Janina Iwaniec

Dr. Janina Iwaniec is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Education at the University of Bath, specializing in language learning motivation and its contextual determinants. With a PhD from Lancaster University (2015) and prior teaching experience at Lancaster, she focuses on bilingual education, intercultural competence, and gender dynamics in language acquisition.

• Key Research Areas: Language learning motivation, CLIL methodologies, EMI programs, and intercultural competence frameworks.
• Projects: Principal Investigator for "The effect of bilingual schooling in Madrid on SES" (2019-2021); Co-Investigator in multiple British Council-funded initiatives.
• Collaborations: Active in UK and international research networks with 100% focus on bilingual education and intercultural competence.

Her methodological expertise includes latent variable modeling and mixed-methods approaches, with recent work examining CLIL's equitable outcomes and EMI enrollment motivations in China.

Research output: 40+ publications including studies on Polish learners, Uzbek language programs, and transcultural competence development in higher education.