Professional development

LLAS has over ten years’ experience delivering professional development for educators in languages and related studies at primary, secondary and university level. Our workshops and conferences provide development opportunities for teaching staff, researchers, support staff and managers. We offer events that focus on discipline-specific topics and approaches that may not be incorporated into generic staff development courses. We have an ongoing events programme, and can also work with your department or organisation to deliver bespoke professional development or workshops.

Our events programme

Higher education events

We run the following annual or bi-annual events for practitioners in higher education:

We also run the following workshops for higher education:

Primary and Secondary Education events

We organise the following conferences for those working in the schools sector:

Further training courses for practitioners in primary and secondary education are available through Languages South East.

“LLAS is a lifeline to all working in languages”
Comment from a delegate at Stories with impact, 2010

In addition to our ongoing events programme, our team of education developers can work with your department, business or organisation to develop and deliver bespoke professional development or workshops. We have particular expertise in the following areas:

  • Language pedagogy
  • Technology in education
  • Internationalisation of higher education
  • Intercultural awareness
  • Quality Assurance
  • Student mobility (study abroad)

Our events pages contain details of upcoming events. If you would like to arrange delivery of one of our workshops or a programme of professional development for your department or organisation, please contact us at llas@soton.ac.uk or on 023 8059 4814.