Claudia Rosenhan

Claudia Rosenhan serves as a Lecturer (Teaching and Scholarship) at the Institute for Language Education within the Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh. With over 25 years of international teaching experience spanning Switzerland, England, Australia, and Scotland, she specializes in tertiary education and holds Senior Fellowship status with the Higher Education Academy. Her work focuses on core and optional courses for MSc TESOL and MSc Language Education programs alongside cross-school research methods instruction.

Her research centers on Environmental Humanities and Ecophenomenology, investigating bordercrossings, trespass, and liminal states through projects like 'Inbetweeness.' She integrates creative language pedagogy, identity studies, and critical/feminist theory with methodological innovations including multimodal ethnographies and ecophenomenological storying. Current supervision interests emphasize eco ELT, environmental humanities, and creativity in language education across global contexts.

Dr. Rosenhan received recognition as a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her research includes the PTAS-funded project 'Enhancing Assessment Literacy amongst PGT Students and Scorer Reliability amongst PGT Staff,' which examined assessment criteria in internationalized higher education environments.

She actively supervises PhD candidates including Suling Chen (creativity in Chinese English teaching), Yupei Wei (interculturality in primary textbooks), Caixia Yuan (screencast feedback efficacy), and Khaloud Al Sadrani (Omani EFL writing assessment). Past completions include Qianqian Zhou (2021), Iain Philip (2022), Xiaowen Xie (2023), and Af'Idatul Husniyah (2025) on topics ranging from willingness to communicate in Chinese classrooms to teacher creativity in Indonesia.

Affiliated with the Edinburgh TESOL and Applied Language Research Group, Language Culture and Communication network, and Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network, she co-organized the 2015 BAAL SIG Conference and presented at venues including the 2024 ASLE-UKI Postgraduate Conference ('The ground beneath my feet – feeling the earth move'), 2021 Art + Anthropocene Seminar, and multiple international symposia on Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence, and modernist literature.