Academic Skills Center

Andrea Downing is teaching at CERGE-EI since September 2012. Received her Ph.D. in Economic and Social History from the University of Liverpool, UK in 1998 and M.A. in Research Methods in the Social Sciences from the University of Liverpool, UK in 1993. She worked as a Lecturer at the Metropolitan University in Prague from 2010 to 2012. She was also working as a Teacher Trainer at the Metropolitan University in Prague from 2010 to 2011, where she designed and delivered pedagogic training to aspiring and in-service Czech teachers of English. From September 2004 to June 2005 she was an Associate Professor and a Chair of Foundation Studies at Sur University College in Oman. Her research interests include multiple intelligences and learner autonomy and observing the observer in teaching development.