Michael Henshaw
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine & Infectious Diseases at Hokkaido University, Japan
About
Michael is a lecturer of English for Specific Purposes for biomedical students at a Japanese university whose PhD students come from 20 different countries. In addition to fostering cross-cultural understanding in the classroom and through social events, he employs corpus linguistics to help students write research articles with the 2800-entry Keywords of Biomedical Science. His moonshot project is the putatively complete Eponymous Adjective Word List. He has a BA in Black Studies from UC Santa Barbara, and is currently doing a distance learning MA in applied linguistics at University of Birmingham to help turn his projects into more scientific endeavors.Sessions
MA and PhD Perspectives from University of Birmingham Students more
Sun, May 1, 16:00-17:00 Asia/Seoul
In this 50-minute interactive panel discussion, 2 MA graduates and a current PhD student will share their perspectives and answer questions related to: being distance based graduate students. We will share our journeys to becoming students; along with tips, suggestions, and workarounds for successful learning and research during Covid. We will also discuss if attending graduate school is the right choice (hint: it's not for everyone and there's some good reasons for/against). We will also explain some of the actions we've taken to understand and further Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and opportunities for Open Scholarship. We welcome questions from attendees and look forward to creating a welcoming session with thought-provoking takeaways for attendees.
