SRHE funded project – Academic identity and religious identity: cognitive dissonance in students’ higher education learning and assessment

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  Alex Baratta and Paul Smith (University of Manchester) and Lydia Reid (Nottingham Trent University) have been awarded funding from the Society for Research into Higher Education (a grant of £5000) to investigate the interplay of two identities – academic and religious – in students who profess a faith. We wish to investigate how students manage these two identities, especially […]

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Cultnet Meeting at Durham University

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Recently, I have applied to share my research ideas to the Cultnet meeting at Durham University. The topic I will talk about is: Mindfulness in Intercultural Communication: A Visual Narrative Exploration of Postgraduates’ Experiences at a UK University My research is about ‘mindfulness in intercultural communication’ at an internationalised university setting in the UK. I use visual narrative to explore students’ understanding […]

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New book: Teachers as mediators in the Foreign Language classroom

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Michelle Kohler ‘Teachers as mediators in the foreign language classroom’  is a study of how ‘foreign language teachers in Australian schools … mediate intercultural language teaching in their teaching practice’ . It is a research study which also contains teaching materials from the 3 participating teachers.(Published by Mutlilingual Matters in the LICE series)

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Reflections on being federated to a large, interdisciplinary research project

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One of the huge advantages of being a GTRA (apart from the fact that you actually get paid for being a student), is that you get an opportunity to experience and learn from a variety of teaching and research situations. For me, the most exciting opportunity by far to this point is being involved with a large, interdisciplinary research project. I […]

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Academic Journalism: writing for readers, 18th March, Uni of Edinburgh – Registration Open

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This looks like an interesting event for anyone who wishes to engage with a broader audience. Academic Journalism: writing for readers 18 March 2015 University of Edinburgh This one-day workshop aims to convey the skills and knowledge to be able to successfully conceive, pitch and write a newspaper comment piece. Though public writing is an increasingly important part of academic […]

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