Panel Successes – Sahar and Leticia
Congratulations to Sahar (Abdulelah) – with Juup and John Morely – and Leticia (Vega Animas) – who is with Diane and Gary – who both progresed uncondiitionally through the Panels on Thu last week.
Read moreJoin Methodspace?
http://www.uk.sagepub.com/email/online/2012/2D47.htm?utm_source=eNewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Apr-12&utm_content=online&utm_campaign=2D47&priorityCode=2D47 Is there something useful here?
Read moreSage Open – a new journal opportunity
Reflections & notes on surveys
I’ve put together an annotated list of references on survey research, which I thought might be useful to some of the readers here as well. Comments are welcome; additional sources even more so. 🙂
Read moreManchester in the news
Magda has alerted me to the following: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/manchester-britains-greatest-university-2101828.html
Read moreNarrative Natters – One-day seminar
a date now seems to be set for this, Thursday 28th June. So, we now need to decide its format and who will present what 9e.g. form the Narrative Matters submitted abstracts etc). R
Read moreResearching Multilingually
…. well, the first of our three two-day AHRC-funded seminars took place at Durham last week. For more information on what went on …. see the Abstracts and programme: http://researchingmultilingually.com/?page_id=1152 and the presentations themselves: http://researchingmultilingually.com/?page_id=1143 and some seminar photos too: http://researchingmultilingually.com/?page_id=1169
Read moreInvitation for papers- narratives in/of translation-CNR
Please feel free to circulate this announcement. The Centre for Narrative Research, University of East London and the NOVELLA ESRC Research Node, Institute of Education and UEL To Think is To Experiment Postgraduate Research Day 2012 Invitation for papers on ‘Narratives in/of Translation’ The Centre for Narrative Research organises the eleventh annual Research Day for graduate students on 25 April […]
Read moreStorytelling in the news ….
Of interest to the narrativists amongst you maybe …. 1. An narrative approach to a key UK environmental disaster zone …. Davies, Hunter (2012). Sellafield Stories: Life In Britain’s First Nuclear Plant. Constable http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/mar/11/sellafield-stories-book-nuclear-accident http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sellafield-Stories-Britains-First-Nuclear/dp/1780332998/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1331465692&sr=1-1 (see bottom of page for more on this item). 2. An new oral history project: eavesdropping in our times http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/mar/11/conversation-mass-observation-recording-bbc?newsfeed=true “How the art of eavesdropping is […]
Read moreNewsletter #4 March 2012
There has been a bit of a hiatus since the last newsletter, an indication of the busy-ness of this new semester, a busy-ness partly ‘encouraged’?since Julian retired, but also the consequence of?increasing PGR (doctoral) activity in the LTE Doctoral Community and beyond. The observant amongst you will have noticed that the numbers of profiles has increased in nearly all categories. […]
Read moreDuo-ethnography ….
Duoethnography is not the use of two ethnographers in a single study. Rather it is a collaborative research methodology in which two or more researchers juxtapose their life histories in order to provide multiple understandings of a social phenomenon. The first book on duoethnography has just arrive at the Left Coast warehouse. Edited by Joe Norris, Richard Sawyer, and Darren […]
Read moreNeoliberalism and Applied Linguistics – new book notice
Block, D., J. Gray & M. Holborow (2012) Neoliberalism and Applied Linguistics. London Routledge. Neoliberalism and Applied Linguistics argues that while applied linguistics has become more interdisciplinary in orientation, it has ignored or downplayed the role of political economy, namely the way in which social, political and economic factors relate to one another within the context of a capitalist economy. […]
Read moreLancaster SLLAT talk
Some time ago, when looking to get in touch with other motivation researchers, I contacted Judit Kormos at Lancaster University. She was very friendly and supportive of my work, and invited me to talk at one of their fortnightly Second Language Learning and Teaching (SLLAT) research group meetings. So, I go on Wednesday 7th March (see http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/event/3974 for abstract). I’m particularly […]
Read moreResearching Multilingually seminars
The Call for Papers for the three 2-day seminars (March in Durham, April in Bristol, and May in Manchester) in this AHRC project was well responded to and we have now made the selections to have upto 12 papers in each 2-day event. Former and current SoE doctoral researchers will be involved (eg Mariam, Viv, Fenia, Achilleas, and Olga who is not […]
Read moreDeveloping narrative research methodology to explore teacher and learner understandings of the English language classroom in multilingual Pakistan
With Dr Ayesha Bashiruddin – an MA AppLing alumnus of Julian’s when he was teaching at Durham, and also a doctoral alumnus of OISE in Toronto where she studied with Michael Connelly of Narrative Inquiry fame – of the Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan – I have just submitted a funding bid to the British Academy as follows: Developing narrative […]
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