Staff Profile:Lionel Warner

Name:

Mr Lionel Warner

Job Title:

Assistant Director of GTP/Director of OTT Programmes

Responsibilities:

Main responsibilities at the Institute of Education:

• Director of the Overseas Trained Teacher Programme
• GTP Personal Tutor
• PGCE English Tutor
• MA & MTL Tutor

Teaching:

• PGCE Secondary English
• MA English

Areas of Interest:

Expertise and research interest:

• Secondary School English
• Drama and English
• Media Studies
• Assessment in English
• Reading aloud
• Disability in plays

Areas in which you are able to supervise at Masters, PhD and Ed D levels:

• Secondary School English
• Drama and English
• Media Studies
• Assessment in English
• Reading aloud
• Disability in plays

Current and recent Research Projects:

• Overseas trained teachers
• The representation of disability in plays
• The teaching of poetry

Research groups / Centres:

• First Language and Literacy

Publications:

Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Educational Assessors

Publications:

Warner, L. (2011) 'Lifting The Wife of Bath off the page' NATE Classroom 14: 48-51

Warner,L. (2011) 'Teaching poetry to teenagers' in Lockwood, M. (ed.) Bringing Poetry Alive, Sage

Warner, L. (2009) 'Asking the right question: some aspects of the assessment of English Literature' Changing English 16.3, 347-353

Warner, L. (2009) 'Writing to "Instruct"', NATE Classroom, 8:47-9

Warner, L. (2009) 'What stealing a child means', The Use of English, 61:1:31-34

Warner, L. (2008) 'Shall I compare…?' The English Review, 18:4:14-15

Warner, L. (2008) 'Transformations', The Use of English, 59:2:139-144

Warner, L. (2008) 'The "freedom to frame questions…worth asking" or three stories and three (other) fragments of research' English in Education 42:1:88-100

Warner, L. (2006) 'The English Advanced Extension Award: the twin crossroads' Changing English 13:3:347-353

Conference presentations:

'Overseas Trained Teachers: are they successful, and if so, why?' British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, Institute of Education, London, 7 September 2011.

Warner, L. 'Overseas Trained Teachers', TEAN 'The Importance of Education', Glasgow Caledonian University, May 2010

Warner, L. 'The Freedom to Frame Questions', British Educational Research Association, Heriot-Watt University, September 2008

Warner, L. 'The Advanced Extension Award in English', English Subject Centre 'Renewals', RHUL, July 2007 

Enterprise activity; external roles and consultancy:

• Various school examining roles with Cambridge Assessment;
• English consultancy for Semey State Pedagogical Institute, Republic of Kazakhstan;
• Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Educational Assessors