Storytelling in the news ….

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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 […]

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Newsletter #4 March 2012

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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. […]

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Neoliberalism and Applied Linguistics – new book notice

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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. […]

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Lancaster SLLAT talk

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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 […]

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Developing narrative research methodology to explore teacher and learner understandings of the English language classroom in multilingual Pakistan

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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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New book series: Post-Intercultural Communication and Education

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Cambridge Scholars Press are publishing a new book series, edited by Prof. Fred Dervin (University of Helsinki), titled Post-Intercultural Communication and Education. According to their announcement: This book series, eclectic in scope, seeks to extend and revitalize scholarship on intercultural communication and education by publishing innovative, interdisciplinary and critical analyses of intercultural encounters. “Post-intercultural” refers to a recent paradigm shift in the […]

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Rookie review

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Young reviewers are certainly sought after. “The best referees are postdocs,” says Leslie Sage, a senior physical-sciences editor at Nature in Washington DC. “They are at the top of their game, well versed in the literature and politically naive enough to tell the truth.” For this and more interesting insights into the peer-review process, you may want to have a look into […]

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Constructing Narratives of Continuity and Change

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Eljee, Lou and I are about to author our own Canterbury Tales as we have all had our abstracts accepted for this interdisciplinary conference to be held on 12 May 2012 in the beautiful, historical and vibrant city immortalised by Chaucer….who of course thoroughly approved of personal narrative and life history: Experiens, though noon auctorite were in this world, it were […]

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Book proposal accepted!

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About a year ago I submitted a chapter proposal, based on my MA dissertation, for a book idea by Damian Rivers and Stephanie Houghton. After various wranglings with publishers and reworkings on the part of the contributors, their proposal has been accepted by Continuum and will hopefully go to press at the end of 2012. The full reference will be […]

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Reporting research

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I am just starting to read a book edited by Lucy Green entitled “Learning, teaching and musical identity: voices across cultures” (2011) and was intrigued by how Green positions the chapters by the different researchers vis-a-vis expectations of the research report genre: “The researchers followed standard ethical procedures, including giving participants the right to withdraw and to remain anonymous, seeking […]

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Researching Multilingually – Call for Participation

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Hello everyone, I am writing to update you on our progress with the ‘Researching Multilingually’ research endeavor we have spoken about previously. You may remember that we organized an initial Exploratory Seminar on this theme at Durham university in July 2011, and then followed this up with a Colloquium at the BAAL Annual Meeting in September 2011. Led by Prue […]

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QI 2012 Here I come!

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I am delighted to be returning to the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry in Champaign-Urbana this year, where I shall be participating in a panel reflecting on the process of ‘becoming’ a scholar. The idea for the panel came from a special issue of the Emotion, Space and Society journal being edited by the panel chair (Sophie Tamas), and all the contributions […]

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