A doctoral student – Fenia – from the Counselling area in our School whose work and thinking about doing research multilingually and whose crosscultural topic have brought her into my space to some extent – will have her viva on the 14th July. Does anyone have advice and /or links to sites of viva Qs/advice etc that Fenia might find […]
Read morePaul Smith is involved in this event at the OU next month. Maybe we’ll hear some of his insights in due course …. but here is the programme to keep you going 🙂 STOP PRESS : Virtual discussions “Ethnographies of Academic writing in a global context: the politics of style” involves a face to face day seminar on July 16th at the […]
Read morePaul, Made, Achilleas …. did I hear right that you have a joint chapter coming out? Any more detail for us?
Read moreIn the first entry I made to this blog, I tried to provide a brief summary of what my research was about and what aims I have set out to attain. My immediate aim, I wrote, was to generate a ‘thick’ description of an educational setting in the periphery of the ELT world. In addition to this, my research aims […]
Read more…. a recent researcher competence article by our LTE colleague Juup Stelma in which he presents an ecological model of developing researcher competence, with a particular focus on doctoral students’ use of research software: “An ecological model of developing researcher competence: the case of software technology in doctoral research”, Instructional Science More information here on the article. The term researcher competence is […]
Read moreThis is a discussion thread about this increasingly visible and robust part of the doctoral experience, i.e. ethics approval. Being ethical has always been important as a researcher but now the approval process is becoming more evident. So, perhaps it is time to start sharing our ethical approval experiences? To start the ball rolling, here (no longer active) is what a former Counselling […]
Read moreTo continue in a more generalised way the specific lead given by the earlier prompt regarding narrative journals, below I copy Tanya’s suggestion about an interesting qualitative research journal and perhaps we could add new items to this list as they occur to us? International Journal of Qualitive Studies in Education – of which Tanya writes: “QSE is quite high brow, […]
Read moreTo see the paper I gave at QI 2010, click here. It can be a mistake to go back…Last year I attended the Fifth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (QI 2009) at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign and was refreshed, energised and motivated by the genuine inclusivity of the conference and the engagement with issues of social justice […]
Read moreHaving just been to the Narrative Matters 2010 conference, I am reminded of the following journals which may be useful for those narratively-inclined: Narrative Inquiry Narrative Works: Issues, Investigations, & Interventions — a new online, open-access, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinaryjournal committed to exploring the complex role of narrative in countless aspects of human life. This is a new venture from the Centre for Interdisciplinary […]
Read moreI am attaching here the ppt for the paper which Nicos Sifakis gave last week – on behalf of the research team also including Vally Lytra and myself – at the ELF (English as a lingua franca) conference in Vienna. I will also add his reflections on how it went. Sifakis, N., Lytra, V. and Fay, R. (2010). English as a lingua […]
Read moreThis is the prompt for Carol, Eljee, Richard, Tanya and Viv to post their reactions and reflections on the May 2010 Narrative Matters conference in Fredericton in Canada where they all presented.
Read moreAn important feature of doctoral studies at The University of Manchester is that at the beginning of our studies we are expected to undertake formal training in research methods, in the form of taught modules offered by the MSc in Educational Research programme. This training, the exact structure of which is generally negotiated with one’s supervisors and the School, is […]
Read moreEljee, Tanya, Viv and myself are all presenting at the NM 2010 conference next week. Details below. wish us luck with volcanic ash as we negotiate the Atlantic 🙂 “Narrative Matters 2010 – Exploring the narrative landscape: Issues, investigations, and interventions” to be hosted by the CIRN in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, May 20th – 22nd 2010: Fay, R., Zhou, […]
Read moreIt may be of interest to know what Supervisors’ needs are perceived to be (as suggested by the following training sessions for them): Two ‘Supervisor Awareness’ workshops run by the Faculty in May. The first will be a half-day workshop on the Supervision Context … The focus of PhD supervision tends to be on completion of the thesis and preparation for […]
Read moreVlora (Albania), September 11-13 This seems to focus more on English linguistics and Anglophone literature, so it’s not immediately relevant to my needs. But it should be an interesting intercultural experience… Izmir (Turkey), October 28-30 Focussing on English as an International Language. Chomsky’s keynote speech should be one of the highlights of the event. I might turn a paper in […]
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