Dr. Annette Bradford’s research focuses on how higher education is responding to the challenges and opportunities of globalization, with a particular focus on the internationalization of Japanese higher education.
Dr. Bradford’s co-edited book English-Medium Instruction in Japanese Higher Education: Policy, Challenges and Outcomes (Multilingual Matters, 2018) brings together diverse scholar and practitioner perspectives and is the first complete volume to examine English-medium instruction in Japan. She has also published analysis of national policy, student exchange, and faculty recruitment in addition to articles on other international issues such as intercultural competence and language learning motivation. Her keen interests in enabling students to become global citizens and promoting women’s leadership are reflected in her teaching, research, and service, including as a co-founder of the TOMODACHI MetLife Women’s Leadership Program.
Dr. Bradford is an Associate of Oxford EMI, Adjunct Fellow at Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies, Temple University, Japan Campus and Special Advisor for Education and Policy at the Yokosuka Council on Asia-Pacific Studies (YCAPS). She is also editor for Routledge’s Focus on English-Medium Instruction in Higher Education series. She previously held positions as an associate professor at Meiji University and as Council on Foreign Relations-Hitachi International Affairs Fellow. She received her doctorate in Education Administration and Policy Studies at The George Washington University.
Since leaving the United Kingdom in 1998, Annette has studied and worked in Japan, the United States, Singapore, China, and Indonesia.