Dr Robert Crawshaw

PhD Supervision Interests

I would be interested in supervising doctoral students in the following areas

Intercultural Narratives: literature, writing, history, identity, migration and social change

for additional information on my research profile, please refer to the following Research Projects and Centres with which I am directly involved - currently or in the recent past: as initiator, director and/or member of the research team.

http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/projects/movingmanchester/

http://www.transculturalwriting.com/

http://www.lancs.ac.uk/users/interculture/

http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/projects/pic/

http://www.lancs.ac.uk/ias/annualprogramme/regionalism/index.htm

Current Teaching

Fren 100: Shaping contemporary France: culture, politics and the legacy of history (1)

Euro 200: Economic and social change in France and Germany since 1945

Fren 233: Shaping contemporary France: culture, politics and the legacy of history (2)

Euro 316: European writing in the margins: narrating cross-cultural experience

Research Interests

Current research projects

The focus of my research is on intercultural studies with particular emphasis on narrative, history, migration and cross-cultural communication. I was formerly associate editor of the journal Language and Intercultural Communication and guest-editor of a double volume on The Intercultural Narrative (Vol 4: 1&2). Government-funded research projects with which I have been involved over the last few years, as initiator/director or as member of the research team, include the HEFCE-funded Interculture Project (1998-2002) www.lancs.ac.uk/users/interculture/, the ESRC project Pragmatics and Intercultural Communication (2003-6) www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/projects/pic/and the AHRC-funded Moving Manchester/ Mediating Marginalities (2005-09) www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/projects/movingmanchester/. I am currently writing a book for Cambridge University Press on Pragmatics and Cross-Cultural Communication and editing a special volume of the journal Regional Studies arising out of the Annual Research Programme of Lancaster University's Institute for Advanced Studies which I directed in 2006-07 www.lancs.ac.uk/ias/annualprogramme/regionalism/index.htm.

Additional Information

A former academic advisor to the European Commission, I was convenor of the European Language Council's Task Force on Citizenship and Language in 2001-2 and author of the 2005 report for the ELC on Languages and Language-related Industries and Professions in the UK. Having been Director of The Annual Research Programme of the University's Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) during 2006-07, I was heavily involved in the major AHRC Project Moving Manchester/Mediating Marginalities and in the work of Lancaster University's Centre for Transcultural Writing and Research. I am an active contributor to research groups on The Dynamics of Memory (see weblink above) and Europeanisation and Globalisation,co-ordinated by colleagues from the Department of European Languages and Cultures. I was also associate Chair of the EU-funded Lanqua Project's working group on Language and Intercultural Communication in European Higher Education, co-ordinated by Southampton University (2007-2010). I am currently working on a book for Cambridge University Press on the pragmatics of intercultural communication, based on the work of the ESRC-funded PIC Project of which I was the Director, and am also contributing to the book Postcolonial Manchester derived from the Moving Manchester project.

• Pragmatics and Intercultural Communication - The PIC project

  01/01/2002 → 31/12/2006
  Robert Crawshaw, Jonathan Culpeper
  This international project, conducted with the support of the Faculty of Education, Cambridge University, The British Council, the Ministhre de l'Education Nationale and the Centre International des E ... Read more»

• Grand Finale of "Moving Manchester" Project

  06/03/2009
  Academics from across the world have signed up to attend an international conference marking the culmination of "Moving Manchester", a four year project about how migration has informed creative writi ... Read more»

• Robert Crawshaw participates in 'Literary and Cultural Studies: the Future' colloquium

  24/10/2008
  Robert Crawshaw was one of twenty delegates from thirteen countries invited to take part in a special colloquium organised on behalf of the European Science Foundation by the Institute for Germanic an ... Read more»