David Jay

David is a Course Leader and Lecturer in the ARU Language Centre. He has extensive experience of delivering pre-sessional and in-sessional academic support, as well as professional development workshops for lecturers. His research focuses on communicative and creative approaches to learning and teaching.

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Background

David’s background is in teaching language, linguistics and academic skills. He is a qualified CELTA trainer has taught on degree modules in Semantics and Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, and Spoken Discourse. He is currently researching experiences of creativity in 21st century higher education, in interdisciplinary settings.

Spoken Languages

• English
• Italian

Research interests

• Higher Education pedagogies
• Creative Approaches to learning and teaching
• Interdisciplinarity in higher education
• English for Academic Purposes
• Evaluation of classroom practice

Qualifications

• Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• ARU Associate Teaching Fellow
• MA Applied Linguistics and TESOL (Distinction), ARU
• Cambridge DELTA (Distinction)
• PGCE, University of Cambridge
• BA English Literature with Russian and German, University of Cambridge

Memberships, editorial boards

External member, Cambridge Higher Education Studies Research Ethics Committee (CHESREC), University of Cambridge.

Selected recent publications

Jay, D., 2024. 'Exploring creativity in higher education: could postqualitative inquiry be used, and if so, how would it work?', BERA Blog, British Educational Research Association.

Jay, D., Etchells, S., Dimond-Bayir, S., 2021. Pedagogical literacies: A hidden benefit of the jigsaw technique. Innovative Practice in Higher Education. 4(2), pp. 108-132.

Jay, D., 2020. Interviewed by R. Bale. In: Bale, R., 2020. Teaching with Confidence in Higher Education: Applying Strategies from the Performing Arts (Abingdon: Routledge), Interview 4.

Jay, D., 2019. No Drama? Two theatrical strategies for initial teacher training. In: IATEFL 2018 Brighton Conference Selections (Faversham: IATEFL), pp. 228-229.

Jay, D., 2017. How to optimise EAP tutorial time: introducing the 20-minute structured format. In: IATEFL 2016 Birmingham Conference Selections (Faversham: IATEFL), pp. 137-139.

Recent presentations and conferences

Jay, D., 2024. Researching interdisciplinary creativity in 21st century HE. Humanities and Social Sciences Research Seminar Series. ARU. 18 March.

Overend, D., Cullen, C., Jay, D. and Winter, M., 2024. Creating Edinburgh: Diffracting interdisciplinary learning and teaching in the contemporary city. Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching Conference, University of Manchester. 21 March.

Jay, D., 2023. Becoming creative, creative becoming: Working with Barad's agential realism to explore creativity in 21st century higher education. AHESS Faculty Lightning Research Exchange. ARU. 29 November.

Jay, D., 2023. How to explore creativity? Navigating through new theories and 'methods.' BERA Early Career Network Symposium, Making Decisions in educational research: ethics and methodologies. UCL’s Faculty of Education, London, UK. 12 July.

Jay, D., with Student Creative Ambassadors Adam, I., Browning, B., Mahmoud Helmy Genidy, A., Redgrave, D., Waul, T., 2022. Crossing Into Creativity: The Humanities and Social Science Creative Showcase Project. ARU Engage Conference. Cambridge, UK. 24 June 2022.

Jay, D., Dimond-Bayir, S., Etchells, S., 2019. Piecing it together: Evaluating the jigsaw technique. Advance HE Teaching and Learning Conference. Newcastle, UK. 2-4 July 2019.

Jay, D., 2017. Evaluation without judgement? Exploring alternative approaches to EAP lesson observation. BALEAP Professional Issues Meeting (PIM): Evaluating the Effectiveness of EAP. Edinburgh, UK. 18 March 2017.