http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/news/index.phpNews, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Lancaster Universityhttp://www.lancaster.ac.uk/users/lancaster/web/disclaim.htmen-gba.sharman@lancaster.ac.uka.sharman@lancaster.ac.uk120http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/images/template/fassblue.gifhttp://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/news/index.php 23 May - 1 June 2013The Reading Room, The Storey Creative Industries Centre, LancasterFree entrySarah Casey (Lancaster University)Daniel Rozin (New York University)Jen Southern (Lancaster University)An exhibition exploring different ways of working on and with surfaces. Works explore digital media and interactivity, drawing and materiality, movement, mobility and digital technologies.There will be an exhibition opening on Thursday 23rd May, 6pm. All welcome.The exhibition accompanies the Theorising Surfaces seminar, 24th May, 10.00-17.00, The Storey.The seminar brings together academics and artists to begin mapping out theoretical co-ordinates for the emerging field of surface studies. Confirmed speakers are: Pat Cahill (Emery University USA); Sarah Casey (Lancaster University); Tim Ingold (University of Aberdeen); Celia Lury (University of Warwick); Daniel Rozin (New York University, USA); Jen Southern (Lancaster University); Kathryn Yusoff (Lancaster University).Places at the seminar are limited. For more information and to register:http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/4294/ The exhibition and seminar are organised by Rebecca Coleman and Liz Oakley-Brown (Lancaster University) and supported by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The Department of English and Creative Writing and the Department of Sociology, Lancaster University. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1817/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1817/ Sun, 28 Apr 2013 10:37:51 +0100 Sarah-Ann Robin, a History PhD student, appeared on Radio 4's Making History on 14th May 2013 to talk about her research on material culture and emotions in seventeenth-century England and America. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1851/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1851/ Tue, 21 May 2013 09:23:19 +0100 Sarah Sibley, an alumnus of the Lancaster Writing Programme, was selected as one of three young broadsheet poets to have their work featured in the Winter 2012 issue of the poetry journal Agenda, This issue, 'Exiles' includes five of Sarah's poems; 4 of which ('Lone Man Stories', 'Ship Desk'. 'The Visitant' and 'The Widower') she wrote during her studies on the MA in Creative Writing; plus one new piece, After He Died'. Congratulations, Sarah! http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1852/ http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1852/ Tue, 21 May 2013 10:57:19 +0100 The Department of English and Creative Writing is delighted to announce the appointment of Sharon Ruston, currently Professor of Nineteenth Century Literature at the University of Salford. Professor Ruston takes up her post in September. She is editor of the Humphry Davy Letters project (www.davy-letters.org.uk) and author of Creating Romanticism (2013), Romanticism: An Introduction (2007) and Shelley and Vitality (2005). http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1853/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1853/ Tue, 21 May 2013 11:13:58 +0100 Professor Derek Sayer will be discussing his new book Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History with Rajendra Chitnis (Bristol University) and Andrew Lass (Mount Holyoke College) on the BBC Radio 3 program "Night Waves" on 23 May 2013. The broadcast airs at 10.00 p.m. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1854/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1854/ Tue, 21 May 2013 13:51:48 +0100 The findings of a paper published by Paul Baker and Amanda Potts on the implications of Google's auto-complete search function have been reported in Mail Online and The Telegraph. Baker, P. & Potts, A. (2013) "Why do white people have thin lips?": Google and the perpetuation of stereotypes via auto-complete search forms Critical Discourse Studies. 10, 2, p. 187-204. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1849/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1849/ Mon, 20 May 2013 11:02:23 +0100 Current MA student, Matthew Pawelski, has been awarded an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award, to work on a PhD in early-modern history. The project will be supervisedby Professor Naomi Tadmor. The project, 'The Derbyshire Lead Industry: Re-Interpreting the Industrial Revolution', is a collaboration between the Department of History and the Derbyshire Record Office. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1850/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1850/ Mon, 20 May 2013 11:09:58 +0100 Paul Farley delivered the 110th Roscoe Lecture in Liverpool this week to a 600-strong audience in the city's St Geroge's Hall.The Roscoe public lectures have invited figures from politics, the arts, religion and sports since 1997 to join the people of Liverpool, under the auspices of Liverpool John Moores University's Roscoe Foundation for Citizenship, and previous speakers have included His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Lord Puttnam, HRH Prince Charles and Claire Tomalin.Paul's talk was on The Mersey Sound. Further details and downloads are available via the link below. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1847/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1847/ Fri, 17 May 2013 15:49:10 +0100 Richard Xiao has recently been appointed to the peer review panel by the University of Bologna. The appointment letter says, "in recognition of your expertise, as well as your scientific and cultural achievements, your name has been entered in our peer reviewer database", which is responsible for evaluating research projects submitted by members of the University's scientific community. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1848/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1848/ Sun, 19 May 2013 11:35:24 +0100 Richard Xiao has been successful in a bid to the ESRC for a project on'Comparable and Parallel Corpus Approaches to the Third Code: English and Chinese Perspectives'. The bid was submitted jointly with colleagues at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University under the ESRC-RGC (Hong Kong) Bilateral Scheme 2012-2013. The exact amount of funding still needs to be confirmed, but will be in the region on £100K on the UK side and 328K Hong Kong dollars on the Hong Kong side. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1846/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1846/ Thu, 16 May 2013 22:19:13 +0100 'Evidence, Politics and Policies'. When? Thursdays 6 June, 13 June, 20 June, 12-1pm Where? Bowland North SR 25 Who? Vicky Singleton and Claire Waterton (6/6); Oscar Maldonado (13/6); Natalie Gill (20/6). (What a fab line-up!) http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1843/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1843/ Tue, 14 May 2013 09:15:12 +0100 Dr. Crawshaw contributed to an article looking at the language learning landscape in the UK, in particular in the light of the new draft primary and secondary national curriculum. The article has already elicited a great deal of interest. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1845/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1845/ Thu, 16 May 2013 09:41:22 +0100 Ruth Wodak is invited keynote speaker at the VALS - ASLA Conference, May 13, 2013, University of Basel (Switzerland).The title of her keynote is "Analyzing Discrimination via Discourse - the Impact of Social Sciences". For details see http://franz.unibas.ch/fileadmin/franz/user_upload/redaktion/consignes/VALSASLA_13may2013_abstracts.pdf http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1842/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1842/ Mon, 13 May 2013 11:27:46 +0100 Wellcome Trust 'Ethics in Society' Visit Day Funding Opportunities Presentation & Clinic > Date: Monday 3rd June 2013 Time: 1pm Venue: FASS Building, Meeting Rooms 2 & 3 > Schedule 13:00 - 14.30 Wellcome Trust Funding Talk · Opening Presentation on the Wellcome Trust Ethics and Society Programme - Paul Woodgate (Wellcome Trust Ethics and Society Adviser) · Senior Investigator Award In Medical Humanities 'The Donation and Transfer of Human Reproductive Materials' - Professor Stephen Wilkinson (PPR) · Wellcome Trust Funding Opportunities - Paul Woodgate (Wellcome Trust Ethics and Society Programme Adviser) · Question and Answer Session 14:30 - 16:30 Individual "Clinic" Meetings Following the presentation a series of one-to-one clinic meetings will be available for staff to talk to Paul Woodgate on an individual basis. These will be of interest if you either have or are interested in applying for Wellcome Trust funding. Clinic meetings will take place in the FASS Building, Meeting Room 5. > To book a place on the Funding Talk and a One-to-One Meeting with Paul Woodgate please email Ruth Carr r.carr@lancaster.ac.uk by Tuesday 28th May. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1826/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1826/ Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:49:50 +0100 Upcoming talk from Adam Fish Silicon Valley or Hollywood? Place, Politics, and Technology in Cultures of Internet and Television Convergence ICT and Work: The US at the Origins of the Dissemination of Digital Culture, Universite Paris Sorbonne, Wed 29-31 http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1839/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1839/ Wed, 08 May 2013 15:33:51 +0100 The Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University has been rated as 10th in the world in the QS 2013 rankings! This is up from 49th last year and reflects our world-class standing. The criteria include academic and employer reputation and various measures of citations for research. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1837/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1837/ Wed, 08 May 2013 10:18:04 +0100 Proformations: The Network Activism of American Television Producers, Media Reformers, and Free Software Geeks "New Media, Public Opinion and Social Movements" International Seminar Friday 10th May 2013, h. 9:00-18:00 Graduate School in Social and Political Sciences University of Milan http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1838/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1838/ Wed, 08 May 2013 15:31:56 +0100 The Centre announcesa book launch on 2 September 2013. Inclusive technology enhanced learning: Overcoming Cognitive, Physical, Emotional and Geographic Challenges, is written by Professor Don Passey, who is Co-Director of the Centre. Routledge, the publisher of the new book, say the book "draws together a remarkable breadth of research findings from across the field, providing useful data on the power of technology to solve cognitive, physical, emotional or geographic challenges in education. A far-ranging assessment, this book combines research, policy, and practical evidence to show what digital technologies work best for which learners and why." Jeroen J. G. van Merriënboer, Professor of Learning and Instruction, Maastricht University, The Netherlands says "Passey fully acknowledges the complexities of technology enhanced learning. He convincingly shows that it can only be understood through an in-depth and integrated analysis of technologies, learners, and human mediators." http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1841/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1841/ Wed, 08 May 2013 16:53:49 +0100 Professor Derek Sayer's new book Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013), was reviewed in the Financial Times on 3rd May by Tony Barber, the paper's Europe editor. Barber describes the book as 'an erudite,comprehensive, well-illustrated and witty account ofCzech art, design, architecture, literature and music... [Sayer] has succeeded in bringing back to life a golden avant-garde era that not long ago was in danger of being written out of history altogether.' http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/06fba5e0-aeb2-11e2-bdfd-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2SbqtkCCC http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1834/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1834/ Tue, 07 May 2013 14:29:27 +0100 The Department of History will be welcoming two new colleagues from August 2013 to extend its range ofhigh-quality research andteaching. Professor Michael Hughes, currently at the University of Liverpool, will be our new Professor of Russian and International History. Michaelhas published widely on nineteenth-century Russian History and on Anglo-Russian relations in the twentieth century.Heis currently completing a biography of Stephen Graham, who helped to shape British attitudes towards Russia during the years before 1917, and isalso involved in the projectRussia's Great War and Revolution, 1914-22: The Centennial Reappraisal, which will produce a multi-volume series reassessing this critical period in the history of the twentieth century. Dr Theodora Jim receivd her D.Phil from Oxford University in 2011 and is currently a Fellow of the Society of Scholars at Hong Kong University. She specialises in Ancient Greek religion in comparative and interdisciplinary contexts, with particular interests inanthropological approaches and questions of religious psychology.Sheis currently writing a monograph for Oxford University Press entitled Gifts to the Gods. Both Professor Hughes and Dr Jim will be offering new undergraduate modules for 2013/14. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1835/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1835/ Tue, 07 May 2013 15:34:25 +0100 Ruth Wodak will be participating in a public forum/panel this evening, 7pm (which will also be broadcast in TV, ORF III). The panel will discuss lieux de memoire (collective memories) and renaming streets and cities. For details see http://www.wien.gv.at/kultur/abteilung/vorlesungen/termine/2013/erinnerungsorte-7-5.html http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1836/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1836/ Tue, 07 May 2013 16:28:46 +0100 Very many congratulations to the following on their recent PhD awards. Dr Sandra Varey was awarded 'Forthwith' recently, she was supervised by Professor Mary Hamilton. The title of her thesis is 'Voices in a Knowledge Conversation: An exploration of two narrative representations of adult literacy learners.'Voices in a Knowledge Conversation: An exploration of two narrative representations of adult literacy learners.' Dr Vina Adriany has been supervised by Dr Jo Warin. The title of her thesis is 'Gender power relations within child-centred discourse: an ethnographic approach in an Indonesian kindergarten'. Dr Denise Boyle was a member of the Doctoral Programme in Educational Research and was supervised by Professor Malcolm Tight. Her thesis is titled 'Why do student nurses stay: a qualitative study'.Very many congratulations to the following on their recent PhD awards. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1833/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1833/ Fri, 03 May 2013 10:09:11 +0100 Ranked number five in the UK for Sociology by the Complete University Guidehttp://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-tables/rankings?s=Sociology http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1831/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1831/ Thu, 02 May 2013 10:43:21 +0100 Our fabulous and friendly CGWS coffee mornings take place on Tuesdays at 9.15am in Bowland North B Floor (Sociology). These coffee mornings are for any and all staff and students (PG and UG) and visitors. Every Tuesday in term time. Don't be shy. Come for free cakes. There are other CGWS events coming up, so join us on twitter (@cgwslancaster) and facebook (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Centre-for-Gender-and-Womens-Studies-Lancaster/192581877503648) to keep up to date with a multitude of feminist happenings on campus and in town. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1824/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1824/ Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:15:15 +0100 DELC Postgraduate student Jenny Wattrus will give a paper at the North West Doctoral Training Centre, Language-Based Area Studies Pathway, Postgraduate Symposium on Latin American and Caribbean Studies on 16 May 2013. This event brings together for the second year running postgraduates in Latin American and Caribbean studies working in various disciplines in the partner institutions of the ESRC North West Doctoral Training Centre. The participating universities are the universities of Manchester, Lancaster and Liverpool. At last year's event, DELC Postgraduate student Charlotte Hall gave a paper. . http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1829/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1829/ Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:50:05 +0100 Congratulations to Jane Draycott on being awarded faculty research funding to support her Literature Residency at the Dutch Foundation to undertake research for a new long poem provisionally calledAfter Awater - after the 1934 poem by Martinus Nijhoff. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1830/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1830/ Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:35:24 +0100 Congratulations go to Sandra Kytir who passed her viva today.If you are in the department this afternoon please come to the postgraduate kitchen area and share a celebratory drink with Sandra and her examiners. Her research title was Foreign Companies in Eastern Europe Where Integration Takes Place and her supervisors were Bob Jessop and Andrew Sayer http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1828/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1828/ Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:18:06 +0100 Jenn Ashworth has appeared at two events this week, speaking about her latest novel, 'The Friday Gospels'. On Wednesday 2th April, she spoke to undergraduate and postgraduate students and members of the public at an event organised by Birmingham City University's Institute of Creative and Critical Writing. On Thursday 25th April, she attended a Book Group event organised as part of the Hexham Literary Festival. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1819/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1819/ Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:27:06 +0100 CGWS Research Day, entitled 'Feminism and the Digital: researching spaces, communities and media', will be held on Friday 14 June, 2013, in Furness LT3. If you would like to present a 20 minute paper (we encourage work in progress as well as more polished pieces), please send an abstract to Debra Ferreday by Friday May 10th (d.ferreday@lancaster.ac.uk). All welcome - no cost to attend. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1821/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1821/ Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:10:43 +0100 'Queering Anarchisms' an extended Lunchtime Seminar by Jamie Heckert 13:00-15:00 Wednesday May 8th, Bowland North Seminar Room 24 Anarchism has a long history of engaging not only with the forms of the State and Capital, but also with everyday relations of power upon which they depend -- including those of gender and sexuality. Perhaps most famously, Emma Goldman raised not only the topics of gender and sexuality (including monogamy, sex work, birth control, homosexuality, women's emancipation), but also the very question of normality. As she noted in 1940, "The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime. ... [S]He who refuses to submit is at once labelled "queer," "different," and decried as a disturbing element in the comfortable stagnancy of modern life. Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most." Stagnancy is certainly familiar, but is it comfortable? A focus on gender, sexuality and the power of conformity highlights the vitality of anarchism as an alternative to both hierarchy and ideas of "normal". Instead, anarchism offers ways of being and relating which are dynamic, egalitarian and ever evolving. Queering Anarchism is offered to highlight the rich history and potentials of linking anarchist, feminist and queer politics. Jamie Heckert is co-editor of Anarchism & Sexuality, contributor to Queering Anarchism and as well as a number of other books and periodicals. He is also a yoga teacher, public speaker, workshop facilitator and gentle trouble-maker. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1822/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1822/ Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:13:20 +0100 Performing Post-Post Feminisms? A One Day Workshop 2nd May, 2013 Charlotte Brunsdon (Film and Television Studies, Warwick University) Geraldine Harris (LICA, Lancaster, Theatre Studies) Debra Ferreday (Sociology, Lancaster) Rebecca Coleman (Sociology, Lancaster) This one day workshop will reflect on shifts in attitudes towards feminism in contemporary culture to explore whether the concept of 'post feminism' has outlived its usefulness for the academy and, if so, what comes next? Lancaster Institute for the Creative Arts, Lancaster University, LICA Building (A-27) 10 am- 4.30pm. If you wish to attend this free event please email: g.harris@lancaster.ac.uk http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1823/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1823/ Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:14:11 +0100 Spotlight (2) on Health & Medicine Thursday May 2nd 2013 The Faculty of Health & Medicine is hosting the second one-day symposium that seeks to bring together academics who have an interest in health and medicine. The aim of the 'Spotlight' events is to develop a better understanding, within the University community, of what different individuals and research groups are doing, in the hope that we can build further collaborations. We have planned a series of short presentations, each of 20 minutes (and followed by 10 minutes of questions/discussion), delivered by colleagues drawn from each of the four Faculties. These are not specialist research seminars; rather, they provide an opportunity to convey to a wider University audience, what questions and issues their research addresses, in a way that might resonate with others in the University. The event is open to all members of the University with an interest in health and medicine. The meeting will be held in FASS (Rooms 2/3, Ground Floor). 9.30-9.50 Coffee and networking 9.50-10.00 Introduction and welcome (Professor Tony Gatrell, Dean, Faculty of Health & Medicine) 10.00-10.30 'A healthy tan? Characterising the effects of long wavelength ultraviolet radiation on human skin cells' (Dr Sarah Allinson: Faculty of Health & Medicine - Division of Biomedical & Life Sciences) 10.30-11.00 'Researching health literacy as social practice' (Dr Uta Papen: Department of Linguistics and English Language) 11.00-11.30 'Modelling' and 'Analytics' in Healthcare - a Management Science perspective on 'doing things better' (Dr Dave Worthington: LUMS - Department of Management Science) 11.30-12.00 'Personalizing Biomedicine? Genomics and Healthcare in Perspective' (Dr Richard Tutton: FASS - Department of Sociology) 12.00-13.00 Lunch 13.00-13.30 'Learning, knowing, doing: medical practice and its representations' (Dr Dawn Goodwin: Faculty of Health & Medicine - Lancaster Medical School) 13.30-14.00 'Consumers coping with difficult marketplaces: some social marketing insights' (Dr Maria Piacentini: LUMS - Department of Marketing) 14.00-14.30 'Magnetic tracing of atmospheric particulate pollution, indoors and outdoors' (Professor Barbara Maher: Lancaster Environment Centre) 14.30-15.00 Tea and networking http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1825/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1825/ Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:48:52 +0100 Very many congratulations to Dr Jane Costello on the award of PhD. Jane is a member of Cohort 2 of the Doctoral Programme in E-Research and Technology Enhanced Learning and was supervised initially by Maria Zenios and more recently Malcolm Tight. The subject of her thesis is Guest Speaker Impact on Learning Community http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1820/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1820/ Wed, 08 May 2013 12:14:13 +0100 We are very pleased to announce that Roger Ebbatson, an Honorary Research Professor in the Department, has a new book coming out in May 2013, entitled Literature and Landscape 1830-1914: Nature, Text, Aura.For more information, please see http://www.amazon.co.uk/Landscape-Literature-1830-1914-Nature-Text/dp/1137330430/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1366361978&sr=8-4&keywords=roger+ebbatson http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1811/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1811/ Fri, 19 Apr 2013 10:29:19 +0100 Dr Liam Haydon is an Associate Lecturer in the Department and has just been appointed as the Research Assistant for a five-year Leverhulme-funded project entitled 'Global Determinants' at the University of Kent. Congratulations, Liam! For more information on this project, please follow the link below. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1812/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1812/ Fri, 19 Apr 2013 10:37:50 +0100 http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1813/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1813/ Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:41:21 +0100 http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1832/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1832/ Thu, 02 May 2013 11:40:31 +0100 Prof Saunders is researching how schools with farms use them to enhance lessons across the curriculum as well as to boost pupils' confidence and teach them about healthy eating and where food comes from. Prof Saunders is researching how schools with farms use them to enhance lessons across the curriculum as well as to boost pupils' confidence and teach them about healthy eating and where food comes from. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1808/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1808/ Mon, 15 Apr 2013 08:50:42 +0100 Jenn Ashworth will be in conversation with John Sweeney and Michael Odell at the Stratford-upon-Avon Literary Festival later this week about dealing with difficult topics in fiction.John Sweeney, a regular reporter for Panorama, will be appearing on tonight's edition of the programme to talk about North Korea. The event, at the Shakespeare Centre, will take place at 4pm on Sunday 21st April. To book tickets, please follow the link below. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1809/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1809/ Mon, 15 Apr 2013 17:13:29 +0100 The launch Of Polly Atkin's prizewinning poetry pamphlet, 'Shadow Dispatches' will take place on Saturday 20th April at the Wordsworth Trust in Grasmere.Beginning at 2.30pm, the event will include an introduction from Seren Press's poetry editor, Amy Wack, who also judged the competition, and readings by Polly and Judy Brown, the current poet-in-residence at the Trust. This event is free and open to all, but booking is advised. Please follow the link below. Congratulations, Polly! http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1810/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1810/ Mon, 15 Apr 2013 17:21:01 +0100 Professor Steven Wheatley presented a paper on 'Deliberative Democracy and International Human Rights' at a Workshop on 'The law of deliberative democracy' at King's College London on 9 April 2013. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1807/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1807/ Wed, 10 Apr 2013 17:28:32 +0100 Richard Xiao gave an invited a talk at China's National Research Centre for Foreign Language Education, Beijing Foreign Studies University on 9th April 2013. The paper is entitled "English abstracts by native and nonnative writers: A multidimensional contrastive move analysis", which takes a composite approach that combines corpus-based multidimensional analysis (MDA) and the more traditional move analysis to contrasting English abstracts written by native and nonnative speakers. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1814/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1814/ Sat, 20 Apr 2013 11:11:21 +0100 http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1804/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1804/ Fri, 29 Mar 2013 11:02:14 +0000 Professor Steven Wheatley was an invited Participant and member of the Judiciary Panel at the Bahrain International Symposium (University of Bahrain). The Symposium brought together politicians, diplomats and political scientists and specialists in law and international relations from a wide range of academic and research organizations, including universities and think tanks, to examine the possibilities and potential difficulties of constitutional reform in the Kingdom consistent with international standards. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1806/ http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1806/ Wed, 10 Apr 2013 17:20:55 +0100 Imogen Tyler (Lancaster CGWS and Sociology) and Katarzyna Marciniak (Ohio University) have edited a special issue of Citizenship Studieson the theme of'Immigrant Protest' which will be published in April 2013 (volume 17, issue 2). This issue emerged out ofa successful workshop in Lancaster hosted by the migrancy research group and funded by the Sociology Department in 2010. Contributors to this special issue includemembers of the Migrancy Research Group including Joe Rigby (currently completing his PhD in Sociology) and Cindy Weber (formally in PPR). The issueexplores various kinds of dissent, resistance and revolt by non-citizens and citizens, against conditions faced by regular and irregular migrants, asylum seekers, refugees and other unwanted and ` illegal' persons, within a range of national and regional border-zones. An edited book, Immigrant Protest: Politics, Aesthetics, and Everyday Dissent, which includes a chapter by postdoctoral fellow and Migrancy research group member Maja Sager, is in press with SUNY and willbe publishedin 2014. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1786/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1786/ Fri, 01 Mar 2013 18:17:23 +0000 Follow the link below to listen to Paul Farley's playful updating of Charles Kingsley's 150 year old children's novel, The Water Babies Young Tomi is part of the UK's illegal labour market, having been trafficked into the country from Nigeria as a child labourer, but his life is changed forever when he meets a girl from the other side of the tracks, runs away and falls into a river. When he wakes up, he's been transformed - he's amphibious! And so begins a series of strange and exciting underwater adventures in which he meets caddis flies, trout, otters and eels. But Tomi learns that with his new freedom comes choice and responsibility. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1803/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1803/ Wed, 27 Mar 2013 11:25:37 +0000 Jayne Steel was on BBC Radio 4's 'Last Word' on Sunday, talking about James Herbert, the horror writer. Listen again by following the link below. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1801/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1801/ Tue, 26 Mar 2013 10:08:49 +0000 Shareholder Democracies? Corporate Governance in Britain and Ireland before 1850, co-authored by Dr James Taylor, has been awarded the Ralph Gomory Prize for 2013. The prize, awarded annually by the Business History Conference, consists of a $5,000 cash prize. The monograph, published by University of Chicago Press in 2012 and co-authored by Professor Robin Pearson (Hull) and Dr Mark Freeman (Glasgow), is a ground-breaking study of the early history of corporate governance in the UK. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1805/ http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1805/ Mon, 01 Apr 2013 14:04:56 +0100 Dr. Amanda Cahill-Ripley was invited to give a training seminar on 'The Right to Food' by Advocates for International Development (A4ID), an NGO based in London, for their Future Lawyers' Training Program 2013. The program is a part of A4ID's project 'Lawyers in Development' and is partly funded by the Department for International Development. The training seminar introduced the trainees to the international human rights framework for the protection and promotion of the right to food as well as examining the links between the right to food, food security and development policy. It also explored the wider context in which the right to food operates, studying challenges for realisation of the right including, conflict; global markets and discrimination. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1798/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1798/ Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:15:12 +0000 Distinguished Professor Ruth Wodak of the Department of Linguistics and English Language has been made an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences. This is well deserved recognition for the scope and significance of Ruth's work, and is a prestigious addition to Ruth's long list of titles and honours. The department already boasts two Academicians among current colleagues, Tony McEnery and Greg Myers and two among previous colleagues, Martin Bygate and Chris Candlin. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1797/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1797/ Tue, 19 Mar 2013 10:03:14 +0000 Paul Baker gave a talk on the representation of Islam in the UK press at the University of Portsmouth. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1799/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1799/ Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:21:47 +0000 http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1748/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1748/ Wed, 06 Mar 2013 10:21:14 +0000 Joining colleagues from the International Federation for Information Processing, Professor Don Passey led feedback in a session at the recent UNESCO World Summit Review Meeting (WSIS+10) in Paris. With contributions led by Professor Bernard Cornu, CNED, France and Sindre Roesvik, Giske Commune, Norway, the feedback focused on 'Changing educational paradigms'. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1792/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1792/ Mon, 11 Mar 2013 11:08:16 +0000 Janet Lees, a current MA student in the Lancaster Writing Programme, has had her poetry pamphlet 'The Magpie in Your Ribcage' shortlisted in the Poetry School / Pighog Press pamphlet competition. The judges, Julia Bird and Ciaran O'Driscoll chose just twelve poets from over 450 entries. The winners and runners up will be announced in May. For more information on the prize, please follow the link below. Congratulations, Janet! http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1791/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1791/ Thu, 07 Mar 2013 16:28:01 +0000 As member of the 7th Framework EU project ACCEPT, Ruth is invited o participate at the final presentation at Brussels, 6/7 March 2013. Conference programme http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1787/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1787/ Tue, 19 Mar 2013 10:08:13 +0000 Catherine Mee, who graduated from the Distance Learning MA in Creative Writing in 2012, was shortlisted for the 2012 Salt's International Prize (short story category). For more information, please follow the link below.Congratulations, Catherine! http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1788/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1788/ Tue, 05 Mar 2013 10:28:41 +0000 The Royal Literary Fund Fellowship scheme brings published writers into universities to help students from all disciplines with their academic writing. The Department of English and Creative Writing has worked with the RLF since 2007 and in that time has hosted a series of Fellows including the novelists John Murray, Philip Caveney and Livi Michael and the biographer Kathleen Jones. We are pleased to welcome back to the Department novelist and former Lancaster PhD student Ray Robinson, who will be joining us as our next RLF Fellow from October 2013. Ray is the author of four novels, including Electricity, which he wrote for the award of his PhD and was published in 2006. Read more about Electricity on our website http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/english/postgrad/creativewriting/students/robinson_electricity.html and more about Ray by following the link below. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1785/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1785/ Fri, 01 Mar 2013 10:55:48 +0000 Postgraduate studentships available at Lancaster's Department of Linguistics and English Language The Department of Linguistics and English Language offers a total of 6 scholarships for MA students and 4 scholarships for PhD students. These funding opportunities are available for students starting in October 2013 and the deadline for applications is 22 March. Some scholarships are restricted to UK/EU students, while others are open to both overseas and UK/EU students. For further information, please see MA funding or PhD Funding or contact Mrs Marjorie Wood at m.f.wood@lancaster.ac.uk. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1794/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1794/ Tue, 26 Mar 2013 09:56:57 +0000 State-of-the-art research equipment is being acquired for the Lancaster Linguistics Research Lab. Lancaster University is funding the acquisition of new kit to the value of £87,000. The Phonetics Lab will shortly take delivery of a new ultrasound machine. Ultrasound is a general purpose medical technology that has become increasingly popular in speech research over the past few decades. Ultrasound permits real-time video imaging of the tongue's position and movement during speech, which is achieved by placing a small probe underneath a speaker's chin. Our high-speed ultrasound machine will be a particularly valuable resource as it allows researchers to record accurate information on sounds that involve very fast tongue movements, which is not possible using older technologies. The ultrasound machine will be used in a number of projects based in the Department of Linguistics and English Language's Phonetics Lab, such as Sam Kirkham's work on the relationship between tongue movements and the acoustics of speech. This project will be important in producing more accurate data for speech and language therapy, as well as informing research into speech recognition and synthesis. New mobile eye tracking equipment is a non-intrusive method for collecting psycholinguistic data from both children and adults in natural settings. Dr Silke Brandt explains, "Eye movements are a window into our minds. We will visit children in their nurseries in the Lancaster area and overseas to investigate how various cues in spoken language affects their focus of attention." Dr Marije Michel furthermore states: "In classrooms we can investigate how pupils process a second language. We are also planning to collect data from dyslexic readers in order to advance our knowledge about reading disorders in children learning various languages and writing systems. Finally, we want to observe eye movements in situations rarely studied before, such as how people look at multilingual websites." Finally, an electroencephalography device, which measures brain activity, is being bought to assist interdisciplinary research between Linguistics and Psychology. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1784/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1784/ Tue, 21 May 2013 12:09:38 +0100 Paul Baker gave a talk on the representation of Muslim women at City University Hong. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1790/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1790/ Thu, 07 Mar 2013 10:00:43 +0000 Professor Angus Winchester, Department of History, has been been interviewed for the 'Making History' programme on BBC Radio 4 at 3.02 p.m. on Tuesday 26 February, talking about the early-medieval kingdom of Cumbria and regional history more generally. The programme will be available online for 7 days after broadcast. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1782/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1782/ Tue, 26 Feb 2013 14:43:03 +0000 Danny Whitehead, a Linguistics and English Language PhD student, had the following article on language policy in Indonesia published in the Guardian online http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2013/feb/26/indonesia-mother-tongue-english-debate?INTCMP=SRCH http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1783/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1783/ Thu, 28 Feb 2013 12:03:07 +0000 Our Linguistics with Chinese degree praised in UK Trade & Investment North West award. For full details see the BBC website http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1789/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1789/ Tue, 05 Mar 2013 14:40:07 +0000 Jenn Ashworth from the Lancaster Writing Programme (Department of English and Creative Writing) has been invited to speak with Patricia Dunker at Newnham College's Literary Archive Weekend on 'The Deadly Spaces of Women Novelists' on Saturday 2nd March.Please see below for further details. Newnham's second Literary Archive Event - Women and the Novel - 1st and 2nd March 2013 It is no secret that we are very proud of Newnham's strong literary tradition. Many of the outstanding female writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuriesstudied here; Claire Tomalin, A.S. Byatt, Iris Murdoch, Sylvia Plath, Margaret Drabble, Katharine Whitehorn, Ali Smith and Sarah Dunant to name but a few. Following the successful launch of Newnham's Literary Archive in 2011, we are holding a second event on Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd March 2013. The theme is 'Women and the Novel' and it gives me great pleasure to invite you to join us and to bring a guest. We have an enticing programme. Beginning on Friday evening, a wine reception will precede a talk by Dame Margaret Drabble who will be speaking on: 'Finding the future: The novel as exploration'. Saturday morning is given to exploring the writing of women's fiction. It begins with a conversation between Jenn Ashworth and Patricia Duncker on 'The Deadly Spaces of Women Novelists', chaired by Dr Pam Hirsch. The morning continues with a panel discussion, chaired by Isabelle Grey. Karolina Sutton, Helen Garnons-Williams and Cathy Moore will join her to open a general discussion 'Fiction publishing and promotion: a changing landscape?'. This will be followed by a delicious buffet lunch in College Hall. After lunch there will be visits to the library and a display of material donated to the Literary Archive. A full programme can be seen on our website and you can book online at http://www.newn.cam.ac.uk/after-newnham/events/literary-archive-event. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1779/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1779/ Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:53:47 +0000 The Echo Chamber is s a new programme on BBC Radio 4, introduced by Paul Farley and featuring the best of poetry now. The first in the series looks at the body in question - the shapes of poems and the people in them. How does a poet decide on the form of their poem? What do different poetic forms do the subject of a poem? The programme travels the country and anatomises its poetic body. With found poems and field-notes, a diary of failure and success, the sound of the world being taken down in rhyme, and a look into a hive of dead bees in midwinter. With new poems from Sean Borodale, Don Paterson and Alice Oswald.Listen on the iPlayer by following the link below. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1780/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1780/ Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:09:49 +0000 The Missing Slate, an arts and literary journal founded by Lancaster graduate Maryam Piracha (Creative Writing MA, 2011), has celebrated International Mother Language Day with a feature on writing from Bangladesh. International Mother Language Day falls on 21st February in remembrance of the Dhaka students murdered by police while campaigning for Bengali to be an official language in what was then East Pakistan. The Missing Slate, an e-magazine with roots in Pakistan, marked the day with new work from Poetry Parnassus participant Mir Mahfuz Ali, Welsh children's laureate Eurig Salisbury (a reader at the 2012 Dhaka Hay Festival) and Farah Ghuznavi, editor of Lifelines — an anthology of short stories by Bangladeshi women. Previous contributors to The Missing Slate include Moniza Alvi, Tishani Doshi and Sharanya Manivannan, and the magazine is run by an international team including Lancaster graduates Jacob Silkstone and Lara Clayton, and current student Camille Ralphs. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1778/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1778/ Fri, 22 Feb 2013 09:48:57 +0000 Murray Saunders was interviewed on Granada Reports, 20 February, in a feature about a University project , based in a partnership with the Schools Farms Network, to build a joint understanding of how school farms might improve the learning experience of young people. The project focuses on ways in which increased understanding of food and its production through school farms might have broader educational purposes. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1781/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1781/ Thu, 07 Mar 2013 10:24:12 +0000 Friday 13th-Sunday 15th September This September, the Department will be hosting the annual conference of the Elections, Public Opinion and Parties (EPOP) specialist group of the Political Studies Association. This is the 24th annual conference of what is the largest group in the PSA and it was last held at Lancaster in 1993. The organisers are David Denver and Mark Garnett assisted by Helen Caton. A conference website will appear in March giving further details and inviting offers of papers and panels. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1776/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1776/ Tue, 12 Mar 2013 14:26:53 +0000 Beth Cortese, a final year undergraduate studying for a degree in English Literature with Creative Writing, has recently had her book for children published by Rowanvale Books. Buttercup and her Many-Legged Friends follows the adventures of Buttercup, a yellow Fiat Panda, and her new friends Sue the acrobatic spider and Wilfred Wingstripe, retired Commander of the Nectar Division. The story joins Buttercup as she makes a happy transition from her lonely life in the showroom to her new life with owner Evan. Buttercup makes lasting friendships with the insects in Evan's garden; friendships that lead to exciting adventures in the city and the countryside. Along the way the characters make new friends and face exciting challenges together and children will never look at their car or the insects in their garden without wondering about their secret life! These colourful and imaginative stories teach teamwork, kindness and perseverance. The characters are brought to life through charming illustrations and children will become absorbed in their adventures making this a fantastic bedtime read for children between the ages of 9 and 12. The special sibling relationship can be seen at its best as Beth's sister Lucy brings her sister's vision to life in these stories. The fantastic detail in these pictures will have children fascinated and searching in the garden for any lost little insect boots. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1775/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1775/ Mon, 18 Feb 2013 14:37:34 +0000 ''Tell me, have you ever heard a tale To chill the bones and flatten the ale?' 'The Canterbury Tales' is a new adaptation for the stage by second-year English Literature student Andrew Ainscough. Geoffrey Chaucer's bawdy, raucous and surprising pilgrimage is taken from the medieval period to the present, as a group of homeless and placeless story-tellers make their way to Canterbury. What do we do when we have nothing left? We tell our stories, and so we meet and share with our band of quirky, wild and altogether fascinating characters. With songs, movement, and thrilling performances, the stories live on. Showing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2013 with The Lancaster Offshoots, with a Lancaster preview show in Summer term, this is a show not to be missed! Andrew and his team always welcome, and are looking out for, those passionate about the tales to share in our pilgrimage.' http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1774/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1774/ Fri, 15 Feb 2013 10:37:14 +0000 Paul Baker gave a plenary talk at the 20th Anniversary of the Lavender Linguistics and Languages Conference, held at American University, Washington DC. The talk was entited "Lavender Discourse and Change 1994-2012: A Diachronic Corpus Analysis of 18 years of Lav Langs Conference Abstracts." http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1777/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1777/ Thu, 21 Feb 2013 09:59:05 +0000 The "PPR Scholarships" have been awarded for 2012 entrants. The2012 awards are for £3000 (over three years) and are funded by a generous donation by an alumnus of the department. They have been awarded to those students who fell just short of qualifying for the Lancaster University Scholarship, but who, in the view of the awards panel, showed most academic promise. This year we are pleased to announce that the following students have been awarded the scholarships: Emily Lynn (BA Religious Studies) Rebeka Kollar (BA Politics with International Relations) Elizabeth Gregory (BA Ethics, Philosophy and Religion) Asma Hanslod (BA Politics and Philosophy) http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1795/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1795/ Thu, 14 Mar 2013 10:17:10 +0000 Distinguished Professor Ruth Wodak is giving an Open Lecture at the University of Manchester on Tuesday 12 February 2013. Hosted by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts and Languages, Ruth will be speaking on "Analysing political discourse: a 'new face' of politics?"For more details see the event flyer (PDF) http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1772/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1772/ Thu, 07 Feb 2013 11:13:27 +0000 Ruth is invited to hold e research seminar in the Hanken Business School, on Applying CDA in the Analysis of Meetings! See http://www.hanken.fi/public/en/manorg_researchseminarsfor more information http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1769/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1769/ Wed, 06 Feb 2013 14:37:21 +0000 Ruth is invited to University Jyväskyla from 7-9 February, to participate at a workshop discussing the notions of critique and critical. See below for details. Critical language research in transition: Discourse studies, ethnography and sociolinguistics in dialogue > Jyväskylä discourse think tank February 2013, Jyväskylä, Finland > "Critical" is an adjective that has become increasingly over-used in different strands of research about language in social life. But what "social critique" means in, say, (critical) discourse analysis, is not always synonymous or compatible with critical approaches in applied linguistics, linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics and so forth. To this one should add that what "critical" meant thirty years ago might not necessarily reflect the imperatives of a socially and politically committed researcher in late modernity, a time during which questions of post-colonialism and post-nationalism cause us now to perhaps pause to reflect: the state is no longer the obvious target of academic concern, nor even really is "Big Business". Despite these complexities, "critical" is a concept we are still using to describe our approach to language research. It may refer to our theoretical and empirical perspectives, to our research interests as well as to our stance as researchers. Starting from an interest in power relations and the ways in which language figures in, critical language research encompasses inquires in a wide scope of domains and topics. However, the particular interest often is in the conditions and consequences of changing social processes and practices, more centrally for distribution of access to production and circulation of resources, for defining market conditions that give them value. At the nexus of social sciences and linguistic research, critical language research also both contributes to and is faced with the challenges of multi- and transdisciplinary work. This seems to be particularly acute in our multi-method research on multilingualism, identity and language categories, language ideological processes, new economy and nationalism. We believe that it is worthwhile to bring into dialogue current research and emerging notions and visions from critical discourse studies, critical sociolinguistics, critical linguistic anthropology and critical ethnography. Firstly, such transdisciplinary dialogue allows us to test and tease the boundaries and usefulness of the concepts of "critical" and "language" across these fields as well as in comparison to various alternatives (e.g. reflexivity, communication, resources). Secondly, this kind of dialogue might help us to move forward with our thinking about what "critical" and "language" might mean under current conditions. The current moment of transition and mobility, both in terms of the phenomena we examine but also as regards to the key concepts we are using (such as language, language boundaries, access, ownership), seems to point towards wider paradigmatic shifts. We seem to be at the point of ontological and epistemological transition as regards how to understand what "critical" but also "language" means and what would be a fruitful way to use these concepts. We have seen various attempts to capture some of these shifts, including resignifying the meaning of "critical" or the usage of newly coined terminology such as post-critical, critical-critical, creative, reflexive; or by drawing on rhizomatic approaches (multi-sited ethnography, nexus analysis); or foregrounding the time/space aspects (circulation, trajectories). To discuss and brainstorm these issues further, we are planning to organize a two-day research think tank around the concept of "critical" in research on language and society. The aim is by no means to set various approaches, appropriations and applications of the concept of critique in competition with each other, but rather to explore what "critical" means in current conditions, how the concept may help or hinder our research on language and social change, processes and practices; and why alternative concepts have emerged, potentially opening up new understandings and challenges to it. The goal of this think tank will be to take this discussion further, and to rethink what it means to conduct "social critique" from a linguistic/discourse analytical perspective. List of invited participants: Alexandre Duchêne> Hannele Dufva Monica Heller Kati Kauppinen Bonnie McElhinny Tommaso Milani Simo Määttä Sari Pietikäinen Joan Pujolar Anna Solin Ruth Wodak http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1770/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1770/ Wed, 06 Feb 2013 14:46:20 +0000 Professor Elaine Aston is to be a 2013 recipient of Trinity College, University Dublin's Visiting Professorships & Fellowships Scheme.Her grant-aided visit to Trinity, scheduled for Michaelmas Term 2013, will involve a college-wide lecture on her feminism and theatre research. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1771/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1771/ Wed, 06 Feb 2013 15:38:02 +0000 Paul Baker gave a talk to the English department at the University of Chester entitled: Do men all just want the same thing? A corpus linguistics approach to the analysis of gender and desire in personal adverts on Craigslist. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1773/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1773/ Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:38:08 +0000 The first Lancaster Writing Awards for Poetry, Prose and Criticism have now closed to entries. With 120 entries from Year 12 students across the UK, the Awards are off to a strong start.A longlist of finalists will be announced in March 2013, with the shortlist published in April. The prize in each category will then be awarded at a sixth-form conference in July 2013.The Department of English and Creative Writing would like to thank all students who participated; we very much look forward to reading your work. Thank you too to the teachers who promoted the event to their students. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1767/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1767/ Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:26:21 +0000 An essay byAdrian Cornell du Houx (History, PhD) has been commended by the trustees of theDorothy Dunnett Society. The essay—entitled 'A Courtly Mystery: The Royal Touch in the Eleventh Century'—was one of two runners up for History Prize 2012, and will be published in the society's magazine,Whispering Gallery, and on its website. The presentation will take place in Edinburgh on 20 April 2013.Dr Stephen Boardman of the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Edinburgh University commented onthe high standard of entries this year. Adrian Cornell du Houx is supervised by Dr Paul Hayward. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1765/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1765/ Mon, 04 Feb 2013 09:22:04 +0000 Lancaster Creative Writing MA student Janet Lees and photographer/videographer Rooney have had a collaborative piece longlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize 2012. Combining found text and film, it will feature in the upcoming prize anthology and exhibition at York St Mary's, York Art Gallery's contemporary art space. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1766/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1766/ Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:58:31 +0000 LAEL PhD student Charis Stefanou has been awarded the "Language Learning Dissertation Grant" from the internationally renowned Journal of Language Learning. Charis's thesis investigates the effects of written corrective feedback on the acquisition of generic article use by Greek learners. Charis will use the grant to complete her project. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1764/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1764/ Sat, 02 Feb 2013 11:20:36 +0000 Yvonne Prefontaine, a PhD student in the Thesis and Coursework programme, has won the Canadian Modern Language Review Best Graduate Student Paper competition with her paper entitled "Perceptions of French Fluency in Second Language Speech Production". Yvonne's research is set in the bilingual context of Canada. The panel particularly appreciated the mixed-method design of her study and the originality of her findings. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1762/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1762/ Thu, 31 Jan 2013 09:48:38 +0000 We are pleased to announce that two funding applications to the University-wide 'Pathways to Impact' scheme have each been awarded £4,00 Young Adult Gothic Fiction: A Symposium This symposium, co-organised by Catherine Spooner and Chloe Buckley, will bring together authors, figures from the publishing industry, academics and young adult readers to address the surge of Gothic writing aimed at children and young adults in the last ten to fifteen years. The event will include presentations of their research findings by Spooner and Buckley, readings and talks by selected authors and a round table discussion engaging with the current state of young adult publishing. Gothic is currently on the A-level English literature syllabus and sixth-form students in the region will be invited to attend free of charge. Nowhere Near London: A Dramatised Reading This project will involve the dramatic adaptation of John Schad's novel The Late Walter Benjamin and will become a staged reading involving local people from the Council estate near London in which the novel is set. The reading will be staged both on the estate and in the Watford Palace Theatre 'green room bar.' The whole process of dramatisation will be filmed by Frederic Dalmasso. The project is also supported by a FASS Knowledge Exchange award. Congratulations to all involved. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1760/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1760/ Tue, 29 Jan 2013 13:07:11 +0000 Lessons of the 1953 East Coast flood disaster View the YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9mDpPbLyUQ ​Sixty years ago, on 31 January and 1 February 1953, over 300 people died in flooding on the East Coast of England. Recent research has found that the Cabinet partly funded the response to avoid blame and further requests for funding. Today such floods, caused by storm surges, are predicted by a warning system implemented after the 1953 flood. Despite the warning system, coastal flooding remains a key concern both for residents and government. In 2007 warnings from the system led the government calling a meeting of the emergency COBRA committee.The impact of coastal flooding is predicted to become worse due to climate change. The early history of this warning system and who paid for the research behind it has recently been researched by Anna Carlsson-Hyslop from the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University, funded by the ESRC. Scientists based at the Liverpool Observatory and Tidal Institute had researched storm surges since the 1920s. The scientists, housed in the Bidston Observatory on the Wirral peninsula, had been funded by the shipping industry, the Navy and local government, but central government rejected funding requests for surge science until after the 1953 flood. In the East Coast Flood 307 people died in England and almost 1800 in the Netherlands. In England the damage was estimated to have cost £30 million at the time, with 24,000 houses needing repairs and 32,000 people evacuated. After the flood the government established an investigation known as the Waverley Committee. It recommended the establishment of a warning system for this kind of flooding, which was quickly put in place. Since then this warning system has been developed by scientists in Liverpool with financial support from the state, but the research found that the Cabinet established the Waverley Committee and funded the response to the flooding in part to avoid blame and further requests for funding. However, other parts of the government were whole-heartedly in favour of the research, adopting the recommendations of the Waverley Committee even before they had been made public. Before this event the scientists at the Tidal Institute in Liverpool had had intermittent support for their work on storm surges since the 1920s, first from the local shipping industry, then from local government after a flood in 1928 in which 14 died in central London, and then from the Navy during the Second World War. Since the 1953 flood the state has funded research into storm surge forecasting in Liverpool as well as by other oceanographers, the Met Office and the Hydrographic Office, but in the 1930s the Treasury repeatedly refused to fund this kind of research, seeing flooding as a local responsibility. The Liverpool scientists named the cause of this kind of flooding 'storm surges' as well as developing ways of forecasting such events. They were also world leaders in predicting tides, including doing so for the D-Day landing. Their successors work at NOC Liverpool and continue to develop tidal predictions, storm surge forecasts and oceanographic science. http://news.lancs.ac.uk/Web/News/Pages/Lessons-of-the-1953-East-Coast-flood-disaster-.aspx http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1761/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1761/ Fri, 08 Feb 2013 10:48:55 +0000 Alisdair Gillespie and Suzanne Ost have received university funding for a Pathways to Impact seminar entitled Child Sexual Exploitation and the Law, to be held in April 2013. The seminar will bring together academics and practitioners from the area to present key research and to identify potential networking opportunities for consultancy, future research and collaborative ventures. The seminar will explore matters such as current issues in the law relating to child sexual exploitation, lessons to be learnt from recent group localised grooming cases, reparation for child pornography victims, victims of child sexual exploitation within the criminal justice system and the sentencing of offenders. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1763/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1763/ Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:17:46 +0000 The Department of Linguistics and English Language has received funding from FASS to support the development of links between Lancaster and Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., USA. Lancaster's Distinguished Professor Ruth Wodak has been awarded the prestigious 2013-14 Davis Chair in interdisciplinary studies by Georgetown University, and she will spend a semester there in Spring, 2014. Dr Jennifer Nycz has been awarded funding by Georgetown University to visit Lancaster University in order to carry out collaborative research with Dr Dan Johnson on Sociophonetics. The FASS funding will support Dr. Johnson to visit Georgetown University in order to continue their research agenda and Dr Aubrey Logan-Terry to visit Lancaster University to work on a project on methodology in applied linguistics research with Professor Alison Mackey and Dr. Jenefer Philp. Finally, both institutions have provided support for a Georgetown postgraduate student to attend Lancaster University's LAEL Postgraduate student conference in July, 2013. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1758/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1758/ Thu, 24 Jan 2013 10:59:01 +0000 Study Start is a 2-week intensive study skills course designed to help international students get the best possible start for their degree at Lancaster University. Starting a university degree, especially if you are moving far from home, can seem a frightening prospect. Often students come with many questions, for example: How will I get used to my new university?Where is the library and how does it work?What kinds of classes will I have, and will they be similar to those in my previous studies?What conventions do I need to follow when writing essays, reports or dissertations?How can I avoid plagiarism?What is the best way to organise my time so I can get everything done?How can I get good marks on my assignments and exams? Study Start will not only help you find the answers to these questions: it aims to help you become an independent and confident student. You will learn how to get the most out of being at a world-renowned university.The course will run 16-27th September 2013For full details see the website http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/study/studystart/index.htm http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1759/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1759/ Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:21:49 +0000 Elena Semino gives a talk entitled 'A Linguistic approach to the McGill pain questionnaire' at the Eastman Dental Hospital in London. The talk is part of a collaborative project aimed at gaining a better understanding of the linguistic descriptors that are included in a widely used questionnaire for the diagnosis of the causes of pain symptoms. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1757/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1757/ Tue, 22 Jan 2013 18:27:35 +0000 A statement about the best ways to teach and acquire necessary German proficiency for school children and pre-school children was drafted by Ruth Wodak and Heinz Fassmann from the Expertenrat which advises the Austrian Ministry of Interior Affairs on issues concerning Integration/Migration/Citizenship. This statement was widely reported by the Austrian Press Agency (APA) and broa´dcast by the Austrian Radion and Televion (ORF) on-line, 14/15 January as well as by several quality news papers (Die Presse, Der Standard, Die Wiener Zeitung, and so forth). See Statement in German as conveyed by the APA BildungAPA - Austria Presse Agentur Sprachförderung - Expertenrat fordert sachliche Diskussion Utl.: Thema dürfe "nicht zu einem kurzlebigen, parteipolitisch besetzen Thema hochstilisiert werden" - "ALLE Kinder" mit Sprachproblemen betroffen = Wien (APA) - Nach dem jüngsten Schlagabtausch zwischen Integrationsstaatssekretär Sebastian Kurz (V) und Unterrichtsministerin Claudia Schmied (S) hat der Expertenrat für Integration am Montag in einer Aussendung eine differenzierte Diskussion zur schulischen Sprachförderung eingefordert. Die Sprachförderung dürfe "nicht zu einem kurzlebigen, parteipolitisch besetzen Thema hochstilisiert werden", heißt es in dem Schreiben, das u.a. von Expertenrat-Leiter Heinz Faßmann und Sprachwissenschafterin Ruth Wodak gezeichnet ist. Stattdessen brauche es eine sachliche und parteiunabhängige Diskussion durch "die besten Köpfe". Die Wissenschafter betonen, dass schulische Sprachförderung nicht nur Schüler mit nicht-deutscher Muttersprache, sondern "ALLE Kinder betrifft, die für eine schulische Kommunikation und Verständigung noch nicht ausreichend Deutsch sprechen". Je früher mit der Sprachförderung begonnen werde, umso besser, verweisen die Forscher auf die wichtige Rolle des Kindergartens. Auch Mehrsprachigkeit müsse in einer umfassenden Konzeption berücksichtigt werden. Zusätzlich sollen auch "international erprobte Modelle" wie Spezialmodule und Sommerkurse für Schüler, die erst nach der Volksschule als Quereinsteiger in das österreichische Schulsystem eintreten, erwogen werden. Außerdem fordern die Experten die Berücksichtigung von unterschiedlichen regionalen Voraussetzungen - so gebe es im ländlichen Raum mit seinen Dialekten möglicherweise andere Deutschkenntnisse und -kompetenzen als in der Stadt mit einer hohen Konzentration an Kindern nicht-deutscher Muttersprache. "Es gibt also kein einziges 'one size fits all' Modell", betonen die Forscher. Ein modulares System würde hingegen ermöglichen, auf die individuellen Bedürfnisse und Vorqualifikationen der Schüler Rücksicht zu nehmen. Fördermaßnahmen müssten "mittel- und langfristig konzipiert werden", betonen die Wissenschafter. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1755/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1755/ Sun, 20 Jan 2013 15:24:47 +0000 The Department of English and Creative Writing is pleased to announce that, as part of the University's special agreement with the Wordsworth Trust at Dove Cottage in Grasmere, the first of a series of exhibitions based on material from the Wordsworth Trust opens on Thursday 24th January at 6.30pm in the Manton Room of the Peter Scott Gallery.... Time, space and money are perhaps the most valuable resources that can be given to an artist and our residency programmes tend to offer a combination of all of these elements. Some of the work in this display has been undertaken recently as part of the Live at LICA residency programme, alongside residency-generated material from the Peter Scott gallery collection and objects from the Wordsworth Trust's residency programme. This exhibition is one of a series of events and projects in an ongoing relationship between the Wordsworth Trust, Live at LICA and the Department of English and Creative Writing at Lancaster University. This display leads in to our Curate the Campus programme that will feature a number of artist residencies. Curate the Campus runs 29th April - 10th May 2013...The exhibition will run 25th January 2013 - 22nd March 2013Free Entry. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1756/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1756/ Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:36:20 +0000 The AHRC funded 3 year research project on the cultural history of Victorian pantomime concluded on 30 September 2012. It will result in two single authored monographs by the investigators, Jeffrey Richards of Lancaster University and Kate Newey of Exeter University and a collection of essays, jointly edited by Richards, Newey and research associate Peter Yeandle. A brief account of the research was embodied in the following blog commissioned by The Independent. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1754/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1754/ Fri, 18 Jan 2013 16:59:02 +0000 Applications for our postgraduate scholarships are open until 22 March 2013. For MA scholarships see http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/study/masters/funding.htmFor PhD scholarships see http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/study/phd/bursaries.htm http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1751/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1751/ Tue, 22 Jan 2013 09:52:32 +0000 Alisdair Gillespie and Suzanne Ost have been successful in a bid for a prestigious Modern Law Review-funded seminar entitledTackling Child Sexual Exploitation: Offences, Offenders and Victims, to be held in summer 2013.The seminar will bring together key interdisciplinary experts on child sexual exploitation, to present their latest research and discuss the gaps in existing research. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1752/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1752/ Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:19:28 +0000 Rebecca Braun has been awarded an AHRC Early Career Fellowship for over £170 000 for her major interdisciplinary project 'The Author and the World: New Interdisciplinary Approaches to Authorship' which is set to run from 2014-1016. The award will allow Rebecca to finish her monograph on German authors and the media (for more information, see DELC staff pages) and set up an interdisciplinary research hub on authorship that is to be located in the university's Centre for Transcultural Writing and Research. The hub will support the work of colleagues across the Faculty of Arts and Sciences with a programme of colloquia and postgraduate workshops running throughout 2014-15 on the topic of 'Authorship and Fame'. These will be led by major international researchers in collaboration with Lancaster colleagues in European Languages, English and Creative Writing, History, and Linguistics, and postgraduate bursaries are available to enable a wide range of early career scholars from across the UK and Europe to get involved. A dedicated website will also collate bibliographical resources and encourage global online interactive debate around the project's emerging research directions. The hub's activities will be relevant to both practising authors and academic researchers. Anyone who is interested in hearing more about the development of this initiative is warmly encouraged to contact Rebecca directly. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1747/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1747/ Fri, 18 Jan 2013 09:27:00 +0000 http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1749/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1749/ Wed, 16 Jan 2013 15:04:39 +0000 We are delighted to announce that a group of Lancaster linguists led by Professor Tony McEnery have been awarded a £3.5 million ESRC Centre on Corpus Approaches to Social Science. The Centre will start its operations in Spring 2013. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1750/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1750/ Tue, 12 Mar 2013 09:53:37 +0000 The new MA in Diplomacy and International Relations programme offered by the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University, introduces students to theories, issues and processes connected with diplomacy, foreign policy and international relations. Who is it for? This programme is especially relevant to those thinking about or currently working in diplomacy, international NGOs, and international policy and politics. What is the advantage of distance learning? Building on a very successful campus-based programme, this distance learning course offers convenience and flexibility in terms of study time and location. The programme aims to help students realise their academic potential, by encouraging choice and independence in their studies. Based on the distance learning principles, it is delivered entirely online and employs a wide variety of online learning tools to enhance students' learning experience. Course structure and learning The programme consists of 5 taught modules and a dissertation. ·Theory and Method in Postgraduate Studies ·Major Approaches to the Study of International Relations ·Theorising Security and War ·Theories and Concepts in Diplomacy and Foreign Policy ·Issues and Practice in Diplomacy and Foreign Policy ·Dissertation Each module lasts 10 weeks and is assessed by weekly learning activities and an essay. The final component involves a dissertation on a research topic of the students' own choice. Study throughout is comprehensively supported through supervised online group discussions, web seminars and individual academic supervision to ensure an engaging and enjoyable distance learning experience. When does the course start? The programme is offered full-time (12 months, October start) or part-time (24 months, October start) from the 2013-2014 academic year. Entry Requirements An upper second class honours degree, or its equivalent. Relevant professional qualifications and experience will also be considered. Funding MA Bursaries of £1000 each are available for a 2013 entry. How to Apply http://www.lancs.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/how-to-apply-for-postgraduate-study/ Email: pprpg@lancaster.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0) 1524 594262 http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1745/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1745/ Tue, 15 Jan 2013 11:37:39 +0000 http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1746/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1746/ Tue, 15 Jan 2013 11:55:47 +0000 Professor Linda Woodhead of Lancaster University has been awarded an MBE in the Queen's New Year Honours List for services to higher education. As Professor of the Sociology of Religion, she has led the largest ever research project on religion in the UK - the £12m Religion and Society Programme which involved 240 academics from 29 different disciplines carrying out research between 2007-12. It has raised the profile of religion research across the arts and humanities and trained a new generation of academics. She said: "I am honoured and delighted to receive the MBE and would like to thank all the students and colleagues who have taken part in the research and debates on religion and society." Professor Woodhead and former minister Charles Clarke recently organised the Westminster Faith Debates on 'Religion and Public Life', a series of debates between academics and leading public figures which included a conversation between Tony Blair, Charles Moore and Rowan Williams. A new series on 'Religion and Personal Life' is being held in Spring 2013. She is also a regular commentator and broadcaster on religion and society in the media. "My main interest is in studying religious change in modern societies, relating it to wider social changes, and thinking through practical and political implications. My current work focuses on how and why religion has changed so dramatically in Britain since the late 1980s." Aaqil Ahmed, Head of Religion and Ethics at the BBC commented: "The Religion and Society Programme has made it more acceptable to 'do religion' in public. This can be seen in the media, from more newspaper opinion pieces to religion-related programmes being produced within the BBC." http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1741/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1741/ Mon, 14 Jan 2013 09:55:25 +0000 This month Dr Richard Tutton, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, takes up co-editorship of the journal New Genetics and Society, published by Taylor and Francis. This follows the retirement of Professor Peter Glasner who has edited the journal since 1999 New Genetics and Society is a multidisciplinary and international journal that publishes social science research on genomics, biotechnology, biomedicine, and other related biosciences. Over the past fourteen years, the journal has developed into a vital resource for social scientists, ethicists, policymakers, and practitioners to understand the diverse ways genomic and biological knowledge and technologies are produced and contested in different social and cultural contexts. In 2011, its five year impact factor was 1.027. Richard is editing the journal with Professor Adam Hedgecoe at the University of Cardiff, with whom he has worked on various projects in the past. 'I am very excited to be assuming the co-editorship of this journal with Adam. New Genetics and Society appeared shortly after we started our postgraduate studies and has always been an important point of reference for our research.' 'We are in the process of making a number of changes to both how the journal looks and to how it is run in order to build on what has been achieved to date. I am looking forward to working with members of the editorial board, reviewers, readers and the publishers in the years to come to continue its success'. New Genetics and Society can be accessed at: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/cngs http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1742/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1742/ Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:36:29 +0000 Jenn Ashworth will be appearing on BBC 1 Breakfast tomorrow (15th January), talking about 'The Friday Gospels'. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1743/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1743/ Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:35:25 +0000 Congratulations to Sarah Kinley, a first year English with Creative Writing student who will be visiting Buckingham Palace on 15th January 2013 to collect her gold Duke of Edinburgh Award. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1737/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1737/ Fri, 04 Jan 2013 14:39:59 +0000 Jenn Ashworth will be speaking about her new novel, The Friday Gospels, in an interview with Mark Lawson for BBC Radio 4's 'Front Row', to be broadcast on Friday 11th January 2013 at 7.15pm. Listen live or later at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qsq5 http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1740/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1740/ Fri, 11 Jan 2013 14:01:19 +0000 Congratulations to Erkan Ali who passed his Sociology PhD viva today. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1739/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1739/ Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:09:18 +0000 The Department is very pleased to congratulate Martha Sprackland on her appointment as Assistant Poetry Editor at Faber. Martha read for both her BA (2009-11) and MA (2011-12)with us. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1734/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1734/ Fri, 04 Jan 2013 14:26:33 +0000 Societies Beyond Oil: Oil Dregs and Social Futures ISBN 9781780321684 'A brilliant book. A pioneering effort to fill a yawning gap in sociology - the lack of a sociology of energy.' Lord Giddens, House of Lords, London also launching The Oil Road: Journeys from the Caspian Sea to the City of London, James Marriott and Mika Minio-Paluello With talks from the authors John Urry and James Marriott Thursday January 31st 2013 6.30-8.30pm @ Firebox 106-8 Cromer St, London, WC1H 8BZ Tel: 07850 177637 Email: info@fireboxlondon.net http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1733/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1733/ Thu, 03 Jan 2013 15:20:09 +0000 Paula Burkinshaw's PhD research was reported in the Times Higher Education on 20th December 2012. The report drew on aspects of Paula's paper entitled 'The silent and the strange: exploring the under-representation of women at Vice Chancellor level in the UK' that she presented at the Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) Conference in December. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1730/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1730/ Fri, 21 Dec 2012 17:21:03 +0000 Ruth will participate in a panel discussion with MEPs from the Green Party and some prominent Austrian journalists, about the Nobel Peace Prize awared to the European Union last week. Ruth has inistiated, together with David Sugarman (Department of Law, Lancaster University) an appeal to the European Parliament to finally confront the extreme rise of racism, xenophobia, antisemitism, and Islamophobia in EU countries. The letter was sent off to the EP in November 2012. EU-Schicksalsjahr 2012 Europa neu bauen Der Friedensnobelpreis an die EU - Fehlgriff? Wunschdenken? Auftrag für Gegenwart und Zukunft! Anlässlich der Vergabe des Friedensnobelpreises an die EU und zum Abschluss ihrer diesjährigen Debattenreihe lädt Ulrike Lunacek, MEP, zum Gespräch mit: Barbara Coudenhove-Kalergi Journalistin und Standard-Kolumnistin Ruth Wodak Distinguished Professor, Lancaster University, UK Unterzeichnerin der Petition gegen Rassimus an das Europäische Parlament Montag, 17. Dezember 2012, 19.30 Uhr Haus der Europäischen Union Wipplingerstraße 35, 1010 Wien Im Anschluss an die Veranstaltung wird zum Buffet geladen. Um Anmeldung wird gebeten bei: margit.rimpfl@gruene.at Natürlich sind auch Kurzentschlossene ohne Anmeldung herzlich willkommen! http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1723/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1723/ Mon, 17 Dec 2012 08:41:40 +0000 From May 2013, Elizabeth Shove, from the Sociology Department at Lancaster University, will be Co-Director of a new cross-Faculty, RCUK-funded research centre, DEMAND: The Dynamics of Energy, Mobility and Demand. With funding of around £5 million over five years, the DEMAND centre, funded by RCUK, will undertake a 5 year interdisciplinary research programme in collaboration with 7 other University partners. The core group will include Leeds Institute for Transport Studies and EDF R&D's European Centre and Labs for Energy Efficiency Research based in Paris, with contributions from researchers at Aberdeen, Birmingham, Manchester, Reading, Sheffield, Sussex and UCL. Professor Gordon Walker (Lancaster Environment Centre) will also be Co-Director of the Centre; others involved at Lancaster will include Dr James Faulconbridge (Organisation Work and Technology) and Dr Mike Hazas (School of Computing and Communications). The DEMAND Centre (Dynamics of Energy, Mobility and Demand) will take a distinctive approach to end use energy demand. In essence, the Centre will focus on what energy is for, recognising that energy is not used for its own sake but as part of accomplishing social practices at home, at work and in moving around. This approach will inform an ambitious research agenda, developing a more sophisticated understanding of the underlying dynamics of demand itself through examining patterns in mobility and building-related energy use and the processes through which trends towards more resource-intensive standards of comfort, convenience and speed take hold. The Centre will take forward a wide-ranging agenda for future research and policy, one which will be crucial for organisations involved in demand management and in radically reconfiguring infrastructures, buildings and transport systems in line with greenhouse gas emissions targets. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1724/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1724/ Tue, 18 Dec 2012 09:22:58 +0000 Professor Simon Bainbridge travels to Paris and Waterloo to trace the footsteps of Napoleon's literary pilgrims and decriers - this Sunday night on BBC Radio Three. Listen to this programme live or later by following the link below. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1735/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1735/ Fri, 04 Jan 2013 14:31:11 +0000 We are delighted to announce that on May 7-8th 2013 the poet Paul Muldoon, winner of a Pulizter Prize for Poetry, former Oxford Professor of Poetry, and current Howard G. B. Clark '21 Professor in the Humanities at Princeton, will be here to give a reading/lecture and conduct masterclasses. This visit is part of ongoing research programme that links the Department of English and Creative Writing with the Department of Linguistics and English Language. Paul Muldoon's lecture (incorporating readings of his own poems) will focus on poetry and language. Full details to follow. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1720/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1720/ Tue, 11 Dec 2012 12:37:13 +0000 Congratulations to Shireen Chilcott who successfully defended her PhD thesis in the Department of Sociology. Her research topic was Explaining the Uneven Gender Composition of Workers across Architecture, Town Planning, Electrical Work and Plumbing Her research topic was Explaining the Uneven Gender Composition of Workers across Architecture, Town Planning, Electrical Work and Plumbing. She was supervised by Professor Elizabeth Shove and Professor Sylvia Walby http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1719/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1719/ Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:08:46 +0000 http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1728/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1728/ Tue, 18 Dec 2012 13:19:27 +0000 http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1726/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1726/ Tue, 18 Dec 2012 13:13:26 +0000 http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1727/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1727/ Tue, 18 Dec 2012 13:17:05 +0000 As part of the EU-funded I.Family project on children, families and health, Garrath Williams has published a short opinion piece on how rules and regulations aren't simply restrictive. Instead, he argues, they can empower people - and companies - to act as they want.'Regulating food companies: restricting or empowering?', on-line at:http://www.ifamilystudy.eu/regulating-food-companies-restricting-or-empowering http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1718/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1718/ Wed, 05 Dec 2012 10:21:36 +0000 http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1716/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1716/ Tue, 04 Dec 2012 10:56:54 +0000 Chances are you've heard about 3D printing - or additive manufacturing as it's otherwise known: a process that turns computer-aided designs into three-dimensional, real-world objects with a range of uses, from a range of materials and on a range of scales. But you've probably heard little in terms of the social impact that 3D printing and its associated technologies will likely have. Those possible impacts are exactly what we're investigating at Lancaster University and the University of Wollongong. We've identified four potential scenarios that could eventuate in a world that embraces 3D printing and, crucially, how those scenarios could affect everyday life. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1717/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1717/ Tue, 04 Dec 2012 11:05:30 +0000 Congratulations to Dr Polly Atkin, one of our Associate Lecturers and a former PhD student, who has just won the Mslexia Poetry Pamphlet Competition with her collection, Shadow Dispatches.The winning pamphlet will be published by Seren Books in March 2013. You can read a poem from the pamphlet, 'The Glorious Fellowship of Migraineurs', by following the link below. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1736/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1736/ Fri, 04 Jan 2013 14:36:22 +0000 Congratulations to Yi-Ping Cheng who successfully defended her PhD thesis. Her research topic was A Home Consumption Study: Material Flow and Storage of Things in Taiwanese Households She was supervised by Prof. Tim Dant and Prof. Elizabeth Shove. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1715/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1715/ Tue, 04 Dec 2012 09:27:42 +0000 The Department of Educational Research is launching a new online PhD - by coursework and thesis - in Education and Social Justice. It's a part-time programme undertaken entirely online, over 4 years. The programme is designed to enable experienced professionals worldwide to focus on, and research, social justice issues that are at the heart of their own professional practice and concerns. It will be of benefit to a wide range of people including: teachers working in schools, further education, higher education, and lifelong learning; policy makers; managers; researchers working with social justice issues; youth workers; activists and advocacy workers; people with equity or social justice portfolios in a variety of institutions; education support personnel; consultants; researchers and workers in charities and NGOs; and civil servants. The PhD in Education and Social Justice is a new addition to the Department's established and successful suite of doctoral programmes, one of which has been running since 1995. Applications are now invited to join the first cohort of students who will commence the programme in autumn 2013. For more information see: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1709/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1709/ Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:13:18 +0000 Daniel Ezra Johnson was interviewed for BBC Radio Merseyside about the current interest in the French-accented interview of Liverpudlian and QPR footballer Joey Barton. Listen again here http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p010rfwp the item starts at 48 minutes. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1711/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1711/ Thu, 29 Nov 2012 11:49:59 +0000 http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1708/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1708/ Tue, 27 Nov 2012 14:37:15 +0000 Dr Basil Germond has been invited as an expert in maritime security and naval affairs to speak to the European Parliament, Sub-Committee on Security and Defence, in Brussels on the 27th of November 2012. Dr Germond was consulted on the rationale behind a potential EU Maritime Security Strategy. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1710/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1710/ Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:14:19 +0000 Jane Sunderland's research monograph, Language, Gender and Children's Fiction (Bloomsbury/Continuum, 2011) has been awarded joint-winner of the biannual International Gender and Language Association (IGALA) book prize for 2012. The book includes chapters on fairytales, children's reading schemes, stories featuring two-Mum and two-Dad families (written with PhD student Mark McGlashan), and, of course, Harry Potter, with a special focus on gender relations and the representation of Hermione. (Following on from this, Jane is currently PI of a British Academy-funded research project, 'Harry Potter and Boys' Literacies', with Steve Dempster of Educational Research and Joanne Thistlethwaite of LAEL.) http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1712/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1712/ Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:02:15 +0000 International Partnership on Evaluation and Social Justice Professor Murray Saunders has been centrally involved in the development of Evalpartners, which is an innovative international partnership involving the International Organization for Cooperation in Evaluation (IOCE)and UNICEF, funded by the Finnish Government and the World Bank. The objective of the Initiative is to enhance the capacity of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) to engage strategically in national evaluation processes, contributing to improved country-led evaluation systems and evidence-based policies that are equity-focused and gender-sensitive. This important international development will be launched atthe EvalPartners International Forum on Civil Society's Evaluation Capacity in Chiang Mai, Thailand in December 2012. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1706/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1706/ Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:34:25 +0000 The 7th conference devoted to fine-grained research into higher education, Higher Education Close Up (HECU) will be held at Lancaster, July 21-23 2014. The conference website is here:http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/events/hecu7/. This follows a successful HECU 6 at Rhodes University, South Africa, in July 2012. The conference is run from the here@lancaster research centre which focuses on HE research and evaluation, based in the Department of Educational Research. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1674/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1674/ Mon, 05 Nov 2012 10:23:42 +0000 The assistance of Professor David Sugarmanis acknowledged by Jack Straw in Last Man Standing: Memoirs of a Political Survivor (London: Macmillan, September 2012). Straw also refers to several ofSugarman's publications on the Pinochet case. The book was serialised in the Daily Mail. Straw served as Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary, Lord Chancellor, Secretary for Justice, and Leader of the House in theGovernment's of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1645/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1645/ Sat, 29 Sep 2012 10:35:59 +0100 I.Family is a major EU FP7 project, in which PPR at Lancaster University is a partner. A new press release sets out a key focus of the project - the age group sometimes known as 'tweens.' The 'TWEENS' Tribe Who are they and why are they important to the I.Family Study? 'Tweens' - boys and girls aged 10 to 12, no longer 'kids' but not yet teenagers - face many challenges during this transition time. Increasing independence and exposure to behaviours outside family control, approaching puberty and changing educational demands make this an exciting yet demanding time, not only for the 'Tweens' themselves but also for their families. During this transition time there is potential for established healthy lifestyle and dietary habits to be set aside and to be overtaken by habits that may limit healthy life expectancy. Alternatively, 'Tweens' increasing development of individuality and independence can see them adopt 'healthier' habits than before. Changes in these habits may be driven by peer pressure, exposure to issues and information in school, or by the direct marketing efforts via TV, mobiles and internet of food, music and other retailers who target this age group specifically as they have money to spend. This is why a major focus of the EC funded I.Family project and its 15 research teams in 11 countries across Europe is on this age group, often neglected in research studies and analysis. 'Tweens' make up the largest group of individuals that will be studied by I.Family, building as it does on the family cohort developed by the IDEFICS research programme when children were aged 10 or under. I.Family will re-assess these children and their families - identifying families and individuals that have adopted and maintained a healthy lifestyle and approach to food, eating habits and lifestyles and those that have not. Family, environment, social, behavioural and genetic factors will all be examined and drawn together to identify reasons behind the adoption of healthy and unhealthy lifestyle and eating habits. The overall aim is to help not only policy-makers shape advice and support that is of practical benefit to professionals, but also to families who may be helped to establish ground rules that will lead to the enjoyment of a longer, healthier life. 'Click here for the full press release. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1624/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1624/ Tue, 21 Aug 2012 14:45:45 +0100 Charles Clarke gave his inaugural lecture as Visiting Professor in Politics and Faith, on Wednesday 23rd March at the Storey Institute Lancaster.For those were unable to attend, or to hear it again, the lecture - 'Politics and Faith: Why they are Increasingly Intertwined' is available as a podcast.The text of the lecture is avalable here. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1228/ http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1228/ Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:00:06 +0100