The SRMO beta is here! We’re delighted to announce the launch of the SAGE Research Methods Online (SRMO) Beta, and we’d like to offer you priority access for free until the end of the year! SRMO is a powerful research methods tool, linking SAGE’s renowned research methods content with sophisticated search tools to help researchers answer their research methods questions […]
Read moreHaving just participated in the post-graduate Induction Week, I would like to share a few comments on this overwhelmingly positive experience. First of all, as an in-context student, I realised the importance of face to face contacts with my supervisors and the rest of the academic community, or other tutors, administrators and fellow PhD students. I have known my supervisors – […]
Read moreI must admit I had not expected much of the conference in Vlora. In part, it was because it was organised by relatively junior faculty members in a peripheral university, so I assumed they wouldn’t have access to the requisite know-how. It was also partly due to that typically Greek prejudice against other South Eastern Europeans (Greeks are prejudiced by […]
Read moreGreetings 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 moreHave any of you explored this site at the University of Surrey? Social Science Update This is published quarterly by the Department of Sociology in order “to improve methodological awareness within the research community”. I have added it to our General Links in this blog.
Read morePANEL_PRESENTATION_JUNE_2010 On June 22nd I presented my research proposal to the PhD panel with the title of my proposal being ‘Teachers in transition: a case study of EAP teachers’ applications of blended learning approaches before, during, and after a series of teacher training workshops.’ The research proposal itself was submitted to the panel on 11th June (eleven days in […]
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 moreIn the first entry I made to this blog, I tried to provide a brief summary of what my research was about and what aims I have set out to attain. My immediate aim, I wrote, was to generate a ‘thick’ description of an educational setting in the periphery of the ELT world. In addition to this, my research aims […]
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 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 moreThere is something exciting about taking a qualitative approach to understanding the experience of language teachers – exciting and troubling, that is. It is the realisation that, when it comes to methodology, we are making our way in largely uncharted territory. One can always draw on existing social science research manuals, but I think it is fair to say that […]
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