Chris Sowton

Dr. Chris Sowton has been working in the field of English Language Teaching for 25 years. He has worked for a range of institutions, including Cambridge University Press and the British Council, and taught at institutions including Cambridge University and King’s College London (University of London). He has written extensively in the field, as author or co-author on more than 20 ELT books, including CUP’s Unlock and Prism series and the recently published Teaching in Challenging Circumstances. He has conducted teacher training and educational research in many countries, including Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, India, Somaliland, China and Indonesia. Most recently, he was the lead trainer for a widescale British Council programme trained thousands of Ukrainian teachers in Poland and Romania. He has an MA, a DELTA and a Doctorate, in which the main focus of his study was language-in-education policy in South Sudan. Further information can be found at www.chrissowton.com.