Terry Lamb

Professor of Languages and Interdisciplinary Pedagogy, University of Westminster, United Kingdom, and President, FIPLV

Terry Lamb is Full Professor of Languages and Interdisciplinary Pedagogy at the University of Westminster, London, based in the Centre for Education and Teaching Innovation and the School of Humanities, and he is Co-Director of HOMELandS, the cross- and inter-disciplinary University Research Centre on Migration. He has published widely in areas such as pedagogy, motivation, multilingual education, multilingual cities, language teacher associations, and activist research that challenges social, cultural and linguistic injustices. His projects have included several at the European Centre for Modern Languages of the Council of Europe, e.g. Supporting Multilingual Classrooms. In 2023, he was appointed to the Language Policy Advisory Group of the Council of Europe. Prof. Lamb has worked closely on languages strategy and curriculum with the UK and other Governments and is founder editor of Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching. He is President of FIPLV (Fédération Internationale des Professeurs de Langues Vivantes), an NGO of UNESCO and the Council of Europe. In recognition of his services to languages and culture, he has been awarded the honour of Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French government. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

”Valuing multilingualism in universities: Needs, strategies and policies for linguistic inclusion.”