Lauren Fletcher | Teaching

Teaching Experience

Tutoring
PPLS Skills Centre
2022 - 2025
Writing tutor at the PPLS Skills Centre, providing one-to-one support to students in areas such as clarity of expression, argumentation, and critically analysing other researchers’ work. Centre coordinator: Dr Jim Donaldson
Origins and Evolution of Language (Hons)
2021 - 2025
Honours and MSc course providing an overview of how and why human language evolved. The course considers a wide range of evidence from linguistics, animal behaviour, computer modelling, archeology, and other fields. Course leader: Prof Kenny Smith
Sociolinguistics (Hons)
2023 - 2025
Honours course providing an introduction to the study of the relationship between language and various elements of social identity, such as age, gender, class, region and sexuality, as well as language ideologies and politics. Course leader: Dr Christian Ilbury
Linguistics and English Language 1B
2021 - 2023
Pre-Honours course introducing students to foundational concepts in phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics and language change/variation. Course leader: Dr Dan Lassiter
Linguistics and English Language 2A
2022 - 2022
Pre-Honours course building on LEL1B, expanding on foundational concepts in phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. Course leader: Dr Itamar Kastner
Recognition and Accreditation
Nominated for EUSA Student Tutor of the Year
- present
Teaching team member of Sociolinguistics, voted Outstanding Course by students
- present
Associate Fellow of AdvanceHE
2025 - Present