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Dr. Ruane is a lecturer in the School of Humanities and Social Science. He obtained his PhD in Applied Linguistics from Macquarie University, Sydney Australia.
Before joining CUHK Shenzhen in 2020, Colum had over 13 years experience of tertiary level teaching in areas related to academic communications and applied linguistics. Colum also held a post-doc researcher position at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Sydney Australia where he was involved in projects that investigated health policy. Colum is a member of the Multilingualism Research Centre at Macquarie University and is a supervisor on a PhD project that examines language ideologies among translation and interpreting students.
Colum's main academic interests are in English ideologies and cosmopolitan regimes.
Austin, E. E., Lanos, N., Hutchinson, K., Barnes, S., Fajardo Pulido, D., Ruane, C., & Clay-Williams, R. (2023). Groundhog Day in the Emergency Department: 20 years of news coverage in Australia. PLUS ONE, 18(5). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0285207
Long, J., Ruane, C., Ellis, L., Lake, R., Le Roux, A., Testa, L., Shand, F., Torok, M., Zurynsk, Y. (2022). Networks to strengthen community social capital for suicide prevention in regional Australia: The LifeSpan Suicide Prevention Initiative. International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 16(10), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13033-022-00524-z
Ruane, C. (2022). Cosmopolitanism: A framework for examining English language learners' global relations. Academia Letters, Article 4801. https://doi.org/10.20935/AL4801
Ruane, C. (2021). The Utility and Cultural Framing of Global English: perspectives from a group of Korean English users. Cogent Arts & Humanities, 8(1), 1-20 https://doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2021.1954319
Zurynski, Y. C., Long, J. C., Ellis, L., Ruane, C., Lake, R., Tesla, L., La Roux, A. (2021). Implementation Evaluation of the LifeSpan Suicide Prevention Initiative. Australian Institute of Health Innovation and the NHRMC Partnership Centre for Health System Sustainability.
Ruane, C. (2020). A Study of Korean ESL Learners’ WTC in an L2 Environment: an approximate replication of Yashima, Zenuk-nishide, and Shimizu (2004). TESL-EJ, 23(4), 1-23. http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/issues/volume23/ej92/ej92a10/
2020 November, 46th JALT International Conference. Problemtising Global English Identities.
2020, October. 15th International Conference for the Association of Language Awareness. English
Ideologies and Global Communities.
2020, October. Postgraduate Conference on Multilingualism, Macquarie University. Examining English in Contemporary Society.
2020 September Linguistic Research Showcase, Macquarie University. Viewing English through a Cosmopolitan Lens.
2020, July. KATE International Conference South Korea. Global English Communities: a Korean perspective.
2019, November. 45th JALT International Conference, Nagoya Japan. Conceptualising English within the Korean Education System.
2019, May. Festival of Learning and Teaching, Macquarie University. Academic Literacy activating reflective learning.
2018, November. ALAA Linguistic Conference, University of Wollongong. English within the Global Space: perspectives from Korean English users.
2018, September. The University of Sydney TESOL Research Network Colloquium. Reflecting on Global Identities from a Korean perspective.
2017, November. ALANZ / ALAA / ALTAANZ Linguistics Conference, Auckland NZ. Understanding Global English and ELF: classroom implications.
2016, September. The University of Sydney TESOL Research Network Colloquium. Korean learners of English willingness to communicate in English in an overseas L2 environment.
