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Samantha Curle is a Reader in the Department of Education at the University of Bath, serving as Director of all MRes Programmes in the Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty. She also holds roles as Institutional Academic Lead for the South West Doctoral Training Partnership and Director of Studies for the MRes in Advanced Quantitative Methods. Her research focuses on English Medium Instruction (EMI) in global higher education, particularly its academic and linguistic outcomes, technology integration, and psychological dimensions.
Career highlights include a PhD from the University of Oxford (2018) on stakeholders’ attitudes toward EMI in Japanese higher education. She has extensive editorial roles, including guest editorships at Frontiers in Educational Psychology and Data in Brief. Her expertise spans quantitative methods, applied linguistics, and bilingual education, contributing to UN Sustainable Development Goal 4 (Quality Education).
- Education:
- PhD (University of Oxford, 2018)
- MSc Research Methods (University of Oxford, 2014)
- Bachelor of Education (Open University of Hong Kong, 2010)
- Grants and Projects:
- Leading projects on EMI in Saudi Arabia, Brazil, and Hong Kong-UK collaboration
- Focus on educational inequalities in Spain using CART models
- Awards: Adjunct Professor (2024)
Her research has yielded 88+ publications, emphasizing EMI’s role in STEM, teacher professional development, and sustainable education. She advises doctoral students on quantitative EMI studies and advocates for evidence-based policy in multilingual education.
