Bios

The following bios are for conference organisers needing a bio for their programme.

50 word bio

Kieran Donaghy is a freelance teacher, trainer, and award-winning writer. His website Film English http://film-english.com/ has won a British Council ELTons Award for Innovation in Teacher Resources. He is the author of Film in Action (Delta Publishing). You can find out more about Kieran and his work at his author website http://kierandonaghy.wpengine.com/

80 word bio

Kieran Donaghy is a freelance teacher, trainer, international conference speaker and award-winning writer. His website Film English http://film-english.com/ has won a British Council ELTons Award for Innovation in Teacher Resources. He is the author of Film in Action (Delta Publishing). Kieran is the founder of The Image Conference and co-founder of the Visual Arts Circle, a community of practice of language teaching professionals. You can find out more about Kieran and his work at his author website http://kierandonaghy.wpengine.com/

100 word bio

Kieran Donaghy is a freelance teacher, trainer, international conference speaker and award-winning writer. He writes extensively about the role of film and video in language education. He is the author of the methodology book Film in Action (Delta Publishing). His website Film English http://film-english.com/ has won a British Council ELTons Award for Innovation in Teacher Resources. Kieran is the founder of The Image Conference http://theimageconference.org/ and co-founder of the Visual Arts Circle http://visualartscircle.com/, a community of practice of language teaching professionals. You can find out more about Kieran and his work at his author website http://kierandonaghy.wpengine.com/.

 

200 word bio

Kieran Donaghy is freelance teacher, trainer, international conference speaker and award-winning author who has been involved in English language teaching since 1989. He has held teaching, teacher training and academic management posts in the UK, Italy, Portugal and Spain. He has a special interest in the use of film and video, and has published extensively about film and video in language education. He is the author of the methodology book on film in language teaching Film in Action (Delta Publishing).

His website Film English http://film-english.com/ has won a British Council ELTons Award for Innovation in Teacher Resources, the most prestigious European media in education prize, the MEDEA Award, and an English-Speaking Union Award. Kieran is the founder and organiser of the only conference exclusively on the use of images in language teaching, The Image Conference. In addition, Kieran is the co-founder and joint co-ordinator of the Visual Arts Circle http://visualartscircle.com/ a professional community of practice for language education professionals interested in the use of the visual arts in language teaching. You can find out more about Kieran and his work at his author website http://kierandonaghy.wpengine.com/.