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Mr Ugo Marsili

Ugo Marsili portrait
  • IWLP Italian stage 1 and 3 teacher and module convenor
  • IWLP British Sign Language (BSL) Lead
  • Senior Lead of Disabilities Awareness Initiatives
  • Departmental Disability Officer
  • External Examiner – Centre for Languages Cultures and Communication (Italian), Imperial College, London
  • External Examiner – UWLP and Degree Programme (Italian), University of Bristol

Office

Miller 126

Building location

Miller building

Areas of interest

  • Multilingualism and intercomprehension processes
  • Inclusive teaching
  • Intercultural competence and communication
  • Total Physical Response and Suggestopedia teaching methods
  • Audio-visual translation applied to language teaching
  • Media accessibility for Blind and Deaf people

My main area of interest is multilingualism, intercultural communication and inclusive teaching. In my day-to-day teaching practice I aim to develop students鈥 speaking skills in a foreign language thanks to the exposure to authentic materials as well as analysing the strong connection between emotions, memory and language retention of vocabulary and grammar structures in students with different linguistic and cultural backgrounds.

As an audio-visual translator (audio description for the blind and subtitles for the Deaf and hard of hearing), a BSL signer and Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) trainer, I work closely with the Blind and Deaf communities and students with disabilities. My main research is around comparing sign language and spoken language studies. I use audio visual translation applied to language teaching to develop students鈥 reading, speaking and writing skills. I co-lead international projects funded by the EU to train colleagues across different Universities, HE Institutions and centres of culture to become audio-visual translators and experts in Deaf and Blind Awareness.

 In my role of D&I trainer I led and co-lead various T&L events:

  • I co-designed and delivered a British Sign Language and Deaf Awareness summer course for members of the Disability Advisory Service (DAS) and Student Services to help them supporting students with hearing impairments during recruitment events.
  • I have contributed to the "Hearing dogs for the Deaf" event,  organised by the Welcome Week team, by delivering, with the BSL team, a language taster and a Deaf awareness workshop for students and staff.
  • I recently organised an extracurricular event for our IWLP BSL students to raise awareness about invisible disabilities and their perception in our society.

Current Research Projects:

  • Analysing the benefits of using Sign Language to support students in the classroom and develop their productive skills and learning strategies in a foreign spoken language
  • Leading an international collaborative project to increase access to social services for Deaf and Blind people in Tbilisi, Georgia
  • Leading a collaborative research project with students as partners, on aligning BSL Assessment and Marking Criteria with the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) for visual languages, funded by the UoR (Endowment fund)
  • Working as D&I trainer for the Erasmus funded project 鈥淎udio Description against exclusion鈥 with the Latvian Academy of Culture to create a barrier-free access to culture for the Blind Community in Riga and introducing audio description (AD) for the cinema鈥檚 production
  • Leading the development of British Sign Language courses for HE professionals and delivering tailored Deaf and Blind Awareness workshops to UoR members of staff and business developers.

Teaching

I teach and train staff and students over three subject areas: Italian and Spanish languages, Disability Awareness (Deafness and Blindness) and audio visual translation and Intercultural communication.

In addition I work as a volunteer teacher of English for Refugees and Asylum Seekers both for the Reading City of Sanctuary and an European NGO.

At Reading, I teach and convene modules for the (IWLP) and Degree programmes in the Department of Languages and Cultures

Modules taught and/or convened:

  • IWLP Italian stages 1, 2 and 3
  • IWLP Spanish stages 1 and 2
  • IT3LMB Degree programme
  • IT1L1,  IT1L2 and IT1L3  Degree programme

In my role of Senior Lead of Disability Awareness Initiatives and audio-visual translator I teach and taught the following modules:

  • IL1GICC and IL2GICC Intercultural Competence and Communication 鈥 International Study and Language Institute (ISLI)
  • CE3CIE 鈥 Inclusive Environments 鈥 School of Built Environment (SBE)
  • ED3FCD - Child Development 鈥 Institute of Education (IoE)
  • ED3BRD 鈥 Representations of disability in drama and the arts (IoE)
  • CQSD 鈥 Teaching and Learning Programme
  • TY2IB 鈥 Integrated Design Methods 鈥 Typography and Graphic Communication (TYP)
  • EN0CID 鈥 Changing identities- English Literature, School of Humanities

In my role of Diversity and Inclusion Lead I train the following Teams at UoR:

  • Events
  • Health and Safety Coordinator (incl. Fire Wardens and First Aiders)
  • Admissions and Procurement
  • RUSU officers (Disability month)

Previous roles in the Department of Languages and Cultures

  • IWLP French Language Lead
  • IWLP Russian Language Lead
  • IWLP Marketing Lead
  • IWLP Student Recruitment Coordinator
  • British Sign Language and Russian Internal Moderator
  • IWLP Social Media Officer
  • Departmental Director of Academic Tutoring (DDAT) for the Year Abroad 

Background

I hold a MA degree in Linguistics, Literary Studies and Translation (Spanish and Polish) from the University “La Sapienza”, Italy and an MSc degree in Teaching Italian as a Foreign Language from the University for Foreigners of Siena, Italy.

I am a Lecturer (Italian/Spanish) at the Department of Languages and Cultures (DLC), responsible for the strategic development and delivery of the suite of modules in British Sign Language (BSL), while also the Departmental Disability Representative and Director of Academic tutoring for the Year Abroad.

I have over twenty-years’ experience of teaching languages (Italian and Spanish), culture and translation in the HE and private sector, across a variety of settings, including adult education and lifelong learning. I have been working in Italy, Poland and Argentina between 2000 and 2012 when I joined the 澳门六合彩开奖记录 and taught for the Department of Continuing Education, the Department of Modern Languages and the Institution Wide Language Programme (IWLP). Since 2012 I have also been teaching Italian and Spanish weekend language courses for the University of Oxford.

Beyond these academic responsibilities, I have a strong profile at the UoR and beyond, as an advocate and expert in inclusive and innovative education.

Academic qualifications

  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
  • MA in Linguistic and Literary Studies (Rome, Italy)
  • MSc in Teaching Italian Language to Adults (University for Foreigners of Siena, Italy)
  • Teacher Training Diploma to teach Italian to foreign students (International House, Rome, Italy)
  • Teacher Training Diploma to teach Spanish to Adults (Institute Cervantes, London)
  • University of Pozna艅, PgDip in audio visual translation for the Cinema and Performing Arts (audio description, dubbing, voice-over and subtitles for the Deaf and hard of Hearing (HoH).
  • International House London, Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA) – awarded by Cambridge University

Awards and honours

  • 2024 UoR Research funding (Endowment fund) to work on a project with IWLP BSL students as partners to align BSL Assessment and Marking criteria with the CEFR for visual languages. 
  • 2019 Rewarding Excellence Award (SLL/DLC) for demonstrating professional the professional behaviour of working together.
  • 2019 UoR Research funding, “Inclusive Way Hackathon: the design of everyday wayfinding in outdoor public environments”. Funding body: 澳门六合彩开奖记录, Diversity and Inclusion Funds. Awarded through competition.
  • 2017 Award for Outstanding Contribution to the development of the British Sign Language (BSL) Modules at the Institution Wide Language Programme (IWLP). Funding body: 澳门六合彩开奖记录, International Studies and Language Institute (ISLI) funds.
  • 2017  Contributing to the project “Supporting IWLP students living with dyslexia to learn languages”. Funding body: Diversity and Inclusion Fund
  • 2016 Award for Outstanding Contribution to Teaching Excellence, Department for Modern Languages and European Studies (DMLES), 澳门六合彩开奖记录. 

Professional bodies/affiliations

  • Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (CELM)
  • Member and Trainer for the “Open Culture Open Art Foundation”, Poland.
  • Member of the Breaking Down Barriers (BdB) staff group to embed inclusive design into teaching and learning. 
  • Member of Association of University Language Centres (AULC)

Selected publications

Translations:
  • Translation from Polish to Italian of Leszek Bednarczuk's essay 'W艂adza nad mow膮' in Plit, Rome: Lithos, 2008.
  • Translation from Spanish to Italian of Rosalba Campra's essay 'Le Rovine Circolari of Jorge Luis Borges' in Il Fantastico e l'allegoria edited by Francesco Muzzioli. Rome: Editori Riuniti.

Conferences and presentations

  • University Ramon Llull, Barcelona, 2024, presenting the paper: Case study in aligning British Sign Language productive assessments to the CEFR at a UK HE institution
  • University of Warsaw 2024, Faculty of Modern Languages, presenting the paper: Designing inclusive assessment of visual languages in a multilingual HE environment. Lessons in comparing language learning strategies in spoken and visual languages.  
  • AULC University of Exeter 2024, attending the conference “New Directions for University-Wide Language Programmes: Challenges and Solutions in Innovation, Inclusivity and Community Building”, University of Exeter.
  • University of Warsaw 2023, Faculty of Modern Languages, presenting the paper: Diversity and Inclusion in the language classroom. The use of Sign Language to support and develop productive skills in a foreign language for the Humanity Society Identity (HIS) Congress.
  • 澳门六合彩开奖记录 “Innoconf, Shaping Futures for Modern Languages in Higher Education, 2021”, delivering the workshop: Changing perspectives – exploring our students’ views on disability and online learning
  • University of Exeter, 2021 “Intercultural Competence and Foreign Language Learning in HE. Present and future directions”, delivering the workshop: Combining Signed and Spoken Language Studies: Tools for Language Teachers.
  • University of Warsaw 2021, contributing to the Summer School for UG students of Italian delivering a cycle of workshops about Invisible Disabilities and Inclusive Teaching on the subject area “Mediazione linguistica e culturale tra l’Italia e la Polonia”.
  • 澳门六合彩开奖记录 2020, Co-leader of the Hackathon event – a cross-departmental project (SBE, Real Estate, Typography, Architecture and Modern Languages) about inclusive wayfinding and pedagogy.
  • AULC London 2019, attending the conference “Linguistic transitions: towards languages for life”, King’s College.
  • UK LINGUA 2019, attending the conference “Multilingual Language Learning and Teaching Colloquium”, University of Durham, U.K.
  • Stockholm University 2019, presenting the paper Diversity and Inclusion in Language Teaching and delivering two workshops about “Deaf awareness and blind awareness in language teaching” and “Audio Description applied to language teaching. Working out the four skills” for the Department of Language education.
  • UK LINGUA, The University of Durham, 2017 co-presenting the paperTransitioning into the world of work: encouraging students to learn deeply and broadly to enhance independence and transferable skills.
  • AULC Queen’s University of Belfast, 2017, co-presenting the paper Encouraging students to learn deeply and broadly: tools to enhance independence and transferrable skills in an IWLP Italian beginner module.

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