Two more book contributions in ‘Developing as an EFL Researcher: Stories from the Field’

Volha and I both have contributions in the book ‘Developing as an EFL Researcher: Stories from the Field’ edited by Siân Etherington and Mark Daubney. This book is based on poster presentations from the IATEFL Research SIG pre-conference event held in Manchester in 2015. Both those posters are on the walls in the B3 corridor in Ellen Wilkinson. Volha’s contribution is […]

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New Book: Researching Identity and Interculturality

Edited by Fred Dervin and Karen Risager Routledge This volume focuses on advances in research methodology in an interdisciplinary field framed by discourses of identity and interculturality. It includes a range of qualitative studies: studies of interaction, narrative studies, conversation analysis, ethnographic studies, postcolonial studies and critical discourse studies, and emphasizes the role of discourse and power in all studies […]

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ICQI 2014: Qualitative Inquiry and the Politics of Research

I am delighted to have had my abstract entitled “Walking the Talk: Tensions between Analysis and Advocacy in Ethical Inquiry” accepted for the Tenth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry in Champaign-Urbana in May 2014. Whilst I am attempting to synthesize analysis and advocacy in my thesis, giving this paper allows me to play with the ‘partial, moral and political ways of knowing’ that my […]

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