Manchester intercultural

Images of others – new material available

07/12/2013 Susan Dawson Leave a comment

Images of Others – an Autobiography of Intercultural Encounters through Visual Media and an Online Self-study course on the AIE for educators are now available at the updated Autobiography website: www.coe.int/lang-autobiography The Language Policy Unit and Unit for Intercultural Education and Exchanges are very grateful to the Autobiography authoring group for developing this complement to the original Autobiography; Leah Davcheva, Julia Ipgrave and Rachel […]

Miscellaneous news etc

GTRA / Presidential Doctoral Award (PDS)

11/05/2013 Richard Fay One comment

I am delighted to report recent success by Susan Dawson and Volha ‘Olga’ Arkhipenka in securing these studentship awards. Their profiles will be appearing soon I hope. Please welcome them. they will be joining us in September. R

Miscellaneous news etc

Language and Sociocultural Theory

17/02/2013 Richard Fay Leave a comment

Equinox is pleased to announce a new journal Language and Sociocultural Theory edited by James Lantolf (The Pennsylvania State University). Language and Sociocultural Theory is an international journal devoted to the study of language from the perspective of Vygotskian sociocultural theory. Articles appearing in the journal may draw upon research in the following fields of study: linguistics and applied linguistics, […]

Getting published

Doing Research Multilingually: the Durham seminar

09/07/2010 Richard Fay 4 comments

This two-day, exploratory seminar finally took place on 7th and 8th July in the School of Education at the University of Durham. It was, in keeping with the ‘exploratory’ character of the discussions, a small event. Here is a list of participants and their contact emails. In some ways, the topic of this seminar can be understood to be a subset of the following, somewhat broader […]

Graduation – Congratulations

05/07/2010 Richard Fay One comment

WooJoo and Tzu-Hsuan (Carol) as PhD graduates Monday 5th July is Graduation day for the School of Education and, amongst others, LTE’s Carol (Tzu-Hsuan Liu) and Christine (WooJoo Lee) will be being ‘doctorised’. Congratulations to them – where they stand may others soon follow!

Preparing for the viva

30/06/2010 Richard Fay 4 comments

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 […]

Examination (Thesis Viva /Panel/Annual Review )

Narrative journals

27/05/2010 Richard Fay One comment

Having 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 […]

Getting published

A second wave of possible publishing outlets

08/02/2010 Richard Fay Leave a comment

**** STOP PRESS **** (June 2010) Gary (Motteram) is involved – as the editor for a special issue of the journal developing the coverage in the recent IATEFL Pre-Conference Event he co-ordinated -with this new journal which may be of interest to the more tech-oriented amongst you: International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching (IJCALLT) The mission of the International […]

Getting published