Centre for Foreign Languages, Humanities and Social Sciences

Poland: Wroclaw on Tongues of the World

Wroclaw on Tongues of the World (Wrocław na Językach Świata), implemented by the Wroclaw Integration Centre, is an innovative social programme allowing local volunteers from Wroclaw to teach Polish to migrants free of charge. The programme supports migrants who may not be able to attend paid language courses, but also helps break down cultural barriers and allows newcomers and volunteers to co-create a more multicultural Wroclaw. ‘To be on tongues’ is a Polish idiomatic expression which means.

Academically Speaking: Post Pandemic Teaching Experience

How has the COVID pandemic affected teaching and learning in our institutions? In this session we will compare teaching in the classroom and online. We will talk about how our jobs as teachers have changed since the pandemic and the challenges we have come up against or good practices adopted

Academically Speaking: Learning Blockades and How to Deal With Them

Wy do we get stuck looking for words when we need them? Why is it so hard to write? Why is it easier for us to write with a pencil? How is it that we read a whole page of a book/article and then need to go back and read it again?

Dr. Vanessa Brum-Bastos – Becoming an international scholar

Dr. Vanessa Brum-Bastos is a Brazilian spatial data scientist working together with the UPWr SpaceOS Leading Research Team on researching context-aware human mobility models.

Using scanning methods to estimate the energy consumption during soil cultivation

Jasper Mbah, a PhD student from the UPWr Doctoral School has his sights set on using his knowledge and research to help his home country of Cameroon solve issues related to soil compaction, and consequently the food crisis.

Are medicinal plants the future of medicine?

Prof. Mehdi Rahimmalek joins forces with UPWr scientists to research the health benefits of Iranian native species of Lamiaceae and Apiaceae plants in a project lead under the NAWA Programme.

Persistence pays off – the story of Dr. Peter Stewart

Dr. Peter Stewart, a graduate of Veterinary Medicine at the Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, spent most of his career treating animals at Dudley Zoo. Now he’s back at UPWr to teach a course on exotic animals.