Mr Alex Marsden
Research Student Associate Tutor
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Research Student
Associate Tutor |
A dot Marsden at uea dot ac dot uk |
Biography
Alex Marsden is a PhD student in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of East Anglia. His academic background is in Applied Linguistics, specifically discourse analysis and pragmatics. He currently works as an Associate Tutor on the MBBS degree, teaching consultation skills to medical students.
Career
Associate Tutor (University of East Anglia), 2009-present.
Sessional Teacher (University of Kent), 2008-2009.
Sessional Teacher (University of Kent), 2008-2009.
Academic Background
Currently enrolled as a full-time PhD student at The University of East Anglia.
Working thesis title: ‘Toward an Interactional Framework of Empathy in Medical Education’.
MA (Res) Applied Linguistics (University of Reading).
BA (Hons) English Language with Linguistics (University of Kent).
First class honours with ‘The English Language Award’ for being the only student in the history of the course to achieve first class honours in all linguistics modules.
Working thesis title: ‘Toward an Interactional Framework of Empathy in Medical Education’.
MA (Res) Applied Linguistics (University of Reading).
BA (Hons) English Language with Linguistics (University of Kent).
First class honours with ‘The English Language Award’ for being the only student in the history of the course to achieve first class honours in all linguistics modules.
Key Research Interests
Key research interests:
Awards:
- Medical Education: consultation skills, empathy.
- Applied linguistics: pragmatics, discourse analysis and conversation analysis.
- Qualitative Research: grounded theory.
Awards:
- Faculty of Health Studentship: three year funding for PhD research (University of East Anglia).
- The English Language Award (University of Kent).
Teaching Interests
I currently teach on the consultation skills module of the MBBS degree. I have also taught English as a foreign language to numerous students from Japan and Hong Kong.
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