Category: Miscellaneous news etc

I’ve just read the last substantial post I made from about three or four years ago and thought, now that the PhD is completed, that it would be nice to reflect. A lot has happened since the last post and in a sense it’s hard to compare what it was like then to how I am now. The last post […]

Dear All, The University Careers and Employability Division has just launched a new careers web resource specifically targeted at doctoral researchers. The following blog post tells you more about the new service, and you can download the flyer here. I have also added related postgraduate careers resources to the Links page on this blog. Best, Mariam

Dear All, It gives me great pleasure to let you know that Richard Fay has been awarded a Distinguished Achievement Medal – Teacher of the Year 2013. Yay!! A heartfelt congratulations to Richard for a well-earned recognition. I don’t think it has ever happened in the history of this university that an academic was nominated by fifteen former and current […]

An interesting article has recently appeared in the NYT. My institution (Academic Bridge Program) is mentioned :). Here is the link: Magda

For the upcoming REF exercise here in the UK, we’ve been asked to supply data on where our Doctoral Community has been publishing since 2008. The ‘snag’ is that they are only interested in journal articles – a point we should all take note of in terms of what it indicates about the value attached to different kinds of pubications […]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/aug/19/thomas-kuhn-structure-scientific-revolutions?INTCMP=SRCH Thomas Kuhn: the man who changed the way the world looked at science Fifty years ago, a book by Thomas Kuhn altered the way we look at the philosophy behind science, as well as introducing the much abused phrase ‘paradigm shift’ …. John Naughton The Observer, Sunday 19 August 2012

We would like to bring colleagues’ attention to a change to UK migration law. The British Government has decided to raise the level of English language and literacy required for British citizenship and settlement in the UK. This will have profound implications for migrants who are language and literacy learners. Under the current arrangements those with a level of English […]

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 […]

The 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 […]

Magda has alerted me to the following: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/manchester-britains-greatest-university-2101828.html

Block, 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. […]