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Literacy (5)
Barton, David Linguistics and English Language
Language Online. Local literacies; Vernacular literacies; Ethnographic studies of literacy practices in communities, workplaces, educational settings and online; The textually mediated social world; Adult literacy education; The language practices of Web2 sites such as Flickr.
Cuban, Sondra Educational Research
Adult literacy, new literacies, ICT, education and basic skills, women's studies/gender studies, migration studies, qualitative research, ethnographic studies.
Gillen, Julia Linguistics and English Language
I welcome potential doctoral students studying children's and teenagers' digital literacies; literacies in early childhood; multimodality in various contexts; historical and contemporary studies of communication technologies where language is the particular focus. I am open to a broad range of topics and methodologies.
A recent PhD I have supervised to completion: S-Y Ruby Chen: Adolescents' linguistic practices in College-affiliated Bulletin Board Systems (BBSs) in Taiwan.
Recent doctoral dissertations I have examined include:
Maryam Paknahad Jabarooty, PhD. Lancaster University. The construction of gender and sexuality in Iranian love blogs: a discursive approach to couples' love. 2011
Lynde Tan, PhD. Lancaster University.Adolescent literacies, multimodal textual repertoires, and digital media: exploring sites of digital literacy practices and learning inside and outside school. 2011
Mark Childs, PhD. University of Warwick. Learners' experience of presence in virtual worlds. 2010
Patrick Camilleri, EdD., University of Sheffield. A structurational interpretation of issues underlying the implementation of internet based systems in Malta. 2009
Michael Dunne, EdD., Manchester Metropolitan University. Out-of-classroom visits: Unravelling the experience of a short residential trip of primary school children. 2009
Jing Sheng, PhD., Lancaster University. Chinese migrant children's multiliteracy practices in Britain. 2009
Hamilton, Mary Educational Research
- Adult language, literacy and numeracy education (ALLN) and the new literacy studies;
- Informal adult learning and everyday practices across the lifespan;
- Use of Literacies and Technologies among older people
- Policy issues in ALLN, global and comparative perspectives;
- Media representations of educational issues;
- Participatory research methodologies;
- Institutional ethnography
- Use of visual data in research and computer assisted qualitative analysis.
Tusting, Karin Linguistics and English Language
I am interested in supervising doctoral students working in the following areas:
- literacy studies, including workplace literacies, audit cultures and accountability, digital literacy practices, literacy practices in religious communities, and adult literacy.
- linguistic ethnography
- communities of practiceand situated learning.
- institutional ethnography
- discourse analysis
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