Richard Smith

Richard Smith

Richard Smith is a Professor at the University of Warwick, where he has taught on the MA TESOL programme and supervised PhD students for twenty-five years. He has advised on several teacher-research mentoring projects for the British Council, developing the Exploratory Action Research approach to teacher development and original ideas on how to mentor teacher-researchers in the process. He is former coordinator of the IATEFL Research SIG (2011–2015), originator of the Teachers Research! series of conferences and founder and chair of the International Festivals of (Mentoring) Teacher-Research (2017, 2021, 2024). More information: http://www.warwick.ac.uk/richardcsmith
  • Joined: June 21, 2024
  • Articles: 3

Festival

The International Festival of Mentoring Teacher-Research in ELT (2024–25) Organized by MenTRnet and supported by  British Council,  Pilgrims Teacher Training Journal and IATEFL Research SIG​ Free online events and recordings during 2024–25 showcasing teacher-research mentoring initiatives around the world. The festival’s aim is to…

Welcome to MenTRnet!

This is the new website of MenTRnet, which itself is a newly named network for mentors of teacher-research in the field of English Language Teaching (though we don’t exclude mentors of teachers of other subjects). It’s ‘newly named’ because we…

Enhancement mentoring

‘Enhancement mentoring for teacher-research: a hopeful response to Covid-19’ ​   See R. Smith, S. Eraldemir Tuyan, E.A. Békés & M. Serra. 2021. ‘Enhancement mentoring for teacher-research: A positive approach in a crisis’ ​ English Language Teacher Education and Development Journal 24: 43–61.On 16 January 2021, Richard Smith,…