Dr John Goodyear BSc, MA, PhD, SFHEA

Dr John Goodyear

Department of Modern Languages
Assistant Professor & Programme Lead for UoB Online MA Digital Media and Global Communication
Chair of the Year Abroad for the School of Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 7503
Email
j.goodyear@bham.ac.uk
Address
Ashley Building Rm G10
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

As Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern Languages, John Goodyear is the Academic Lead for the UoB Online MA programme Digital Media and Global Communication. Alongside this teaching work, he is Chair of the Year Abroad for the School of Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music.

In addition to his teaching role at the University 麻豆精选, Goodyear has featured as a presenter on German television, fronting the 60-minute and 90-minute German-language documentary Happy Birthday Niedersachsen for regional public broadcaster NDR in 2021. He is also researching post-war Anglo-German army entertainment, specifically in the context of the Globe Theatre in Oldenburg, Germany. He has featured on numerous media channels talking about this project as well as other Anglo-German issues.

Qualifications

  • SFHEA, Advance HE
  • PhD, Queen Mary, University of London
  • MA, Aston University in German Cultural Studies, Birmingham (Distinction)
  • BSc, Aston University in Modern Foreign Languages with a Placement Year Abroad (First Class Honours)

Biography

  • BSc, Aston University in Modern Languages with a Placement Year Abroad (1999-2003)
  • MA, Aston University in German Cultural Studies (2003-2004)
  • Teacher of English as a Foreign Language at Handan Lilac Education Group, Hebei (2004-2006)
  • PhD, Queen Mary, University of London (2006-2010)
  • Director of Studies, Academy of English, Oldenburg, Germany (2010-2017)
  • German Teacher Fellow, University 麻豆精选 (January 2018-August 2019)
  • Lecturer (Teaching) English as a Modern Foreign Language (September 2019-Present)

Teaching

As Programme Lead for UoB Online MA Digital Media and Global Communication (DMGC), John supports the design, development and delivery of twelve MA modules, and also acts as Module Lead on:

  • LM Digital Transformation: Multimedia Archives DL (40591)
  • LM Digital Media and Global Communication Dissertation DL (40603)

Given his expertise in German, he also teaches on the following German core language modules: 

  • LC German Core I – Beginners: Democracy, Diversity, and Dynamism (29755)/Use of Language 1 & 2
  • LC German Core II – Beginners: Nation, Populism, and Conflict/Use of Language 1 & 2

Research

John Goodyear researches areas of modern German cultural history at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth century (Jahrhundertwende), including

  • Representations of music and musical life in German modernist literature
  • Intellectual legacy of German-Jewish philosopher Theodor Lessing (1872-1933)
  • Urban social history of twentieth-century German city noise
  • Phenomena of聽惭耻蝉颈办蝉迟盲诲迟别聽of Vienna, Munich and Berlin

Goodyear is currently working on a research project in the context of the renovation of the Globe theatre in Oldenburg, Germany. This research focuses on Anglo-German theatre life in occupied Germany immediately after the Second World War.聽

Other activities

  • Managing Director, De-Talenboom UG
  • Anglo-German public speaking platform: 
  • Consultant to
  • Senior Editor of the (GCI) for the Groningen Confucius Institute
  • Former Chairman of the Gesellschaft der deutsch-chinesischen Freundschaft, Oldenburg (2015-9)
  • Honorary Member of the , Schleswig Nord 
  • Independent Consultant for Cambridge Boxhill Language Assessment Pty Ltd (CBLA): the Occupational English Test (OET)
  • Member of Institute for German and European Studies (IGES)
  • Language, Testing and Assessment Advisor for

Academic prizes

  • Co-recipient of the Higher Education Futures Institute (HEFi) Award for Digital Learning for the Virtual Year Abroad (VYA), July 2021
  • DAAD Grant Award for Research Stay for University Academics and Scientists, 2018  
  • Arts and Humanities Research Council Overseas Study Award, 2009
  • Arts and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Award, 2007–9
  • Westfield Trust Studentship Award, Queen Mary, University of London, 2006–9
  • German Embassy Prize for best Bachelor dissertation in German in the United Kingdom, 2003
  • John Stagg Memorial Prize for best written German examination at Aston University
  • 2003 University Prize for best final year student in Modern Languages at Aston University, 2003 

Media experience

The Globe Theatre - Restoring the last remaining Forces cinema in Germany
Ray at 60 | Teil1 | 27.01.2020

Radio, television and newspaper output

  • Norddeutsche Rundfunk (NDR) Fernsehen, June 2 and June 3, 2021:  on the 75th anniversary of the founding of the federal state of Lower Saxony, Germany
  • Bremen Zwei Radio, February 5, 2020: Gesprächzeit mit John Goodyear: Kulturhistoriker mit doppelter Staatsbürgerschaft
  • Forces TV, 4 October 2019:
  • Nordwestzeitung, 1 October 2019: „“
  • Nordwestzeitung, 17 September 2019:
  • Forschungsnotizen Jade-Oldenburg ScienceBlog: , 22 August 2019
  • Bundeswehr (The German Army): Geschichte des Truppenkinos Globe: Wie Briten die Deutschen unterhielten, 14 June 2019
  • Oeins TV, Interview on 40th anniversary of German-Chinese relations in Oldenburg, on Lokalfenster, June 14, 2019
  • BBC Radio WM, Interview on the Globe Cinema and Theatre Research Project on Sunny and Shay, May 21, 2019
  • Nordwestzeitung, 28 February 2019: 
  • Daily Telegraph, 10 September 2018: 
  • Focus, 14 September 2018: Home (away) from home
  • British Forces Broadcasting Service, 22 June 2018 -
  • Expat Radio, , Westerstede, Germany, April 29, 2018
  • Goodyear, J., Als das Globe noch britisch war, oeins, Oldenburg, Germany (first broadcast on 14 March 2018)
  • Goodyear, J., , oeins, Oldenburg, Germany (first of three episodes aired on 14 December 2016)
  • Goodyear, J., Ray at 60, oeins, Oldenburg, Germany (first broadcast on 27 January 2020)