congratulations Eljee ….
… on a strong Viva performance and Aii result as the almost final moves of a doctoral career. Just a few pesky minor corrections left now ….
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Congratulations Achilleas
Upcoming Viva
Emily and Parneet are in the hot seat this coming Tuesday (30th Sept). D Couns Psych researchers (rather than TESOL/LTE) but narrativists to the core 🙂 And then coming in dates across the autumn: Paul Breen, Achilleas, Eljee, Lou and Helen. Best wishes to them all.
Read moreDoctoral Study and Cultural Identity
My colleague Adrian Holliday (who many of you will know from his writings) is looking for doctoral students willing to respond to the following questions: 1. What impact has doing a PhD had on your cultural identity? (‘Cultural’ may be interpreted in a number of ways and you are of course at liberty to contest the term or define it […]
Read moreDoctoral students reflect on researching across languages and cultures
https://www.uea.ac.uk/documents/595200/0/CARE+working+paper.pdf/ece70461-a98a-4f93-b744-77e505919f9e Robinson-Pant, A. and Wolf, A. (Eds.) (2014). “Researching across languages and cultures: a collection of reflective pieces providing an unusual insight into how doctoral students engage in multilingual and intercultural research”. (CARE Working Paper No 1). Norwich: University of East Anglia. Containing: — Robinson-Pant, A. and Wolf A. (2014) ‘An Introduction’ (pp.3-8) … — Shi, P. (2014). ‘Language, theory […]
Read moreTanya's Graduation – Congratulations Dr Halldorsdottir
Panels – Safe passage to all concerned this week
Susan, Olga, Bona, Duygu and Dylan are all being reviewed this week (Tues?) in terms of their proposal for their main studies. I’m sure we’re all rooting for you in the background. In due course, it’ll be great to hear your stories of being panelled, but for now, “break a leg” as they say 🙂
Read moreWishing Tanya a Good Viva Experience Tomorrow (Thu)
Languages of the world / cultural biodiversity …..
Mock Panels
This month (June 2014), we have five of our own going through the Panel experience – Susan, Olga, Bona, Duygu and Dylan – and I hope that, in due course, we’ll hear here their reflections on the safe passage through this process. But meanwhile, if any old-hands have advice to share, that would be welcome, I’m sure. I never had […]
Read moreAHRC Researching Multilingually at Borders
This project is now officially launched 🙂 https://storify.com/rm_borders/researching-multilingually-launch It involves me and former colleague and Manchester MA/PhD alumnus Jane Andrews as a Co-Investigators, PhD alumnus Mariam Attia as a post-doctoral researcher based at Durham University, and PhD alumnus Nazmi Al Masri as the leader of Case Study 5 focusing on the development of Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language at […]
Read moreJasper Zhou was born on 15th May at 16.09
Tanya’s thesis submission — yay!
Tanya submitted yesterday and her viva is provisionally set for June 12th. Another significant step in the life of one of our community. As I celebrate this achievement, I am mindful of those following hot on her heels (Achilleas, Eljee, Lou, Helen, Parneet, Emily) and looking forward to celebrating the next steps in their doctoral journeys too.
Read moreElf on the road … and researching multilingualism
Picking up on Khwan’s recent CultNet reflections, my contribution there was a joint talk with Prue Holmes on some cultural and intercultural aspects of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), a theme we’ll be developing further at both the ELF 7 pre-conference in Athens next week: http://www.erasmus.gr/microsites/1014/pre-conference-event and then at the BAAL IC-SIG event in Edinburgh towards the end of […]
Read more(Unsuccessful) Conference Abstract Proposal
“Potential Role and Contribution of Counselling Psychology to the Care of Street-Connected Children and Young People” Parneet Chahal & Richard Fay (University of Manchester) Abstract: This paper is based on a recently-completed, multilingually undertaken, counselling psychology study exploring the narrativised meanings made by young people in India regarding their street-connected experiences. In this paper, we briefly report the study and its […]
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