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Caroline Nixon

Assistant Lecturer

  • BA Joint Honours, English and German, The Queen’s University of Belfast
  • MA Applied Linguistics and TESOL, The University of Leicester
  • CELTA (Cambridge ESOL)
  • YL Extension to CELTA (Cambridge ESOL)
  • DELTA (Cambridge ESOL)

Caroline is from Northern Ireland and has been working in English language teaching since 2006. She has worked in various teaching roles in Thailand, Italy and Hong Kong. Before joining the CAES in 2019, she taught English in Hong Kong at The British Council and at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her main academic interests are language assessment and materials design and development.

Selected Publications / Presentations:

Chen J., Lin L., Foung D. and Nixon C. (2022). Quality assurance and enhancement: An application of digitalised data. In A. Kaplan (Ed.), Digital transformation and disruption of higher education (pp. 130-144). Cambridge University Press.

Leung C. Y. and Nixon C. (2022. June 20-22). Storifying research findings for the general public in an English for academic purposes course for pre-service speech-language pathologists [Online conference presentation]. Rise Up! 10th International Digital Storytelling Conference, Loughborough University, UK.

Office: Room 6.53

Telephone: 3917 1152

Email Address: cnixon@hku.hk