Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Events

Seminar Series - Interaction and Engagement: What can MOOCs learn from clickers?, 27 February 2013

LRDG: Connections and disconnections on home and school literacy practices in Chile, 26 February 2013

Seminar Series - Raking up the past of academic work, 20 February 2013

LRDG: 'Points of View: reflections on a virtual world in a classroom (or was it a classroom in a virtual world)'?, 19 February 2013

Sociology/CeMoRe Seminar with Sondra Cuban on Care Workers, cars and ICTs, 12 February 2013

LRDG: Making sense of Twitter as professional practice: an exploratory case study, 12 February 2013

Seminar Series - 6.2.13 SEMINAR CANCELLED, 6 February 2013

Seminar Series - Silent and Strange voices: Why are there so few women Vice Chancellors?, 23 January 2013

LRDG: Reading and discussion session "State literacies and inequality", 22 January 2013

LRDG: Narratives and Evaluation in 'The Murder of Stephen Lawrence' Wikipedia Article, 15 January 2013

Getting published in the Journal of Gender Studies, 6 December 2012

'Share your research - Networking session', 5 December 2012

LRDG: Beyond Starbucks: the monolingual, multilingual and multimodal discourses of product packaging, 4 December 2012

LRDG: Reading and discussion session, 27 November 2012

Seminar Series - "Probably the most educational thing you will ever see": What do young men learn from pornography?, 21 November 2012

LRDG: Imagining literacy: The politics of representation, 20 November 2012

Seminar Series - Much ado about affordances: Implications for researching technological affordances, 14 November 2012

LRDG: A tale of two contexts: A discussion of the school literacies of the Old Colony Mennonites, 6 November 2012

LRDG: Vernacular literacies and Facebook: A case study of mobile multilingual resources in online writing, 30 October 2012

Seminar Series - Intersections of 'race', class and gender in the social and political identifications of young Muslims in England, 24 October 2012

A debate with Aditya Chakrabortty, The Guardian, 23 October 2012

LRDG: Constructing a Culture: the poetic response to the environment of an early-nineteenth-century Cumbrian dry-stone-waller, 23 October 2012

Seminar Series - Rethinking the Quality of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education in terms of Students' Engagement with Academic Knowledge, 17 October 2012

LRDG: #iamscience: Solidarity and boundaries on science twitter, 16 October 2012

LRDG: Methodological challenges in analysing an online debate: the case of a planning application for a Gothic cathedral, 9 October 2012

Open seminar on gender and education research at the university of Gothenburg, 4 October 2012

LRDG - An auto-ethnographic account of social and cultural practices around cookery books: critical and transformative learning over time, 26 June 2012

Seminar Series - Lost in transition? The changing labour market and young people not in education, employment or training, 20 June 2012

LRDG - The Academic Writing Zone in LUMS: our experience of introducing a faculty-based peer writing mentor scheme, 19 June 2012

LRDG - Harry Potter and Boys' Literacies, 12 June 2012

Seminar Series - Skills & competencies required by career practitioners to develop internet-based practice, 6 June 2012

Seminar Series - Tribes, Territories and Tribal Reservations, 30 May 2012

Bryan Maddox: Desert Deviants: Ethnography, Camels, Fast Food, ANT, and Item Response Theory in the Mongolian Gobi, 29 May 2012

Johnny Unger: Online activism practices - a critical approach, 22 May 2012

Seminar Series - The Politics of Representation: Constructing Public Narratives of Literacy through Image, Number & Voice, 9 May 2012

LRDG - Learning at the ends of life: Multimodality and identity in an intergenerational art program, 8 May 2012

Enriching early childhood literacy curricula and practice - a dialogue with Canada. One day conference., 7 May 2012

Bonny Norton: Researcher identity, narrative inquiry, and language teaching research, 4 May 2012

Seminar Series - Truths, Lies, Sex and Stories? Researching Allegations of Sexual Misconduct Made Against School Teachers, 2 May 2012

LRDG - Researching practices of recontextualization: Issues of register and voice, 1 May 2012

LRDG - Writer's stance and the interaction of practices, 24 April 2012

Seminar Series - Navigating Liminality: The Experience of Distance in Doctoral Education (Thesis Working Title), 21 March 2012

Crossing borders: an exploration of transnational 'readability' and 'comparability' of university qualifications, 20 March 2012

Seminar Series - Technology, determinism and learning: exploring different ways of being digitally literate, 14 March 2012

Looking at Picturebook Covers Multimodally: The Case of Two-Mum and Two-Dad Picturebooks, 13 March 2012

"We use Facebook to chat in lectures, of course!" Exploring a Facebook group as a new space transforming higher education, 6 March 2012

Seminar Series - "Powerful children and powerless adults": Gendered Power Relations Within a Child-Centred Discourse in an Indonesia Kindergarten, 29 February 2012

Literacy practices in everyday life and in second language education, 28 February 2012

Applying Psychology in Education in the 21st Century, 27 February 2012

Seminar Series - Reconceptualising space in learning, 22 February 2012

Seminar Series - Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET), 8 February 2012

LRDG: The contextualisation of linguistic and textual analysis, 31 January 2012

Seminar Series - Can the peer group help to counteract cyberbullying? How research can inform practice, 25 January 2012

Seminar Series - The place of 'voice' in collaborative online learning: A phenomenology., 7 December 2011

The Roles of Education and Educational Research in Promoting Social Justice - Charles Clarke, 1 December 2011

LRDG - Translating education policy into practice: using Actor-Network Theory to explore practitioners' literacy practices, 29 November 2011

Data in schools - an upcoming event, 24 November 2011

Seminar Series - Judgements on value: how can we conceptualise evaluative practices in Higher Education?, 23 November 2011

LRDG - What can ethnomethodology do for academic literacies?, 22 November 2011

Seminar Series - Young people and violence: gendered understandings of violence and discourses of acceptability, 16 November 2011

LRDG - Local literacies at the corner store: Catechism, cantaloupe and calico at Mennomex, 15 November 2011

LRDG: How texts travel across space and time: African Readings of The Pilgrim's Progress, 1 November 2011

Gender and Social Justice in Education: Current Issues and Future Agendas, 27 October 2011

Seminar Series - The Making of Higher Education International Partnerships: Evaluating the Nation to Nation Approach, 26 October 2011

Literacy Research Discussion Group: Phonics or Fun?, 25 October 2011

Seminar Series - The impact of a haptics environment on students' learning: the hapTEL experience, 12 October 2011

Networked Learning 2012 Preconference Online Hot Seats, 10 October 2011

CANCELLED - Seminar Series - Identity, Invisibility and Social Forces, 22 June 2011

Seminar Series - Desperately seeking independence. Some implications of student experience of the transition into Lancaster University for an understanding of motivational goal structures., 8 June 2011

Literacy Research Discussion Group: Competing Discourses Embedded in a Dyslexic Child's Story Writing, 31 May 2011

Literacy Research Discussion Group: "You know, they're things with paper? They haven't got an off button." Reading, writing and risky literacies at home., 24 May 2011

Literacy Research Discussion Group: Catalan Research on Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 17 May 2011

Seminar Series - 'Negotiating the technology minefield - families negotiating the discourses of ICT and the Internet at home', 11 May 2011

"220 Fatal Accidents": Texts, Talk and Meaning in Adult Numeracy Classrooms. Helen Oughton, University of Bolton - Literacy Research Discussion Group, 3 May 2011

Seminar Series - Conflict in Virtual Learning Communities in the Context of a Democratic Pedagogy, 30 March 2011

Seminar Series - Technostructural Knowledge: E-learning and Academic Capital, 23 March 2011

Seminar Series - How does online asynchronous text-based communication mediate the learning process in a Distance Creative Writing Masters programme? Approaches to data collection, 16 March 2011

Early literacy development in today's world: a multimodal perspective. A talk to the Literacy Research Discussion Group by Rosie Flewitt, The Open University., 8 March 2011

Literacy History: Pushing the Disciplinary Boundaries, 7 March 2011

Seminar Series - Beyond Inclusion: Special and Mainstream Schools working together, 2 March 2011

Seminar Series - (un)Doing Education with Actor-Network Theory, 23 February 2011

Seminar Series - The posthuman university?: hybrid spaces and literacy practices, 16 February 2011

Seminar Series - CANCELLED - 'Repositioning the student in higher education: Policy, strategy and academic praxis', 2 February 2011

Texts, text-reader conversations, and institutional discourse (Dorothy Smith): Literacy Research Discussion Group, 1 February 2011

Discussion of the Government's plans for a new phonics test for 6-year-olds, 18 January 2011

Seminar Series - Social and emotional aspects of learning: Complimenting, compensating and countering parental styles, 8 December 2010

Postgraduate Visit Day - Wednesday 1st December, 2010, 1 December 2010

Aganetha and Isaac go to school:  A principal's reflections on the in- and out-of -school literacies of Mennonite children, 30 November 2010

Changing lifeworlds, changing writing: researching how adults take on new writing practices at times of change, 23 November 2010

ESRC - The Net Generation encountering elearning at University - Dr Chris Jones, 1st December, 2010

Seminar Series - Stories of Self: Tracking children's identity and wellbeing through the school years, 17 November 2010

Katy and the internet: some perspectives on the embeddedness of internet use in a particular family's literacy practices, 16 November 2010

Seminar Series - Hallucinating Integration: Practice Simulation or Practice Innovation?, 3 November 2010

Technology-Enhanced Learning: A one-day conference for teachers, 18 October 2010

An exploration of teaching, learning, and technology perspectives-in-practice, 13 October 2010

Higher Education Close Up 5: Questioning Theory-Method Relations in Higher Education Research, 20-22 July 2010

Evaluative research knowledge: use, usability, effects and impact, 16 June 2010

Loose policy and local adaptation: a comparative study of master degrees in the context of the Bologna process, 2 June 2010

Biographical narratives and individual learning plans (ILPs): comparing 'personal' and 'official' representations of adult literacy learners, 26 May 2010

The Golden Age of Academe: Myth or Memory?, 21 April 2010

Designing an Inclusive Curriculum in Higher Education (DiCHE) Research Event, 4 May 2010

Affect and Identity in Changing EU Trade Union Education, 17 March 2010

Functional Literacy - New idea or déjà vu?: Reflections on adult literacy policy in England, 24 February 2010

Adapting social practice theory for use in evaluating cultural change, 17 February 2010

The Effects of Class Size on Education and Earnings, 9 December 2009

Discourses in transit: LRDG seminar, 24 November 2009

Contrasting interpretations of the 'Learning Community', 18 November 2009

Writing in Fula in North Senegal : two graphic systems and some questions for the study of digraphia and multiscriptal situations : LRDG seminar, 17 November 2009

At university you celebrate the fact that somebody's bought a pen. Everyone will go out and get drunk. Specials: A preliminary qualitative study into student drinking., 11 November 2009

How Academics Write - LRDG seminar, 10 November 2009

Academics Writing in a Changing World : LRDG seminar, 10 November 2009

Ethnography as method, methodology, and 'deep theorizing': Discussion of Paper by Theresa Lillis - LRDG session, 3 November 2009

How Important is the local when thinking global? Internationalisation at a research led university., 28 October 2009

The value of literacy in a rural community in Mali: An ethnographic account of one man's writing practices - LRDG Seminar, 20 October 2009

Learning, Literacy and Mobility: LRDG seminar, 13 October 2009

Relations between theory and data in research into higher education, 7 October 2009

Linking Learning to Literacies: Sites of Learning, 14 July 2009

Summer School for Literacy Professionals and Researchers, 13 July 2009

Researching virtual worlds in school settings - LRDG Seminar, 23 June 2009

Digital Literature as a Tool for (Foreign) Language Learning: Collaboration, Creativity, Transliteracy - LRDG Seminar, 16 June 2009

'Media Determine our Situation'; The implications of technological transformation for the contemporary university, 10 June 2009

Designing for digital literacies - LRDG seminar, 9 June 2009

Playing X-factor in the literacy classroom: on the prospects and problems of discourse genre interpenetration - LRDG seminar, 26 May 2009

Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge: a Transformative Approach to Learning, 13 May 2009

Literacy Landmarks: Seven Historical Programs that Helped Shape (and Marginalize) the Adult Literacy Field - LRDG Seminar, 12 May 2009

Spiralling through Change: Literacies and Technologies across the Lifespan - LRDG Seminar, 5 May 2009

The Performativity of Writing in a Public Space: An Ethnography of Paris Subway Signage - LRDG Seminar, 28 April 2009

Using Mobile Phones for Field Research - LRDG Seminar, 21 April 2009

Using a web-based personal learning system to support undergraduate personal development planning, 18 March 2009

Teaching and Learning Cultures Reading Group, 12 March 2009

TLRP-TEL digital literacies workshop, 12 March 2009

Not just literacy: affective inequalities at the heart of learning, 4 March 2009

Adoption of Technology Enhanced Learning in Higher Education: Influences of Institutional Policies and Practices, 25 February 2009

Teaching and Learning Cultures Reading Group, 9 February 2009

Evaluative Research in Low Trust Environments - The IRIS Project, 4 February 2009

Adventures In: Co-operative Learning, Success for All and Evidence-based Reform, 14 January 2009

Teaching and Learning Cultures Reading Group, 4 December 2008

Beyond Clocks and Calendars: an exploration of time and educational research, 26 November 2008

Where's the teaching and learning? Is it in the stuff?, 5 November 2008

Acceptance and Adoption of Technology Enhanced Learning in Teaching Practice: A comparison of two contexts, 29 October 2008

Enhancing Teaching and Learning: two contrasting national policy approaches, 8 October 2008

Gender, Education, and the Body, 18 September 2008

Evaluation Capacity Building Workshop - London, 24 June 2008

Evaluation Capacity Building Workshop - Manchester, 19 June 2008

Evaluation Capacity Building Workshop - Derby, 12 June 2008

Educational Digital Video: exploring the complex relationship between production, educational use and audience, 4 June 2008

Theorizing fragile identities: what can we learn from mathematics students?, 21 May 2008

How teachers in the North East manage children's transition from the Foundation Stage to Key Stage 1, 14 May 2008

Networked Learning Conference 2008, 5-7 May 2008

Knowledge Construction in Networked Learning, 23 April 2008

Learning to read the world 'Through Other Eyes': Engaging with multiple perspectives in educational contexts, 12 March 2008

Conceptualising the Relationship Between Learning and Teaching in Higher Education Research, 20 February 2008

Educational Research Seminar Series, 13 February 2008

Disguising Change and Dodging Critique: New Labour's Discourses on Behaviour in Schools 1997-2006, 13 February 2008

Educational Research Seminar Series, 16 January 2008

Investigating Spaces: Negotiating Identities and Positions in an Institutional Setting, 16 January 2008

The M Factor: Multiculturalism in Education, 12 December 2007

Teaching and Learning Cultures Reading Group, 6 December 2007

Investigating Spaces: Negotiating Identities and Positions in an Institutional Setting', 28 November 2007

'Motivation, Engagement, and Gender: Challenges and Opportunities for Research and Practice', 26 November 2007

The political economy of networked learning communities in Higher Education, 21 November 2007

Teaching and Learning Cultures Reading Group, 20 November 2007

Educational Research Departmental Seminar Series, 7 November 2007

Evaluating policies - not just programmes or projects, 7 November 2007

Being creative with academic writing : practical workshops, 5 November 2007

The Teaching-Research Nexus, 17 October 2007

ESOL in the Workplace, 4 October 2007

Connect 5: The inter-relationships between young people, families, education, careers and their world, 26 September 2007

ESRC Seminar Series: Mathematical Relationships: What Now?, 5 July 2007

ESRC Seminar Series: Mathematical Relationships: Final seminar, 5 July 2007

Developing a Whole Organisational Approach to Skills for Life in Local and Health Authorities, 27 June 2007

Networked Learning Seminar Series, April - September 2007

Working with Families Conference - 3rd Annual Conference, 19 June 2007

Dept Educational Research, 6 June 2007

Teaching and Learning Cultures Reading Group, 13 June 2007

ESRC Seminar Series: Mathematical Relationships:Teacher Development, 22 May 2007

Dept Educational Research, 16 May 2007

Teaching and Learning Cultures Reading Group, 16 May 2007

Dept Educational Research, 9 May 2007

Dept Educational Research, 2 May 2007

Dept Educational Research, 25 April 2007

"New standards for old: Putting learning back into literacy, numeracy & ESOL teaching", 2nd May 2007

Marion Moser, Dept Educational Research, 21 March 2007

Catherine Carr, Dept Educational Research, 14 March 2007

Developing a Whole Organisation Approach to Skills for Life in Local Authorities, 7 March 2007

Vicky Duckworth, Dept Educational Research, 7 March 2007

Arthur Chapman, St Martins College, 28 February 2007

Dyslexia by any other name, 28 February 2007

Educational Research Seminar, 21 February 2007

Paul Kleiman, LICA, 14 February 2007

The Network's 9th National Conference, 7 February 2007

The Network's 9th National Conference, 7 February 2007

Moira Peelo, SLDC, 31 January 2007

Moira Peelo, SLDC, 31 January 2007

Awena Carter, Literacy Research Development Group, 24 January 2007

Awena Carter, Literacy Research Development Group, 24 January 2007

Don Passey, Dept Educational Research, 17 January 2007

ESRC Seminar Series - Mathematical Relationships: Identities and Participation, September 06 - 5 July 07

Teaching and Learning Cultures Reading Group, 13 December 2006

Dr Manuel SALAS-VELASCO, Dept Educational Research, 6 December 2006

ICCE 2006 Workshop - Phenomenongraphy: Conceptions of -Learning in an Interculture Context, 30 November - December 4 2006

Jonathan Tummons, Dept Educational Research, 29 November 2006

Jo Armstrong, Department of Educational Research, 22 November 2006

Sandra Cuban, Dept Educational Research, 15 November 2006

Teaching and Learning Cultures Reading Group, 8 November 2006

Are Ethics Commitees Ethical?, 23 October 2006

Higher Education Close Up 3, 24-26 July 2006

Teaching and Learning Cultures reading group, 18 July 2006

How critical theory can inform research into teaching and learning in higher education, 14 July 2006

Jeng Jing Educational Research Seminar, 21 June 2006

Educational Research Seminar, 14 June 2006

Girls and their social worlds - ESRC Seminar Series, 7 June 2006

Pupil perspectives on whole class discussions in the key stage 2 primary classroom, 7 June 2006

Diane Reay The Zombie stalking English Schools: Social Class and Educational Inequality, 31 May 2006

Employability in the Knowledge Economy: Living the Fulfilled Life or Policy Chimera?, 17 May 2006

Global competitiveness and the regulation of UK adult literacy policy, 10 May 2006

Mark Stoner 'PowerPoint in a New Key', 3 May 2006

Mark Stoner, PowerPoint in a New Key, 3 May 2006

Networked Learning 2006 - 5th International Conference, 10-12 April 2006

It's not the real world, 15 March 2006

Learning through the Internet: what do we know about 'best practice'?, 22 February 2006

Agency, identity and learning: the case of workplace learning, 25 January 2006

Technology Enhancing Learning, 18 January 2006

Race and Education Conference, 14 December 2005

ESRC seminar series - 'girls and education 3-16, continuing concerns, new agendas, 21 March 2007

Excellent continuing professional development for A-level, Access and FE Psychology teachers, 21 November 2005

Australian Directions in the Boys' Debate: Getting it Right or Going to the Right?, 1 June 2005