I am very excited to share with you that Zeynep Onat-Stelma and I have applied to the CulNet event 2016, in order to present the research project/ proposal that we will be working on for the following months. For me, this will be my first presentation outside the UoM campus. Wish me luck! 🙂 Title: Stories of professional sojourns: Understanding Mexican […]
Read moreHello everyone, First of all I want to thank all the researchers and PhD students who came along on the 4th of February to the Narrative meeting. It was a small gathering where SEED students (1st year of PhD) interested in doing narrative research and narrative analysis had the opportunity to ask questions to more experienced narrative inquirers. Listening to other people’s understandings of this field […]
Read moreESRC Seminar series: The Multilingual University: The Impact of Linguistic Diversity on Higher Education in English-dominant and English Medium Instructional Contexts Seminar 6: The linguistic landscape in higher education in English-dominant and EMI settings: Future directions UCL Institute of Education 8th-9th July 2016 Despite an established body of knowledge on linguistic diversity and bi/multilingual learners in compulsory and complementary schooling, there is […]
Read moreRenia’s paper is entitled Experiential learning of English in Greek All-Day Primary Schools: investigating curriculum implementation, and has been published in Research Papers in Language Teaching and Learning. Brilliant news Renia and thanks for sharing with us.
Read moreYou can access Vol 7 no 1 of RPLTL here under Current Issue This issue has two main foci: one focusing on teachers (their attitudes, development, perceptions about their learners and the curriculum), and another one focusing on learners. Of all the papers, six have an interest in the former, ten on the latter. Of the papers the focus on learners, nine (the vast majority, in […]
Read moreConducting fieldwork is in itself a rite of passage for me. It symbolises another milestone in my PhD journey. Through these reflections, I wish to highlight the procedures and the learning process that took place while preparing for my fieldwork in the UK and during my fieldwork in Malaysia, my home country. Before I started my fieldwork, like other PhD […]
Read moreIn this post, I will share my experience of giving an intercultural-related workshop by using creative visual methods at the University of Central Lancashire. (Fun facts: the two flowers are Lancashire roses.) Following the IALIC conference in Beijing, UCLan invited Kelly and me to give a 3 hours workshop for their students. The main purpose of the workshop was to provoke students’ […]
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LANTERN Lunchtime Talks Ellen Wilkinson C3.30 Using visual-creative-arts to explore intercultural personhood and maths identities Zhuomin Huang and Kelly Pickard-Smith Friday 26th February 12.00-13.00 Zhuomin and Kelly share some of the visual-creative-arts methods they are using in their doctoral research projects, focussing on the kinds of insights these methods might enable and how they allow them to explore the key concepts […]
Read moreIntroducing and Exploring Intercultural Relations in Everyday Life August 9-19, 2016 in Turku, Finland http://www.tuas.fi/en/study-tuas/exchange-students/international-summer-school/ We keep hearing that we are living in an intercultural world and that we need to prepare for it. What does this really mean? How do we meet ‘other’ people? What are intercultural relations made of? This introductory course will tell you everything about the […]
Read moreWe am pleased to announce the publication of the inaugural issue issue of the International Journal of Bias, Identity and Diversities in Education 1(1). http://www.igi-global.com/journals/abstract-announcement/132256 A call for papers is included below. The next issue 1(2) will be a special issue dedicated to intercultural competences. Please also submit your proposals for special issues to the editors. Please contact us with […]
Read morePlease see the invitation below from the organisers: On Friday 24th June 2016 from 10am to 5.30pm we are holding a one-day conference for up to 50 PhD students who are researching any aspect of Global Englishes. The event will be held in the luxurious Markus Liebherr Lounge of Southampton Football Club, which is close to Southampton Central station, and also offers free parking […]
Read moreThis is the first talk in the seminar series Research Methods in Intercultural Communication, hosted by the Languages Group at Edinburgh Napier. ‘Rethinking Concepts and Goals in Intercultural Communication: Insights from Global Englishes Research’ Will Baker (Centre for Global Englishes, University of Southampton) http://www.southampton.ac.uk/ml/about/staff/wmlb.page Date: Wednesday 2nd March, 3pm (Coffee and refreshments will be served at 2.45pm) Venue: Room 2/05, Edinburgh Napier Business School, Craiglockhart Campus, 219 Colinton Rd, Edinburgh EH14 1DJ – […]
Read moreThe Ireland International Conference on Education (IICE-2016) is an international refereed conference dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practices in education. The IICE promotes collaborative excellence between academicians and professionals from Education. The aim of IICE is to provide an opportunity for academicians and professionals from various educational fields with cross-disciplinary interests to bridge the knowledge gap, promote […]
Read moreI’m happy to say that I’ve had a book chapter published in Learning Across Borders: Perspectives On International And Transnational Higher Education. Leslie Seawright and Amy Hodges (eds). 1st ed. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016. The chapter’s title is “A Cultural Other In Transnational Education: Impact Of Globalization On Student And Teacher Identities” (pp. 193-215). I was asked to contribute […]
Read moreAbstract Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development DOI:10.1080/01434632.2015.1134554 Interviews with a small group of doctoral students at a British university indicate that the students feel that the programme provides an environment within which they develop interculturality through reflexive engagement with the PhD community and in some cases with the participants in their research. Significant here is that they are interpretivist, […]
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