Positioning our research and ourselves in our research: An exploration of the reflexive and narrative aspects of our research texts One idea I have had about the follow-up seminar – maybe timed for February when some of our more ‘distant’ colleagues can be here – is as follow – for each of us to: * provide a shortish extract from (any kind of ) research […]
Read moreSusan alerts us to the following: A cynical view of the ‘life of the mind’ — Entitled: So you Want to Get a PhD in the Humanities http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7451115/?ref=nf
Read morePositioning our research and ourselves in our research: An exploratory seminar on reflexive and narrative aspects of research (texts) This exploratory/initial seminar took place on 25th October 2010, as attended by Tanya, Shaun (Best), Magdalena, Richard, Eljee, and Viv. Richard set the context for the event (see below) and rehearsed again his reflexivity-narrativity visual presented in the earlier discussions in this […]
Read more…. to Viv on the succcessful examination of her thesis.: A Narrative Exploration of the UK Academic Acculturation Experiences of Students from Mainland China So, Viv, shall I move you to the “Former Students” section? 🙂
Read moreThe Auto/Biography Study Group is part of the professional association of sociologists, the British Sociological Association (BSA). The aim of the Study Group is to bring together people interested in looking analytically at all forms of biography and autobiography, the relationship between different ‘genres’ of representing lives, and the intertextuality of biography and autobiography, texts and lives. In addition to […]
Read moreEnglish Teaching Excellence in Qatar (ETE-Q) Conference, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q) and Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar (WCMC-Q) 9/10/2010, Education City, Doha, Qatar On Saturday, the 9th of October 2010, I participated in the ETE-Q conference at CMU-Q in Doha with a poster presentation entitled “Academic Writing: Challenge, Inspiration, Engagement”. The poster summarises my teaching approach […]
Read moreHaving just participated in the post-graduate Induction Week, I would like to share a few comments on this overwhelmingly positive experience. First of all, as an in-context student, I realised the importance of face to face contacts with my supervisors and the rest of the academic community, or other tutors, administrators and fellow PhD students. I have known my supervisors – […]
Read moreNEW ENGLISH PROFILE JOURNAL: FREE AND ONLINE NOW We are delighted to announce the publication of the first issue of the free online ‘English Profile Journal’ by Cambridge University Press. This brand new journal is an initiative that will disseminate cutting-edge research emerging out of the English Profile program. Full details of the journal, including how to submit a paper […]
Read moreI must admit I had not expected much of the conference in Vlora. In part, it was because it was organised by relatively junior faculty members in a peripheral university, so I assumed they wouldn’t have access to the requisite know-how. It was also partly due to that typically Greek prejudice against other South Eastern Europeans (Greeks are prejudiced by […]
Read moreI’ve just returned from the conference in Vlora, Albania, which I must say was surprisingly successful. I will probably be putting up a longer post about the entire experience, but for the moment I think that the presentation will have to do. Some of the slides are not entirely intuitive, but there is explanatory text embedded in the powerpoint. Comments […]
Read moreAlthough Achilleas announced this final outcome elsewhere in the blog, I decided to make it more prominent via this new posting – it is a noteworthy stage in the publishing process for these three in-context members of our community 🙂 Breen, P. B., De Stefani, M., and Kostoulas, A. (in press 2011). ‘Navigating a pathway to partnership through turbulent seas of […]
Read moreI thought I’d post my paper on liberal arts in Qatar that was published last June in Intercultural Education. Here it comes. LIBERAL ARTS EDUCATION IN QATAR Magda
Read moreI have just read an interesting article in the New York Times – written by an honorary research fellow at Manchester Uiversity. Check it out! Magda
Read moreMasterclass with Professor Alastair Pennycook University of Technology, Sydney Tuesday 21 September 2010 12.30 lunch, 1.30-4.00pm class MOSAIC Centre for research on Multilingualism Room G39, School of Education, University of Birmingham A plurality of multilingualisms In this paper, Professor Alastair Pennycook will explore the need not only to look at the diversity of languages implied by the label […]
Read moreI was intrigued by Magdalena’s recent reflexivity post, but – in a shamelessly selfish way – what I took away from reading the post seems to reveal more about myself than her. This extract was quite illuminating, especially if one considers what could be there but isn’t: There was also the discussion on the narrative-reflexivity link, which helped me to […]
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