PROFESSIONAL NOTES
A trained linguist, Richard Burns has more than 30 years' experience as an English language teacher, educational methodologist and teacher trainer. The skills he has acquired inform and influence his poetry workshops. He delivers workshops for people of all ages, from five year-olds to senior citizens
WORK IN CAMBRIDGE
Richard Burns is Preceptor in Writing Skills at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He held a Royal Literary Fund Fellowship at Newnham College, Cambridge (2003-5). He was a Royal Literary Fund Project Fellow (2005-6), responsible for developing intranet EFL resources.
Richard Burns has unusually versatile international experience. He has given poetry workshops for children, students and teachers in more than a dozen countries: Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, the Czech Republic, India, Italy, Macedonia, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland and the USA. Many of these workshops have been bilingual.
WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE
Richard Burns has been Writer-in-Residence at: the University of Notre Dame, Indiana and Centrum Foundation, Washington (USA); the British Council School (Madrid); the International School, Belgrade (Serbia); and in the UK, Parkside Community College (Cambridge); Neale Wade Community College (March); Hinchinbrooke School (Huntingdon); Chantry High School (Ipswich); Elm Primary School (Cambs); Ditchburn Place (Cambridge); and the Victoria Adult Education Centre (Gravesend, Kent, for the Arts Council of great Britain).
SPONSORING ORGANISATIONS FOR WORKSHOPS
These include: the British Council, the Arts Council of Great Britain, the Eastern Arts Association, Britten Symphonia, the Poetry Society, the former Cambridge Centre for Education, the former Board of Extra-Mural Studies at Cambridge University, Cambridge University English Faculty, South Cambridgeshire Council, Dečje Novine Publishers (Gornji Milanovac), Centre for Foreign Languages (Belgrade) and many other academic and cultural organisations and foundations.
A documentary film about Richard Burns's methods was broadcast by Anglia TV in the Folio series. He has also received TV & radio coverage on TV in Austria and Serbia.