Meet the team
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)
Christina Richardson (Vice-Chair; Editor, EAL Journal)
Nandhaka Pieris (Secretary)
Paul Butcher (Treasurer)
Tracey Costley
Naomi Flynn (Chair of Events Committee)
Constant Leung (Chair of Publications Committee)
Lisa-Maria Müller (Chair of Business Development Committee)
Co-opted Members
Lee Allan
Sharon Bond
Eowyn Crisfield (SIGs Coordinator)
Dianne Excell (RIGs Coordinator)
Fazana Farook (Conference Editor, EAL Journal)
Cate Hamilton (Conference Chair)
Rachel Knowles (Deputy Editor, EAL Journal)
Kasia Oberc
Leandro Paladino (Deputy Editor, EAL Journal)
Fiona Ranson (Deputy Editor, EAL Journal)
Maria Walker
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
Tracey Costley
Eowyn Crisfield (SIGs Coordinator)
Dianne Excell (RIGs Coordinator)
Yvonne Foley (Training Lead)
Cate Hamilton
Kasia Oberc
Nandhaka Pieris
Sultan Turkan
Maria Walker
Publications Committee
Constant Leung (Chair)
Christina Richardson (Deputy Chair of Publications; Editor, EAL Journal)
Katharine Anderson
Hamish Chalmers (Editor, ealjournal.org)
Fazana Farook (Conference Editor, EAL Journal)
Rachel Knowles (Deputy Editor, EAL Journal)
Frank Monaghan
Kasia Oberc
Nandhaka Pieris
Leandro Paladino (Deputy Editor, EAL Journal)
Fiona Ranson (Deputy Editor, EAL Journal)
Sultan Turkan
Co-opted Subcommittee Members
Katharine Anderson (Publications)
Details to follow.
Sarah Izon (Events)
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.
Sultan Turkan (Events & Publications)
Details to follow.
Staff
We have two part-time staff:
Lee Allan | Webmaster
Jing Xu | Business Support Officer
