Congratulations to Tanya and Eljee…
… 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 ….
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The Doctoral Experience
The Doctorate: international stories of the UK experience Author/Producer Sheila Trahar/ESCalate Contributors Sham Juhari (University of Birmingham) Kam Ping Leung Kathy (City University of Hong Kong) Tzu-Bin Lin (National Institute of Education Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Georgina Yaa Oduro (University of Cape Coast, Ghana) Kai Ren (University of Bristol) Cheryl Rounsaville (University of Nottingham) Narina A. Samah (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia) […]
Read moreJulian @ TESOL – presenting his new reflexivity book
Julian writes: You could check out the script of my TESOL Convention presentation, and the accompanying powerpoint expertly created by Eljee Javier, via the edgeblog link: Even more fun, however, especially if you are interested in traditional folkloric responses to the affordances of international travel, is this one:
Read moreTransformative learning – conference experience
Last 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 more“From here to there …. and back again — Conference papers by the LTE doctoral community”
Announcing 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 moreeScholar?
I am copying here an exchange originally buried elsewhere in the blog … Has anyone been using eScholar via the University of Manchester? It’s basically an in house data repository site hosted by the uni and made available for every staff and student of the uni. Depending on copyright issues regarding open access, you can upload published work onto the site. […]
Read moreSage Open
SAGE Open is now accepting manuscripts – prepare yours today! SAGE Open, our new open access publication, has received more than 200 submissions since launching on January 1, with new articles being submitted daily. Be a part of this groundbreaking publication and prepare your manuscript today. SAGE Open publishes peer-reviewed, original research and review articles in an interactive, open-access format. […]
Read moreRAW: 28th March 2011 – DRC paper
At 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 moreRAW: 28th February 2011 — Ladino Paper
At 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 moreNext up – Mariam's viva (April 1st)
In advance of this Viva, Mariam, let me wish you all the very best. I hope that you not only give a strong performance but also that you enjoy the experience 🙂
Read moreAn LTE Conference?
I 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 moreThe importance of not breaching ethics approval
I am sure that none of us, researchers and supervisors alike, need reminding of the robust Ethics Approval procedures now in place, but the information below provides a salutory reminder: Protocol for handling instances of potential breaches by students of research integrity in the School of education with particular reference to the ethical protocol A. Background Ethical protocol can be breached if a student a) conducts […]
Read moreUREC Approval
Lou and Eljee go before the University’s Ethics committee (UREC) on Monday 14th March in the early afternoon. All the very best to them in this final stage of approval before their ‘main studies’ can commence.
Read moretransformative impact of international experience on personal and professional learning'
ESCalate 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 moreWhat is RAW?
RAW 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 […]
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