When Ethics become more than a paper pushing exercise….
After completing my panel in October I have been working through completing the ethics forms for my PhD study. Originally it was seen to have a low risk level. However, from my panel feedback and discussions with colleagues in the department it appears that from the wording on the ethics form my study is actually medium.The primary reason for this? […]
Read moreTime and Memory (and research(er) narratives)
This quote caught my eye: “Time and memory are a fussy firm on interior decorators, always shifting the furniture about and redesigning and even reassigning rooms” (p.28) Banville, John (2012). Ancient Light. London: Viking/Penguin. A timely reminder, if ever we needed it, of the great importance of maintaining a Research(er) Journal THROUGHOUT the process and not rely on memory and […]
Read morePublish and Perish
“How many points would Louis Pasteur, Henri Poincaré, Claude Shannon, Tim Berners-Lee and others nowadays earn within the new academic evaluation system?” The latest issue of Computer Assisted Language Learning carries a thought-provoking editorial on the “publish or perish” syndrome. Jozef Colpaert, the editor, argues that the evaluation practices currently in place in the academe are ultimately self-defeating, resulting in what he […]
Read moreA Reflection on my Research Training and Assignment Writing
Ups! It has been three days after the assignments submission….Time really flies…but I still can feel and taste the hustle bustle of the process….:D On her reflection, Khwan mentioned that she has learned more during the “doing-her-own-job” session. It was similar to me. I learned a lot during the sessions of my research training but it was when I had […]
Read moreSome quotes about narrative ….
Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2008, English translation 2009). El Juego del Angel (translated by Lucia Graves as The Angel’s Game), Madrid: Editorial Planeta / London: Phoenix. pg.121 of the 2009 English translation: “Everything is a tale, Martin. What we believe, what we know, what we remember, even what we dream. Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters […]
Read moreMy learning experience from writing the assignments
After completing the first semester’s research training by submitting four assignments yesterday, I couldn’t believe how much I wrote over the past month; four assignments, each of them around 3000-4000 words! Of course, we attended lectures and sessions during the semester, but I think I have learned even more when it came to the ‘doing-your-own job’. It was a great […]
Read moreResearching Multilingually DTC workshop
The AHRC ‘Researching Multilingually’ team of which I am part – as is fellow Doctoral Community member and PhD alumnus Mariam Attia – is running a 1-day workshop on this RM theme on February 26th at Durham University, more details will be forthcoming soon. R
Read moreDealing with the unexpected
January 2013, half way through the research agenda Taking stock of my research activities conducted in the autumn 2012 (NOT of the collected/generated data), I’m thinking of the applicability of the “amendments section” in the RREA form (Amendments to proposed research design for LOW risk research, which records “any applications made during the life time of the Project regarding minor […]
Read moreArticles by PGR students and alumni
For the upcoming REF exercise here in the UK, we’ve been asked to supply data on where our Doctoral Community has been publishing since 2008. The ‘snag’ is that they are only interested in journal articles – a point we should all take note of in terms of what it indicates about the value attached to different kinds of pubications […]
Read morePaul's viva
Next up will be Paul (Smith) for whom Juup and I will be doing a Mock Viva later this week in preparation for the real thing most likely on 24th January. Time to wish him well 🙂
Read moreCongratulations Magdalena
AAAL 2013
My proposal has been accepted for a paper presentation at the American Association of Applied Linguistics conference in Dallas in March, and my attendance there is being funded by the School of Education. The paper I’ll be presenting is based on the narrative of one of my PhD participants: This presentation draws on data from my PhD, a narrative study […]
Read moreConference funding successes
Congratulations to Eljee, Lou and Fitri on their recent funding application successes. I hope we’ll hear more about these papers and events soon. R
Read moreIALIC Conference
Full Conference Programme See below for Papers with: (1) LTE Doctoral Community research associate, Leah Davcheva; (2) the AHRC Researching Multilingually team including LTE Doctoral Community alumnus and research associate Mariam Attia; and (3) LTE Doctoral alumnus and research associate, Xiaowei Zhou. Davcheva, L. and R. Fay (2012). Zones of interculturality in Identity Performance: Tales of Ladino from Sephardic Jews […]
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