Collaboration and complicity – influencing institutional power structures to put EAP at the heart of the curriculum - Hannah Jones

The increasingly dynamic terrain in which we operate presents both threats and opportunities for the sustainability of EAP provision. Instability in pre-sessional markets, questions over the purposes of internationalisation, and an intensified commitment to widen participation, all combine to produce ‘churn’ around what EAP is and who it is for. This talk reflects on potential responses to such issues through the lens of engagement with institutional power structures at the University of Edinburgh. Drawing on themes of internationalisation, widening participation, practitioner precarity, and the sustainability of our community of practice, I will share work so far to secure endorsement of our vision for embedding of academic language and literacies in the curriculum, reflecting on the affordances and perils of this engagement with the University.