Siân Lund is responsible for the strategic development of Academic Skills development provision across the college. This involves embedding an inclusive and holistic approach to student success through staff and student engagement.
Siân has oversight of the Pre-Sessional courses offer for students to develop communicative and academic learning strategies before beginning a postgraduate programme as well as a range of ways for students to engage with their learning processes through In-Sessional workshops and tutorials. Siân also leads the Academic Skills team to promote community engagement and staff guidance through continual professional development and understanding of diverse student needs.
Siân's research interests include acculturative processes of educational community building, cognitive processing in art and design education and assessment as well as contextualised understanding of language development.
Siân has a Master's in Applied Linguistics, a BA in Mandarin Chinese and French, and has designed and taught communication, skills and intercultural communication courses for 30 years in UK Higher Education, Europe and China and at the Royal College of Art for over 10 years.
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Publications, exhibitions & other outcomes
Siân has been involved in promoting understanding of acculturation and a process-led development of critical, reflective research skills by organising and leading the following presentations and seminars:
(2023) Lund, S. & Blair, S. BALEAP Conference, ‘Curiosity and Disruption: lessons from a transdisciplinary exploration of writing styles at the Royal College of Art’.
(2023) Lund, S. ‘An investigation of meaning-making processes: how experiential, dialogic participation is required in learning how to write in an art and design community of practice’, WRAB 23 Writing Research Across Borders, Norway.
(2023)Lund, S. MacArthur,J. Hamilton,M. Smith, A. Reflections on Collaborative Course Design to Enhance the Use of Interactive Learning: bridging the gap for inclusive online communication, ART+ RCA.
(2022) Lund, S. & MacArthur, J. Transferring interactive academic skills to an online learning experience, ALT M25.
(2021) BALEAP Creative SIG event, ‘Reflections on the transformational process of creative disciplines education within EAP pedagogy’, BALEAP Conference.
(2021) S. Blair & S. Lund ‘Working through acculturative change: an inclusive, process-led approach to online dialogic communication’ CHEAD Membership Dissemination Event: Inclusive Learning, Digital Futures.
(2019) Lund, S. 'Position and Critical Engagement', European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing (EATAW) conference, Chambers University of technology, Sweden.
(2019) Lund, S. & James, A. 'An Ontology for Critical Engagement', Criticality in EAP, RCA seminar day organised by Siân Lund.
(2019) Lund, S. 'Tools for Communication': Booklet investigating the process of enquiry and position development among Art and Design students.
(2019) 'Criticality, Creativity and Context: EAP in Art and Design', a one-day seminar organised by Siân Lund at the RCA.
(2018) Lund, S. & James, A. 'Academic Literacies and EAP: Same or different: ALL for one and one for ALL – Academic Literacies and EAP in a Graduate Diploma Programme'. BALEAP/ALDin HE joint one-day conference, University of Essex.
(2018) Lund, S. and Yuelin Liu, 'Critical Thinking in a Culturally Diverse Design Education – Equal Voices?', Presentation at SOAS Teaching and Learning Conference.