Chair, Department of Foreign Languages for Professional Communication

Director, Higher School of Foreign Languages ​​"Lingua"

Dr. Sc. in Education

e-mail: uliziat@yandex.ru

phone: +7 843 231 89 84

EDUCATION

2017 Dr.Sc. in Education, Kazan Federal University, Russian Federation

2003 Ph.D. in Education, Kazan State University, Russian Federation

1998-1999 Degree in Psychology, Kazan State Technological University, Russian Federation

1995-1998 Minor degree in Management, Kazan State Technological University, Russian Federation

1993-1999 Specialist Degree in Linguistics, teaching English and Turkish as foreign languages, Kazan State Pedagogical University, Russian Federation

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2007 – present Chair, Department of Foreign Languages for Professional Communication, Kazan National Research Technological University, Russian Federation

2016–present Director, School of Foreign Languages “Lingua”, Kazan National Research Technological University, Russian Federation

2011–2018 Director of International Affairs, Kazan National Research Technological University, Russian Federation

1999–2007 Teaching Assistant, Associate Professor,Department of Foreign Languages, Kazan State Technological University, Russian Federation

MAIN ACHIEVEMENTS

Julia Ziyatdinova is a researcher in global education. Her research focuses on internationalization of higher education worldwide, academic and research partnerships. She explores and compares similarities and difference in higher education reforms in different countries. She also investigates the role of soft skills, intercultural communication and EFL in particular, in successful career of university graduates.

She is a member of the Russian team of Higher Education Reform Experts, notably in the context of the Bologna process. She is a senior member of International Society of Engineering Pedagogy (IGIP).

She authored and co-authored over 100 papers in peer-reviewed academic journals and conference proceeding and more than 10 study guides. Her Scopus Hirsch index is 11.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Internationalization and Reforms in Higher Education
• Soft Skills
• Teaching English as a Foreign Language
• English for Specific Purposes

MAIN PUBLICATIONS

1. Ziyatdinova J., Bezrukov A. (2021) Virtual Reality for Developing Intercultural Communication Skills of Engineering Students. In: Auer M.E., Rüütmann T. (eds) Educating Engineers for Future Industrial Revolutions. ICL 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1328. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68198-2_57
2. Osipov, P.N., Ziyatdinova, Ju.N. (2017) Faculty and students as participants of internationalization. Sotsiologicheskie Issledovaniya, Vol. 2017, Issue 3, pp. 64–69
3. Ziyatdinova, J., Bezrukov, A., Sanger, P.A., Osipov, P. (2016) Best practices of engineering education internationalization in a Russian Top-20 university. ASEE 2016 International Forum, 2016 http://peer.asee.org/27236
4. J. Ziyatdinova, O. Oleynikova and E. Valeeva (2020) Engaging Engineering Students in Cultural Diversity and Unity Studies, 2020 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 2020, pp. 1164-1167, doi: 10.1109/EDUCON45650.2020.9125305

COURSES TAUGHT

• English as a Foreign Language
• English for Specific Purposes
• Business English
• European Union Entrepreneurship Values: Cultural Diversity and Unity
• Theory and Practice of Translation in the Pair of the Russian and English Languages

LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY

Russian: native
English: fluent