School of Modern Languages & Cultures

Mr Neil Allison

  • Lecturer (English for Academic Study Unit)

telephone: 0141 330 8690
email: Neil.Allison@glasgow.ac.uk

Room 139, Language Centre, Hetherington Building, Glasgow, G12 8RS

Import to contacts

ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-4351-5998

Biography

I graduated in Law at Strathclyde University and was then in legal practice for 4 years and subsequently two years working for a well-known legal publisher. I began teaching English as a foreign language in 2002 in Spain and then Ukraine, and from 2005 to 2009 I worked extensively with the Beirut Bar Association, Lebanon teaching English for lawyers. I kept my legal knowledge up-to-date on returning to Scotland by working for the Citizens' Advice Bureau from 2010 to 2013 and from 2019 as a case worker for UCU. I am the UCU area rep for SMLC.  

Since 2010 I have worked at EAS (English for Academic Study) in Glasgow University. I specialise in academic skills courses for law students such as legal research, legal reading, legal writing. Please contact me for any queries related to skills support for law students. 

 

Research interests

  • English for Specific Academic Purposes (ESAP) - Law

  • Text and Discourse Analysis, particularly legal analysis and legal ontology

  • Cognitive Linguistics, Cognitive Architecture, Schema theory

 

Publications

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Number of items: 17.

2026

Allison, Neil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4351-5998 (2026) English language policy prescriptivism in 21st century UK Universities: equality diversity and inclusion (EDI) legal and policy framework operating on staff and student language. BALEAP Journal of Research and Practice, 2(2), pp. 201-219. (doi: 10.31273/baleapjrp.v2.n2.2195)

2025

Allison, Neil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4351-5998 (2025) SETs (Student Evaluation of Teaching): lessons to learn from differing biases of Chinese and UK students. Open Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 5(1), pp. 64-91.

2024

Allison, Neil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4351-5998 (2024) Rethinking Evaluation by Rethinking the Prompts Used to Understand Respondents’ Experiences: the Problem of Customer Orientation and Psychological Biases. 17th Annual University of Glasgow Learning & Teaching Conference, Glasgow, 9 April 2024.

BALEAP LAW SIG (2024) Meaning making and hand-wringing in EAP: specialists in what? [Website]

2023

Allison, Neil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4351-5998 (2023) Legal Discourses: Handling Cases on Law Reading Lists Efficiently and Appropriately. BALEAP LAW SIG Discourses of Law: Cases, 24 Mar 2023.

Allison, Neil Grainger ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4351-5998 (2023) From semantic weight to legal ontology via classification of concepts in legal texts. Law Teacher, 57(2), pp. 201-217. (doi: 10.1080/03069400.2023.2173918)

2022

Allison, Neil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4351-5998 (2022) Measuring student attention as student and teacher reflection. In: IATEFL 2021, 19-21 June 2021, pp. 127-129. ISBN 9781912588381

2021

Allison, Neil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4351-5998 (2021) Ask questions of power, but not if you’re looking for a job. [Website]

2020

Allison, Neil Grainger ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4351-5998 (2020) Students’ attention in class: patterns, perceptions of cause and a tool for measuring classroom quality of life. Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice, 8(2), pp. 58-71. (doi: 10.14297/jpaap.v8i2.427)

Allison, Neil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4351-5998 (2020) Impediments to the adoption of subject specific reading strategies in EAP – exploratory practice with Hohfeld’s Jural Relations. Language Scholar, 8, pp. 21-47.

Allison, Neil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4351-5998 and Hudson, Jolanta ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9387-6874 (2020) Integrating and Sustaining Directed and Self-Directed Learning Through MS Teams and OneNote: Using Microsoft Teams and OneNote to Facilitate Communication, Assignments, and Portfolio Management. BALEAP TEL SIG Webinar, 03 Jun 2020.

2019

Allison, Neil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4351-5998 (2019) Legal Rules and Legal Relations: Analysing, Improving Clarity of Thinking, and Paraphrasing. Language and Law – Traditions, Trends and Perspectives, Bialystok, Poland, 5-6 June 2019.

2017

Allison, Neil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4351-5998 (2017) Accessing the Schema of your Students and the Subject Specialists (Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences). Addressing the State of the Union: Working Together = Learning Together, Bristol, UK, 7-9 Apr 2017.

Allison, Neil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4351-5998 (2017) Phronesis in the Classroom, Or, Experimenting on Students: Experimenting as an End in Itself. Go with the Flow: Coherence and Cohesion in EAP Discourse, St Andrews, UK, Feb 2017.

2016

Allison, Neil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4351-5998 (2016) Language Acquisition - vocabulary and memory. Còmhla: Gaelic Conference for Adult Learners, Glasgow, UK, 12 November 2016.

Allison, Neil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4351-5998 (2016) Grasping Conceptual Structures in Social Sciences and Teaching Technical Vocabulary. Finding the Balance: Language and Content in EAP, St Andrews, UK, 27 Feb 2016.

2011

Allison, Neil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4351-5998 and Poberezhna, Olga (2011) Dogme Teaching - А Humanistic Task Based Approach to Learning. In: Proceedings of the IV International Scientific and Practical Conference (2011), Odessa, Ukraine, 8-12 Sept 2011, pp. 218-222.

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Number of items: 17.

Articles

Allison, Neil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4351-5998 (2026) English language policy prescriptivism in 21st century UK Universities: equality diversity and inclusion (EDI) legal and policy framework operating on staff and student language. BALEAP Journal of Research and Practice, 2(2), pp. 201-219. (doi: 10.31273/baleapjrp.v2.n2.2195)

Allison, Neil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4351-5998 (2025) SETs (Student Evaluation of Teaching): lessons to learn from differing biases of Chinese and UK students. Open Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 5(1), pp. 64-91.

Allison, Neil Grainger ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4351-5998 (2023) From semantic weight to legal ontology via classification of concepts in legal texts. Law Teacher, 57(2), pp. 201-217. (doi: 10.1080/03069400.2023.2173918)

Allison, Neil Grainger ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4351-5998 (2020) Students’ attention in class: patterns, perceptions of cause and a tool for measuring classroom quality of life. Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice, 8(2), pp. 58-71. (doi: 10.14297/jpaap.v8i2.427)

Allison, Neil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4351-5998 (2020) Impediments to the adoption of subject specific reading strategies in EAP – exploratory practice with Hohfeld’s Jural Relations. Language Scholar, 8, pp. 21-47.

Conference or Workshop Item

Allison, Neil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4351-5998 (2024) Rethinking Evaluation by Rethinking the Prompts Used to Understand Respondents’ Experiences: the Problem of Customer Orientation and Psychological Biases. 17th Annual University of Glasgow Learning & Teaching Conference, Glasgow, 9 April 2024.

Allison, Neil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4351-5998 (2023) Legal Discourses: Handling Cases on Law Reading Lists Efficiently and Appropriately. BALEAP LAW SIG Discourses of Law: Cases, 24 Mar 2023.

Allison, Neil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4351-5998 and Hudson, Jolanta ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9387-6874 (2020) Integrating and Sustaining Directed and Self-Directed Learning Through MS Teams and OneNote: Using Microsoft Teams and OneNote to Facilitate Communication, Assignments, and Portfolio Management. BALEAP TEL SIG Webinar, 03 Jun 2020.

Allison, Neil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4351-5998 (2019) Legal Rules and Legal Relations: Analysing, Improving Clarity of Thinking, and Paraphrasing. Language and Law – Traditions, Trends and Perspectives, Bialystok, Poland, 5-6 June 2019.

Allison, Neil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4351-5998 (2017) Accessing the Schema of your Students and the Subject Specialists (Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences). Addressing the State of the Union: Working Together = Learning Together, Bristol, UK, 7-9 Apr 2017.

Allison, Neil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4351-5998 (2017) Phronesis in the Classroom, Or, Experimenting on Students: Experimenting as an End in Itself. Go with the Flow: Coherence and Cohesion in EAP Discourse, St Andrews, UK, Feb 2017.

Allison, Neil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4351-5998 (2016) Language Acquisition - vocabulary and memory. Còmhla: Gaelic Conference for Adult Learners, Glasgow, UK, 12 November 2016.

Allison, Neil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4351-5998 (2016) Grasping Conceptual Structures in Social Sciences and Teaching Technical Vocabulary. Finding the Balance: Language and Content in EAP, St Andrews, UK, 27 Feb 2016.

Conference Proceedings

Allison, Neil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4351-5998 (2022) Measuring student attention as student and teacher reflection. In: IATEFL 2021, 19-21 June 2021, pp. 127-129. ISBN 9781912588381

Allison, Neil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4351-5998 and Poberezhna, Olga (2011) Dogme Teaching - А Humanistic Task Based Approach to Learning. In: Proceedings of the IV International Scientific and Practical Conference (2011), Odessa, Ukraine, 8-12 Sept 2011, pp. 218-222.

Website

BALEAP LAW SIG (2024) Meaning making and hand-wringing in EAP: specialists in what? [Website]

Allison, Neil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4351-5998 (2021) Ask questions of power, but not if you’re looking for a job. [Website]

This list was generated on Fri Oct 16 07:15:49 2026 BST.

Grants

MSc TESOL supervisor

Teaching

  • Pre-sessional EAP teacher
  • In-sessional EAP for law teacher
  • Course convenor in-sessional and pre-sessional

 

 

Additional information

Qualifications

  • LLB (Hons) 
  • DipLP - Legal Practice 
  • MSc - Information Science
  • DELTA - English Language Teaching Professional Diploma
  • MEd - Academic Practice

Senior Fellow RET 

 

Other Skills, Experience, Interests

  • 3 years' pro bono legal advice via CAB
  • 4 years in legal practice
  • Trust and Companies legal secretarial and administration studies and qualifications including ICSA
  • 3 years teaching pre-Masters' law
  • former IELTS examiner trainer
  • former Cambridge Examiner: CAE and FCE

 


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