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Dr. Gillian Martin

Associate Professor (German)
ARTS BUILDING
      
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Dr. Gillian Martin

Associate Professor (German)
ARTS BUILDING

 gsmartin@tcd.ie

 3531896 2329


  Conversation and discourse analysis   Cultural influences on leadership and management styles   Culture and health   Intercultural and intracultural negotiation in business settings   Leadership
Project Title
 SpEakWise
From
2007
To
Present
Summary
This project aims to promote cultural and linguistic awareness amongst Business German students through E-learning. Students are matched with Business English students at a German or Austrian University and participate via web CT in both cultural and language awareness raising activities with an emphasis on business communication. Unlike existing web-based cultural learning programmes, the activities focus on understanding not just which values and beliefs differ or are similar across the two cultures, but also how their value systems are enacted and reproduced linguistically and pragmatically, i.e., how language is used in different cultures to achieve a particular communicative purpose. Phase one engages students in a process of cultural reflection and awareness raising using field research; word association and dialogue completion exercises; case studies; and critical incident analysis. Phase two builds on this enhanced awareness and involves students in task-based language learning on-line, requiring them to draw on knowledge of their mother tongue and the foreign language to solve problems, negotiate meaning and make culturally and linguistically appropriate decisions to achieve particular communicative objectives.
Funding Agency
Learning Innovation Grant (TCD)
Project Title
 E-Lab
From
2003
To
2004
Summary
To develop a suite of self-access on-line exercises and tests - E-Lab - for Junior Sophister Business Studies and German students to use on their year abroad).
Funding Agency
Teaching Development Grant (TCD)

Details Date
Invited Speaker at Conference 'Diabetes in Crisis', Dublin Castle February 2008
Guest lecturer, Heinrich-Heine Universität zu Düsseldorf June 2007
Guest Lecturer, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz December 2005
Invited speaker at conference on 'Deutsch für Karriere und Beruf' in the Goethe Institut Dublin. January 2004
Guest lecture at Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. July 2002
Invited speaker at a conference on Business German at Aston University, Birmingham. June 2001
Guest lecture at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Nürnberg. February 2000
Dublin City University, External Examiner, Advanced Negotiation Skills Since 2003
Dublin Institute of Technology, Kevin Street. External Examiner for final year students, BA in International Business and Languages 2004-2006
Member of selection committees for the National College of Ireland, the DIT, the Civil Service Commission, and the Institutes of Technology for posts in Languages, Administrative Officer, Business Studies and Law. Since 1993
Assessor for NCEA (Degree in International Business and French/German in Carlow Institute of Technology). 1998
Regular contributor to the yearbook of the German-Irish Chamber of Industry and Commerce and, most recently, guest speaker at the Chamber's annual Christmas lunch in December 2004
Details Date From Date To
Member of the Association of Third-Level Teachers of German in Ireland
Member of the Conference of University Teachers of German in Great Britain and Ireland
Member of the German-Irish Chamber of Commerce
Gillian Martin, Jonathan Crichton , The Handbook of Intercultural Communication in Health Care, Mouton de Gruyter , 2024, Book, ACCEPTED
The language of situated joint activity: Social virtual reality and language learning in virtual exchange in, editor(s)Senkbeil, K. and Ahlers, T. , Virtual Reality in den Geisteswissenschaften: Konzepte, Methoden und interkulturelle Anwendungen, Frankfurt, Peter Lang, 2024, [Martin, Gillian; O'Rourke, Breffni; Werner, Sina], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Language Teaching in the German Department at Trinity College Dublin, between 1900-1930 in, editor(s)Gisela Holfter , Rückblicke und Reflexionen: A History of German Studies in Ireland, Trier, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2023, pp17 - 32, [Martin, Gillian ], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Senkbeil, Karsten; Martin, Gillian; O'Rourke, Breffni, SpEakWise VR: Exploring the use of Social Virtual Reality in telecollaborative language learning, Euocall 2022, Reykjavik / online, 16-19 August 2022, 2022, Oral Presentation, PUBLISHED  URL
Intercultural Communication in Health Care Settings in, editor(s)Jane Jackson , The Routledge Handbook of Language and Intercultural Communication , , Routledge, 2020, pp503 - 520, [Gillian Martin and Jonathan Crichton], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Schöpf, A., Martin, G. S., Keating, M. A., Humor as a Communication Strategy in Provider-Patient Communication in a Chronic Care Setting, Qualitative Health Research , 2016, p1 - 27, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
McGowan, E., Martin, G., Stokes, E., Perceptions of Leadership: A Comparison of Physiotherapists' Views in Canada and Ireland., Physiotherapy Canada, 68, (2), 2016, p106 - 113, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
What Ethical Leadership means to me. in, editor(s)Andreas Kaplan ESCP, Europe, France. , European Business and Management, India., SAGE Publications Ltd., 2015, pp1-20 , [Resick, C; Martin, G.S., Keating, M.A., Dickson, M.W., Kwan H and Peng c.], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Breffni O'Rourke, Helen O'Sullivan, Gillian Martin, A discourse-analytic framework for conversational engagement in online discussion tasks, part 2: level of analytic depth, Eurocall 2015, Padova, 26-29 August 2015, 2015, Conference Paper, PRESENTED  URL
G S Martin, "Sorry, can you speak it in English with me?" Managing routines in lingua franca doctor-patient consultations in a diabetes clinic. ', Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 34, (1), 2015, p1 - 32, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
  

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Organisational Leadership in Germany and Ireland, German-Irish Business Yearbook, 2003, pp47 - 49, [Martin, G. S., Keating, M., Brodbeck, F.], Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, PUBLISHED
Cross-Cultural Dialogue: Same Difference, German-Irish Business Yearbook, 2002, pp46 - 48, [Martin, G. S.], Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, PUBLISHED
Martin, G.S., Irish German Business Negotiations, 1998, p9 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Martin, G. S., Donnelly-Cox, G. & Keating, M., Synergising Qualitative and Quantitative Methodologies in Interdisciplinary Cross-Cultural Management Research, British Academy of Management Conference: Back to Aston and Twenty Years on - What have we all learned in Management Theory?, 16-18 September, 1996, Meeting Abstract, PUBLISHED
Keating, M, Donnelly-Cox, Martin, G.S., Re-evaluating Hofstede: Preliminary Findings of an Irish Empirical Study on Managerial Leadership in Ireland, Management Research in Ireland: The Way Forward, University College Cork, September 12-13, 1996, Meeting Abstract, PUBLISHED
Martin, G.S., Meyer, R. and O'Shaughnessy, S., Gesprächspartner Technik, Unterrichtsmaterialien Fachsprachen/Gesprächspartner Wirtschaft, Bd. 4, 1993, Notes: [Goethe Institut Dublin], Journal Article, PUBLISHED

  


Award Date
Election to Fellowship, TCD. 2003
Kuratorium Award of German-Irish Chamber of Industry and Commerce 2007
My research is, for the most part, collaborative and interdisciplinary and my contribution to each of the projects in which I am involved is through the lens of applied linguistics. Broadly, I am interested in exploring intercultural communication in organisational settings, more specifically, in business and healthcare settings. In business contexts, my work has focused on the conduct of cross-cultural sales negotiation, including how greater integration might be achieved between the organisational, cultural and linguistic dimensions of negotiation in the design of second language teaching materials. Most of this work has centred on German-Irish negotiation and has involved empirical research with German and Irish business practitioners using a range of qualitative methodologies. I am also interested in how societal culture and organisational culture shape preferred leadership styles and have been a country co-investigator on the international GLOBE study (Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness) since its inception in the early 1990s. This is a multi-nation, multi-method, and multi-phase study which is currently investigating cultural practices, leadership ideals, and generalized and interpersonal trust in some 150 countries worldwide. Building on the earlier GLOBE research, I have also collaborated with colleagues on a comparative qualitative study on the meaning of ethical leadership and leader integrity in Ireland, Germany, Austria, the US, Hong Kong and China. In medical settings my focus is on exploring healthcare professional"patient interaction, in particular, how cultural and linguistic diversity impact on perceptions of care and its delivery. I am currently co-editing (with Jonathan Crichton) the `Handbook of Intercultural Communication in Health Care" (de Gruyter) which is due to appear in early 2026. The final area which I have started to work on recently (with colleagues here in Trinity, in the University of Hildesheim and the University of Leuphana) is an exploration of the use of Social Virtual Reality in the teaching of intercultural communication in the context of virtual exchange. This continues previous work undertaken over a number of years on telecollaborative exchange.