Rate My Professor Britta Schneider

Dr. Britta Schneider is a senior lecturer in the Communication in Health Professions Education Unit (COHPE), formerly the Student Academic Support Unit (SASU), at Monash University within the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences. She holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from Monash University (2004) and a Master's degree in Literature Studies from the University of Siegen, Germany. Over the past 24 years, she has taught and researched in Applied Linguistics, focusing on English for Academic Purposes and Academic Literacies, at the University of Helsinki, Jyväskylä University, and Aalto University in Finland, as well as Victoria University in Australia, before joining Monash University in 2018. In her current role, she delivers academic, professional, and clinical language support to students on clinical placements, develops and teaches programs on patient-centred communication for medical students in their clinical years, and provides professional development training for educators at Monash's key placement partners, academic staff, and supervisors of students with English as an additional language.

Dr. Schneider's research interests include approaches to teaching and learning in health and clinical contexts, particularly clinical communication and placement-based learning; higher degree by research writing for students with English as an additional language; the impact of generative AI tools on university writing programs; and philosophy of education to support diverse student cohorts. Her key publications comprise the editorial 'Applied linguists: What is their value-add to health professions education?' with Averil Grieve (Focus on Health Professional Education, 2025); 'Constructing ALL identities through individual consultations with medical students' with Erica Schmidt (Journal of Academic Language and Learning, 2025); 'Trends in targeted academic support for medical students before and during the Covid-19 pandemic' with Erica Schmidt (Journal of Academic Language and Learning, 2023); 'Trampelpfade and Sheep Lines: The Benefits of Sustained Transnational Collaboration' (JoSCH - Journal für Schreibwissenschaft, 2023); 'Towards Nuanced Understandings of the Identities of EAL Doctoral Student Writers' with Shem Macdonald (Journal of Academic Writing, 2020); and 'Scaffolding academic literacy in a diverse first-year higher education classroom: evaluating the effectiveness of a blended learning model' (Journal of Academic Language and Learning, 2017). She received a research grant under the Germany-Australia Joint Research Scheme from the German Academic Research Services (DAAD) in 2017 and participates in an ongoing international collaboration with the University of Konstanz, Germany, and La Trobe University, Australia, since 2017.