Experience

CHOICES

• Owner

  • Jan 2015 - Present

  The company's major objective is to provide high-quality educational and coaching services. It specialises in both face-to-face and on-line solutions. Language courses:Personalised language courses, both on an in-group and one-to-one basis. The highest quality is guaranteed by carefully selected teachers who boast rich professional experience and a university degree in language teaching.Translations:Quality translations depend on both linguistic and extralinguistic… The company's major objective is to provide high-quality educational and coaching services. It specialises in both face-to-face and on-line solutions. Language courses:Personalised language courses, both on an in-group and one-to-one basis. The highest quality is guaranteed by carefully selected teachers who boast rich professional experience and a university degree in language teaching.Translations:Quality translations depend on both linguistic and extralinguistic skills, i.e. familiarity with the subject of translation. You can entrust us with any text, as CHOICES always guarantees these two values are in sync. As a result, our clients have always appreciated the high quality of the end-product.Language consultancy:We offer comprehensive language solutions which include: language audits in schools and companies, assistance in writing grant applications both in company and institutional contexts, text editing and proofreading, public speaking classes, and language coaching. Show more Show less



Adam Mickiewicz University

• PhD candidate

  • Sep 2009 - Present

  RESEARCH-RELATED: Pursuing my PhD in Linguistics. My primary focus is on the discursive construction of gender and sexual identities and practices in various English lexicographic works. I'm drawing on - inter alia - Corpus Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis.EVENT-RELATED Young Linguists’ Meeting in Poznań 2009 & 2010 (YLMP2009 & YLMP2010)Preparing conference budget and creating reports for senior executives; dealing with administrative duties, creating reports… RESEARCH-RELATED: Pursuing my PhD in Linguistics. My primary focus is on the discursive construction of gender and sexual identities and practices in various English lexicographic works. I'm drawing on - inter alia - Corpus Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis.EVENT-RELATED Young Linguists’ Meeting in Poznań 2009 & 2010 (YLMP2009 & YLMP2010)Preparing conference budget and creating reports for senior executives; dealing with administrative duties, creating reports, summaries,Setting up and filling database records; preparing conference programme and the book of abstracts,Arranging travel and accommodation for keynote speakers and other conference participantsDealing with queries and requests from participants in a professional and positive way; face to face, via e-mail and phonePreparing information for the conference website; creating and updating conference Facebook profileDesigning and distributing promotional materials to universities around the world and to prospective participantsLiaising with sponsors and mediaTaking pictures and preparing the picture gallerySuccessfully recruiting, managing and training members of YLMP Help Team Show more Show less



Learning Systems Poland

• EFL e-teacher

  • Sep 2013 - Dec 2014

  Teaching English as a foreign language (online).



Poznań University of Technology

• ESL Teacher

  • Sep 2011 - Jun 2013

  Teaching English for Specialised Purposes on a number of courses (e.g. logistics, management, technical physics).



Intersperience Research Ltd

• Research Assistant

  • Jan 2011 - Oct 2012

  Researching customer satisfaction and customer service via telephone calls, surveys and email.



College of Education and Administration in Poznań

• ESL Teacher

  • Sep 2011 - Jun 2012

  ESL for cosmetologists.



The Tower

• Expert - External Language Course Auditor

  • Nov 2011 - Nov 2011

  I was commissioned to audit EU-funded language courses.



Lancaster University

• Event Coordinator and General Assistant

  • Feb 2011 - Jun 2011

• PhD student

  • 2010 - 2011 1 year , Lancaster, United Kingdom , Corpus Linguistics, Language and Gender/Sexuality, Critical Discourse Analysis.Lancaster University was ranked no.1 in Linguistics by the independent Complete University Guide (http://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-tables/rankings?s=Linguistics&y=2012)



Prestige Network

• Interpreter

  • Mar 2011 - Mar 2011

  Interpreting at Ashton Community Care Centre.



Poznań University of Medical Sciences

• ESL Teacher

  • Sep 2009 - Aug 2010

  Teaching English to university staff at the Department of Biophysics.