Preparing for viva – Khwanita style

I passed my viva voce (a PhD oral exam, aka thesis/dissertation defense) with minor corrections in July and celebrated my graduation three days afterward (by wearing a proper robe and funny hat and taking pictures with my colleagues and friends). Now that the result of my degree has been published, I think it’s time to share with you some aspects […]

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Latest news on the ‘Expectations of and on international students in UK HE: investigating mismatching language ontologies and destabilising encounters’ workshop

This is being held at Manchester Metropolitan University, Business School Building, Room BS 3.28 on Friday 16th September. Duygu and Nahielly are representing our community, so if you are around and would like to go and support them book a ticket quickly as there are only a few left.   0900 Registration and tea/coffee 0920 Welcome and introduction by the workshop […]

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LANTERN — looking ahead

After the very successful Kaleidoscope event last week, and mindful of the valuable Lantern Lunch-time Talk series which really took off this year, I am now thinking about the future, one in which Susan Dawson steps down from her lead role in stimulating, curating, and feeding our community of researchers. A big “THANK YOU” is in order for this role […]

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Upcoming LANTERN Lunchtime Talks

We now have the details of the next two LLTs. We look forward to seeing you there.Note the different room for the second talk. Friday 29th April, 12.00-13.00, Ellen Wilkinson C3.30 Exploring participants’ changing perspectives through the life of an inter-school, collaborative, research and development project. Andy Howes, Sue Goldrick, Volha Arkhipenka, Nahielly Palacios, Siti Masrifatul (‘Fitri’) Fitriyah, and Susan Dawson […]

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The next two LANTERN Lunchtime Talks

The first talk is on Friday 29th April 12.00-1.00 and is based on the work Fitri, Nahielly, Volha and I are doing with Andy Howes and the Coalition of Research Schools Exploring participants’ changing perspectives through the life of an inter-school, collaborative, research and development project.   In this talk we will briefly give the background of the Coalition of Schools […]

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Some preliminary thoughts on ‘Bringing it Back Home 2016’

These are some initial thoughts about this year’s BiBH event, and I would love to hear your comments. With the LANTERN Lunchtime Talks running this year, there seems less need to create a space for us all to share academic findings/presentations (if you would like to do a LLT, please let me know!). One of the things that I think […]

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LANTERN Lunchtime Talks

LANTERN Lunchtime Talks Here is the information for two LANTERN Lunchtime talks that we have organised before Christmas. Paul and Alex are kindly providing food for theirs, which makes adds an even more social element to our community event. Both in EW C3.30 Academic identity and religious identity: cognitive dissonance in students’ higher education Paul Smith and Alex Baratta Friday 20th […]

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Newsletter #8 (July 2015)

I am sitting on a patio, drinking coffee in the early morning sunshine in southern Spain, high up in the mountains but looking in the distance to the Med, reflecting on all that has happened recently and is set to happen soon. First of all, this is the moment to again congratulate all our new doctors: —- from the D […]

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New Multilingual Matters volumes (2015)

www.multilingual-matters.com Some new volumes here that might be of interest, including: “Second language students in English-medium classrooms” (Coreen Sears) — of interest maybe Fitri? “Emerging self-identities and emotion in foreign language education- a narrative-oriented approach” (Masuko Miyahara) — of interest Lou? “Sociocultural theory in second language acquisition: an introduction through narratives” (2nd edn) (Merrill Swain, Penny Kinnear, and Linda Steinman) […]

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