Olivia Mair

Olivia Mair has been involved with CHEI since 2016 as one of the trainers for the modules on the international classroom. She has developed module content particularly on classroom strategy, assessment in the international classroom and the role of culture, and has held numerous workshops in Milan and Piacenza, partly stemming from her courses in English-Taught Programmes in various faculties. She has  presented on behalf of CHEI at international conferences in Bolzano, Paris and Copenhagen. An adjunct professor in the Department of Language Sciences and Foreign Literatures, her research interests include English as an Academic Lingua Franca, EMI, multimodality and the international classroom, CLIL and early language learning. She holds a PhD in literature from the University of Western Australia, where she taught before moving to Milan in 2007. She also has over 15 years' experience in ELT in a variety of contexts.