Tanya is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She has an MA in Russian Studies from SSEES, University College London and an MA in Applied Linguistics from Birkbeck University. She has taught Russian at King’s College London since 2002. As Team Leader, she is responsible for managing the Slavic and Middle Eastern language courses offered by the King's Language Centre (LC). Tanya is the Departmental Education Lead, Diversity and Inclusion Lead and Staff Development Lead for the Language Centre. Before joining the LC, she taught at Northumbria University, Defence School of Languages and the Foreign Commonwealth Office. Tanya has won research, development and diversity and inclusion grants. She is passionate about creating inclusive learning communities, bridging the gap between schools and universities and developing young people’s interest in learning foreign languages. She was nominated for a King’s Widening Participation Award. Recently she has led two EDI project focussed on Decolonising the Curriculum.

 

Selected Publications

• • Stebletsova A.O., Torubarova I.I., Linaker T. (2023) The language of a healthy lifestyle in British and Russian digital media: a comparative study. Science-journal-of-volsu-linguistics-2023-vol-22-no-5
  • Linaker, T. (2023) From professional support to academic pathway – negotiating professional identity in a time of organisational change. Issues in Applied Linguistics 2023-12-12
  • Linaker, T. (2023) Identity construction in the UK higher education: How cultural gendered identity is shaped through leadership practice. Training, Language and Culture

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  • Linaker, T., (2019) Language Teacher/Translator Gendered Identity Construction: From Dilemmatic to Agentive-Big Lives Through Small Stories. Negotiating Identity in Modern Foreign Language Teaching, Matilde Gallardo (ed.), Palgrave Macmillan
  • Linaker, T., (2012) Constructing and negotiating gender identities through multilingual practices. Язык, коммуникация и социальная среда / Language, Communication and Social Environment. Issue 10. 309-340.
  • Linaker, T., (2005) Female Voices Transcending Gender as heard and recorded by Chekhov, Mansfield and Nabokov. Slovo, vol.17, no.2, 165-178.