Category: Getting published

My chapter for the Sage Cases in Methodology collection looks like it will be published, perhaps later in the year. The chapter is called “An ethnography of academic writing: on the very idea of an ethnography”, and it essentially about my struggles in characterising and naming (not to mention conducting and writing) my doctoral research. The SCM project itself looks […]

Dear All I thought I’d write this fairly urgently as many of you may have been in the same position, or are likely to be in the near future… This morning I arrived to find an email in my work inbox from Lambert Academic Publishing (LAP), an arm of VDM. They are offering to publish my PhD thesis; in fact, […]

Some of us responded to Paul Breen’s call (LTE blog, “Miscellaneous News”, March 2013) for chapter proposals for a book edited by him, entitled Cases on Teacher Identity, Diversity, and Cognition in Higher Education. It is to be published by IGI Global some time towards the end of 2014. Several of our proposals have been accepted. They include Magdalena de Stefani’s, […]

The latest developments in the publishing world especially regarding Open Access have left many researchers confused. This link will (hopefully) offer some clarification in this respect.

The Journal of Second Language Teaching and Research (JSLTR) is a new, open-access journal which hopes to provide a platform both for established and early-career researchers. JSLTR is engaged with building a community of practice (both online and offline) and supports debate and scholarship in second language teaching and research. Issue 2 is available here: www.uclan.ac.uk/jsltr  

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Cambridge Scholars Press are publishing a new book series, edited by Prof. Fred Dervin (University of Helsinki), titled Post-Intercultural Communication and Education. According to their announcement: This book series, eclectic in scope, seeks to extend and revitalize scholarship on intercultural communication and education by publishing innovative, interdisciplinary and critical analyses of intercultural encounters. “Post-intercultural” refers to a recent paradigm shift in the […]

Young reviewers are certainly sought after. “The best referees are postdocs,” says Leslie Sage, a senior physical-sciences editor at Nature in Washington DC. “They are at the top of their game, well versed in the literature and politically naive enough to tell the truth.” For this and more interesting insights into the peer-review process, you may want to have a look into […]

I am just starting to read a book edited by Lucy Green entitled “Learning, teaching and musical identity: voices across cultures” (2011) and was intrigued by how Green positions the chapters by the different researchers vis-a-vis expectations of the research report genre: “The researchers followed standard ethical procedures, including giving participants the right to withdraw and to remain anonymous, seeking […]

I am pleased to have two book chapters out in quick succession: Davcheva, L, Fay, R. and Byram M. (Dec 2011). Zones of interculturality in postgraduate doctorate supervision. In F. Derwin, A. Gajardo A. and Lavanchy, F. (eds.), Politics of interculturality,(pp.127-149). Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press. Isbn13: 978-1-4438-3365-3 / Isbn: 1-4438-3365-7 http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Politics-of-Interculturality1-4438-3365-7.htm This volume also contains chapters by: Fred Dervin, Catherine Doherty, […]

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]