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Achievements & Appearances

Let me show you where this work has taken me.

I have gathered the milestones, invitations, conversations, and community projects that best explain my path. This is not a complete CV. It is a guided record of the moments when my work met students, institutions, and wider audiences.

Watch & Listen

Some parts of this story are better heard in my own voice.

Courses, conversations, and public appearances that show how I explain ideas, hold a discussion, and connect academic work with wider audiences.

Students featured in the Intercultural Communication course video. Course portrait · Hokkaido University

Intercultural Communication for Living in a Global Society

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From the archive

A poster can sometimes say more than another paragraph.

These original materials are working traces of the rooms, audiences, and programmes behind the portfolio.

Choose a route through the record

Four chapters, rather than one long list.

Each route is a different way to understand the same work: academic practice, exchange, community, and public voice.

Michal Mazur at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University.
APU · Beppu
Michal Mazur facilitating a hybrid workshop.
Faculty development · Hokkaido
Michal Mazur facilitating a hybrid workshop with an online participant on screen.
Hybrid workshop · Hokkaido

Where my path changed

These are the academic milestones I would show you first.

Global Learning in Japan · APU · 2025

Facilitating global student voices

As an APU academic and event facilitator, I led an international student panel and the APU Student Podcast. My role was to draw out honest, useful accounts of choosing a university, studying, and building a life in Japan for prospective students worldwide.

Ritsumeikan APU · 2025

Appointed Assistant Professor

I joined the Education Development and Learning Support Center, bringing my work in intercultural learning, faculty development, and multilingual education to APU.

Official faculty profile · 2025

From NLP to intercultural higher education

APU's Research Office traces my path from Krakow and Hokkaido to research, teaching development, and public communication.

Peer-reviewed research · 2023

Intercultural competence in the classroom

A study of 22 students across 15 weekly classes, turning openness, empathy, interpretation, and adaptation into visible learning.

Ritsumeikan University · 2025–26

Space Management Program facilitator

Two years facilitating communication, leadership, feedback, and project work for interdisciplinary Ritsumeikan and APU cohorts; followed by a collaborative conference presentation.

International scholarly service · Since 2019

Long-term programme committee work

Ongoing service for Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches to Dialog Agents, followed by programme committee work for Information Processing and Management from 2021: a continuing contribution across language, cognition, computation, and human communication.

Hokkaido University · Recognised 2024

Excellent Teacher selection

The 2023 Video Games in Society course received a 4.58/5 overall student-survey score; selected student reviews were later published by PSX Extreme.

Competitive support · 2009–14

Funding that made the Japan chapter possible

An embassy-recommended MEXT scholarship brought me to Japan. It was followed by a Global COE research assistantship, a Hokkaido international-exchange grant, and JASSO support, as well as certificates of appreciation from the National Federation of University Co-operative Associations and Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine.

Michal Mazur presenting an intercultural communication research poster at Hokkaido University.
Research presentation · Hokkaido
Michal Mazur speaking from a Hokkaido University lectern.
Guest lecture · Hokkaido
Michal Mazur with fellow participants after completing two eight-hour UTokyo Faculty Development Open workshops in March 2023, holding certificates.
Participant · UTokyo Faculty Development Open · March 2023

Where the work travelled

Invitations, study visits, and exchanges kept widening what I could bring back to the classroom.

Kitami Institute of Technology · 25 November 2024

Responsible applications of generative AI

I led a hybrid faculty-development lecture for staff from Kitami Institute of Technology, Otaru University of Commerce, and Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine. The session connected lesson planning, feedback, assessment, data analysis, and content creation with ethics, limitations, and responsible adoption.

Hokkaido University · 22 October 2024

From slides to shared revision

In Presentation Skills for Higher Education, participants brought in their own slides, exchanged feedback, and revised them in the room. Twelve of thirteen respondents rated the workshop positively; eleven expected it to influence their future practice.

Nitobe College · Hokkaido University

Interdisciplinary graduate education

Across team-learning, problem-finding and problem-solving courses, the Hult Prize Challenge, professional English, and presentation seminars, I helped graduate students develop leadership, ethical judgment, and collaborative work across disciplines and cultures.

Hokkaido University · Guest speaker · 2025

Fighting false narratives on social media

I returned to Nitobe College as a guest speaker for interdisciplinary student projects addressing misinformation and the social consequences of false narratives online.

Faculty development · 2017–25

More than 30 workshops built around teaching practice

At Hokkaido University and partner institutions, I worked with faculty and graduate students on EMI, syllabus design, active learning, presentation skills, intercultural communication, feedback, and responsible AI. One early example was a two-hour faculty workshop in 2019 on communicating across cultural and disciplinary differences.

Academic presentations · 2024–25

Teaching practice turned into shared evidence

Presentations addressed language choice, student reflection, Nitobe College, generative AI, game-industry careers, and Hokkaido University's coordinated approach to developing faculty confidence in teaching through English.

International study visits · Switzerland and Canada

Learning from five teaching centres

I first compared faculty-development practice at ETH Zurich, the University of Bern, and EPFL. Later, visits to Simon Fraser University's Center for Educational Excellence and UBC's Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology opened a Canadian conversation about educational development, learning technology, curriculum work, and long-term partnership.

Kaizen Academy · games and education

Building a games-and-education partnership

The collaboration grew from Understanding Video Games, where critical game literacy, responsible AI, industry practice, and student creativity can meet. It keeps the connection between serious cultural analysis and practical learning visible.

Brown Bag Lunch · 17 November 2021

Making communication easier across disciplines

I presented my path from natural-language processing and e-learning to intercultural communication, teaching, games journalism, and life in Japan. The session used code-switching, body language, Japanese packaging, and everyday curiosities to show how research and personal experience can open a useful conversation.

AGH University of Science and Technology · 2022

Invited reflection across Japan and Italy

In a guest webinar with Dr Weronika T. Adrian, I compared how Polish academics adapt their teaching to different educational cultures in Sapporo and Calabria. AGH recognised the contribution with a certificate of appreciation.

Michal Mazur before a screen for an invited lecture on generative AI in education and research at Kitami Institute of Technology.
Kitami Institute of Technology · 2024Invited lecture on generative AI in education and research
Michal Mazur facilitating a Teaching in English workshop with participants at Hokkaido University.
Hokkaido University · 2019Teaching in English, built around discussion
Michal Mazur facilitating a Presentation Skills for Higher Education workshop at Hokkaido University in October 2024.
Hokkaido University · 22 October 2024Presentation skills: slides, feedback, revision

Where I stayed close to everyday life

I have always needed intercultural work to matter beyond the university.

Michal Mazur's SAFE emergency-support volunteer identification card.Sapporo International Communication Plaza · From 2020

Supporting foreign residents in emergencies

As a trained and certified member of SAFE, I prepared to support foreign residents and visitors when language makes disaster information, evacuation, and access to help harder. The team works with Sapporo's multilingual disaster-support centre.

Sapporo Foreign Citizen Partner · 2022–

Helping children imagine a more inclusive city

At SAPPORO Children’s Future Talk 2023, I discussed everyday life from a foreign resident’s perspective with sixth-grade pupils and responded to their proposals for multicultural coexistence. The activity was later featured in an STV programme about Sapporo.

AP House Dialogue Cafe · APU · 2025

Starting over, honestly

In a student dialogue about leaving, losing, and finding yourself again, I spoke about loneliness, doubt, rejection, small victories, and the role of kindness, creativity, and community. It was a different kind of educational space: less about expertise, more about making change speakable.

SAFE emergency support team members after completing training in Sapporo.
SAFE · SapporoPrepared to make essential information reachable when it matters most.
Michal Mazur in conversation with workshop participants around a table.
Intercultural workshop · HokkaidoThe work becomes real in the conversation around the table.

Where you can hear my voice

These conversations let me speak about Japan, education, games, and life between cultures.

Contact

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