Sibylle Ratz
Sibylle Ratz

Dr Sibylle Ratz MSc SFHEA PhD

Lecturer

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  S.Ratz@napier.ac.uk

  

Biography

Sibylle Ratz studied in Germany, Russia and the UK and has worked as a teacher, translator, course coordinator and lecturer in Germany and Scotland. She is employed at Edinburgh Napier University as a lecturer and programme leader for the undergraduate degree programme BA (Hons) “International Business Management and Language”. Sibylle is module leader for several German modules as well as for the undergraduate module "Studying and Living Abroad", which give students intercultural training for their year abroad. Sibylle also co-teaches on other UG and PG intercultural modules, and is SAL for PG international articulation. In 2022, Sibylle completed her PhD at London Metropolitan University in the field of reflexivity in multilingual contexts.
In 2023, Sibylle was delighted to receive the Edinburgh Napier Above and Beyond Award together with Pauline Gordon in the category of Partnership.

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Conference Organising Activity

  • Symposium Organisor: Narrative methods in multilingual and educational research, Edinburgh Napier University, 9/6/21

 

External Examining/Validations

  • External examining: City University of London (Modules on German language and European Business Culture)

 

Fellowships and Awards

  • Senior Fellow of HEA

 

Invited Speaker

  • PGR Training session on "Narrative analysis: research tool or outcome?" London Metropolitan University, February 2022
  • Guest lecture for undergraduate module "Exploring Culture"; Edinburgh Napier University, April 2021

 

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“I was worried if something bad happened”: How language graduates made decisions around migration in the anxious times of the Covid pandemic.

Presentation / Conference
Ratz, S. (2023, December)
“I was worried if something bad happened”: How language graduates made decisions around migration in the anxious times of the Covid pandemic. Paper presented at International Association for Languages and Intercultural Communication (IALIC) 2023, Nicosia, Cyprus

Ethical questions of longitudinal research with students: Using duoethnography to critically reflect on the interview process

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ratz, S., & Janssen, L. (2023, June)
Ethical questions of longitudinal research with students: Using duoethnography to critically reflect on the interview process. Paper presented at The Gathering, 2023: Learning & Teaching Conference, Edinburgh
From 2016-2020 Sibylle conducted a longitudinal study on the trajectory of undergraduate language students at ENU. In their current project, Sibylle and Lisa (a participant of...

Understanding international students' experiences with assessments through rich pictures

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Victoria, M., & Ratz, S. (2023, June)
Understanding international students' experiences with assessments through rich pictures. Paper presented at The Gathering 2023: Learning & Teaching conference, Edinburgh
Higher education institutions continue to see an increasing number of international students who bring with them diverse forms of assessment ‘literacies’ acquired from previou...

“I’m going to speak only Spanish” - Imagining communicative competence during study abroad

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ratz, S. (2023, May)
“I’m going to speak only Spanish” - Imagining communicative competence during study abroad. Paper presented at Imagining and Experiencing Hospitalities in a Mobile World, Edinburgh Napier University

Understanding International Students' Experiences with Assessments through Rich Pictures

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Victoria, M., & Ratz, S. (2023, April)
Understanding International Students' Experiences with Assessments through Rich Pictures. Presented at Sustaining Connections – The Participatory and Intercultural Potential of Digital Learning, Edinburgh Napier University

Longitudinal Research on Students - Transcultural Aspects and Ethical Questions

Book Chapter
Ratz, S. (2022)
Longitudinal Research on Students - Transcultural Aspects and Ethical Questions. In M. Victoria (Ed.), Methodological Issues and Challenges in Researching Transculturally (113-130). Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Making our way through multilingualism – reflexivity and decision-making of language students

Thesis
Ratz, S. (2022)
Making our way through multilingualism – reflexivity and decision-making of language students. (Thesis). London Metropolitan University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2928619
This thesis investigates reflexivity and decision-making of language students by examining the interplay between what students care about (their multilingual ‘concerns’), and ...

Migration, mobility, and multilingualism – a critical realist approach to analysing narratives of undergraduate students

Presentation / Conference
Ratz, S. (2022, March)
Migration, mobility, and multilingualism – a critical realist approach to analysing narratives of undergraduate students. Paper presented at Tourism & Languages Seminar, Edinburgh Napier University

The effects of Brexit and the Coronavirus pandemic on a 'sore thumb' cohort of language students: informing pedagogy through a critical realist perspective

Presentation / Conference
Ratz, S. (2021, November)
The effects of Brexit and the Coronavirus pandemic on a 'sore thumb' cohort of language students: informing pedagogy through a critical realist perspective. Paper presented at IALIC 2021, Bogota, Columbia

Reflexivity and Multilingualism in a Changing World

Presentation / Conference
Ratz, S. (2021, July)
Reflexivity and Multilingualism in a Changing World. Paper presented at Negotiating a Changed World, London Metropolitan University
Aim of the research: To analyse reflexivity and decision-making amongst undergraduate language students Research methods used: This research is based on narrative analysis – ...

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