I am delighted to report recent success by Susan Dawson and Volha ‘Olga’ Arkhipenka in securing these studentship awards. Their profiles will be appearing soon I hope. Please welcome them. they will be joining us in September. R
Read moreDoing Research Multilingually (DRM) is the focus of a BAAL Colloquium proposal that has been accepted for the September 2011 BAAL conference (hosted in Bristol by the University of the West of England). The colloquium is framed by the following text: Social researchers in differing applied settings have questioned the apparent neglect of the challenges raised by researching in contexts of […]
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Read moreThis two-day, exploratory seminar finally took place on 7th and 8th July in the School of Education at the University of Durham. It was, in keeping with the ‘exploratory’ character of the discussions, a small event. Here is a list of participants and their contact emails. In some ways, the topic of this seminar can be understood to be a subset of the following, somewhat broader […]
Read moreHere is a sample (between Richard and Magdalena) of the kind of dialogue that the recent posting about ‘doing research bi-/multi-lingually’ has stimulated. In response to the three prompts, Magdalena identifies her fluency in Spanish and English (Q1), the fact that she not only could she use both languages in her research (Q2) but in fact “used both languages to […]
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