The Language CentreJackie Bow
Positions:
- CULP French Coordinator and Senior Teaching Associate
- CULP Coordinator for Assessment
- CULP Advisor for Swahili
- Disability Liaison Officer
Contact Information
Email: jb519@cam.ac.uk
Profile
Jackie has a Joint Honours degree in French and German and gained a PGCE at King's College, London. She is a member of the Chartered Institute of Linguists. Her professional experience is wide-ranging and includes GCSE and A level teaching in the maintained and the independent sectors in London and Cambridge, as well as teaching both French and German in Adult and Higher Education. She is a consultant for a major Examination Board and a Principal Examiner and Exam Setter for IGCSE and O Level language papers. Jackie was a board member of Routes East, one of the consortia of Routes into Languages.
She has worked at the Language Centre and has been involved with CULP since the programmes were first launched in 2000 teaching both French and German and was the Project Manager for CULP4SC.
Louis Coeyman
Profile
Louis grew up in the north of France. He completed degrees in languages and linguistics, in both France and the UK.
He joined the University of Cambridge Language Centre in September 2023, where he delivers French lessons.
Beyond his professional life, Louis enjoys spending time in the outdoors and reading.
Lydia Collings
Profile
Lydia, originally from Beirut, grew up in Lebanon and France and is a native speaker of Arabic and French. She obtained her first degree in Political Science from the American University of Beirut, and later studied English literature at the University of Paris-Sorbonne.
She came to the UK in 1999, where she began her teaching career and later acquired her PGCE from the University of Greenwich. Her teaching experience is wide-ranging and includes GCSE and A level teaching in state schools in Cambridge, as well as language teaching in Adult and Higher Education.
She joined the University of Cambridge Language Centre in 2005 as a French Teacher and started teaching Arabic in 2010. She has focussed her expertise on teaching and developing the Arabic courses the Centre provides.
Alongside being a passionate teacher of languages she also loves sculpting and painting. She completed a BA in Ceramic Design from the Glasgow School of Art, and when she’s not teaching she enjoys sculpting in her studio, getting her inspiration from walking and running in the countryside.
Clément Courouve
Profile
Clément Courouve grew up in a small, wine-producing village in the Moselle valley, France.
He became a Teacher of French at the University of Cambridge in 2011 and has been sharing his life between these two places ever since, maintaining a close connection with his home country.
His teaching covers both specialist and general courses for the Department of French (Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages) and the Language Unit (Department of Engineering), and he also supervises French MML papers for a number of Colleges.
In 2017, he was made Special Supervisor of Studies at Fitzwilliam College.
In addition to his teaching commitments, Clément regularly acts as a proofreader for the publisher Hachette.
He joined the Language Centre, where he teaches Academic Reading in French, French for Medics and general language courses, in 2018.
Kate Kent
Profile
Kate gained a first class degree in French and Spanish from the University of Cambridge in 1996.
She has spent time living and working in Ajaccio, Paris and Brussels, and her first job following graduation was in the cellars of a well known champagne brand in Épernay.
She then qualified as a lawyer and worked for ten years in two international law firms.
Kate completed her PGCE and a Masters in Education at Homerton College, Cambridge, and has taught at various secondary schools in the Cambridge area. She joined the Language Centre in 2019, and is currently teaching French for Medics.
Dr Marie-Géraldine Lea, FHEA
Profile
Marie-Géraldine comes from Toulouse in the south of France. With a degree in French literature and linguistics and an MA in linguistics and Social Anthropology, she came to the UK to complete her PhD awarded by the EHESS (School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences).
While teaching at Leeds University, she decided to stay in England and then took a second degree in Teaching French as a Foreign Language.
She worked for several years in academic publishing, on language-related projects for Cambridge Assessment and was an Associate Lecturer at the Open University for 10 years before joining CULP in 2013, where she teaches Academic Reading, French for Medics, French through Films and Fairy Tales and General language courses.
She is a Supervisor of Studies at Trinity Hall.
In 2023, she became a Fellow of Higher Education Academy at the Faculty of Education, Cambridge University.
To inspire children to learn French, discover French literature, she has been composing and staging musicals for children in French, to build fluency and confidence for the past ten years. When she is not teaching, she writes mystery novels for adults (set in Cambridge) and for children.
