Dr Julia Chen
Associate Professor (by courtesy)
- TU626a
- +852 3400 3173
- julia.chen@polyu.edu.hk
- Profile Webpage on Educational Development Centre
Research Overview
My main areas of research are learning analytics for quality assurance and enhancement and English Across the Curriculum, a localized version of the US Writing Across the Curriculum. My recent research projects explore the affordances of modern technology for language learning. I am the Project Leader of two large-scale projects on English Across the Curriculum (one institution LEG and the other a 5-university joint project funded by the UGC’s Teaching and Learning Related Proposals Scheme) and a third project with Stanford University on developing an online learning platform with automatic error correction. I led the organisation of the 1st and the 2nd International Conference on English Across the Curriculum held in December 2015 (http://eacconference.elc.polyu.edu.hk/) and in December 2018 (https://elc.polyu.edu.hk/conference/EAC2018/) respectively.
Academic and Professional Experience
- Director, Educational Development Centre, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2016 –) https://www.polyu.edu.hk/en/edc/
- Chair, Hong Kong Teaching Excellence Alliance (https://hktea.edu.hk/, initiated by the UGC) (2024 – )
- Associate Director, English Language Centre (2010 – 2016)
- Chair, Faculty of Humanities' Learning and Teaching Committee (2013 – 2016)
- Coordinator, 4YC Language & Communication Requirement English language subjects (materials development and QA) (2011-2016)
Teaching Areas
I mainly co-teach the subject "Curriculum and Assessment" in the Professional Doctorate programme Doctor of Applied Language Sciences offered by the Faculty of Humanities. I have also taught PhD and MPhil students from across the disciplines a subject that I developed entitled "Thesis Writing for Research Students". I have also taught undergraduate EAP subjects and an elective “English for Literature and Film”.
