Richard Fay

Approaches to Supervision

19/08/2011 Richard Fay 5 comments

I am putting this under ‘Research Methods’ although it’s really about supervisory cultures/approaches. I am currently reading the following book: Lee, Anna (2012!). Successful research supervision: advising students doing research. London and New York, Routledge. In it, Lee identifies five (potentially interconnected) supervisory approaches as follows: (institutionally-oriented) functional (relating to Code sof Practice, contractual obligations, organisational matters Panels etc); supporting enculturation; developing critical thinking; enabling […]

Researcher development etc

Julian's upcoming departure

10/08/2011 Richard Fay 2 comments

By now, I think all of you will know that Julian will be retiring from the LTE group from the end of September. For his ‘take’ on this, see Edgeblog #18 . More, much more, can and will not doubt be said on this theme, but for now I just want to wish him well in all that comes next.

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Supervisor competence

07/08/2011 Richard Fay Leave a comment

All of you may be interested in the resources for supervisors to which staff are now being directed in our Faculty, i.e. the Training for Supervisors webpage. Richard

Researcher development etc

forthcoming article by Paul Smith amongst others

04/08/2011 Richard Fay Leave a comment

Mair, M., Watson, P., Elsey, C., & P. V. Smith (forthcoming). War-making and sense-making: some technical reflections on an instance of ‘friendly fire, forthcoming in British Journal of Sociology (details to follow). — This article is the further development an earlier conference paper [ppt]

Getting published

Narrative Matters 2012 — Panel Possibilities

04/08/2011 Richard Fay 19 comments

See my separate new thread re the overall thinking for NM2012 in Paris: next May-time http://edtechandtesol.info/phd/?p=2638 The purpose of this new thread is to focus on the second area (in that overall thinking), that of a Panel offered by the LTE reseachers and their associates. This is where my thinking had reached previously: My thinking so far – but not […]

Narrative Matters, Natters and Beyond

Narrative Matters 2012 (Paris) – Ideas for Papers

04/08/2011 Richard Fay Leave a comment

See below a copy of the earlier posting for this conference. As Narrative Matters is a key narrative conference (which comes around every two years) and as it will be in Europe for a change (not north America), it seems to me to provide a perfect opoortunity for all those of us with a narrative bent to take part and […]

Narrative Matters, Natters and Beyond

ELTED Vol 13 now out

01/08/2011 Richard Fay Leave a comment

Announcement: English Language Teacher Education and Development (ELTED) Volume 13 is now available online. English Language Teacher Education and Development (ELTED) – ISSN 1365-3741 – is an annual peer-reviewed journal for the worldwide ELT community which is produced by the English Language Learning, Teaching and Assessment (ELLTA) Research Group of the Centre for Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick. It seeks […]

Getting published

The Thesis Whisperer

01/08/2011 Richard Fay 7 comments

http://thethesiswhisperer.wordpress.com/about/ The Thesis Whisperer is a ‘newspaper’ dedicated to the topic of doing a thesis. Newspapers need more than one journalist so we are looking for collaborators! Would you like to write for the Whisperer? Here’s what we want to do: We want to be concise. PhD students have to do a lot of reading so no posts will be […]

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Learner Autonomy in the FL classroom

18/07/2011 Richard Fay Leave a comment

The latest issue of Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching (Volume 5, Issue 2, 2011) is a special issue, edited by Turid Trebbi, which brings together papers from the 10th Nordic Conference on Language Learner Autonomy in the Foreign Language Classroom (2009, Bergen, Norway). The Table of Contents is accessible here: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rill20/5/2 The papers included are as follows: Reinforcing the […]

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Graduation Photos

13/07/2011 Richard Fay 15 comments

Life after the doctorate

ME-Search and Research

13/07/2011 Richard Fay One comment

Me-Search and Re-Search A Guide for Writing Scholarly Personal Narrative Manuscripts Robert Nash, The University of Vermont DeMethra LaSha Bradley, University of Vermont Published 2011 From the Foreword: Robert and DeMethra’s book, Me-Searching and Re-Search, has caught my fancy in a number of ways. The book title cleverly captures what SPN is all about—it is about self narratives (the […]

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PGR Blog

07/07/2011 Richard Fay Leave a comment

…. at the risk of us becoming overblogged / blogged out, I am copying here Eljee’s recent message to all PGR students about the PGR blog which has similar but also different functions from this our LTE Doctoral Community Blog. (RF) I’d like to invite you to take a look at the new PGR Blog! http://pgrschoolofeducation.wordpress.com/ This is an online […]

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Work for a RAW article (on reflection)

05/07/2011 Richard Fay 9 comments

Juup and I have been teaching and researching together in the area of Developing Researcher Competece (DRC) for some years now – for example see the earlier ‘In the Raw’ posting about the work – on which Juup had led – regarding DRC and intentionality as set in an ecological psychological perspective. The DRC course we co-tutor makes substatial use of reflection as […]