Dr Ashley Simpson is the Co-Head: Institute for Language Education.

I specialise in Intercultural Education, Intercultural Communication, Critical approaches to Democracy and Human Rights in Education, and, Critical studies in Education amongst other aspects. I have experience of working in higher education institutions in China, Finland and Russia.    

I have published extensively on Intercultural Communication Education. I am the co-author (with Fred Dervin) of  (2021) Interculturality and the Political within Education (London: Routledge). I have also co-edited the volumes (2020) The Meaning of Criticality in Education Research: Reflecting on Critical Pedagogy (London: Palgrave Macmillan), and, (2020) Intercultural Competence in the Work of Teachers: Confronting Ideologies and Practices (London: Routledge).

My research on Intercultural Communication Education has been published in international journals such as, British Journal of Educational Studies; Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education; Frontiers of Education in China; Intercultural Communication Education; International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism; Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development; and, Palgrave Communications, amongst others.

I currently serve on the editorial board of the journal Pedagogy, Culture & Society and I was co-editor of the International Journal of Bias, Identity and Diversities in Education (IJBIDE) from 2019-2022. 

I am currently the Programme Director of the MSc Language and Intercultural Communication and sits as on the leadership team of the Language(s), Interculturality and Literacies Thematic Research Hub. 

I also hold a Visiting Professor position at the School of Languages, Literature and Law, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, China.

My PhD supervision areas include:

Intercultural Education

Intercultural Communication

Discourse, Identities and diversities in Education

Critical approaches to Democracy, Equality and Human Rights in Education

Critical approaches and theories of Global Education

Critical Discourse Analysis

Dialogism

Web of Science Researcher ID

https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/ABE-7284-2021