BA (Hons) Drama; RSA Dip. PA; RSA Dip. TEFL; MSc TESOL (with distinction); PhD Educational Linguistics (with distinction)

Research and Projects Interests

My research is on multilingualism in schools where I am interested in both the ideological and interactional simultaneously. On-going work funded by the UK research council (ESRC) on complementary schools investigates participants' linguistic repertoires and identities and considers how these are institutionally and socially framed. I also have a long standing interest in teacher collaboration and discourses in multilingual urban schools. 

I work in the area of linguistic ethnography and have been involved with UKLEF since its inception in 2000. I am currently meetings secretary for the group.

I am currently meetings secretary for the group.  I am also publications secretary for Naldic (National Association for language development in the curriculum) which is a professional organisation representing teachers working with bilingual young people in English schools. 

Research Grants

ESRC

Principal applicant. March, 2006 – August, 2007 (£208,000)
Investigating multilingualism in complementary schools in four communities (ESRC, RES-000-23-1180)
With Adrian Blackledge, Vally Lytra, Peter Martin and Li Wei
Further information available at: http://www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk/esrcinfocentre/viewawardpage.aspx?awardnumber=RES-000-23-1180

TTA

Funding Allocations for Postgraduate Professional Development (PPD) programmes.
Principal applicant, Melanie Griffin (NASSEA) with Angela Creese, School of Education, University of Birmingham. (£300,388).

DfES

Principal applicant (£135,000). DfES piloting of Bilingualism in Education programme.

ESRC

Peter Martin (PI) and Angela Creese. Complementary schools and the communities in Leicester. (ESRC R000223949). ‘Outstanding’ grade awarded to final report September 2002 – August 2003 (£34,000)

BAAL

Seminar £500. 2001, Joint convenor. BAAL seminar: Linguistic Ethnography Forum (with David Barton, Janet Maybin, Ben Rampton and Karin Tusting.

Senior Researcher

2000 ESRC: Learning and Gender: a Study of Underachievement in Junior Schools. Report number: R000237346.
With Harry Daniels, Valerie Hey, Diana Leonard and Marjorie Smith

Researcher

1997. DfEE: Provision of a Teacher Centred Strategy for Implementing the SEN Code of Practice. Project Contract Number: D/0254/112030.
With Harry Daniels and Brahm Norwich.

Teaching Interests

My teaching commitments are in the area of bilingualism in education and language, discourse and society and I contribute to several programmes in the School of Education, University of Birmingham: MEd. Bilingualism in Education; MA TEFL, Doctoral level Research Methods Modules and the undergraduate programme, English Language and Literature in Education, BA.

Publications (selection)

Creese, A., Martin, P. and Hornberger, N. (eds) (2008)  Encyclopedia of Language and Education 2nd Edition. Volume 9: Ecology of Language. Springer Science+Business Media LLC.

Creese, A., Bhatt, A., Bhojani, N. and Martin, P. (2008) Fieldnotes in team ethnography: research complementary schools. Qualitative Research. Vol 8 (2): 223 – 242

Creese, A., Bhatt, A., Bhojani, N. and Martin, P. n (2006) Multicultural, Heritage and Learner Identities in Complementary Schools, Language and Education, 20 (1): 23-43. ISSN: 0950-0782. Publication: 42152.

Creese, A. (2005) Is this content-based language teaching? Linguistics and Education. 16: 188 -204.

Creese, A.(2005) Teacher Collaboration and Talk in Multilingual Classrooms, Clevedon, Multilingual Matters.

Creese, A. (2002) The Discursive Construction of Power in Teacher Partnerships: Language and Subject Specialists in Mainstream Schools, TESOL Quarterly, 36 (4): 597-616.

Publications 2001 - 2008 [complete, pdf]