Ms Joan Lefever
Teaching Fellow
French
Personal statement
* I joined the Modern Languages Departmentat at Strathclyde in 2008 after graduating from the Université François Rabelais de Tours in France where I gained a Masters in English language and history studies (American contempory history, linguistics, British politics, sociology, literature). I also completed a two year degree in German language and studies. * I am now a teaching language associate in French after gaining valuable experience as a language teaching assistant. * I am the coordinator for our Introduction to French classes after recently coordinating 2nd year French. I teach the following classes: R1107/8 French Language 1a/1b R1109/10 Introduction to French 1a/1b R1203/4 French Language 2a/2b R1305/6 French Language 3a/3b R1502/3 French Honours Exposé R1502/3 French Honours Communicatif * I teach French classes at the CLL (Centre for Lifelong Learning).
Prize And Awards
- Nominated for Women+ in Leadership Network [WILN+] awards
- Recipient
- 13/2/2023
- Nominated for most supportive and enthusiastic at Teaching Awards
- Recipient
- 2019
Qualifications
PgCert in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, Strathclyde University
MA in British and American history and literature, Tours University, France
Deug (2 year undergraduate diploma) in German studies, Tours University, France
Publications
- Perspectives on developing skills and competencies through Education for Sustainable Development : how do we do it, and who is responsible?
- Strachan Scott, Lefever Joan-Emilie, Wesolowska Ksenia, Vaughan Helen, Moreno-Rangel Alejandro
- (2024)
- Student, staff and employer's perspectives on education for sustainable development in UK HEIs 2021-2024
- Strachan Scott, Wesolowska Ksenia, Lefever Joan-Emilie, Moreno-Rangel Alejandro, Vaughan Helen L
- SoTL Collaborative Writing Groups (2024)
Teaching
Here are the language, cultural and speaking classes I teach:
R1109/10 Introduction to French 1a/1b
R1107/8 French Language 1a/1b
R1 116/7 Cert Ed French year 1 online
R1305/6 French Language 3a/3b
R1509 French Honours Exposé and Interpreting
R1510 French Honours Translation into French and into English
R1 702 Translation studies
And I have taught the following classes:
R4406 Translation Studies : Key Debates and Theories
R1324: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives Of Sustainable Development: Languages
R1203/4 French Language 2a/2b
R1 114/5 Cert Ed French year 1 on campus
OS174 French Module Pre-Entry Access Course
Professional Activities
- Where are they now ? 2025 Stories from recent graduates - Living languages series 2025 2026
- Host
- 24/11/2025
- “Shaping Afro-Gael Identity: Cò Sinn? (Who are we?)” Living Languages 2025-2026
- Contributor
- 23/10/2025
- Where are they now ? Stories from recent graduates - Living languages series 2024 2025
- Host
- 26/11/2024
- Gen AI and Translation: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
- Speaker
- 11/9/2024
- The Association of French Teachers in Further and Higher Education in the UK - Annual Conference 2024
- Participant
- 9/9/2024
- The Association of French Teachers in Further and Higher Education in the UK (FLEUR) (External organisation)
- Member
- 15/8/2024
Projects
- Building a new French Cced course online for Sep 2025
- Lefever, Joan-Emilie (Principal Investigator)
- Designing an innovative new curriculum for year 1 of new online course and collaborating with Learning Technologist and Audio video team to deliver full extent of material on industry facing platform. Managing the admin work and coordinating the admissions administrative work.
- 26-Jan-2024 - 22-Jan-2025
- Speak Up 2024 - a debate competition between Strathclyde and Glasgow university
- Lefever, Joan-Emilie (Principal Investigator) Piochaud-Prevost, Lucie (Academic) Guerin, David (Academic) Kerr, Greg (Principal Investigator)
- Revival post pandemic of the competition organised by the Alliance Française with a team from Glasgow University and a team from Strathclyde University. The students prepare questions/statements in advance and discover on the night if they will argue in favour or against.
This project was made possible by Emilie Perez, cultural coordinator of the Alliance Francaise, Dr Greg Kerr from the University of Glasgow and myself, event coordinator for Strathclyde. My colleagues, Ms Piochaud-Prevost and Mr Guérin, and I noted how well students performed and were delighted they were the winning team on the night.
The debate was followed by a French documentary Entre nous on the personal and professional choices a group of friends made in the Marseille area between 18 and 28. - 04-Jan-2023 - 28-Jan-2024
- Speak up 2023, debate competition in French
- Lefever, Joan-Emilie (Principal Investigator) Noel-Claassen, Aurelie (Principal Investigator) Piochaud-Prevost, Lucie (Academic)
- Revival post pandemic of the competition organised by the Alliance Française with a team from Glasgow University and a team from Strathclyde University. The students prepare 4 questions in advance and discover on the night if they will argue in favour or against. The debate took place in March during the Francophone cultural celebration week.
The relaunch of this event, which had to happen over a short period of time, was made possible by Emilie Perez, cultural coordinator of the Alliance Francaise, Ms Noel-Claassen from the University of Glasgow and myself, event coordinator for Strathclyde. My colleague, Ms Piochaud-Prevost, and I noted how well students performed and how well students in 2nd year and in Honours collaborated. - 02-Jan-2023 - 23-Jan-2023
- Teaching and scholarship seminars of the School of Humanities
- Lefever, Joan-Emilie (Co-investigator) Williams, Manuela (Principal Investigator) Sabala, Vanesa (Co-investigator) Acosta, Lidia (Co-investigator) Turner, Angela (Co-investigator)
- For several years prior to the COVID pandemic, the Modern Languages department organised the LATE (Language and teaching) seminars. In 20222/2023, I am a core member of the organising committee of the Teaching and Scholarship seminars in Humanities. The first guest in December 2022 was Dr Amparo of the Women’s legacy project, a European project creating a depository of resources of women’s work in art and literature. In 2023, the speakers , mostly internal, will present workshops and gave seminars on topics ranging from the technology of interactive lectures to pedagogical reflections on different types of feedback.
- 14-Jan-2022 - 23-Jan-2023
- Living Languages 2023
- Lefever, Joan-Emilie (Principal Investigator) Mowe, Richard (Visiting Academic) Davidson, Sylvia (Visiting Academic)
- This year sees the relaunch of the Living languages events, a project that I reinvigorated after the Covid pandemic. Guests who value languages are invited for special evening Q&A events with Strathclyde language students and secondary school pupils invited by SCILT (Scotland’s National Centre for Languages). I invited Richard Mowe, director of the French and Italian film festivals UK and Sylvia Davidson, Translator and Short film curator of the French film festival UK for a Q&A event in January 2023. For February 2023, I invited 3 ex Language Strathclyde students for a special alumni, ae night. Previous Living Languages events proved very successful allowing students to broaden their career prospects and understand better how languages will prove important to them long after they leave university.
- 25-Jan-2022 - 28-Jan-2023
- Translation for the MOOC Caring for Children Moving Alone: Protecting Unaccompanied and Separated Children 2022
- Lefever, Joan-Emilie (Academic)
- I was the French translator for the 2022 version of the MOOC whose contents needed updates because of the crisis in Ukraine.
- 08-Jan-2022 - 28-Jan-2022