Tag: researching multilingually
(Unsuccessful) Conference Abstract Proposal
“Potential Role and Contribution of Counselling Psychology to the Care of Street-Connected Children and Young People” Parneet Chahal & Richard Fay (University of Manchester) Abstract: This paper is based on a recently-completed, multilingually undertaken, counselling psychology study exploring the narrativised meanings made by young people in India regarding their street-connected experiences. In this paper, we briefly report the study and its […]
Read moreMultilingua Special Issue "Multilingualism in the Workplace"
The first 2014 issue of Multilingua has just come out. It is a special issue devoted to Multilingualism at work, guest-edited by Jo Angouri and featuring the following articles: Multilingua Volume 33, Issue 1-2 (Jan 2014), Special Issue: Multilingualism at work Jo Angouri, Multilingualism in the workplace: Language practices in multilingual contexts Britt-Louise Gunnarsson, Multilingualism in European workplaces Ingrid Piller and Loy Lising, Language, employment, and settlement: Temporary meat workers in Australia (available […]
Read moreGTRA / Presidential Doctoral Award (PDS)
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
Read moreA BAAL Colloquium on DRM ….
Doing Research Multilingually (DRM) is the focus of a BAAL Colloquium proposal that has been accepted for the September 2011 BAAL conference (hosted in Bristol by the University of the West of England). The colloquium is framed by the following text: Social researchers in differing applied settings have questioned the apparent neglect of the challenges raised by researching in contexts of […]
Read moreMethods @ Manchester
Do you all know about this one? Methods @ manchester Highlighting the depth and breadth of methodological expertise in the social sciences at the University of Manchester. Promoting and facilitating methodological excellence, innovation and inter-disciplinarity. http://www.methods.manchester.ac.uk/
Read moreDoing Research Multilingually: the Durham seminar
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 […]
Read moreDialoguing about multilingual possibilities
Here is a sample (between Richard and Magdalena) of the kind of dialogue that the recent posting about ‘doing research bi-/multi-lingually’ has stimulated. In response to the three prompts, Magdalena identifies her fluency in Spanish and English (Q1), the fact that she not only could she use both languages in her research (Q2) but in fact “used both languages to […]
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