Dr Robert Ping-Nan Chang
Title
Senior Lecturer in Academic Support
College
University of the Arts London
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Biography
Robert Ping-Nan Chang is a Senior Lecturer in CCW Academic Support (ALDinHE LD Team Award, 2026). With an interest in AI literacy, he also assumes the portfolio of CCW Academic Support AI Champion.He is an applied linguist, with the research and teaching interests in English for academic purposes, applied genre analysis, and learning technology. Before joining UAL in 2021, he has been involved in the field of learning development at specialist higher education institutions, including University for the Creative Arts, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, St George’s University of London and The Institute of Ismaili Studies.
He holds a Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics (University of Essex) and a Doctorate in Education in TESOL (Queen’s University Belfast), with his doctoral research on the rhetorical structure and metadiscourse of architecture research article writing. He is a Fellow of Advance HE and a Senior Fellow of ALDinHE (Association for Learning Development in Higher Education). He also has Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (Royal Central School of Speech & Drama), Certificate in Teaching Languages with Technology (English UK), Certificate in International Business English Training (Trinity College London), Teaching English for Academic Purposes (London School of Economics and Political Science), Learning Technologies in EAP (University of Sheffield) and the highest band in Content Language Integrated Learning TKT/Teaching Knowledge Test (Cambridge English Language Assessment).
He has disseminated research around discoursal features of academic and professional genres, categorisation of academic literacies, flipped learning, learning development practice, and teaching English for business purposes. He is a member of ALDinHE Events Working Group and a mentor & a partner in ALDinHE Mentoring Scheme. He is an active reviewer for Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education (JLDHE) and received the JLDHE Reviewer of the Year Award in 2023.