See below for a message from Olwen about the latest recipients of these awards. The alert amongst yuo will note Miri’s name, but also I am also pleased to see Dimi (co-supervised by Zeynep, a member of the LTE team in some ways) and also Su (who has now started attending Narrative Natters, the fortnightly onsite discussion and support group […]
Read moreThe Five-Minute Linguist – Bite-sized Essays on Language and Languages (Second edition) Edited by E.M. Rickerson and Barry Hilton HB 9781908049940 £50; PB 9781908049490 £13.99; 320pp The Five-Minute Linguist has been a popular introduction to the subject of language because it is succinct, clear, accurate, — and fun to read. Now in its second edition, updated and expanded, the book has […]
Read moreGuardian 28th April 2012, Sports section, p.8 Win or lose …… (David Conn) “Amid all the dizzying narratives as Manchester faces up to its most momentous of derby matches one central theme is how rapidly sport can chnage and with it the apparent job security of the modern football manager” So, here we have the (apparent) storyline of football manager […]
Read moreCongratulations to Sahar (Abdulelah) – with Juup and John Morely – and Leticia (Vega Animas) – who is with Diane and Gary – who both progresed uncondiitionally through the Panels on Thu last week.
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Read moreMagda has alerted me to the following: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/manchester-britains-greatest-university-2101828.html
Read morea date now seems to be set for this, Thursday 28th June. So, we now need to decide its format and who will present what 9e.g. form the Narrative Matters submitted abstracts etc). R
Read more…. well, the first of our three two-day AHRC-funded seminars took place at Durham last week. For more information on what went on …. see the Abstracts and programme: http://researchingmultilingually.com/?page_id=1152 and the presentations themselves: http://researchingmultilingually.com/?page_id=1143 and some seminar photos too: http://researchingmultilingually.com/?page_id=1169
Read morePlease feel free to circulate this announcement. The Centre for Narrative Research, University of East London and the NOVELLA ESRC Research Node, Institute of Education and UEL To Think is To Experiment Postgraduate Research Day 2012 Invitation for papers on ‘Narratives in/of Translation’ The Centre for Narrative Research organises the eleventh annual Research Day for graduate students on 25 April […]
Read moreOf interest to the narrativists amongst you maybe …. 1. An narrative approach to a key UK environmental disaster zone …. Davies, Hunter (2012). Sellafield Stories: Life In Britain’s First Nuclear Plant. Constable http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/mar/11/sellafield-stories-book-nuclear-accident http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sellafield-Stories-Britains-First-Nuclear/dp/1780332998/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1331465692&sr=1-1 (see bottom of page for more on this item). 2. An new oral history project: eavesdropping in our times http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/mar/11/conversation-mass-observation-recording-bbc?newsfeed=true “How the art of eavesdropping is […]
Read moreThere has been a bit of a hiatus since the last newsletter, an indication of the busy-ness of this new semester, a busy-ness partly ‘encouraged’?since Julian retired, but also the consequence of?increasing PGR (doctoral) activity in the LTE Doctoral Community and beyond. The observant amongst you will have noticed that the numbers of profiles has increased in nearly all categories. […]
Read moreDuoethnography is not the use of two ethnographers in a single study. Rather it is a collaborative research methodology in which two or more researchers juxtapose their life histories in order to provide multiple understandings of a social phenomenon. The first book on duoethnography has just arrive at the Left Coast warehouse. Edited by Joe Norris, Richard Sawyer, and Darren […]
Read moreBlock, D., J. Gray & M. Holborow (2012) Neoliberalism and Applied Linguistics. London Routledge. Neoliberalism and Applied Linguistics argues that while applied linguistics has become more interdisciplinary in orientation, it has ignored or downplayed the role of political economy, namely the way in which social, political and economic factors relate to one another within the context of a capitalist economy. […]
Read moreThe Call for Papers for the three 2-day seminars (March in Durham, April in Bristol, and May in Manchester) in this AHRC project was well responded to and we have now made the selections to have upto 12 papers in each 2-day event. Former and current SoE doctoral researchers will be involved (eg Mariam, Viv, Fenia, Achilleas, and Olga who is not […]
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