Bee Bond is Associate Professor of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) at The University of Leeds. She has taught EAP at the Language Centre in Leeds since 2001, working with international students to understand the language, skills, cultures and contexts in UK higher education and in disciplinary practices.
In her current role she is responsible for developing language and academic literacy provision that is embedded within students’ disciplinary academic learning. This involves working in close collaboration with subject lecturers to ensure students can access and communicate disciplinary knowledge.
Her professional standing as an EAP specialist has developed over the past 20 years. She is Senior Fellow of the professional body for EAP (BALEAP) as well as Senior Fellow of Advance HE. She mentored colleagues through both schemes since 2014. In 2016, Bee was awarded one of the first fellowships in the Leeds Institute for Teaching Excellence (LITE) where she focused on nexus of language, disciplinary content and knowledge communication within an increasingly internationalised university.
She argues passionately for a greater synergy between language and discipline experts. She has established a position for academic language(s) and literacy as a vital aspect of the core curriculum for all students through both her publications and her leadership around curriculum change. She is committed to supporting and enhancing the teaching and learning experience of international students and the staff who work with them, both in her own institution and nationally. She does this through her own teaching, through mentoring of others and through engagement in pedagogical research. Her current interests focus on the politics and policies surrounding internationalisation and multilingualism in higher education and on how this has an impact on students, the curriculum and EAP practice. She is also supporting others through collaborative educational impact studies.
