Dr Britta Schneider is a senior lecturer in the Communication in Health Professions Education Unit (COHPE)* at Monash University. She provides academic, professional and clinical language support to students on placement in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences. She collaborates with staff across academic, professional and clinical contexts to provide tailored communication and academic study programs. Britta has a PhD in Applied Linguistics from Monash University, Australia, and a Masters in Literature Studies from the University of Siegen, Germany.

Over the past 24 years, she has taught and researched in a range of fields in the discipline of Applied Linguistics, e.g. English for Academic Purposes and Academic Literacies at the University of Helsinki, Jyväskylä University, and Aalto University in Finland as well as Victoria University, and since 2018 at Monash University in Australia.

*previously Student Academic Support Unit (SASU)

Dr Britta Schneider's research interests are in approaches to teaching and learning in health and clinical contexts, in particular clinical communication and placement-based learnining. Britta also researches higher degree by research writing in students with English as an additional language. Since being awarded a research grant under the competitive Germany-Australia Joint Research Scheme (German Academic Research Services, DAAD) in 2017, Britta has been a member of a sustained international collaboration with scholars and writing experts at the University of Konstanz, Germany and La Trobe University, Australia. A current research project explores the impact of generative AI tools on university based writing programs.
Britta has also a keen interest in philosophy and education which assists her in understanding and framing current practices in higher education related to academic support of diverse student cohorts.

Britta develops and teaches clinical and profesional language programs for medical students in their clinical years. In her teaching, Britta focuses on patient-centred communication by collaborating and team teaching with clinicians and simulated patients.

Britta also provides professional development training for educators at Monash University key placement partners, academic teaching staff and supervisors of students with English as an additional language. This training includes the application of applied linguistics and intercultural frameworks to unpack the complexities in the teaching and learning of  multilingual students in placement settings. 

Because of her teaching-intensive role, Britta is currently not supervising higher degree by research students.