Marina Micke

Higher education language professional accomplished in delivering impactful teaching and fostering language learning excellence. Proven ability to develop engaging course material and effectively manage classroom environment. Strong focus on team leadership, collaboration and achieving educational goals, displaying adaptability to evolving academic needs and contexts.

• Universal Design for Learning Credential 1: UDL Mindset - CAST (Centre for Applied Special Technology, US)
• Certified Assessor for the Goethe-Institut
• Certified Lecturer: German for Medical Professionals (telc Institut)
• Diploma in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (DELTA modules 1&2)

• National and international Higher Education
• Inclusive Teaching, Learning and Assessment (UDL, AfI)
• Current trends and developments in language assessment research, especially influence of AI
• Languages for Specific Purposes teaching
• Teaching with technology and eLearning
• History and perception of educational institutions;
• Professional development, staff training and sharing of good practice in HE.

• UNILANG, Certified External Examiner, 10/2016
• European Association for Language Testing and Assessment, Member, 06/2016

Guilbaud, B., Bacilieri, C., Micke, M., Tual, D. and Xiang, C. (2023) ‘Language Teaching in Higher Education (A Dialogue)’, Modern Languages Open, 0(1), p. 34. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3828/mlo.v0i0.495.

Micke, M. and Philpotts, M. (2014) ‘Irreconcilable Differences: The Troubled Founding of the Leipzig Institute for Literature’, Oxford German Studies, 43(1), pp. 5–19. doi: 10.1179/0078719113Z.00000000045.

International Deutschlehrer:innentagung (July 2025, Lübeck, Germany - forthcoming)

Faire und inklusive Sprachevaluierung: Wie Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Prüfungsteilnehmer:innen mit unterschiedlichen Bedürfnissen unterstützt

MLTC Scholarship Event (May 2025)

Flexible and Inclusive Assessment Models for Heterogeneous Cohorts; Digital Posters and Poster Presentations in Language Assessment (poster presentation)

7th Online Modern Languages Research and Teaching Forum (June 2025)

Designing for Diversity: Universal Design for Learning in the Context of Language Assessment

AHEAD Coffee Morning (May 2025, institutional scholarship morning, pre-recorded video presentation)

Designing for All: Improving Teaching and Learning Using Universal Design for Learning Guidelines

AULC Conference 2025 (April 2025)

Designing for All: Implementing Universal Design for Learning in Language Teaching and Learning

Yorkshire Language Teaching Research and Scholarship Network (September 2024)

Inclusive Language Assessments for All Learners: Promises and Challenges of Universal Design for  Learning

MLTC Scholarship Event (May 2024)

Universal Design for Learning: Implications for language teaching and learning in Higher Education. Or: How to accommodate everyone - including yourself!

MLTC Scholarship Event (May 2023)

AI, LLMs and their Implications for Language Learning and Teaching