Ms Lynne Jones
Professional Development Officer
Scotland's National Centre for Languages (SCILT)
Personal statement
In August 2012, Lynne joined SCILT, Scotland’s National Centre for Languages based at the University of Strathclyde initially on secondment as a Professional Development Officer. Prior to this, she worked as a primary teacher at schools in West Lothian Council and Dundee City Council for over 13 years, with a whole school and cluster remits for the teaching and learning of modern languages throughout.
In her current role at SCILT, Lynne facilitates a variety of professional learning opportunities for pre-service and in-service primary teachers around early languages education policy and pedagogy. She has a particular interest in the use of film and visual texts to support the learning and teaching of languages and intercultural awareness.
2017-2024 Lynne held various supporter roles in leadership development programmes offered by SCEL/ Education Scotland's Professional Learning and Leadership team, which focused on developing pedagogical leadership through practitioner enquiry. In addition, Lynne was Pedagogy Lead (2019-2022) and Pedagogy Tutor (2017-2023) on Teachers Learning to Teach Languages in Primary School (TeLT) programme, a blended programme combining language upskilling and primary languages pedagogy run in partnership between Open University and SCILT.
Her current activities include: membership of Languages Week Scotland steering group, a national week of advocacy; SCILT co-lead on Scotland's Languages Leadership Programme team and membership of the editorial team for the Scottish Languages Review online journal.
Qualifications
2015 Masters in Teaching (MTeach) from the University of Edinburgh
1998 PGCE (Primary Education) with Merit from the University of Paisley
1994 BA (Hons) 2i French and Spanish from the University of Stirling
Publications
- How did you come to engage in students-as-partners work?
- Reid Felix, Hunt Jem, Chow Marissa, Henry Tanya, Matthews Kelly, Faulkner Suzanne, Dombi Elizabeth, Jones Lynne, McMichan Lauren, Melville Gillian Carol
- International Journal of Students as Partners Vol 8, pp. 241-259 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.15173/ijsap.v8i2.5872
- 'It's a building that draws up mixed emotions for me.' : Learnings from mobile interviews with teacher leaders in Scotland
- Jones Lynne
- Mobile Methods Across Disciplines (2024)
- Scotland update : professionalisation pathways for early secondary teachers of languages
- Jones Lynne, Ritchie Suzanne
- INNLAC: International network of national languages centres (2024)
- 'I don't agree with myself!' doctoral researcher identity disrupted and developed, interrupted and transformed
- Jones Lynne
- The ECR Journey: At Crossroads of Becoming (2024)
- Are we really working with students? Working with students as partners to explore and enhance feedback practice with undergraduate students, a freestanding narrative review.
- Faulkner Suzanne, Dombi Elizabeth, Jones Lynne, McMichan Lauren, Melville Gillian Carol
- (2024)
- Dr Who? Researching as time travel : why and how an ECR undertook the same data (re)generation activities as the participants in their EdD study
- Jones Lynne
- IPDA England Lightning Conference (2023)
Research Interests
Research interests include learner voice, teacher learning and practitioner enquiry. Lynne's Masters dissertation explored the professional learning experiences of primary and secondary teachers of modern languages in one local authority in Scotland.
Lynne is an active member of the Scholarship of Learning and Teaching (SoTL) community at the University of Strathclyde.
Presently working on her EdD thesis, Lynne is using collaborative digital, visual and mobile methods to explore how teacher leadership is understood and experienced in Scotland.
Professional Activities
- Could subject-specific professional learning revive languages in Scotland?
- Recipient
- 5/2/2025
- Are we really working with students? Working with students as partners to explore and enhance feedback practice with undergraduate students.
- Speaker
- 9/1/2025
- 'Teacher agency isn't a myth!': a decade of building personalised leadership capacity in languages education at all levels in Scotland through turbulent times
- Speaker
- 15/11/2024
- Are we really working with students as partners when we develop feedback literacies with our undergraduate students and staff?
- Speaker
- 9/9/2024
- How do we identify and break down barriers to effective and genuine partnership working in Higher Education?
- Contributor
- 24/7/2024
- What role(s) can a subject specific national body have in addressing challenges and offering solutions for the equitable provision of professional learning in turbulent times?
- Speaker
- 18/7/2024
Projects
- ACTFL2021: American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages
- Jones, Lynne (Principal Investigator)
- Annual Convention and World Languages Expo
- 19-Jan-2021 - 21-Jan-2021
- YouTube, Wordpress and Twitter: a digital recruitment strategy for research in education
- Jones, Lynne (Principal Investigator)
- Oral presentation at the Doctoral School's Multidisciplinary Symposium
- 03-Jan-2021 - 03-Jan-2021
- YouTube, Wordpress and Twitter: a digital recruitment strategy for qualitative research in educaiton
- Jones, Lynne (Principal Investigator)
- Recorded presentation. Doctoral School Multidisciplinary Symposium, University of Strathclyde, 1-4 June 2021
- 03-Jan-2021 - 03-Jan-2021
- The New Normal in Language Learning at Home, School and in our Communities
- Jones, Lynne (Fellow)
- Host of one of the five parallel seminars. Title: Building on lockdown experiences in primary language learning seminar. Supported group of primary teachers who were speakers. Contributed to panel discussion.
- 04-Jan-2020 - 04-Jan-2020
- Practitioner enquiry support in East Renfrewshire (Woodford Lodge School)
- Wall, Kate (Principal Investigator) Beck, Anna (Academic) Firth, Jonathan William (Academic) Moore, Iain (Academic) Jones, Lynne (Researcher)
- A sustained engagement to develop a whole school approach to practitioner enquiry.
- 01-Jan-2019 - 30-Jan-2020
- American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Annual Convention and World Languages Expo
- Jones, Lynne (Principal Investigator)
- 23-Jan-2018 - 25-Jan-2018
Contact
Ms
Lynne
Jones
Professional Development Officer
Scotland's National Centre for Languages (SCILT)
Email: lynne.jones@strath.ac.uk
Tel: Unlisted