Lou writes: I found out today that I’ve been awarded School of Education funding to partially cover the New Dynamics conference in Finland. Splendid news! And I’ve finally set up my website and my PhD blog – please take a look: https://sites.google.com/site/ltharvey http://louharvey-phd.blogspot.com
Read more… on their succcessful bid for SoE funding to partially support their QI2011 paper-giving trip in late May (papers about which we may well hear more at our June 3rd LTE Conference ….
Read moreLast week, Susan and I were kindly invited and funded (by ESCalate) to give the following keynote: Richard Fay and Susan Brown —– “Developing intercultural courses in a UK university context: some curricular, strategic and research considerations”. Keynote presentation at the ESCalate Regional Workshop on ‘The transformative impact of international experience on personal and professional learning on Wednesday 23rd March 2011, hosted […]
Read moreAnnouncing the event: “From here to there …. and back again — Conference papers by the LTE doctoral community” Friday 3rd June (say 10.00-16.00) An opportunity for LTE doctoral researchers to (re)present a paper that they have presented externally (or will shortly do so) for an internal LTE audience (plus invited guests). Each performance will be for 20 minutes with five-ten minutes […]
Read moreI’ve recently been accepted to present at the New Dynamics of Language Learning conference in June in Jyvaskyla, Finland. Harvey, L. (forthcoming 2011). The social and pragmatic parameters of L2 motivation: EAP teachers’ perceptions. Paper (to be) presented at New Dynamics of Language Learning (University of Jyvaskyla, Finland: Monday 6th – Thursday 9th June 2011).
Read moreAt this session, Juup and Richard present a second draft of an article for submission possibly to Studies in Higher Education or Higher Education. It is (currently) entitled: Developing researcher competence on a UK Masters course: an ecological perspective
Read moreAt the RAW meeting of 28th February 2011, Richard (and Leah in absentia) presented a first draft of a research methology paper to RAW colleagues. The working title was: “The use of researcher narratives in the multilingual study of the Ladino stories of Sephardic Jews in Bulgaria”
Read moreI am conscious that we have quite a few conference papers soon happen in our doctoral community – for example: — Achilleas’ recent papers including the one on MATE — Magda’s recent pieces — Eljee’s and Tanya’s late May QI2011 papers — Lou’s and Achilleas’ Finnish papers in July — Paul’s papers last year — Mariam’s upcoming EuroCALL paper? There […]
Read moreESCalate Regional Workshop on ‘The transformative impact of international experience on personal and professional learning’ on Wednesday 23rd March 2011, hosted by Liverpool Hope University. Full details and at http://escalate.ac.uk/7733 Programme “Developing intercultural courses in a UK university context: some curricular, strategic and research considerations” Richard Fay and Susan Brown In this presentation, we will present and reflect upon our […]
Read moreRAW is the (semi-humourous) acronym for a cooperative Research and Writing group that meets fortnightly during term time in order to help its members develop their written texts, whether these be articles, chapters, proposals, bids, talks or some other genre of academic communication. Individuals circulate their draft text in advance, at whatever stage of readiness it has reached, along with […]
Read moreThe proceedings of the May 2009 conference held by the Hellenic Open University to mark its 10th anniversary are now published in the HOU’s online journal RPLTL, http://rpltl.eap.gr/ with a contribution by yours truly. You can access them through “Current issue”. Here is the latest information from the editor on this online journal: I would like to inform you that the […]
Read moreReasons for going to a conference I love going to conferences, but have recently noticed how the number of conference alerts, announcements and invitations I come across has grown and begun to overwhelm me. Too much choice is never a good thing (as Barry Schwartz argues in The Paradox of Choice, 2004, New York: HarperCollins), so reducing it through eliminating […]
Read moreThe Auto/Biography Study Group is part of the professional association of sociologists, the British Sociological Association (BSA). The aim of the Study Group is to bring together people interested in looking analytically at all forms of biography and autobiography, the relationship between different ‘genres’ of representing lives, and the intertextuality of biography and autobiography, texts and lives. In addition to […]
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