{"id":463,"date":"2010-07-09T18:11:50","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T18:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edtechandtesol.info\/phd\/?p=463"},"modified":"2010-07-09T18:11:50","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T18:11:50","slug":"researching-multilingually-preparing-for-durham-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/?p=463","title":{"rendered":"Doing Research Multilingually: the Durham seminar"},"content":{"rendered":"

This\u00a0two-day, exploratory seminar\u00a0finally took place\u00a0on 7th and 8th July in the School of Education at the University of\u00a0Durham.\u00a0It was, in keeping with the ‘exploratory’ character of the discussions, a small event. Here is a list of participants<\/a> and their contact emails.<\/p>\n

In some ways, the topic of this seminar can be understood to be a subset of the\u00a0following, somewhat broader ‘umbrella’ formulation:\u00a0“the life-long developing researcher competence<\/em><\/strong> of all those involved in research” (e.g. doctoral students, supervisors, examiners, participants, interpreters, translators, and so on).\u00a0For more on the initial positioning of the seminar focus, see Richard’s powerpoint<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On way of understanding the\u00a0contributions at this event\u00a0is in terms of the following categorisation (imagine three concentric circles although this may be a somewhat static image for a set of more dynamic relationships between the three areas of insight below):<\/p>\n

1. The studies themselves <\/strong>– this group of contributions involved\u00a0the actual details of doctoral research studies undertaken \/ being undertaken multilingually.<\/p>\n

2. Methodological Commentary on these studies<\/strong>\u00a0–<\/strong> here, the\u00a0researchers\u00a0above reflected on some of the methodological affordances and complexities<\/em><\/strong> (note: I am using both terms ‘affordances’ and ‘complexities’ in a somewhat lay sense) of being multilingual researchers and\/or doing their researcher multilingually.<\/p>\n

3. Broader Perspectives<\/strong> – here, there were\u00a0disciplinary contributions (mainly from Translation Studies and \u00a0Linguistics (semantics)) offering\u00a0broader insights into\u00a0the issues raised by the above (mainly doctoral) contributors.<\/p>\n

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It may be that the reflections of supervisors’ might also be of value, as a further enrichment of the second circle above and\/or as a continuation of the broader perspectives in the 3rd circle. As and when there are some supervisor reflections, they will appear here.<\/p>\n

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Using the above framing image to sequence the\u00a0contributions, here are some further details of what was presented\u00a0in the seminar:<\/p>\n

[1 + 2] Presentations of research undertaken multilingually<\/strong>\u00a0and refections on the research methodology affordances and complexities of doing research of this kind <\/strong><\/p>\n

We began with four presentations in which\u00a0the research undertaken multilingually by a researcher using their own multilingual resources:<\/em><\/p>\n