Supervisor competence
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
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ME-Search and Research
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 […]
Read morePGR Blog
…. 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 […]
Read moreWork for a RAW article (on reflection)
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 […]
Read moreLTE Researcher Conference 2011
RAW: 3rd May 2011
Next up, it’s Gary with his developing ideas for an upcoming comference paper in Sweden. his working title is: “Plus ça change, ça change tout?” The role of technology in language education in the early 21st century
Read moreA BAAL Colloquium on DRM ….
Doing 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 […]
Read moreBERA acceptance
This proposal submitted by Juup, has now been accepted … Stelma, J. and Fay, R. (2011). Reflective construction of (conflicting) intentionalities: an ecological perspective on Masters-level research education. Paper (to be) presented at BERA 2011 Annual Conference, 6th – 8th September, 2011, hosted by the Institute of Education, London.
Read moreMethods @ Manchester
Do you all know about this one? Methods @ manchester Highlighting the depth and breadth of methodological expertise in the social sciences at the University of Manchester. Promoting and facilitating methodological excellence, innovation and inter-disciplinarity. http://www.methods.manchester.ac.uk/
Read moreCongratulations to Tanya and Eljee…
… on their succcessful bid for SoE funding to partially support their QI2011 paper-giving trip in late May (papers about which we may well hear more at our June 3rd LTE Conference ….
Read moreJulian @ TESOL – presenting his new reflexivity book
Julian writes: You could check out the script of my TESOL Convention presentation, and the accompanying powerpoint expertly created by Eljee Javier, via the edgeblog link: Even more fun, however, especially if you are interested in traditional folkloric responses to the affordances of international travel, is this one:
Read moreTransformative learning – conference experience
Last week, Susan and I were kindly invited and funded (by ESCalate) to give the following keynote: Richard Fay and Susan Brown —– “Developing intercultural courses in a UK university context: some curricular, strategic and research considerations”. Keynote presentation at the ESCalate Regional Workshop on ‘The transformative impact of international experience on personal and professional learning on Wednesday 23rd March 2011, hosted […]
Read more“From here to there …. and back again — Conference papers by the LTE doctoral community”
Announcing the event: “From here to there …. and back again — Conference papers by the LTE doctoral community” Friday 3rd June (say 10.00-16.00) An opportunity for LTE doctoral researchers to (re)present a paper that they have presented externally (or will shortly do so) for an internal LTE audience (plus invited guests). Each performance will be for 20 minutes with five-ten minutes […]
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I am copying here an exchange originally buried elsewhere in the blog … Has anyone been using eScholar via the University of Manchester? It’s basically an in house data repository site hosted by the uni and made available for every staff and student of the uni. Depending on copyright issues regarding open access, you can upload published work onto the site. […]
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