International Conference on Globalisation in Languages, Education, Culture, and Communication (GLECC2025)30-31 July, 2025, Manchester, UK
The first International Conference on Globalisation in Languages, Education, Culture and Communication (GLECC2025) is going to be held 30-31 July, 2025, Manchester, UK.
The past two decades have witnessed remarkable advancements in the studies into Education, Second and Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting, Cultural Studies, and Communication. This growth, evident in both the number of active researchers and the volume of scholarly throughput and outcomes, can be largely attributed to the forces of globalisation. Consequently, adopting the globalisation perspective is timely and provides a natural framework for connecting these diverse yet interlinked disciplines.
GLECC2025 aims to bring together researchers, educators, practitioners, and policymakers from the realms of education, foreign and second languages, cultural studies, translation, interpreting, and communication to disseminate research outcomes, share insights, discuss findings, exchange visions, and identify challenges and trends in an interactive and immersive multidisciplinary environment.
This conference, notwithstanding the dissemination of works within individual and traditional discipline specified scopes, endeavours to break the subject silos. Papers and other contributions in Education, Second and Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting, Cultural Studies, or Communication, as well as contributions crossing the borders of traditional disciplines or emerged from frontier research, are welcome.
The conference is co-organised by AT Publishing in association with its three journals namely, Research in Education Curriculum and Pedagogy: Global Perspectives (RECAP) [ISSN: 2977-1633]; New Perspectives on Languages (NPL) [ISSN: 3033-490X] and The International Journal of Chinese and English Translation & Interpreting (IJCETI) [ISSN: 2753-6149]. There is a “conference first” policy in place. Selected papers will be invited to further develop into full journal articles free of APCs.
Conference proceedings will be published open access with an ISBN.
General Chairs:
Dr Derek Hird, School of Global Affairs, Lancaster University
Professor Zheng Wang, Professor & Chair of International Economics, School of Business, University of Dundee
Associate General Chairs:
Professor Binhua Wang EiC International Journal of Chinese and English Translation & Interpreting, University of Leeds
Dr Xuan Wang, EiC New Perspectives on Languages, Cardiff University
Dr Melissa Jorge EiC Research in Education Curriculum and Pedagogy, Roehampton University
Publication Chair:
Karen Wang, Senior Editor, AT Publishing
Conference Technical/Scholarly Committee:
Liliana Belkin, University of Roehampton, UK
Wei Cai, University of Calgary, Canada
Aiming Chen, Nanjing University/Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
Jin Chi, Beijing Normal University, China
Michelle Deeter, University of Newcastle, UK
Ruichang Ding, Beijing Normal University, China
Jonathan Evans, University of Glasgow, UK
Lydia Foong, Taylor’s University, Malaysia
Fei Gao, Chongqing University of Post and Telecommunications, China
Jack Hargreaves, Paper Republic, UK
Agnes He, Stony Brook University, USA
Saihong Li, University of Stirling, UK
Wenjie Li, Beijing Normal University, China
Gonzalo Miranda Márquez, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
Lin Pan, Beijing Normal University, China
Kyara Rojas-Bustos, University of Roehampton, UK
Kazumi Sakai, Dokkyo University, Japan
William Shannon, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Jos Swanenberg, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Jan Van Maele, KU Leuven, Belgium
Rik Vosters, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Jinghui Wang, Tsinghua University, China
Guixia Xie, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Peidong Yang, Nanyang Technology University, Singapore
Antonia Yanxi Wu, University of Essex, UK
Yan Ying, University of Leicester, UK
Feixia Yu, University of Central Lancashire, UK
Boping Yuan, University of Cambridge, UK
Ling Zhou, East China University of Science and Technology, China
Call for papers and other contributions
The conference contributions may take the forms of
- Full paper
- Panel discussion proposal
- Workshop proposal
- Abstract
Strands
All submissions should indicate the strands (Education, Second and Foreign Languages, Translation & Interpreting, Culture, Globalisation) up to 3. The organising committee reserves the right to allocate your paper or abstract to the strand as they see fit.
Topics listed below serve as hints to provide inspiration but not restrictions. Any topic of academic, practical, or vocational interests and within the remit of the conference is welcome.
Education
- Curriculum design and development
- Applied pedagogy
- Educational psychology
- Educational systems or policies that are of global and/or comparative design focusing on functions, efficiencies, or challenges
- Interdisciplinary approaches to educational research that can be applied to practices related to equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI)
- Mixed methodological design and analysis that might be related to using both simple and more sophisticated approaches to building evidence or datasets
- New and emerging challenges of using technology in educational contexts for example digital technologies in learning and teaching, generative AI, and online learning
- Educational practices related to black and minority ethnic (BME) groups and from underserved communities or countries
Second and foreign languages
- Language teaching and learning
- Language acquisition and development
- Bilingualism and multilingualism
- Digital and technology-mediated language
- Critical language pedagogies
- Heritage language
- Language endangerment and revitalization
- Language policy
- Language and identity
- Language and culture
- Intercultural communication
Translation and interpreting
- Research Article in translation and interpreting
- Reflection on Professional Practice
- Reflection on Teaching Practice
- Corpus and applications
- Technologies and tools for translation and interpreting and subtitling
- AI and machine translation and interpreting
Culture
- Heritage and preservation
- Religion: Beliefs and Practices
- Identity
- Norms comparison
- Culture and society
- EDI
- Language and culture
Globalisation
- Globalisation in general from politics and economics perspectives
- Globalisation and internationalisation of education
- Human mobility in a globalised world
- Competition in a global economy and market
- Research and development globalisation
- Globalisation and culture
- Globalisation and communication
Key dates
Submission deadline: 30 April, 2025
Acceptance notification: 30 May, 2025
Camera ready version due: 25 June 2025
Early bird registration deadline: 15 June 2025
Conference dates: 30-31 July 2025
Registration Fees
Early Bird Regular
Author (student) £250 £280
Author (regular) £320 £360
Listener/companying person £125 £125
Ticket/session £20 £25
Extra paper £100 £100