NALDIC is run by volunteers, supported by two part-time administrative staff.
Find out who sits on our Executive Committee and sub-committees. You can also see brief bios of those who are not on the NALDIC Executive.
The NALDIC Executive
NALDIC is led by the Executive Committee, which is made up of its nine membership-elected trustees and directors, supported by co-optees.
Find out more about the Executive Committee
Trustees and Directors
Yvonne Foley (Chair of NALDIC; Training Lead)
Hamish Chalmers (Vice-Chair; Editor, ealjournal.org)
Nandhaka Pieris (Secretary)
Paul Butcher (Treasurer)
Tracey Costley (Conference Chair)
Naomi Flynn (Chair of Events Committee)
Constant Leung (Chair of Publications Committee)
Christina Richardson (Editor, EAL Journal)
Vacant (Casual Trustee/Director vacancy)
Co-opted Members
Sharon Bond
Joanna Borysiak (Comms & Publicity)
Eowyn Crisfield (SIGs Coordinator)
Dianne Excell (RIGs Coordinator)
Lisa-Maria Müller (Chair of Business Development Committee)
Fiona Ranson (Deputy Editor, EAL Journal)
Sally Zacharias (Membership)
Business Development Committee
Lisa-Maria Müller (Chair)
Lee Allan (Webmaster)
Paul Butcher (Treasurer)
Eowyn Crisfield (Events Rep)
Nandhaka Pieris (Secretary)
Sally Zacharias (Membership)
Events Committee
Naomi Flynn (Chair)
Sharon Bond
Paul Butcher
Joanna Borysiak
Tracey Costley (Conference Chair)
Eowyn Crisfield (SIGs Coordinator)
Dianne Excell (RIGs Coordinator)
Yvonne Foley (Training Lead)
Cate Hamilton (Conference Project Manager)
Sarah Izon (Conference Sponsorship Lead)
Victoria Murphy
Nandhaka Pieris
Publications Committee
Constant Leung (Chair)
Christina Richardson (Editor, EAL Journal)
Hamish Chalmers (Editor, ealjournal.org)
Elizabeth Chilton (Deputy Editor, EAL Journal)
Leandro Paladino (Deputy Editor, EAL Journal)
Fiona Ranson (Deputy Editor, EAL Journal)
Joanna Borysiak
Rachel Knowles
Frank Monaghan
Nandhaka Pieris
Co-opted Subcommittee Members
Elizabeth Chilton (Publications)
Elizabeth is Lecturer in Language, Literacies and Education in the School of Education, University of Birmingham. She is Director of the MEd Bilingualism in Education programme, and teaches on the MSc TESOL Education and MA Education programmes, as well as supervising dissertation and doctoral students. She is a member of the Mosaic Group for Research on Mulitilingualism.
Before moving to work in higher education, Elizabeth was employed as a lecturer and manager in further education, working in the fields of adult literacy, ESOL, and learning support. Elizabeth’s research interests include multilingual and multimodal language and literacy practices, academic literacies, the interrelationship between ideologies, social interactions and texts in multilingual and monolingual contexts, and creative methods of inquiry.
Elizabeth is a member of NALDIC’s Publications Committee, and was previously a member of the Events Committee. Since June 2020 she has been deputy editor of the EAL Journal.
Cate Hamilton (Events)
After a stint working in event management as a new Oxford graduate, Cate began her education career teaching French and English at secondary schools in Glasgow in 2004. Then, inspired by her three young children, she ran multilingual music groups for ten years in Cheltenham and Bristol, developing her early years language education venture, Babel Babies, in collaboration with local families and preschool settings.
Always intrigued by the language-learning process, in 2020 Cate returned to the University of Oxford, where she has since completed her master’s in applied linguistics and second language acquisition and embarked on a PhD investigating songs as a pedagogical tool for language acquisition.
Cate is an active champion of multilingualism and rethinking monolingual approaches to learning languages. She has a podcast and blog, The Language Revolution, and has also published Multilingual is Normal, an anthology of 60 voices talking about talking to encourage people to engage with and enjoy languages.
Cate joined the Events Committee in March 2021 as Conference Project Manager.
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Sarah Izon (Events)
Details to follow.
Rachel Knowles (Publications)
Details to follow.
Frank Monaghan (Publications)
Frank is Senior Lecturer in Education and Language Studies at the Open University. He has previously been a member of NALDIC’s Executive Committee and editor of NALDIC Quarterly.
He has run workshops and been a keynote speaker on a variety of topics, including EAL and phonics, literacy across the curriculum, language and mathematics; and EAL assessment. Before joining the OU, he had worked for twenty years as an EAL and mainstream English teacher in a large, multilingual comprehensive school in central London.
Leandro Paladino (Publications)
Details to follow.
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