This quote caught my eye: “Time and memory are a fussy firm on interior decorators, always shifting the furniture about and redesigning and even reassigning rooms” (p.28) Banville, John (2012). Ancient Light. London: Viking/Penguin. A timely reminder, if ever we needed it, of the great importance of maintaining a Research(er) Journal THROUGHOUT the process and not rely on memory and […]
Read moreCarlos Ruiz Zafon (2008, English translation 2009). El Juego del Angel (translated by Lucia Graves as The Angel’s Game), Madrid: Editorial Planeta / London: Phoenix. pg.121 of the 2009 English translation: “Everything is a tale, Martin. What we believe, what we know, what we remember, even what we dream. Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters […]
Read moreThe AHRC ‘Researching Multilingually’ team of which I am part – as is fellow Doctoral Community member and PhD alumnus Mariam Attia – is running a 1-day workshop on this RM theme on February 26th at Durham University, more details will be forthcoming soon. R
Read moreFor the upcoming REF exercise here in the UK, we’ve been asked to supply data on where our Doctoral Community has been publishing since 2008. The ‘snag’ is that they are only interested in journal articles – a point we should all take note of in terms of what it indicates about the value attached to different kinds of pubications […]
Read moreNext up will be Paul (Smith) for whom Juup and I will be doing a Mock Viva later this week in preparation for the real thing most likely on 24th January. Time to wish him well 🙂
Read moreCongratulations to Eljee, Lou and Fitri on their recent funding application successes. I hope we’ll hear more about these papers and events soon. R
Read moreFull Conference Programme See below for Papers with: (1) LTE Doctoral Community research associate, Leah Davcheva; (2) the AHRC Researching Multilingually team including LTE Doctoral Community alumnus and research associate Mariam Attia; and (3) LTE Doctoral alumnus and research associate, Xiaowei Zhou. Davcheva, L. and R. Fay (2012). Zones of interculturality in Identity Performance: Tales of Ladino from Sephardic Jews […]
Read moreI was a Guest Speaker at this event last weekend: http://www.enl.auth.gr/gala/conf2012_en.htm And here is the powerpoint for what I presented: Our long-standing community member Achilleas kindly came to hear me; a 6- hour round trip, a call beyond duty!
Read morePaul Smith is submitting his thesis today and will be having his viva in early January; I wish him all the best in this next stage of his researcher journey! Magdalena De Stefani’s corrections are being submitted very soon; I wish her all the best with this final step. Important events for our doctoral community 🙂
Read moreThe Journal of Second Language Teaching and Research (JSLTR) is a new, open-access journal which hopes to provide a platform both for established and early-career researchers. JSLTR is engaged with building a community of practice (both online and offline) and supports debate and scholarship in second language teaching and research. Issue 2 is available here: www.uclan.ac.uk/jsltr
Read morehttp://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/aug/19/thomas-kuhn-structure-scientific-revolutions?INTCMP=SRCH Thomas Kuhn: the man who changed the way the world looked at science Fifty years ago, a book by Thomas Kuhn altered the way we look at the philosophy behind science, as well as introducing the much abused phrase ‘paradigm shift’ …. John Naughton The Observer, Sunday 19 August 2012
Read moreWe would like to bring colleagues’ attention to a change to UK migration law. The British Government has decided to raise the level of English language and literacy required for British citizenship and settlement in the UK. This will have profound implications for migrants who are language and literacy learners. Under the current arrangements those with a level of English […]
Read moreIn no particular order, I will upload the contributions one by one as they are formulated by you in coming days: Eljee Javier – ”That restorying thingy” In my contribution, I want to facilitate a discussion exploring what it means to ‘restory a narrative’. It seems that, in different kinds of narrative-based research, there are different varieties of restorying. I […]
Read morehttp://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2012/may/07/56-up-its-like-having-another-family?INTCMP=SRCH ——– of interest to the narrativists amongst you? 56 Up: ‘It’s like having another family’ It began as a one-off look at how the class system defined the hopes and aspirations of British children. Now, almost half a century later, the Up series has evolved into one of the world’s great documentary projects. But how have these films affected […]
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