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

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