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Read moreAt this session, Juup and Richard present a second draft of an article for submission possibly to Studies in Higher Education or Higher Education. It is (currently) entitled: Developing researcher competence on a UK Masters course: an ecological perspective
Read moreAt the RAW meeting of 28th February 2011, Richard (and Leah in absentia) presented a first draft of a research methology paper to RAW colleagues. The working title was: “The use of researcher narratives in the multilingual study of the Ladino stories of Sephardic Jews in Bulgaria”
Read moreIn advance of this Viva, Mariam, let me wish you all the very best. I hope that you not only give a strong performance but also that you enjoy the experience 🙂
Read moreI am conscious that we have quite a few conference papers soon happen in our doctoral community – for example: — Achilleas’ recent papers including the one on MATE — Magda’s recent pieces — Eljee’s and Tanya’s late May QI2011 papers — Lou’s and Achilleas’ Finnish papers in July — Paul’s papers last year — Mariam’s upcoming EuroCALL paper? There […]
Read moreI am sure that none of us, researchers and supervisors alike, need reminding of the robust Ethics Approval procedures now in place, but the information below provides a salutory reminder: Protocol for handling instances of potential breaches by students of research integrity in the School of education with particular reference to the ethical protocol A. Background Ethical protocol can be breached if a student a) conducts […]
Read moreLou and Eljee go before the University’s Ethics committee (UREC) on Monday 14th March in the early afternoon. All the very best to them in this final stage of approval before their ‘main studies’ can commence.
Read moreESCalate Regional Workshop on ‘The transformative impact of international experience on personal and professional learning’ on Wednesday 23rd March 2011, hosted by Liverpool Hope University. Full details and at http://escalate.ac.uk/7733 Programme “Developing intercultural courses in a UK university context: some curricular, strategic and research considerations” Richard Fay and Susan Brown In this presentation, we will present and reflect upon our […]
Read moreRAW is the (semi-humourous) acronym for a cooperative Research and Writing group that meets fortnightly during term time in order to help its members develop their written texts, whether these be articles, chapters, proposals, bids, talks or some other genre of academic communication. Individuals circulate their draft text in advance, at whatever stage of readiness it has reached, along with […]
Read more…. to Lou and Eljee on the successful outcomes at their progression Panels yesterday 🙂 Anything to share about the experience?
Read moreThe proceedings of the May 2009 conference held by the Hellenic Open University to mark its 10th anniversary are now published in the HOU’s online journal RPLTL, http://rpltl.eap.gr/ with a contribution by yours truly. You can access them through “Current issue”. Here is the latest information from the editor on this online journal: I would like to inform you that the […]
Read moreBloomsbury Applied Linguistics Seminar, 12:00 noon Wednesday, 26 January 2011 Room G16, Main Building, Birkbeck College, London, Torrington Square FREE, ALL WELCOME Dr Chris Jenks City University of Hong Kong Doing being reprehensive: Some interactional features of English as a lingua franca Abstract Great diversity exists in the way English is being used in the world today. It is now […]
Read morehttp://www.economist.com/node/17723223 ON THE evening before All Saints’ Day in 1517, Martin Luther nailed 95 theses to the door of a church in Wittenberg. In those days a thesis was simply a position one wanted to argue. Luther, an Augustinian friar, asserted that Christians could not buy their way to heaven. Today a doctoral thesis is both an idea and an […]
Read moreCheck out: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/dec/16/google-tool-english-cultural-trends?INTCMP=SRCH Google creates a tool to probe ‘genome’ of English words for cultural trendsHarvard and Google say they have developed a way to identify cultural trends over the past 200 years using a database of 5m digitised books … How many words in the English language never make it into dictionaries? How has the nature of fame changed […]
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