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Dr Amy Burgess
Researcher
Department: Educational Research
Degree: Ph.D. Linguistics, Lancaster University, 2007. M.Ed. Literacy, University of Sheffield, 2002. B.A. (Hons) English, University of Cambridge, 1982.
Associated research centres and groups: Lancaster Literacy Research Centre, Researching Equity Access and Participation (REAP)
Research Interests
I work in the Department of Educational Research and the Literacy Research Centre http://www.literacy.lancs.ac.uk/ . My main research interests are
- literacy in adult life, both within and outside educational settings;
- writing as a social practice, particularly issues of writing and identity
- uunderstanding learning as a temporal process
From 2008-2009 I held an ESRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Educational Research Department at Lancaster and before this I was employed by the National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy (NRDC) as a researcher. I completed my Ph.D. thesis Discourses and Identities in Adult literacy Classes: time, networks, texts and other artefacts in the Linguistics Department at Lancaster in September 2007.
Having spent 10 years as an adult literacy tutor, I have a strong commitment to linking research and practice and am currently Chair of the national network Research and Practice in Adult Literacy (RaPAL) http://www.literacy.lancs.ac.uk/rapal/ .
Membership of Professional Organisations
Research and Practice in Adult Literacy (RaPAL)British Association of Applied Linguistics
Recent Publications
Burgess A (forthcoming) 'The Use of Space-time to Construct Identity and Context' to appear in Ethnography and Education Vol 5 (1)
Burgess A (forthcoming) 'Doing Time: an exploration of timescapes in literacy learning and research' to appear in Language and Education
Burgess A and Ivanic R (2010) 'Writing and Being Written: issues of identity across timescales' Written Communication 27 (2) 228-255
Burgess A, Hamilton M and Ivanic R (2009) 'Functional Literacy: new idea or déjà vu?' RaPAL Journal 67 pp25-29
Burgess A (2008) The Literacy Practices of Recording Achievement: how a text mediates between the local and the global. Journal of Education Policy 23 (1) 49-62
Grief S, Meyer W and Burgess A (2007) Effective Teaching and Learning: Writing London: NRDC (National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy)
Burgess A (2005) Linking Research and Practice: using new concepts to understand learning and teaching in an adult literacy classroom RaPAL Journal 56: 31-37
Burgess A (2004) New Discourses, New Identities: a study of writing and learning in adult literacy education Literacy and Numeracy Studies 13 (2): 41-62
Associated Keywords: Adult basic education, Discourse analysis, Ethnography, Ethnography of literacy, Literacy, Literacy learning
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Lancaster University
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