Nicholas Simpson

Nick Simpson joined XJTLU in April 2024. Prior to this, he worked at Seoul National University in South Korea as part of the team developing the TEPS English exam. He has also taught EAP at the University of Ulsan and has held management and teaching positions at British Council teaching centres in South Korea and Malaysia. Nick has a BA in History and English from the University of Leicester in the UK, an MA in Applied Linguistics from the University of Birmingham and is currently working on a PhD in Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) at Lancaster University in the UK. 

My current work focuses predominantly on Generative AI adoption in Higher Education settings (particularly transnational universities in China) and how its implementation affects classroom practice and faculty attitudes. I am also interested in how the language of university GenAI policy and guidance documentation reflects, and in some cases reinforces, existing societal power structures and social inequalities.

April 2024- present: Language Lecturer, School of Languages, Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University, Suzhou, China

January 2022-January 2024: Writer/Editor TEPS test, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

March 2021- January 2022: Assistant Professor English, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, South Korea

April 2020- Feb 2021: EAP Lecturer, Korea International Trade College, Seoul, South Korea

July 2019- September 2019: Pre-sessional EAP Lecturer, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK

January 2017- July 2019: Academic Coordinator, British Council Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia  

November 2011- November 2016: Teacher of English, British Council Seoul, Seoul, South Korea

October 2006- 2011- English Teacher in Spain, Various locations