Meet the NCLE

National Consortium for Languages Education (NCLE)

The NCLE will be led by IOE in partnership with The Goethe-Institut and the British Council as a Consortium, working to lead a Language Network programme funded by the DfE.

Meet the Team

Chair of Board of Directors

Professor Li Wei – IOE Director and Dean, Professor of Applied Linguistics

NCLE Director

Bernardette Holmes MBE – Honorary Professor

Chair of NCLE Governance Board

Professor Norbert Pachler – Professor of Education and Vice-Dean: Enterprise at UCL Institute of Education

Strategic Learning Networks and National Priority Projects

SLN/NPP Co-ordinator

Lucy Wicks

Project Advisors

Karen Hanrahan

Maud Waret

Dr Ann-Marie Hunter

Clare Allison (Home, Heritage and Community Languages Officer)

Research and Innovation

Director of Research and Innovation

Professor Zhu Hua – Professor of Language Learning and Intercultural Communication

Research Fellows

Dr Ann-Marie Hunter – Senior Research Fellow (Language Learning)

Dr Elin Arfon – Research Fellow (Language Subject Leadership)

CPD

CPD Co-ordinator

Jérôme Nogues

Learning Technologist

Ellis Parkman

Operations and Professional Services

Performance Manager

Mike Crook

Programme Co-Ordinator

Lily Bao

Programme Administrator

Zahra Dhalla-Bhimji

Hannah O’Rourke

Communications

Communications Lead

Philip Harding-Esch

British Council

Schools Adviser

Vicky Gough

Senior Marketing Manager

Emily Pelter

Marketing Manager

Pamela Cairns

Goethe-Institut London

Deputy Director and Head of Language Department North West Europe

Andrea Pfeil