Profile

Name: Brian Poole
Telephone: 6601 2515
Email: elcbdp@nus.edu.sg
Office: CELC #02-04 (10 Architecture Drive, Singapore 117511)

Academic Qualifications

  • EdD, University of Bath, UK
  • MPhil, University of Portsmouth, UK
  • MA, University of Lancaster, UK
  • BA, University of Nottingham, UK
  • PGCE, University of Leeds, UK

Modules/Courses Taught

  • ES1531

Research Interests

  • Professional doctorates (especially EdD)
  • Dominant discourses
  • English lexicology

Publications

Articles

  • Terry, J. & Poole, B. (2012) University education in physical geography across the South Pacific islands: multi-modal course delivery and student grade performance, In Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 36(1): 131-148. (Other papers are single-authored)
  • Characteristic lexical choices in Singaporean English, in English Today, 28(4): 55-59, December 2012.
  • Notes on the emergence of EdD (Doctor of Education) programmes in the United Kingdom, in Journal of the National University of Singapore Teaching Academy, 1(1): 44-53, December 2011.
  • Commitment and criticality: Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis evaluated, in International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 20(2): 137-154, July 2010.
  • Quality, semantics and the two cultures, Quality Assurance in Education, 18(1): 6-18, January 2010.

Book Reviews

  • Review of Walsh, S. (2011). Exploring classroom discourse, London & New York: Routledge. In System, 39(4): 573-575, December 2011.
  • Review of Gardner-Chloros, P. (2009). Code-Switching, Cambridge: CUP. In System, 39(4): 557-559, December 2011.
  • Review of Hunston, S. (2011). Corpus approaches to evaluation: phraseology and evaluative language, London: Routledge. In System, 39(2): 266-267, June 2011.
  • Review of Campoy-Cubillo, M.C., Bellés Fortuño, B., & Gea-Valor, M.L. (Eds.) (2010). Corpus-based approaches to English language teaching, London & New York: Continuum. In ELT Journal, 65(1): 92-93, January 2011.
  • Review of Nerad, M. & Heggelund, M. (Eds.) (2008) Toward a global PhD?, Seattle: University of Washington Press, in Journal of Research in International Education, 7(3): 378-380, Dec. 2008.

Seminars & Conferences

  • Providing university geography education in the South Pacific Islands: multi-modal course delivery and student grade performance, South East Asian Geography conference, Hanoi, Vietnam, 23-26 November 2010. (Joint paper, but presented by lead author Associate Professor James Terry, NUS).