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Biography
Dr Tiong Ngee Derk is Assistant Professor in TESOL at the School of Education, University of Nottingham Malaysia. A former school teacher and Head of Department for English, he holds an MPhil in Educational Leadership and School Improvement at the University of Cambridge, where he then completed a PhD in Education under Riikka Hofmann, Professor of the Learning Sciences. His thesis on teachers' collaborative discourse in Malaysian secondary school earned a Grade 1 Pass (no corrections) in 2021.
Since his transition into academia, Tiong has held various full- and part-time roles at Universiti Malaya, University of Cambridge, and Sunway University. He has also contributed to consultative sessions with the Malaysian Ministry of Education, and consulted for EdTech firms. His research lies at the intersection of teachers' professional development, educational leadership and policy, and TESOL. He sometimes blogs at https://pedagogeekthinking.wordpress.com, which has had thought pieces reproduced by local news portals. In more than a decade in Education, he has won individual awards for teaching and research and secured grants to fund empirical research projects.
Expertise Summary
Tiong enjoys working both within his immediate field of expertise and in adjacent fields, believing in the benefits of interdisciplinary work and the cross-fertilization of ideas and concepts.
His areas of expertise include the following:
- Teachers' Professional Learning and Development
- Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
- Educational Leadership and Policy
- Educational Dialogue
- Teacher Education
He has also has interest/done work in the following fields:
- Intercultural communication
- Language learning materials
- Comparative Education
- Higher Education Policy
In addition to conducting research and publishing peer-reviewed work, Dr Tiong also reviews for the following journals:
- Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching (Q1)
- Professional Development in Education (Q1)
- Review of Education (Q2)
- The English Teacher (MyCite)
- Malaysian Journal of ELT Research (ASEAN CI, ESCI)
Teaching Summary
My teaching responsibilities are as follows:
- EDUC4251: Assessment in Language Education [Module Convenor]
- EDUC3028: Educational Inquiry (Extended Project) [Module Convenor
- EDUC3026: Educational Research Methods [Module Convenor]
- Undergraduate FYP supervision
- MA dissertation supervision
- Doctoral supervision (Active candidates: Kieu Huyen Tram, Chen Jiajing)
Research Summary
Networking for success? An exploratory multi-method study of the relationship between network centrality and academic and professional success among undergraduate pre-service teachers, and the… read more
Recent Publications
TIONG, NGEE DERK, 2023. Dire Straits - Education Reforms: Ideology, vested interests and evidence: by Montserrat Gomendio and Jose Ignacio Wert, Cambridge UK, OpenBook Publishers, 2023, 362 pp., Open Access, PDF, £20.95, Paperback, ISBN: 9781800649309 Educational Review. TIONG, NGEE DERK, 2022. Becoming a Scholar: cross-cultural reflections on identity and agency in an education doctorate: edited by Maria Savva and Lynn P. Nygaard, 2021, London, UCL Press, 178 pp., Open Access, PDF, £20.00 (Paperback), ISBN: 9781787357662 Educational Review. 75(7), 1527-1529