Mano Suzuki

Mano Suzuki has been teaching and convening Japanese modules and courses at the University of Kent since 2011. She also has organised various types of extra-curricular programmes including Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) programmes with universities in Japan, talk events about working in Japan and the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) programme, and a range of culture events, to improve students’ language and intercultural skills outside the class. 

She has a Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language (UK), a MSc in Conservation Biology (UK) and a MEd in Pure and Applied Science: Astronomical Education (Japan). Before moving to the UK, she worked as a science museum curator in Ehime, Japan, managing contents regarding astronomical education at the museum. She received the Diversity Mark Practitioner Award at Kent in 2026. 

Mano is a member of The British Association for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language.  

Mano convenes and teaches the modules and courses related to Japanese language and culture.