Dr. Sonja Strydom, DLitt et Phil, PhD
Sonja Strydom is the Deputy Director (Academic Development & Research) at the Centre for Learning Technologies and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Higher and Adult Education and Stellenbosch University. She holds a PhD in Education from the University of Stellenbosch and a DLitt et Phil in Psychology from the University of South Africa. Sonja teaches on a number of short and post-graduate higher education courses at Stellenbosch University, regionally and internationally. She is one of the co-founders of the African Digital University Network (ADUN). Her current research interest is in the field of digital-mediated curriculum development, critical digital pedagogies and artificial intelligence in education.
Ing. Jiří Pašek
Jiří Pašek is a member of the Department for Educational Affairs focusing on international cooperation and projects, evaluation of teaching quality and implementation of digitization and modernization of classrooms at the Faculty of Transport Engineering, University of Pardubice. He holds the title of Ing. in the field of Civil Engineering at VUT in Brno. Another area of his education is completed psychotherapeutic training and continuing master's studies in Applied Psychotherapy and Innovation in Social Services at the Cyril and Methodius Faculty of Palacký University in Olomouc, which in the future he plans to use for counseling and crises intervention in working with not only university students.
M.A. Marian Mure
Marian Mure is the head of the Language Center as well of the Competence Center for Bavaria and Central and Eastern Europe at Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden. She holds a Master in Theatre Studies and Art History from Glasgow University and a Master in Comparative East-West Studies from Regensburg University. Marian is in charge of the language organisation and teaching at OTH Amberg-Weiden and is mainly involved in international projects, such Erasmus KA2 or basic exchange projects, as well as developing international modules. She is interested in new developments in language teaching and international projects.
Dr. Devrim Höl
Devrim Höl is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Foreign Language Education at Pamukkale University, Turkey. He holds a master’s degree in English Language Teaching (ELT) from Pamukkale University, and a Ph.D. in ELT from Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University. His research interests are Assessment, Evaluation and Testing English as a Second Language, National and International Standardized English Language Proficiency Tests. Dr. Höl has been a researcher, language teacher and language test developer and administrator since 2000. He worked in different level of schools as an English teacher, and was the head of department at Pamukkale University, School of Foreign Languages, Turkey between 2007 and 2017. He also worked as a National and International Testing Coordinator, Testing and Evaluation Unit Coordinator in the same university. He is still a full-time member of Foreign Language Teaching Department.
Mgr. Věra Albrechtová
Věra Albrechtová is the head of the International Office at the University of Pardubice. She has been working in the field of international relations since 2009. She believes that mobility experience from abroad is an inevitable part of higher education, every single student should be involved and international offices’ staff with their helping hand are here to show them the way.
Ing. Andrea Koblížková, PhD.
Andrea Koblížková is the Head of the Language Centre at the University of Pardubice, the Czech Republic where she has been involved in English for Specific Purposes and intercultural interaction. Also, as the then Chair of the Czech and Slovak Association of Language Centres (CASALC), the member of the Executive Board of the European Confederation of Language Centres in Higher Education (CercleS), and the vice-rector for external affairs and development at the University of Pardubice, she was dealing with comprehensive agenda of tertiary language education and internationalisation strategies.
Andrea graduated from the Mendel University (business and management), and the Masaryk University (English studies), later earned her PhD degree at the University of Pardubice, in management.
Her background, combining management, marketing and English studies brings her naturally to the issues of communication important to professionals in business, including socio-pragmatic aspects of intercultural interaction.
Mgr. Pavel Brebera, PhD.
Pavel Brebera works as Senior Lecturer at the Language Centre of the University of Pardubice. He graduated in English language teaching at the University of Pardubice, and later he obtained his PhD degree in Pedagogy at the Masaryk University in Brno. He spent several years as a teacher of English at primary and secondary schools, and then he worked for several years at the institutions of pre-service teacher training where he focused on ELT methodology, research methodology in educational sciences, innovative trends in education and the issues of teacher professional development. In his current job, he focuses mainly on teaching ESP, developing language tests, and using ICT for language teaching purposes. His other professional activities include for example providing in-service teacher training at private language schools and reviewing scientific articles in the area of educational sciences.
Mgr. Markéta Denksteinová
Markéta Denksteinová is an ESP lecturer at the Language Centre of the University of Pardubice, Czech Republic. She is interested in e-tools and ICT for language learning within the learner-centered approach. Her current research interest is in intercultural communicative competence, sociolinguistic aspect of politeness and multimedia usage for foreign language teaching, especially social media and videoconferences.
