
Leslie, A., & Wright, C. 2025. Stepping Up, Standing Out: A Case Study on engaging with international student voices through co-creation. Student Engagement in Higher Education Journal, 7(1), 61–68. Available from https://sehej.raise-network.com/raise/article/view/1395
Leslie, A., & Wright, C. 2025. Supporting international PGT students to thrive at the University of Leeds. Leeds Institute for Teaching Excellence. Available from Supporting international PGT students to thrive at the University of Leeds | Leeds Institute for Teaching Excellence
Wright, C. & Leslie, A. 2025. Stepping Up, Standing Out: Supporting international PGT students to thrive at the University of Leeds. LITE Report [online]. University of Leeds: Leeds Institute for Teaching Excellence. Available from Stepping Up, Standing Out | Leeds Institute for Teaching Excellence