Rachel Hawkes is a Departmental Lecturer in Modern Languages Education, teaching on the Modern Languages PGCE and MSc Learning and Teaching programmes. Her interests centre on language pedagogy and teacher education, particularly the relationships between research, classroom practice, curriculum and policy.
Rachel Hawkes
Departmental Lecturer in Modern Languages Education
About me
Research
Journal articles
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https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.70039Hawkes, R., Mason, L., Conway, G., Siriwardena, G., Grice, P., Cole, A., & Peach, W. (2025). Landscape context influences efficacy of protected areas and agri-environment scheme delivery for breeding waders. Journal of Applied Ecology, 62(5), 1114-1126.
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Marsden, E., & Hawkes, E. (2025). A narrative account of experiences at research-policy-practice interfaces in England—warts and all. Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching.
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https://doi.org/10.1177/13621688241288877Finlayson, N., Marsden, E., & Hawkes, R. (2024). Creating and evaluating corpus-informed word lists for adolescent, beginner-to-low-intermediate learners of French, German, and Spanish. Language Teaching Research.
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https://www.lspjournal.com/post/balancing-evidence-informed-language-policy-and-pragmatic-considerations-lessons-from-the-mfl-gcseMarsden, E., & Hawkes, R. (2024). Balancing evidence-informed language policy and pragmatic considerations: Lessons from the MFL GCSE reforms in England. Language, Society, and Policy.
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https://doi.org/10.1017/s0261444824000181Hwang, H.-B., Coss, M., Sato, M., Cárcamo, B., Nguyen, M., Dao, P., Iwashita, N., Marsden, E., Hawkes, R., Loewen, S., Scheffler, P., Baranowska, K., McKinley, J., & Ortega, L. (2024). (Re)Examining the research–practice interface: international perspectives, multiple methods, persistent challenges, and novel directions. Language Teaching: Surveys and Studies, 57(4), 590-596.
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https://doi.org/10.1080/00063657.2024.2375383Hawkes, R., Stanbury, A., Booker, H., Meikle, M., Buckingham, D., Burgess, M., Anderson, G., Whittle, A., & Douglas, D. (2024). Environmental correlates of Whinchat Saxicola rubetra breeding territory retention in a declining upland population. Bird Study, 71(3), 241-255.
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https://doi.org/10.1111/modl.12866Marsden, E., Dudley, A., & Hawkes, R. (2023). Use of word lists in a high‐stakes, low‐exposure context: Topic‐driven or frequency‐informed. Modern Language Journal, 107(3), 669-692.
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https://doi.org/10.1080/00063657.2023.2264560Stanbury, A., Hawkes, R., Teuten, E., Tománková, I., & Douglas, D. (2023). Habitat and other environmental correlates of the decline of breeding Whinchats Saxicola rubetra in the UK since the mid-1990s. Bird Study, 70(4), 227-242.
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https://doi.org/10.1111/acv.12678Hawkes, R., Smart, J., Brown, A., Green, R., Jones, H., & Dolman, P. (2021). Effects of experimental land management on habitat use by Eurasian Stone-curlews. Animal Conservation, 24(5), 743-755.
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https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13827Hawkes, R., Smart, J., Brown, A., Jones, H., Lane, S., Lucas, C., McGill, J., Owens, N., Ratier Backes, A., Webb, J., Wells, D., & Dolman, P. (2021). Experimental evidence that novel land management interventions inspired by history enhance biodiversity. Journal of Applied Ecology, 58(5), 905-918.
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https://doi.org/10.1504/ijlc.2010.035832Hawkes, R. (2010). Talking to learn and learning to talk: teacher and learner talk in the secondary foreign languages classroom. International Journal of Learning and Change, 4(3), 217-217.
Preprints
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https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/ya9khFinlayson, N., Marsden, E., & Hawkes, R. (n.d.). Creating and evaluating corpus-informed vocabulary lists for adolescent, beginner-to-low-intermediate learners of French, German, and Spanish. In OSF Preprints.