Clive W. Earls

Dr Clive W. Earls is currently Associate Professor in German & Applied Linguistics. He graduated with a First Class Honours from the BA in Applied Languages, majoring in German, Spanish and Linguistics, at the University of Limerick in 2006. He then proceeded to spend one year in Eastern Germany teaching English and German as a foreign language at a national language academy. Upon completion of this year, Clive returned to the University of Limerick where he successfully obtained a highly competitive Irish Social Sciences Platform (ISSP) Government of Ireland Scholarship, the largest doctoral and post-doctoral scholarship scheme in the history of the Irish state, to pursue his interdisciplinary doctoral thesis. In 2013, Clive was awarded a PhD in German and Applied Linguistics, under the external examinership of Prof. Dr. Ulrich Ammon of the Universität Duisburg-Essen. Prior to joining Maynooth University, Clive spent one and a half years working as a Senior Research Associate in a professional research firm in the private sector honing his research skills and industry experience. 

Clive's recent monograph published with Palgrave MacMillan in 2016 explores English-medium higher education in Germany, following a high degree of interdisciplinarity by drawing upon methodological and theoretical frameworks from the disciplines of Applied Linguistics, Internationalisation, Sociolinguistics particularly Language Policy and Planning, Intercultural Studies, and Language Pedagogy. This has led to Clive's invitation as an international consultant to the Ministry of Education in Georgia to develop a strategic plan for the roll-out of English-medium higher education in the country. His most recent publications focus on the language-in-education policy context ("Languages Connect") in Ireland, as part of the HELECs (Higher Education Language Educator Competences) project funded by the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, and most recently, the interaction and impact of language ideologies and gendering of academic disciplines within the Gender Equality in Language Studies (GELS), a national, collaborative, inter-institutional research project funded by the Higher Education Authority (HEA).