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Hello! I am Betül Seda Battilani. I am a Learning & Development expert with a strong research background, and I am here to help you create your dream learning solution. You can view my portfolio here.

I am a final year PhD Researcher at the University of Stirling working on language and learning practices within multilingual businesses, working under the supervision of Prof. Angela Creese and Prof. Adrian Blackledge.

I am also an activist for endangered languages of Turkey, a learning & development manager, translator, and proofreader.

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You can connect with me on LinkedIn, follow my research on Academia.edu and ResearchGate, follow my Twitter for bite-sized updates, and follow my YouTube channel Plansız Şeyler for linguistics content in Turkish.

Current & recent work

Lecturer at University of Stirling (May 2022 – Ongoing)
Industry-leading L&D theory and research knowledge, leading MSc-level thesis supervision.

Senior Project Manager at Bilingua (February 2018 – Ongoing)
http://www.bilingua.co.uk
Scrum & Kanban agile project management skills leading a team of 15 proofreaders and translators in different project groups, using various PM and CAT tools such as Jira, Trello, and SmartCat, resulting in 150+ published academic articles and books for authors at Russell Group & leading Turkish universities.

Learning Consultant at Laz Institute (July 2020 – July 2022)
Project Title: Network of Laz and Circassian Civil Societies (funded by the Delegation of the EU to Turkey).
Exceptional training development and stakeholder management skills, coordinating workshops and webinars through stakeholder needs analysis and training metric analysis, resulting in 7+ workshops/webinars and the annual Rights-Based Digital Language Activism Workshop.
Excellent project management and multi-tasking skills managing learning requests and external learning suppliers, arranging external training delivery, as evidenced by 30+ local and global NGO partnerships.

E-Learning Developer at Beliwin Education (August 2020 – August 2022)
Experienced e-learning developer and project manager, creating and curating individually tailored e-Learning content (curricula, syllabi, and lessons) for various stakeholders in 10, 20, or 30-hour project packages across online platforms, evidenced by 150+ hours of content delivery for stakeholders.