CURRICULUM VITAE
Name :- Gordon John Larkman RAMEL, B.Sc. M.Phil. CELTA.
Gender :- Male Date of Birth :- 14th of
January 1957
Marital Status :- Single.
Current Address Huai’yin Normal University, 71 Jiaotong
Road, Huai’an City, Jiangsu, China, 223001
Tel:
Mobile 86 15861 787572 Email : mrgordonramel@yahoo.com,
gjramel@hotmail.com, gjramel@gmail.com
Skype
address = g-j-ramel
Further
Education: I attended The University of Exeter 1991/1994 as an
undergraduate and from 1996/1998 as a postgraduate. In my final year as an undergraduate I studied: The Ecology of Social
Insects, Evolutionary Plant Ecology, Littoral Marine Ecology and Reproductive
Strategies in Animals. My research
dissertations were: Carbon dioxide gradients in vegetation stands; The feeding ecology of Tringa totanus on the Exe Estuary; Propagule germination in the freshwater sponge Ephydatia fluviatilis.
Degree
gained = First Class Honours,
and Dean’s Commendation for the year 1993/94.
M.Phil. I obtained my M.Phil in January 1998. The Dissertation title is :- Some Observations on the Responses of Soil Arthropods
to Organic Fertilisers (slurry and farm yard manure (FYM) spread on Permanent
Grassland.
CELTA: October 2006
I
hold a current UK photocard driving licence and am in
excellent health.
Current Employment
Associate Professor of English at Huai’yin Normal University, Huai’an
City, Jiangsu, China PR
I am teaching general English to
intermediate adults, both trainee English language teachers and also university
lecturers who wish to spend time abroad.
I have sourced and created all the course material and assessments for
both these courses along two themes; 1) Travelling to and living in an English
speaking country, 2)
The culture of Britain. Classes include
use of a data projector and therefore video.
Recent
Employment:
August
01, 2010 to September 30, 2011 – teaching science at Teseban
6 (2ndry school) in Chiang Rai,
Thailand
I taught general science in English
to M1, M2 & M3 level secondary school 2 (age groups M1 = 12/13, M2 = 13/14,
M3 = 14/15). I sourced and wrote nearly
all the material for these classes, including work-sheets and assessments and practicals which I had to develop using material I could
buy locally.
September
2009 to June 2010:- teaching English in 2 small private schools in Greece.
I
worked in both the Kalimeri School of Languages in Serres and the Access School of English in Sidhirokastro. In
both schools I was teaching students for a mixture of Cambridge and Michigan
ESL exams using printed textbooks. I
created a small amount of supplementary material myself and held mock oral
examinations. Students ranged from
pre-lower (11/12 to proficiency 17/18.
April
2007 to August 2009:- working as an ecologist for the Wetland Kerkini National Park in Greece.
I
designed the project, carried out all of the initial collecting and sorting
work and recruited and co-ordinated the final taxonomic analyses of over 100
scientists working in more than 17 different countries.
October
2006 to January 2007:- teaching English, Math and Science in a large private
school in Thailand.
I
worked as Home Room teacher for a class of 13/14 year olds. I taught them
English Grammar, English Literature, Science, Maths and Health. The material was all presented through a
mixture of text-book and PowerPoint presentations, I
had to rewrite most of the PowerPoint presentations and all of the assessments,
except for the material of health which I created entirely from scratch.
September
2003 to June 2006:- teaching English in 3 small private schools in Greece.
I
worked for three academic years in the Kalimeri
School of Languages in Serres, the Marianna Tsami School of English in Provatas
and the Sofie Hatzisavidou
School of English in Lithotopos. In all three schools I was teaching students
for a mixture of Cambridge and Michigan ESL exams
using printed textbooks. I created a
small amount of supplementary material myself and held mock oral
examinations. Students ranged from
beginner (10/11) to proficiency (17/18).
September
2001 to June 2003:- teaching English Language and Biology in a Bulgarian
Secondary School - PMG-Sliven.
I
taught one course of Human Anatomy, in English, with an English language
textbook, for the rest of the time I taught pre-intermediate and intermediate
English, writing and speaking to students ranging in age from 14 to 18, I sourced
and created the curriculum and all the materials and assessments for these
classes.
Recent
Publications:
Hollier, J., Lienhard, C & Ramel G. (2011) The Psocoptera Of
The Wetland Kerkini Nature
Reserve, With Eight Species New For Greece. Entomologists
Monthly Magazine Vol 147, pp 89-91.
Kurina,O. Õunap, E. & Ramel G.
(2011) Baeopterogyna mihalyii
Matile (Diptera, Mycetophilidae): association of sexes using morphological
and molecular approaches with the first description of females. ZooKeys 114: 15–27 (2011)
doi: 10.3897/zookeys.114.1364
Van Keer, J. Van Keer, K, De Koninck, H. and Ramel, G.(2010) The Arachnofauna (Araneae) of Wetland Kerkini (Macedonia-Northern Central Greece). Acta zool. bulg., 62 (2), 2010: 141-160
Ramel, G. J. L. (2010) The Whispering of the
Leaves – a book of poetry.
Dvorak, L. and Ramel,
G. (2009) Social wasps of the Wetland Kerkini,
northern Greece (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Vespinae et Polistinae)
Ramel, G.J.L. (2009), Some
new records of saproxylic Brachycera
for Wetland Kerkini, northern Greece. (Diptera: Megamerinidae, Strongylophthalmiidae, Xylomyidae,
Xylophagidae). Dipterists Digest 2009, Vol. 16 pp 95-99
Smit, J.T., and Ramel, G., (2009), The first records of Eoxenos laboulbenei PEYERIMHOFF, 1919 (Streptsiptera, Mengenillidae) from Greece. Linzer biol. Bietr. Vol 41/1 393-395
Gordon Ramel, Enrique Baquero &
Rafael Jordana (2008). Biodiversity of the Collembola Fauna of Wetland Kerkini
(N. Greece), with description of the sexual dimorphism of Entomobrya
atrocincta Schött 1896
(Collembola: Entomobryomorpha).
Ann.
Soc. Entomol. (N.S.), 44 (1), 113-128
Other information
I
am a reasonably well published poet specialising in the sort of poetry that
demonstrates good grammar, rhyme and rhythm. Furthermore I am a competent
computer user, author of the online zoology textbook The Earthlife
Web (www.earthlife.net/) and I have a fantasy novel for young teenagers currently
being read by an independent publisher.