As led by Lantern Associate Eva Polymenakou, I am delighted to report the news today of the acceptance of the following abstract for an article in the IALIC 20th anniversary issue of Language and Intercultural Communication (LAIC) journal due out in spring 2022: “A praxis of ‘synclusion’: Challenging ethnocentric understandings of social inclusion” Eva Polymenakou and Richard Fay
Read moreAchilleas Kostoulas is a LANTERN alumnus and there are links to his blog elsewhere in this LANTERN space, but I wanted to share his latest post because it is about an MA programme with which I had some involvement in its early days and which I think is a very worthwhile and well-designed endeavour …. MA in Language Education for […]
Read moreIf any of you are around over the summer and would like to use your teaching skills in the service of a local refugee community, then this is for you! The ‘Chrysalis project’ is run by Aoileann Ní Mhurchú (lecturer in International politics) and Alex Robertson (project manager at Multilingual Manchester). It has been running since October with 13 UG volunteer students […]
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Please see below for details of this FREE half-day participatory Knowledge Exchange event: Numerous projects across Glasgow (and further afield) are working in Languages and their interconnection with the broad areas of Refugee and Migration Research. We hope to create a space where over the course of the event we build up wide ranging overview of the research landscape in Languages, […]
Read moreI have the great fortune to be a Co-Investigator on the AHRC-funded (three-year large grant under the Translating Cultures theme) project entitled Researching Multilingually at the Borders of Language, the Body, Law and the State (project website) led by the inspiring Professor Alison Phipps. This project builds on our earlier, smaller (one-year) also AHRC-funded, (under the same theme) research(er) networking […]
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World Refugee Day was on June 20th, a few days ago now, but the stories and statistics don’t disappear once the day is over. This year the focus was on the 10 million or so displaced children and their urgent need for education. Find out more here. Here is a link to the UN Refugee Agency
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