Richard Kiely has a PhD in language programme evaluation from the University of Warwick; an MA in Applied Linguistics from the University of Essex; and a BA in French and English from the National University of Ireland at Cork. His research interests include language programme evaluation, language teaching and teacher development, and language learning explored from language socialisation and identity perspectives.
Richard Kiely joined the Graduate School of Education in 2002. Since then he has directed the MSc in TESOL (formerly the MEd TESOL), coordinated the higher degree pathways in TESOL/Applied Linguistics (EdD and MPhil/PhD), and coordinated the Centre for Research on Language and Education (CREOLE). He has directed three externally funded research projects – TIR, Pro-CLIL and SAIL – and worked on two others: ELIP and SILP.
Before that he worked at University College Chichester where he coordinated the Trinity College London Certificate in TESOL and a range of initial teacher education and professional development programmes for teachers from Malaysia, Hong Kong, Korea and Italy.
He worked at Thames Valley University London where he taught EAP, Applied Linguistics, and coordinated programmes for teachers and teacher trainers from Poland, Hungary and South Africa.
He also has extensive experience as a teacher, teacher-trainer and curriculum developer in English as a second language contexts: Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Zambia. He has worked as an English teacher in business and industrial contexts in France, and as a French teacher in Ireland.
He went to school in Touraneena and Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, Ireland. There, in the fast-fading bilingual identity of Sliabh gCua region started his abiding interest in language in the social world. Languages are used to exchange more messages than can be understood; they are not so much learnt and forgotten as grown into and grown out of.
