Our current members:

Angelos Bakogiannis - Research and Publications Officer

Angelos Bakogiannis is currently an Associate Lecturer on the Preparation for Academic Studies in Higher Education (PASHE) programme at UCL. Active in the field of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) since 2010, he has held a variety of roles across UK institutions, including EAP Tutor, Programme Lead, and Language Centre Coordinator. Prior to joining UCL, he was Coordinator of the English Language Centre at Teesside University, where he led In-sessional English and co-led Pre-sessional English provision. His work involved planning, designing, and coordinating a wide range of academic literacy activities, including one-to-one tutorials, group workshops, seminars, and embedded discipline-specific support. He is a Fellow of Advance HE, a Certified Leading Practitioner in Learning Development, and Principal Investigator of the BALEAP-funded project Exploring Inclusive Teaching Practices of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) in Higher Education (HE).  

Dr Lisa McGrath - ResTES Coordinator

Dr Lisa McGrath (PhD, MA, PGCE, SFHEA) is an Associate Professor in Educational Linguistics at the Sheffield Institute of Education, Sheffield Hallam University. She has taught EAP and ERPP in Sweden and the UK. Lisa has delivered workshops on writing for publication at various universities and international conferences and provided writing for publication consultancy. Lisa’s research interests centre on genre, genre pedagogy, and research-based writing. Her research has appeared in journals such as the Journal of English for Academic Purposes, English for Specific Purposes, Applied Linguistics, Journal of Second Language Writing and Higher Education. Lisa is associate editor of JEAP and serves on the editorial board of Journal of Second Language Writing.

Judith Gorham - Funding & Awards Coordinator

Judith Gorham (SFHEA, FBALEAP) teaches EAP at Heriot-Watt University and is studying for an EdD at University of Glasgow. Her research interests include multimodality for a more inclusive EAP pedagogy and higher education policy analysis.

Neil Tibbets - Critical Friend Network Coordinator 

Neil Adam Tibbetts (SFHEA, SFBALEAP) is a senior lecturer in Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) in King’s Foundations at King’s College London. He has worked in EAP since 2004 in universities in Italy and in the UK at Southampton and Bristol. He co-authored ‘A guide to In-sessional EAP’, published by Routledge in 2023 and has contributed workshops for BALEAP in-sessional SIG and presented at various BALEAP PIMs and biennial conferences as well as in other national and international conferences. His personal research interests are conceptual curriculum design, academic writing as a social academic practice, EAP pedagogy, in-sessional EAP contexts, SoTL and academic development in HE. He is currently a part-time PhD student at Open University researching graduate student writing.

How to get involved with the Working Group

Posts are filled through expressions of interest circulated via the BALEAP JISC mailing list. There is no fixed term of tenure, and members may step down at any time. If you are interested in joining, please email .