Spring Seminar Speaker Ben Knight

 Ben Knight

• Director for Language & Pedagogy Research at Cambridge University Press Background in Psychology
• leads on using high quality academic research to develop more effective learning materials and resources MA from University of Otago, New Zealand
• expertise in curriculum development and pedagogical research 
• developed the Cambridge Life Competencies Framework
• has worked on educational reform projects in countries from Mexico to Japan
• studied Linguistics at the University of York and Applied Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh
• has worked as a teacher, trainer and lecturer, in schools, universities and the British Council, in various countries around the world – Kenya, India, Sri Lanka, Japan, Italy and the UK
• spent 8 years working for Cambridge Assessment, developing new tests and services