Ms Fhiona Mackay
Director
Scotland's National Centre for Languages (SCILT)
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Prize And Awards
- Herald Higher Education Award - TeLT course shortlisted for collaboration
- Recipient
- 2018
- 1+2 LLP Programme (revised) Excellence in Professional Learning
- Recipient
- 2018
- Model Confucius Institute
- Recipient
- 19/9/2017
- 1+2 LLP Programme Excellence in Professional Learning
- Recipient
- 2017
- Confucius Classroom of the Year 2015
- Recipient
- 2015
- Confucius Institute of the Year 2014
- Recipient
- 7/12/2014
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Publications
- PODCAST #6 "Learn about the work of Scotland's National Centre for Languages" : Fhiona Mackay
- Mackay Fhiona
- (2020)
- The next stage of a journey? Lessons learned from Scotland
- Jones Lynne, Mackay Fhiona
- Teaching Languages Creatively (2018) (2018)
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Professional Activities
- Could subject-specific professional learning revive languages in Scotland?
- Presenter
- 5/2/2025
- Ignacio Catagena Nunez
- Host
- 19/5/2021
- GTCS/SCEN webinar. Taking Mandarin Forward in Scottish Schools
- Invited speaker
- 4/3/2021
- Scotland's Languages Landscape
- Chair
- 26/2/2021
- Lantern Festival CYN cultural event
- Keynote speaker
- 26/2/2021
- Media article
- Contributor
- 12/2/2021
Projects
- Sustainable Designs for Living and Learning (SDLL): Embedding Multilingualism into Learning for Sustainability
- Mackay, Fhiona (Principal Investigator)
- 07-Jan-2025 - 06-Jan-2028
- SCILT core grant 2024-25
- Mackay, Fhiona (Principal Investigator)
- linked to previous award RKES 210814
- 01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2026
- Addressing The Gender Gap In Language Uptake Through Interdisciplinary Learning
- Mackay, Fhiona (Principal Investigator)
- 04-Jan-2024 - 03-Jan-2025
- Virtual Exchange Teachers
- Mackay, Fhiona (Principal Investigator)
- A mutually beneficial collaboration between the Chinese and a Foreign Language Departments at South East China University, Shanghai and South West Jiaotong University, Chendu. Final year masters students teach live lessons online to Scotland's schools as teaching practice. They are supported by a Masters level professional learning programme taught by CISS staff
- 17-Jan-2020 - 25-Jan-2021
- Agreement for educational cooperation CISS- SWJTU
- Mackay, Fhiona (Principal Investigator)
- Agreement between South West Jiaotong University and CISS
- 16-Jan-2020 - 16-Jan-2025
- Generation Global
- Mackay, Fhiona (Principal Investigator)
- A three year project in partnership with language centers in Norway and Denmark focusing on the promotion of language skills and intercultural competencies among 15-25 year olds.
- 01-Jan-2019 - 01-Jan-2021
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Contact
Ms
Fhiona
Mackay
Director
Scotland's National Centre for Languages (SCILT)
Email: fhiona.mackay@strath.ac.uk
Tel: Unlisted