Greetings to you all! Now that the summer is here most of us, I suspect, are either: a) buried under the pile of reading for a dissertation/abstract/research b) teaching / working crazy hours during the summer to make ends meet for the fall c) procrastinating by doing anything (i.e. online shopping, lurking on Facebook, blogging here) other than researching d) […]
Read moreThis new Discussion Topic of Reflexivity picks up on quite a bit of activity by LTE staff and doctoral participants in recent months, some of which has spilled onto these blog pages (e.g. see comments on Magdalena De Stefani’s page). Some of this activity is directly related to: Doctoral study (as I think Magdalena’s ideas are, and Eljee also dwelt on […]
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 moreWooJoo and Tzu-Hsuan (Carol) as PhD graduates Monday 5th July is Graduation day for the School of Education and, amongst others, LTE’s Carol (Tzu-Hsuan Liu) and Christine (WooJoo Lee) will be being ‘doctorised’. Congratulations to them – where they stand may others soon follow!
Read moreGary (Motteram) is involved – as the editor for a special issue of the journal developing the coverage in the recent IATEFL Pre-Conference Event he co-ordinated -with this new journal which may be of interest to the more tech-oriented amongst you: International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching (IJCALLT) The mission of the International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and […]
Read moreA doctoral student – Fenia – from the Counselling area in our School whose work and thinking about doing research multilingually and whose crosscultural topic have brought her into my space to some extent – will have her viva on the 14th July. Does anyone have advice and /or links to sites of viva Qs/advice etc that Fenia might find […]
Read morePaul, Made, Achilleas …. did I hear right that you have a joint chapter coming out? Any more detail for us?
Read more…. a recent researcher competence article by our LTE colleague Juup Stelma in which he presents an ecological model of developing researcher competence, with a particular focus on doctoral students’ use of research software: “An ecological model of developing researcher competence: the case of software technology in doctoral research”, Instructional Science More information here on the article. The term researcher competence is […]
Read moreThis is a discussion thread about this increasingly visible and robust part of the doctoral experience, i.e. ethics approval. Being ethical has always been important as a researcher but now the approval process is becoming more evident. So, perhaps it is time to start sharing our ethical approval experiences? To start the ball rolling, here (no longer active) is what a former Counselling […]
Read moreTo continue in a more generalised way the specific lead given by the earlier prompt regarding narrative journals, below I copy Tanya’s suggestion about an interesting qualitative research journal and perhaps we could add new items to this list as they occur to us? International Journal of Qualitive Studies in Education – of which Tanya writes: “QSE is quite high brow, […]
Read moreHaving just been to the Narrative Matters 2010 conference, I am reminded of the following journals which may be useful for those narratively-inclined: Narrative Inquiry Narrative Works: Issues, Investigations, & Interventions — a new online, open-access, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinaryjournal committed to exploring the complex role of narrative in countless aspects of human life. This is a new venture from the Centre for Interdisciplinary […]
Read moreAn important feature of doctoral studies at The University of Manchester is that at the beginning of our studies we are expected to undertake formal training in research methods, in the form of taught modules offered by the MSc in Educational Research programme. This training, the exact structure of which is generally negotiated with one’s supervisors and the School, is […]
Read moreIt may be of interest to know what Supervisors’ needs are perceived to be (as suggested by the following training sessions for them): Two ‘Supervisor Awareness’ workshops run by the Faculty in May. The first will be a half-day workshop on the Supervision Context … The focus of PhD supervision tends to be on completion of the thesis and preparation for […]
Read moreHere is an email message I sent to all LTE’s doctoral students recently to find out more about the multilingual possibilities and actualities of their research. Introduction I am sending this message to recent, current, and likely doctoral students with supervisors in the LTE group. Some of you will have heard – e.g. via the main LTE blog and/or […]
Read more**** STOP PRESS **** (June 2010) Gary (Motteram) is involved – as the editor for a special issue of the journal developing the coverage in the recent IATEFL Pre-Conference Event he co-ordinated -with this new journal which may be of interest to the more tech-oriented amongst you: International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching (IJCALLT) The mission of the International […]
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