Upcoming and recent events
Talks, lectures, workshops, webinars
11-12 September 2026
‘Because I’m desperate!’ Attending to Healthcare Professionals’ Real Wor(l)ds
I will give this talk in the beautiful city of Krakow, in Poland, at the 7th International Conference English for Healthcare, to instigate honest discussion of difficult realities requiring us to push beyond careful preparation of our medical communication courses. Details and registration on the conference website here.
6 AUGUST 2026
EALTHY webinar Humanising Flat, Robotic Speech in Healthcare Communication through Voice Visualisation
This webinar has been requested after my talk at the IATEFL conference in Brighton earlier this year (see below). For more details and registration, visit the EALTHY website and social media.
18 July 2026
Take Your TIME: A Framework for Teaching Profession-Related Communication in an AI-Accelerated World
An interactive, 2-hour online workshop by myself and Neil Harris from CELT Cardiff, hosted by IATEFL’s Business English Special Interest Group. Details and registration on the IATEFL website here.
23 May 2026
Medical Scientific Writing between Pressure, Possibility, and Responsibility
My former colleagues from the “Grigore T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy Iasi invited me to do this workshop to share my experience working independently with medical (PhD) researchers faced with contractual pressures to publish in international journals, tight deadlines, uncertainty, and rapid technological change.
21 April 2026
Improving Intonation for Sensitive Professional Communication through Voice Visualisation
A very lively and successful talk featured in the PronSIG Showcase at the annual IATEFL conference in Brighton in 2026, and which has since led to further collaborations. I shared some of the feedback in a LinkedIn post here.
20 April 2026
ESP Unplugged podcast, Ep. 1 – In conversation with clinical communications trainer and author Ros Wright
This first episode of the ESP Unplugged podcast is about teaching English for healthcare communication. The podcast is brought to you by the IATEFL’s ESPSIG, the Special Interest Group in English for Specific Purposes. Watch online here.
29 january 2026
From Frustration to Facilitation – Turning AI’s Shortcomings into Learning
I was invited to give this webinar through TESOL ESPIS, the English for Specific Purposes Interest Section, to teachers of English from all over the world. Read more about it here and, if you are a TESOL member, watch it online via MyTESOL platform.
13 december 2025
Tired of AI flaws and red flags in high-stakes ESP? Me too, so let’s use them!
At the 2025 Open Forum of the IATEFL ESPSIG, I presented my position and encouraged discussion of how we might use AI’s reductionisms and faux-pas to spark vocabulary growth, critical thinking, and information literacy skills. I then developed this further in the TESOL webinar mentioned above.
11 December 2025
EALTHY webinar – Maximising OET Writing Success: A process approach
OET exam preparation is one of my specialties, in particular the Writing sub-test. That is why EALTHY invited me alongside fellow OET trainers Neil Harris and Sona Lisa Bose to provide strategies for optimal OET Writing preparation and performance. The webinar recording is available to EALTHY members here.
12 June 2025
Learn Your Learners: a process-based approach to teaching writing with insight and intention
I was invited by EALTHY to give this webinar on the high-impact, low-tech, process-focused method I use to reveal hidden learner needs, inform feedback, and guide effective practice of writing skills. The webinar recording is available to EALTHY members here.
30 may 2025
Listening Is Telling
This was a graduation lecture-gift for my former medical students from 2019-2021 at the “Grigore T. Popa” Univ. of Medicine and Pharmacy Iași. Get a glimpse of this wonderful reunion on my YouTube channel here. It was much livelier than this picture lets on. And tastier, too!
26 APRIL 2025
Listen with your eyes (not AIs), then personalise with AIs
This was a joint talk I gave with Neil Harris from CELT Cardiff at the AI Symposium ‘Innovating Medical English Teaching with AI’ organised by EALTHY. Watch it on my YouTube channel here. The recording of the full event is available to EALTHY members here.
8 APRIL 2025
Teaching scientific writing as process while the process is changing
I gave this talk at the IATEFL 2025 conference in Edinburgh as the winner of the ESP Scholarship Mark Krzanowksi (details here). Watch the recording of the talk on my YouTube channel here. I have also written articles on this topic for the journal Professional and Academic English (in print) and for the TESOL ESP IS newsletter (here).
7 April 2025
Human-centred, future-ready ESP: Integrating AI in designing OET exam preparation with and for healthcare professionals
This was a talk and workshop I gave at the IATEFL ESPSIG PCE ’21st century skills in the ESP classroom,’ in Edinburgh. I showcased my original OET preparation approach developed collaboratively with my clients (see ‘OET Journeys’ below).
25 March 2025
OET Journeys – Spring Bloom
This was the 2nd online reunion of my former and then OET clients, who joined from different countries to share their journeys and collaborate on creating effective, original OET guidance informed by real patient cases and their authentic experiences before, at, and after the exam. We called this virtual meeting place “The Prancing Dogtor” Pub (AI-generated image).
19 DECEMBER 2024
Birth of ‘Journeys into Healthcare’ and 1st ‘OET Journeys’ Roundtable
This was the 1st online reunion of my former and then OET clients, who joined from different countries to collaborate on creating effective, original OET guidance informed by real patient cases and their authentic experiences before, at, and after the exam. That is how ‘Journeys Into Healthcare’ was born and, within it, OET Journeys.
6 November 2024
Transition, Transfer, Transform: Insights from an Academic Turned Freelancer
I gave this talk at the IATEFL ESPSIG Open Forum about what it’s like to move from academia to independent work, i.e., going from teaching groups of undergraduate students a predefined curriculum to helping individual professionals adaptively.
12 August 2024
Winning the IATEFL ESP Scholarship ‘Mark Krzanowski’
I was so excited to get the news of winning this IATEFL scholarship and would be going to Edinburgh in 2025 (see above). I had approached the application as a self-assessment exercise, not to impress. I had no idea that over 1,000 people had applied for the 20 scholarships offered. I encourage anyone in ELT to go for it. All the information is on the IATEFL website here.
25 April 2024
‘A Taste Of’ OET Medicine, the International Medical English Certificate You May Need to Practise Medicine Abroad
This was an on-demand, in-person workshop at Congressis 2024, the 19th International Congress for Medical Students and Young Doctors, requested after the success of similar workshops I had done at Congressis 2023 and other such events since 2019.