English Teaching Excellence in Qatar Conference

English Teaching Excellence in Qatar (ETE-Q) Conference, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q) and Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar (WCMC-Q) 9/10/2010, Education City, Doha, Qatar   On Saturday, the 9th of October 2010, I participated in the ETE-Q conference at CMU-Q in Doha with a poster presentation entitled “Academic Writing: Challenge, Inspiration, Engagement”. The poster summarises my teaching approach […]

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QI Revisited

To see the paper I gave at QI 2010, click here.   It can be a mistake to go back…Last year I attended the Fifth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (QI 2009) at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign and was refreshed, energised and motivated by the genuine inclusivity of the conference and the engagement with issues of social justice […]

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Narrative Matters 2010

Eljee, Tanya, Viv and myself are all presenting at the NM 2010 conference next week. Details below. wish us luck with volcanic ash as we negotiate the Atlantic 🙂 “Narrative Matters 2010 – Exploring the narrative landscape: Issues, investigations, and interventions” to be hosted by the CIRN in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, May 20th – 22nd 2010: Fay, R., Zhou, […]

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Two conferences I plan to attend…

Vlora (Albania), September 11-13 This seems to focus more on English linguistics and Anglophone literature, so it’s not immediately relevant to my needs. But it should be an interesting intercultural experience… Izmir (Turkey), October 28-30 Focussing on English as an International Language. Chomsky’s keynote speech should be one of the highlights of the event. I might turn a paper in […]

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Paul Smith at PRASH ….

Hi All this is my draft abstract for the PRASH conference at Edge Hill University in June. http://www.vitae.ac.uk/researchers/56271-220101/Postgraduate-Research-in-Arts-Social-Sciences-and-Humanities-PRASH-conference-2010.html#pageInfo (Link no longer active) You’re allowed 150 words only, so here they are. I’ll be sending this Thu/Fri so any comments would be most welcome! The title of the presentation is currently “The ‘Interdisciplinary Turn’ and Locating Research”. Hh-hm: “I do not intend […]

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