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 The Department of European Languages and Cultures at Lancaster University is offering a graduate teaching assistantship in the field of European Languages and Cultures. The position will be available from 5 October 2012 and will be open to candidates from the UK and other EU member states only. Applicants should have a first-class or high upper second-class honours degree (or equivalent qualification) in a relevant discipline. The successful applicant will receive a fee waiver for three years leading to the completion of a PhD on a research topic in one of the areas represented by research staff in the Department. The candidate will also be eligible to deliver hourly-paid teaching within the department to a maximum of six-hours per week. The Department is a vibrant centre of research in Catalan-, French-, German- and Spanish-language cultures, and we are also interested in projects which are comparative or trans-cultural in scope. Recent graduate work in the Department has led to theses in the fields of Basque educational policy, Catalan children's literature, the contemporary French novel, German film and sport in a cross-cultural context, and Spanish national identity. Interested applicants should send 1) a CV and 2) a detailed research proposal 2-3 pages in length including select bibliography to: g.kerr@lancaster.ac.uk by February 28th 2012. An initial selection of applications will be followed by a request for two academic references and a campus or online interview. Further enquiries about the position may be made to DELC's Director of Postgraduate Studies, Greg Kerr: g.kerr@lancaster.ac.uk. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/eurolang/pg/index.htm http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/eurolang/research/index.htm http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/eurolang/profiles/phd Lancaster PG Open Day Wednesday 22 February Additional information about postgraduate study at Lancaster will be available at our Postgraduate Open Day on Wednesday 22nd February 2012. For details, please contact the DELC postgraduate and research coordinator, Linda Gilmour: l.gilmour@lancaster.ac.uk. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1454/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1454/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:03:48 +0000 Graham Mort has been awarded £1,600 from the Faculty Research Fund to develop a new dimension of his work in Uganda with the Femrite Womens Writers Association - a project to enhance editing skills for writers and publishers that will lead to a new anthology of work and an eBook publication. The award will be topped up by £200 of Departmental funding (a pre-requisite) and has been proposed as en enhancement of the REF Impact Study based on Graham's work in Africa over the past ten years. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1459/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1459/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:55:59 +0000 In the recently published 2012 edition of the 'Complete University Guide' Sociology went up the rankings from 13th in the 2011 league table to 7th for 2012 and Media Studies went up from 15th to 13th. The Department are delighted to see this improvement on the rankings that are made up from scores on student satisfaction, research assessment, entry standards and graduate prospects. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1451/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1451/ Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:55:18 +0000 Prof.G.Loanadha Reddy, Dean of the School of Education at Dravidian University, Kuppam, India visited Lancaster this week to meet with members of the Centre for Disability Research. Prof Reddy is on a longer visit to the UK and is based at Coventry University. He is visiting to learn more about disability studies in the UK as part of his own plans to start a Centre for Disability Studies in Dravidian University. This will be an interdisciplinary centre that will aim to educate and train people to implement India's policies of inclusion. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1453/ http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1453/ Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:14:14 +0000 A former Lancaster PhD student has won the 2011 Costa Book of the Year Award for his novel, Pure. Andrew Miller, who was a research student in the Department of English & Creative Writing (awarded 1995), was presented with his prize at a ceremony in London last week; Geordie Grieg, chair of the judges, described Pure as 'a rich and brilliant historical novel of death and superstition. It is a morality tale which engrosses with its vivid evocation of pre-revolutionary France.' Andrew's book prevailed in a strong year that saw category winners such as Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy. His first novel, Ingenious Pain, won the Impac Dublin prize and the James Tait Black award. In 2001, his novel Oxygen was shortlisted for the Booker and Whitbread (forerunner of the Costa) novel prize. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1450/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1450/ Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:18:33 +0000 We are very much looking forward to welcoming J. Hillis Miller to the Department in May 2012. During his time with us, he will be participating in a variety of open lectures, research seminars and a conference dedicated to his life and work. The trailer for a film about J. Hillis Miller by Dragan Kujundzic, The First Sail, can be viewed on Youtube (please see the link below).The film portrays the life and work of the great American literary critic and philosopher, J. Hillis Miller, through interviews and archival footage. The filming took place in the President's House at the University of Florida, where J.Hillis Miller spent some of his childhood as the son of the first post World War II President of the University of Florida, J.Hillis Miller Sr. J. Hillis Miller reminisces about his childhood and the great contribution of his family to the university, as well about his own career at Yale University, Johns Hopkins University and the University of California. The filming then continued on Deer Isle, Maine, where J.Hillis Miller has summer and winter residences and where he is also an avid sailor. From more than thirty hours of interview footage, a selection was made to illustrate not only a life of a great critic, but also the history of American University for the last sixty years, as well as to hear J.Hillis Miller's reflections on some of the urgent topics of our time: climate change, the role of higher education in the US, financial crises etc. This film includes exclusive footage of Jacques Derrida talking about J.Hillis Miller at a conference dedicated to him. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1458/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1458/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:51:34 +0000 Congratulations to Andrew Keir, who completed the MA in Creative Writing by Distance Learning in September 2011, and whose novella, Bloody Flies, is going to be published next month. Bloody Flies is a sequence of glimpses into expat life in the opening decade of the twenty-first century and the shifting morals that occur when Middle-East meets West. After the death of Leo's father, Leo and Diana Hunter move their family to materialistic Abu Dhabi in pursuit of the best future that money can buy. But despite their commitment to this neat world their hopes soon begin to crumble under the shadow of corruption, slavery and greed. Moving Messages, an episode from Bloody Flies, was runner up in the 2010 Kitab/M Magazine short fiction competition. Bloody Flies will be available in paperback and on Kindle. Please see the link below for more information. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1449/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1449/ Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:51:48 +0000 Prof Linda Woodhead has a piece in this weeks Tablet on the role of religion in public life.http://www.thetablet.co.uk/article/162261 http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1447/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1447/ Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:32:07 +0000 Visiting Professor Charles Clarke gave an interview on LBC on Friday 27th January, on religion and its position in everyday life.You can hear the interview here. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1448/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1448/ Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:36:17 +0000 On Wednesday 4th April 2012, the Oxford Playhouse Drama Studio will host a staged reading of John Schad's novelistic work, Someone Called Derrida: An Oxford Mystery.For full details of the show, please follow the link below. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1446/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1446/ Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:36:07 +0000 I'm here all week, ba-dum-tish! (Is this thing still on?) http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1443/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1443/ Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:48:28 +0000 The proceedings of a symposium held last November at Lancaster University are available to download from -http://www.lancs.ac.uk/cedr/publications/Anderson_Sapey_and_Spandler_eds_2012.pdfThis includes a reprint of Anne Plumb's 1994 discussion paper, Distress or Disability? which was originally published by the Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People and is now out of print. A great opportunity to read and pass on this classic text along with many other excellent papers. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1442/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1442/ Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:34:15 +0000 The Centre for Gender and Women's Studies willbe collaborating with the international research network MaMSIE(Mapping Maternal Subjectivities, Identities and Ethics) in 2012. We will be runninga series of large workshop style research events in 2012/13 which will be announced on our events page. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1441/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1441/ Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:18:42 +0000 The Festival (part of a series of events associated with the Tom Milne Popular Fiction Archive Exhibition) runs from Friday 20th January to Friday 27th January and is open to all members of Lancaster University. . It will show a mixture of classic film noir and post-1960sneo-noir every evening in the Elizabeth Livingstone Lecture Theatre. FILM SHOWINGS 20th JANUARY to 27th JANUARY FRIDAY 20th JAN: Maltese Falcon 6.00 - 7.40; Farewell My Lovely 8.00 - 9.35 MONDAY 23rd JAN: Double Indemnity 6.00 - 7.50; Body Heat 8.30 - 10.30 TUESDAY 24th JAN: Cape Fear 6.00 - 7.45; Point Blank 8.15 - 10.00 WEDNESDAY 25th JAN: Shoot the Piano Player 6.00 - 7.20; Strangers on a Train 8.00 - 9.50 THURSDAY 26th JAN: Jackie Brown 9.00 - 12.00 FRIDAY 27th JAN: The Big Heat 6.00 - 7.30; The Grifters 8.00 - 9.50 http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1440/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1440/ Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:45:50 +0000 Dr Julia Gillen, lecturer in Digital Literacies, writes about Waterstone's lost apostrophe in the Daily Mirror."End of an error: Why it's OK to follow Waterstone's and ditch the apostrophe" http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1437/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1437/ Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:31:00 +0000 Ruth is invited to give the keynote at the occasion of the opening of the new faculty building of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Paris-Lodron University Salzburg (Unipark Nonntal), 13 January 2012, on Critic and Crisis: Dimension of interdisciplinary Social and Cultural Sciences.For further details please see the program. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1438/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1438/ Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:37:21 +0000 The late Tom Milne was a highly regarded film critic who joined the British Film Institute as an associate editor. His collection was recently donated to the University Library by Nigel Algar, Senior Curator (Fiction) of the BFI. The exhibition showcases novels from the Tom Milne Archive, focusing on the influence of American crime fiction on film noir and neo-noir. The exhibition runs from 17th January - 9th March 2012, in Lancaster University Library.Nigel Algar will be talking about his personal reflections of Tom Milne as a critic and collector on Wednesday 18th January at 2pm in Training Rooms 3, Human Resources Building. Please contact Louise Tripp at l.tripp@lancaster.ac.uk if you would like to attend. The Milme Archive has been funded by a generous donation from the Lancaster University Friends Programme. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1439/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1439/ Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:41:44 +0000 'Who wants to be locked into a room with 30 people dressed just like them, to be startled by a bell every 35 minutes, to queue for lunch for 40 minutes and be made to stand outside in the cold twice a day?' Jenn Ashworth most definitely did not…Jenn's essay, 'Why I refused to go to school' will feature in the Guardian Weekend Magazine on Saturday 14th January, and can be read online following the link below. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1444/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1444/ Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:15:33 +0000 Bruce Bennett (Film Studies/LICA) is delivering a presentation on sitcoms and comic treatments of the war on terror, entitled 'Gary's war on terror: Television comedy and soldiers' stories' on Saturday 14th Jan.Conference title: Acting Up: Gender and Television ComedyVenue: Northumbria University http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1436/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1436/ Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:11:09 +0000 Professor Linda Woodhead, Professor Charles Clarke and Dr Rebecca Cato (PPR) are running a series of high profile public debates in Westminster on the theme of religion and public life, involving a wide range of speakers including: David Blunkett, Richard Dawkins, Kim Knott, Trevor Phillips, Lisa Appignanesi and many others. Topics include: Religious Identity in "Superdiverse" Societies (8th Feb); What's the Place of Faith in Schools (22 February) and What Limits to Religious Freedom (18 April). For further details see link. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1433/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1433/ Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:56:40 +0000 Professor Paul Farley was the presenter of BBC Radio 3's Sunday Feature broadcast on New Year's Day. The programme, 'Dee', followed Paul as he travelled the path of the River Dee from its source in the Welsh mountains, along the border with England and finally out to sea, meeting with farmers, historians, lifeguards, novelists, singers and mystics along the way. Paul also featured in the Guardian's Country Diary column on 7 January, written by Jim Perrin, who appeared in the programme. 'Dee' also featured in Pick of the Week on BBC Radio 4 on 8 January, and was previewed in the Times, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail and other national newspapers. You can read the Country Diary column by following the link below. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1445/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1445/ Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:22:36 +0000 Prof. Linda Woodhead, Prof. Charles Clarke and Dr Rebecca Catto from PPR are running a series of high profile public debates in Westminster this spring on the theme of religion and public life, involving a wide range of speakers including: David Blunkett, Richard Dawkins, Kim Knott, Trevor Phillips, Lisa Appignanesi and many others. Topics include: Religious Identity in "Superdiverse" Societies (8th Feb); What's the Place of Faith in Schools (22nd Feb) and What Limits to Religious Freedom (18th April). For further details see: http://www.religionandsociety.org.uk/faith_debates http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1432/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1432/ Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:02:25 +0000 PPR at Lancaster recently hosted a public "Question Time: Debating Poltics and Religion" event,with an exciting panel of guests from the world of politics, religion, media and academia. For those who didn't manage to attend, the event has been recorded and the video is available here http://www.lancs.ac.uk/iss/services/digital/test/questiontimetest.htm . http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1421/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1421/ Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:59:45 +0000 The loss of her job became the chance of a lifetime for former banking employee Elaine Stokes. She used her redundancy money to fund a Masters degree in Historical Research at Lancaster University, where she was awarded a distinction. Elaine first graduated with a BA in Medieval Studies in 1977 but after nearly three decades working all over the UK in the banking industry, she was made redundant. "I have always loved history and being made redundant meant I had the money to do an MA. I worked part-time in the Lancaster Environment Centre at the University whilst improving my skills as an historian". Her MA in Historical Research examined the north/south divide not in terms of house prices, but in terms of the linguistic impact of Viking settlements."I wanted to be able to read medieval documents in the original and I looked at the names of fields, which showed a very strong Scandinavian influence, especially in the Lune Valley and the Fylde. "Doing the MA has been very fulfilling and I am now equipped to progress further with my historical studies." http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1429/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1429/ Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:56:34 +0000 A former teacher has achieved the highest academic degree almost fifty years after being told she was not good enough for university. Jane Platt, 63, who lives near Carlisle in Cumbria, was told by her teachers that she was not suitable for a university education. She has since achieved a PhD in History from Lancaster University and is working on her first book."When I got to Lancaster University, I was like a child in a sweetshop because it was so exciting. When you finally get something that you've wanted all your life, you can't stop studying. I'm finally the "me" that I always wanted to be. I thought I was useless but I feel thrilled that I've come so far." Jane said nothing in her background had prepared her for higher education. "I came from a poor background of housemaids and estate tenants - it was a different world back then. I wanted desperately to go to university and I was top of the form in English and History but bottom in Maths so I wasn't allowed to go. I was pushed off to teacher training college instead but it wasn't fulfilling." Jane qualified as a teacher in 1969 and taught for 30 years before taking a part-time degree with the Open University, where she achieved First Class honours. "Both of my daughters went to university and one is now a professor in the US so I thought, maybe I could do this too. But I had to earn money so I taught part-time and did my degree that way and it was amazing." She then did an MA in Historical Research at Lancaster University in 2007, gaining a Distinction, and two prizes - in Local History and the prize for the best dissertation of the year. This was followed by a PhD which was highly commended by the external examiners. She is currently working on turning her PhD thesis into a book on parish magazines in 19th century England.Jane's former PhD supervisor Dr Thomas Dixon said it had been a pleasure to oversee her postgraduate research. He said: "As a mature student, Jane brought a breadth of experience and knowledge to her work which added an extra dimension to her studies. She has excelled at both Masters and PhD level, producing original and fascinating work on the place of the parish magazine in Victorian life. Jane has three attributes that are essential for any excellent historian: curiosity, determination, and an elegant literary style." http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1430/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1430/ Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:04:07 +0000 Dr Don Passey has recently completed a study looking at uses of digital resources in primary schools. The report focused on ways that digital resources enhance teaching and learning as well as supporting management and cost effectiveness. The report was highlighted in the BBC News article Digital textbooks open a new chapter, and was featured in articles in the Borneo News, Education Executive, Teaching Time, Merlin John On-Line and bee-it. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1424/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1424/ Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:07:34 +0000 Young people can have high levels of familiarity with and spend a great deal of time practising skills with digital technologies. As model is currently being developed in two schools, where young people will support managers and teachers in selection and implementation of digital technologies. Dr Don Passey has been commissioned to evaluate the processes and outcomes of this 'digital leaders' pilot. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1425/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1425/ Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:08:52 +0000 The Nominet Trust commissioned Professor Christine Milligan in the School of Health and Medicine and Dr Don Passey to write a state-of-the-art report on internet use by older people. Professor Mary Hamilton acted as a consultant on the project. The report has been well received by the Nominet Trust; they aim to use it to guide future developments of new activities in this field. The project report is now accessible online: Milligan, C. and Passey, D. (2011). Ageing and the use of the Internet - current engagement and future needs: State-of-the-art report. Published by the Nominet Trust and accessible at: http://nominettrust.org.uk/sites/default/files/NT%20SoA%20-%20Ageing%20and%20the%20use%20of%20the%20internet.pdf. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1426/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1426/ Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:10:11 +0000 Passey, D. and Higgins, S. (2011). Learning platforms and learning outcomes - insights from research. Learning, Media and Technology, 36(4), 329-333 Passey, D. (2011). Implementing learning platforms into schools: an architecture for wider involvement in learning. Learning, Media and Technology, 36(4), 367-397 http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1427/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1427/ Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:11:02 +0000 This recent one-day event, exploring aspects of data management in schools, was welcomed and well received by teachers, postgraduate students and staff attending. Morning seminars were presented by: Paddy Guest and Mark Bedwell from Different Class Ltd., who discussed approaches to the development of their new data management system and uses in a growing number of primary and secondary schools; and Pat O'Brien, an international education consultant, who discussed uses of Cognitive Abilities Tests in schools with newly developed ways to analyse reports to support more focused teaching and learning. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1428/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1428/ Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:14:20 +0000 The Trans-Scriptions team of the Centre for Transcultural Writing and Research (Lindsey Moore, Kate Horsley, Lee Horsley and Graham Mort) have been awarded £5,364 by the University Friends Fund to launch a series of events entitled Writing for Liberty, which will feature writers who have used their work in defence of democratic rights and freedom. This new series will also lead to an innovative publishing concept via the CTWR website in the form of a multi-media journal, enabled by FASS Capital Expenditure and Research Development funds (in excess of £20k) already awarded to the Centre. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1422/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1422/ Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:23:01 +0000 In December 2004 HRH Princess Alexandra retired as Chancellor of Lancaster University after holding the office for 40 years. To mark her long service, the University's Senate agreed that a Chancellor's medal should be presented annually to the most meritorious students of Lancaster University. The Department is delighted to announce that the University awarded one of these medals to Jacob Silkstone at the winter degree ceremony which took place on 14th December 2011, in recognition of his outstanding performance in the campus-based MA in Creative Writing. Congratulations, Jacob. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1423/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1423/ Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:31:41 +0000 Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA) at Lancaster University is delighted to invite applications for one AHRC-funded PhD bursary and one AHRC-funded Research Preparation Masters bursary in the field of Drama, Performing Arts, and Dance. LICA welcomes Theatre and Performance applicants for PhD study, MA by Research (Theatre and Performance) and MA Contemporary Arts (Practice). For more information please visit, http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/lica/ Only UK/EU students can apply for AHRC-funded bursaries. The rates for 2011-12 were £13,590 (Doctoral) and £9,490 (Masters); we do not yet know what the rates will be for 2012-13. Terms and Conditions can be found here, http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/FundingOpportunities/Documents/GuidetoStudentFunding.pdf. For further details please go to http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/gradschool/funding/ If you have any questions or for further information please contact Jennifer Bull, LICA Postgraduate Coordinator, lica@lancaster.ac.uk. For enquiries that are academic-related please contact Professor Elaine Aston, e.aston@lancaster.ac.uk PhD Students AHRC Bursary - 3 years (subject to AHRC Spending Review update) covering fees and maintenance. You cannot be considered for a studentship unless you also have been offered a place, so you mustsubmit an online application form. To do this follow directions at http://www.postgraduate.lancs.ac.uk/Pages/default.aspx.You will need to complete a Research Proposal form (http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/lica/docs/PhD_proposal.doc) and upload this with your application. Practice as Research Students will also need to provide a succinct professional biography, and submit no more than one DVD (15 mins. max.), OR links to YouTube clips (good quality), of excerpts from their professional practice. Your online application must be submitted no later than Wednesday 29th February 2012. PhD Interviews (for invited applicants only) will be held at LICA on Wednesday 7th March 2012. To be considered for the AHRC bursary, or any other faculty studentship in the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FASS) at Lancaster University, download the application form, http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/gradschool/funding/docs/FASS_PGR_Studentship_Application-Form_2012-13.doc. The funding application form (as distinct from the online application) has a slightly longer deadlinebutmust be submitted to Jennifer Bull, LICA PG Coordinator, LICA Building, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YW no later than 12noon Monday 26th March 2012. Research Preparation Masters Students AHRC Bursary - 1 year covering fees and maintenance. You cannot be considered for a studentship unless you also have been offered a place, so you mustsubmit an online application form. To do this follow directions at http://www.postgraduate.lancs.ac.uk/Pages/default.aspx.The Research Preparation Masters course that can be considered for this funding is MA by Research (Theatre and Performance). You will need to complete a Research Proposal form (http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/lica/docs/MA_by_Research_proposal.doc) and upload this with your application. Practice as Research Students will also need to provide a succinct professional biography, and submit no more than one DVD (15 mins. max.), OR links to YouTube clips (good quality), of excerpts from their professional practice. Your online application must be submitted no later than Monday 19th March 2012. To be considered for the AHRC bursary, or any other faculty studentship in the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FASS) at Lancaster University, download the application form, http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/gradschool/funding/docs/FASS_PGT_Studentship_Application-Form_2012-13.doc. The funding application form must be submitted to Jennifer Bull, LICA PG Coordinator, LICA Building, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YW no later than 12noon Monday 26th March 2012. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1420/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1420/ Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:50:02 +0000 The Austrian Government has presented one of its highest awards to Distinguished Professor Ruth Wodak at a ceremony in Vienna. The Minister of Science and Education Professor Karl Heinz Töchterle presented her with the "Grand Decoration of Honour in Silver for Services to the Republic of Austria" (Großes Silbernes Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um die Republik Österreich), on behalf of the President of Austria, Dr Heinz Fischer. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1435/ http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1435/ Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:07:16 +0000 The History Department is delighted to learn that Naomi Tadmor's book The Social Universe of the English Bible: Scripture, Society, and Culture in Early Modern England is one of six books shortlisted for the prestigious Longman/History Today Book of the Year award. For more details and the full shortlist see: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1418/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1418/ Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:09:12 +0000 Dr Bruce Bennett (LICA) will be introducing the film masterpiece, The Red Shoes(Michael Powell, 1948) at the Dukes cinema in Lancaster on Sunday 11th December at 7.30. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1415/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1415/ Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:30:32 +0000 Athanasia (Nana) Rodaki has successfully defended her PhD on "A cultural international political economy of Rome: an entrepreneurial city in a multi-scalar context". She needs to make some minor correction in the next few weeks. She was co-supervised by Ngai-Ling Sum (PPR) and Bob Jessop (Sociology). http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1419/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1419/ Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:36:26 +0000 Ruth Wodak will be giving a public lecture at the University of Luxembourg, 7th December, as part of the lecture series 'The Future of Educational Studies'. The lecture series will deal with current approaches in discourse analysis, including in particular multimodal and ethnographically grounded discourse analysis. Ideally, contributions will also apply these approaches to educational (or other institutional) and/or multilingual contexts. The title of Ruth's lecture will be "Multilingualism in EU Institutions? Between Policy Making and Implementation". http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1416/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1416/ Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:33:42 +0000 This exciting new MA scheme offers postgraduate students a valuable qualification in Digital Language and Literacies. The course builds on Lancaster University's distinctive expertise in the area, offering an internationally known perspective on New Literacies. It is taught in the Department of Linguistics and English Language including Lancaster University's renowned Literacy Research Centre. Academic staff include Professor David Barton, Dr. Julia Gillen, Dr. Uta Papen, Dr. Diane Potts and Dr. Karin Tusting. Internationally known experts in other areas of the Department contribute teaching to the MA scheme overall. The course makes use of innovative tools and online environments to examine digital language and literacies. Students will engage in a variety of activities, including lectures, seminars, group and individual activities, benefiting from face-to-face as well as online interactions. Skills developed will include communication, collaboration and problem-solving, as well as the more established academic practices of researching new issues and critical reflection on theory and method. Students on our MA courses come from a diverse range of backgrounds; they join a lively and enthusiastic group working in a stimulating environment. For further details see http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/study/masters/digital-language-literacies.htm http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1414/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1414/ Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:47:56 +0000 The annual Masaryk Lecture will take place at 6:30pm on November 24 2011 at the Embassy of the Czech Republic, 26-30 Kensington Palace Gardens, London. This year's speaker will be Professor Derek Sayer (Professor of Cultural History, University of Lancaster), whose lecture is entitled: 'Love, War, and the Songs of Exile: Prague-on-Seine, 1938-1940'. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1361/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1361/ Mon, 24 Oct 2011 09:26:52 +0100 Paul Trowler discusses the changing shape and influence of academic tribes and territories in a recent article for University World News. This is in advance of the publication in January 2012 of Trowler, P., Saunders, M. and Bamber, R. (Eds) (2012) Tribes and territories in the 21st-century: Rethinking the significance of disciplines in higher education.London: Routledge. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1413/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1413/ Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:18:45 +0000 Andrea Révész presents a paper on methodological issues in task-based laboratory research as part of an invited symposium (convened by Lourdes Ortega) at the fourth international conference on task-based language teaching (Nov 18-21, TBLT 2011) http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1405/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1405/ Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:36:10 +0000 Professor Graham Mort has just published a new collection of poems, Cusp, with Seren. For more information, and a preview of the book, please follow the link below. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1410/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1410/ Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:14:02 +0000 William Gilbert (1544-1603) was the foremost scientist of the Elizabethan era. He pioneered experimental science, discovered that the earth was magnetic, was on the first supporters of Copernicus and, in his spare time, was a Royal Physician. From 30th November 2011 (the anniversary of his death), Lancaster University will host a website dedicated to him and research related to him, as have other early English scientists such as Isaac Newton and Robert Boyle. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1411/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1411/ Fri, 18 Nov 2011 20:21:50 +0000 There are many ways to put a history degree to good use, but one of the most enjoyable must surely be that of Ken Walton. Ken got a first in History with History of Science in the late '90s. He is now part of a double act who are "purveyors of fine imaginings" and successful creators of role play games.His recent creation is "Clockwork and Chivalry". It is "a grim and gritty game of mud, blood, mayhem and magick, set in an alternate 17th century England plunged into civil war. As Oliver Cromwell and his gigantic clockwork war machines fight against the cavalier-alchemists of Prince Rupert, ordinary folk struggle for survival, split into a myriad political and religious factions. Magickal pollution taints the land, waking creatures long dismissed as legends; obsessive scientists make wild discoveries; crazed inventors create mad machines." And, he added in an email to me, "it's all your fault for getting me enthusiastic about the history of science."If you want to learn more, go to: www.cakebreadandwalton.com http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1412/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1412/ Fri, 18 Nov 2011 20:49:28 +0000 Congratulations to Annie White, a final year English Literature student who is one of the first cohort of undergraduates to have achieved the Lancaster Award for 2011-12. By completing a full application process exploring their commitment to work experience, volunteering, community and campus engagement and career management skills, the Lancaster Award students then went on to pass a challenging graduate-level interview where they demonstrated key competencies and aptitude to pursue graduate-level employment or postgraduate study. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1406/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1406/ Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:34:50 +0000 A press release summarising resaerch on the representation of Islam and Muslims in the UK press by Paul Baker, Costas Gabrielatos and Tony McEnery has been cited by ENGAGE, a group which aims to promote greater media awareness, political participation and civic engagement amongst British Muslims. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1408/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1408/ Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:18:26 +0000 We are pleased to announce the following academic opportunities in the department: Lecturer in Chinese Linguistics Lecturer in Sociophonetics Professor of Applied Linguistics Senior Lecturer in Language Acquisition Closing Date for applications is Thursday 15 December 2011 For full details see - https://hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/vacancies.aspx?cat=248&type=6 http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1409/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1409/ Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:56:17 +0000 Professor Elaine Aston, Theatre Studies, LICA is this year's recipient of the Oscar G. Brockett Essay Prize, awarded annually by The American Society for Theatre Research 'for the best essay written and published in English in a refereed scholarly journal or volume published by a scholarly press'. Her winning article, 'Feeling the Loss of Feminism: Sarah Kane's Blasted and an Experiential Genealogyof Contemporary Women's Playwriting', published in Theatre Journal, December 2010, will be recognised later this week at the ASTR annual meeting in Montreal, where she will be presented with a plaque to mark her accomplishment. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1404/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1404/ Tue, 15 Nov 2011 08:41:13 +0000 The next Higher Education Close up conference (HECU6) will take place at Rhodes University in beautiful Grahamstown, South Africa July 11-13 2012.The call for papers will be issued shortly. The conference is preceded by the National Arts Festival and followed by the Critial Reaction Conference for those who can stay longer. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1402/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1402/ Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:35:45 +0000 Funding: In 2012 we are delighted to be able to offer AHRC funded bursaries for one PhD student and one Masters student. The applicants must be in the field of Dance, Drama and Performing Arts. For potential PhD applicants we can offer supervision in a range of fields including: Acting theory; Arts Management and Cultural Policy; Avant-garde Theatre and Contemporary Experimental Performance; Contemporary British Drama; Theatre and Performance; Contemporary Dance and Physical Theatre; Choreography and Choreology; Directing; Dramaturgy and Devising; European Theatre and Drama; Feminist Theatre and contemporary plays and performances by women; Live Art; Media in Performance; Cultural poststructuralist, postmodern, phenomenological, feminist and gender theory; Performance writing and playwriting; Performance and documentation; Political Theatre; Postdramatic Theatre; Site-specific and Environmental Performance; Television Drama; Translation. The Masters bursary is a Research Preparation Master's which is designed for students intending to proceed on to a PhD. The Masters programme you will undertake has three modules covering 'Critical Thinking', 'Research Theory and Methods' and 'Contemporary Issues in the Arts and Creative Sector'. Additionally you will complete a dissertation. Application Process: Applicants wishing to be considered for either award must hold a firm offer of a place (to apply for a postgraduate course, please visithttps://www.postgraduate.lancs.ac.uk/Pages/default.aspx). For information on how to apply for funding, and to download the application form please visit, http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/gradschool/funding/funding.htm. Application forms will need to be sent to Jennifer Bull, Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts, LICA Building, Lancaster University, LA1 4YW or via email, lica-pgadmissions@lancaster.ac.uk. The deadline for funding applications is:MONDAY 26th MARCH 2012 12noon For further information please contact LICA's Postgraduate Coordinator, Jennifer Bull at lica-pgadmissions@lancaster.ac.uk. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1403/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1403/ Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:29:48 +0000 Beth Cortese, a 2nd Year English, Creative Writing and Practice student, was the youngest of 8 winners of the 'Enter Stage Write' Northwest Playwrights Competition, who were selected to attend a playwriting course at the Storey Institute, Lancaster.Entrants to the competition were asked to submit one scene from a play involving three characters and a single Wellington boot, and Beth was selected for the course on the basis of this submission. Beth says that she is very much enjoying the playwriting course, as it is giving her the opportunity to work alongside professional actors and writers, and to gain insight into the playwriting process. The Storey runs various courses and workshops on writing, and these can be viewed at http://www.thestorey.co.uk/ http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1407/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1407/ Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:46:10 +0000 Professor Archard will be the plenary speaker at the 2011 session of the Northern Political Theory Association in Glasgow on the 10th of November His address will be on 'Free Speech, Offense and Reasonableness' http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1391/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1391/ Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:01:36 +0000 Emeritus Professor Keith Johnson is running a featured Speaker Workshop at the Annual International Conference of the Japanese Association for Language Teaching (JALT) in Tokyo, 18th - 20th November. The title of the workshop is 'What makes a good teacher? Studying expertise in teaching skills.' http://jalt.org/conference/jalt2011/featured-speakers http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1399/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1399/ Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:13:01 +0000 Issue 3 of Cake has just been launched with great success, eliciting praise from a host of well-respected names in poetry. With a guest editorial from Mandy Coe, contributions to our regular features from Helen Mort and Helen Ivory, and a mighty fine crop of poetry and reviews, Cake is proving its worth as 'the most outward-looking, vigorously contemporary literary journal to come out of a university writing programme in this country' (Luke Kennard).There will be a launch event with guest readers coming up in the near future, but in the meantime, keep up to date at www.cake-poetry.co.uk where you can buy copies, get the latest news, and read submission guidelines. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1397/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1397/ Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:19:25 +0000 Paul was interviewed along with a Glasgow rapper Loki on the topic of youth language. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1400/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1400/ Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:17:13 +0000 On 7th September 2011, Elena Semino will give a talk in the School of Language and Communication Studiesat the University of East Anglia on the topic: 'Metaphor, creativity and reconceptualisation'. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1387/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1387/ Thu, 03 Nov 2011 22:45:04 +0000 Professor Archard has been appointed as the Corti Fellow at the Center for Ethics, University of Zurich, in 2013. A Corti Fellow is appointed every two of three years, and is a researcher in practical philosophy and ethics. The Fellowship is supported by Arnold Family Foundation Corti. Professor Archard will spend 3 months in Zurich engaged in research on 'moral status and embodiment.' http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1392/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1392/ Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:06:30 +0000 Dr Tony Sharpe has been visiting the University of Bergen, Norway, where he delivered two invited research papers to Masters and Doctoral students and academic staff of the English Literature section of the Department of Foreign Languages: 'Looking and Seeing in American Poetry' and 'What Am I to Believe?: Some Modernist Self-Questionings in Eliot, Stevens, and Auden' - this last as part of the 'Modernism and Christianity' programme joint-funded by the Bergen Research Foundation and Department of Foreign Languages. He also met undergraduate students who will be joining courses in English Literature and Linguistics in January 2012, as part of an agreement between Bergen and Lancaster Universities. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1394/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1394/ Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:51:48 +0000 On 4th November, a memorial was held for Professor Anna Siewierska, who died tragically in an accident while on holiday in Vietnam over the summer. The memorial was held in the Great Hall and was very well attended by colleagues from across the university as well as by colleagues visiting from other institutions. Institutional and personal tributes were delivered by the Vice-Chancellor, Emma Rose, Elena Semino, Linda Woodhead, Hubert Cuyckens (Leuven), Francis Katumba and Paul Kerswill. Academic presentations were delivered by Greville Corbett (Surrey), Eva van Lier and Willem Hollmann. Geoff Leech, Emeritus Professor in the Linguistics Department, played three Chopin movements on the piano, while Paul Farley, Professor of Poetry, recited his poem 'A Minute's Silence'.The proceedings concluded with the Navarra String Quartert playing Ravel's String Quartet in F major. Speakers paid tribute not only to Anna's outstanding research record but also to her warmth, vitality and collegiality - both within her department and in the wider university. The deep affection felt towards her and the high regard in which she was held across the university and beyond were evident throughout. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1417/ http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1417/ Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:19:58 +0000 Ruth is invited to lecture at Strathclyde University, Languages and Literatures Research Seminar Series, on "Right-wing Populist Rhetoric Across Europe" - see http://www.strath.ac.uk/events/campuscalendar/november2011/for details. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1369/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1369/ Wed, 02 Nov 2011 09:07:57 +0000 It gives the Department of History great pleasure to be able to announce another PhD success in the department. James Gibbs was successfully examined for his Ph.D on 17th October 2011. His title was 'Settler Mythologies: Citizenship, Land and Kenyan Independence'. The external examiner was Dr Kent Fedorowich, Reader in British Imperial History, University of the West of England, and Dr Ian Gregory was the internal examiner. James was supervised by Professor Stephen Constantine and Dr Deborah Suttonand was AHRC-funded. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1370/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1370/ Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:25:39 +0000 Our latest issue of the Ruskin Review and Bulletin is now available. To view the contents please click here If you wish to subscribe please contact Lauren Kenwright, Managing Editor as detailed below. The cost is £10 and we will send you both the Spring 2011 and the Autumn edition. We arealso nowtaking subscriptions for 2012 Volume 8. The Ruskin Review and Bulletin is a biannual journal with an edition in April/May (Spring) and October/November (Autumn). It includes Ruskinian articles, plus news from the Centre and other Ruskinian organisations such as the Friends of Brantwood and the Ruskin Society. Lauren Kenwright, The Managing Editor, The Ruskin Library and Research Centre, County Main, Lancaster University, LA1 4YD Telephone: +44(0)1524 510818, l.kenwright@lancaster.ac.uk http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1373/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1373/ Thu, 10 Nov 2011 09:09:42 +0000 Matt Kearnes is to spend a few weeks at CSEC in Autumn 2011, working on his current research. Matt, formerly a researcher in CSEC,iscurrently an RCUK Research Fellow in the Institute of Hazard, Risk andResilience, Department of Geography, Durham University and his research focuses on the intersection between science, expertise and public culture. His work falls into 4 main areas: 1 Geographies of Science, Knowledge and Expertise 2 Governance of Science and Innovation 3 Social and Ethical Dimensions of New and Emerging Technologies 4 Re-Thinking Technological Risk Matt has worked on a number of externally funded projects in the above areas - for more information about these projects and his publications, see his web pages on http://www.dur.ac.uk/geography/staff/geogstaffhidden/?id=4446 We are delighted to be hosting Matt for a few weeks here at CSEC! http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1393/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1393/ Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:58:08 +0000 Becky Clark, who is currently the Part II coordinator in Linguistics and English Language Dept., (covering maternity leave for Vicki Haslam) is in the British Shito-Ryu Shukokai karate team. In the World Championships held in Italy Becky won a bronze medal in the individual competition and a silver medal in the team competition. Congratulations, Becky! http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1365/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1365/ Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:27:07 +0000 We are pleased to announce that Susan Liddy, who is currently working towards her PhD in Creative Writing, has been shortlisted for the prestigious 'Serious Screenwriting Development Scheme 2010'.This competition is run as part of the Serious Screenwriting Annual Screenwriting Forum run by Scriptfactory in association with BAFTA. Susan's screenplay forms a major component of her thesis, and was one of only 15 selected from over 200 entries. Susan is supervised by Dr Jayne Steel. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1390/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1390/ Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:21:43 +0000 Nikki Hesford (English and Creative Writing, 2009) has just won the Lancashire Business Award for Young Entrepreneur of the Year which was hosted in September at Stanley Park Hotel near Blackburn. Nikki owns Miss Fit UK and adds this latest award to the NatWest Everywoman Artemis Award she secured in 2010.Read more about Nikki's successes here. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1395/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1395/ Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:57:32 +0000 Work by Professor Paul Trowler and Vicki Trowler (Educational Research) on how to improve student engagement was highlighted by contributors to the Guardian's Higher Education Network Live Chat on the topic on October 14. The work, which has resulted in a major literature review as well as guidelines for practice aimed at university leaders and policymakers, was funded by the Higher Education Academy and the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education. It has been disseminated by invitation at HEA/NUS conferences in London, Nottingham and Manchester, at the SPARQS conference at Heriot Watt University, a development day in London and at the European Foundation for Management Development Conference in Budapest. Professor Trowler has accepted an invitation to sit on the advisory board to the QAA team who are developing a student engagement chapter for their UK Quality Code. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1364/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1364/ Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:36:40 +0000 Layla Hendow, a second year English Literature student, has won £2,500 in the 2011 International Short Story competition held by the International Gateway for Gifted Youth and Litro magazine. Her story, entitled 'La Maison de Dieu' will be published in The Sunday Times and on posters on the London Underground. Layla said she would love to become a writer. 'I've been writing seriously for a couple of years, but have always been interested in literature and creative writing. Studying creative writing at Lancaster last year was a turning point in my love of writing. The course taught me so much and I have no doubt that by the end I was a better writer for doing it. The help I received from my peers and my seminar tutor, Polly Atkin, pushed me to develop my writing and I have them to thank for critiquing the story I submitted'. The winning story was inspired by a trip to France with her family, when she visited a church. 'I have always been interested in religion and it is a common theme in both my poetry and short stories. I enjoyed writing the story very much; it was a challenge to balance the contrast between the priest and the girl, but one that I think I succeeded in finding'.Layla has already been published in Aesthetica and Acumen Magazine, and has been featured in two anthologies by Forward Press. Prof John Schad, Head of Department said: 'We are very pleased for Layla and very proud of her achievement'. IGGY is an international network of the brightest and most creative young people aged 11-19 and the award judges included the author Abdelkader Benali, poet Sabrina Mahfouz, George Ttoouli from the University of Warwick's Creativity and Performance in Teaching Learning Centre and Cathy Galvin, Deputy Editor of the Sunday Times Magazine. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1380/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1380/ Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:55:06 +0000 Don has recently completed a study looking at uses of digital resources in primary schools. The report focused on ways that digital resources enhance teaching and learning as well as supporting management and cost effectiveness. The report was highlighted in the BBC News article Digital textbooks open a new chapter, and was featured in articles in the Borneo News, Education Executive, Teaching Time, Merlin John On-Line and bee-it. Reports from the study are now accessible: Passey, D. (2011). Independent evaluation of the uses of Espresso online digital resources in primary schools: Final Report - Summary. Lancaster University: Lancaster. Accessible at: http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/40904 Passey, D. (2011). Independent evaluation of the uses of Espresso online digital resources in primary schools: Final Report - School Uses and Learning Impacts. Lancaster University: Lancaster. Accessible at: http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/40905 Passey, D. (2011). Independent evaluation of the uses of Espresso online digital resources in primary schools: Final Report - Management, Time and Cost Benefits. Lancaster University: Lancaster. Accessible at: http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/40906 Passey, D. (2011). Independent evaluation of the uses of Espresso online digital resources in primary schools: Final Report - Attainment and Usage Levels. Lancaster University: Lancaster. Accessible at: http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/40907 Following the successful completion of this national evaluation, Don has been commissioned to undertake an independent evaluation to explore patterns and outcomes of longer-term usage by teachers and pupils in primary schools across Wolverhampton LA. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1355/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1355/ Sat, 22 Oct 2011 10:00:04 +0100 Interactive Opportunities, the company handling Sony's educational video games development in the UK, has taken an innovative approach to developing educational uses of this video game in 15 schools across Wolverhampton. Don has been commissioned to undertake an independent research study to explore short-term and long-term skill and career outcomes for students and teachers. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1356/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1356/ Sat, 22 Oct 2011 10:56:34 +0100 Don has recently completed a seven-yearstudy looking at the ways that computers were introduced into homes in a socio-economically disadvantaged community. The report highlights the outcomes of the project. This report is now accessible: Passey, D. (2011). Independent Evaluation of the Aston Pride Phase 3 Computers in the Home Project (2009 to 2011): Final Report - March 2011. Lancaster University: Lancaster. Accessible at: http://www.titan.org.uk/activities/ http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1357/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1357/ Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:00:04 +0100 Don has recently completed a commissioned study by the National Education Network, which looked at levels of awareness of internet safety across different age groups of pupils and across different groups of school personnel. This report is now accessible: Passey, D. (2011). National Education Network Safeguarding Group: Internet Safety in the Context of Developing Aspects of Young People's Digital Citizenship. Lancaster University: Lancaster. Accessible at: http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/40916 http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1358/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1358/ Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:02:47 +0100 Don and Professor Steve Higgins from Durham University have been the guest editors for a special issue of the journal Learning, Media and Technology on the topic of 'learning platforms and learning outcomes'. The special issue is in publication. Don has agreed to join the editorial board of the IFIP journal, Education and Information Technology. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1359/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1359/ Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:04:23 +0100 Items just published: Passey, D. (2011). Learning mathematics using digital resources: impacts on learning and teaching for 11 to 14-year old pupils. In A. Oldknow and C. Knights (Eds.). Mathematics Education with Digital Technology (Education and Digital Technology series). pp.46-60. London: Continuum International. Passey, D. (2011). Implementing learning platforms into schools: an architecture for wider involvement in learning. Learning, Media and Technology. DOI: 10.1080/17439884.2011.592496 Passey, D. (2011). Managing quality education - identifying the learning needs of the individual, then satisfying them. In A. Tatnall, O.C. Kereteletswe, and A. Visscher (Eds.), Information Technology and Managing Quality Education, IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technologies Volume 348. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. pp. 1-10 Passey, D. (2011). The 'educational lot' for young people who are NEET: Quality management and roles of management information systems. In A. Tatnall, O.C. Kereteletswe, and A. Visscher (Eds.), Information Technology and Managing Quality Education, IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technologies Volume 348. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. pp. 121-129 Passey, D. (2011). Real purpose, real audience and real value: researching contributions of digital literacy to learning. In L.H. Stergioulas and H. Drenoyianni (eds.) Pursuing Digital Literacy in Compulsory Education. Peter Lang Publishing: New York, NY. pp.117-137 http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1360/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1360/ Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:06:46 +0100 Paul has written a double-spread feature on the language of The Only Way is Essex, ITV's popular reality-soap set in Brentwood. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1354/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1354/ Fri, 21 Oct 2011 09:58:27 +0100 Dave Horton (LEC and CeMoRe) is featured on the TransportExtra website, following a letter he submitted about cycling in London. "I concur with almost everything which David Dansky says - and with such eloquence and so persuasively - about cycling in London (Viewpoint, LTT581). I was privileged to spend last weekend as David's guest in London. David and I, along with Andy Salkeld of Leicester City Council and others, rode all over the city, witnessing recent changes to London's cycling environment. I was hugely impressed by how it felt, cycling in London in 2011. The cycling experience has undoubtedly improved dramatically over recent years. I was particularly impressed with how, as people on bikes, we were treated by other road users, including perhaps especially by those who drive for a living (taxi and bus drivers); rather than rushing to overtake, many drivers waited patiently, and at a respectful distance, behind us. Such tolerant behaviour is crucial to the development of a more cycle-friendly (and more generally, civilized) urban environment. David and I share a vision for mass cycling across urban Britain. Where we differ is perhaps in London's status. He sees the English capital as a model. How I would love that to be so! And, just maybe, he is right. But my disagreement with David is I think based mainly on our different experiences. Whilst he has industriously been participating in London's cycling boom, I have been researching the state of cycling in other parts of the country. And if his participation in British cycling's good news story has made him optimistic about this mode's prospects, my explorations into cycling elsewhere have made me extremely pessimistic, unless something changes. Put bluntly, when it comes to cycling, Leeds (one of the Understanding Walking and Cycling project's four case studies) is not London, and very definitely not central London! Instead, Leeds remains a city which is strangled by cars, and where only the most committed, fearless or desperate dare to cycle. Of course, London still has a long way to go before the majority of people will give cycling a go - it clearly remains 'a work in progress'. But that aside, given how far Leeds is behind London, how do we get from one to the other? If we're serious about building cycling's modal share (and I think we must be), and if we're also impatient to do so (as I also think we must be), then cycling in a city like Leeds must be 'fast-tracked'. To do this, the kinds of interventions which David describes in London are all of course important. We need cycle training, we need cycling to be marketed, we need a whole range of affordances to cycling to be implemented alongside a range of deterrents to driving. But still, I struggle to see how more people in a city such as Leeds will be nudged into cycling without the provision of continuous, high-quality and segregated cycling infrastructure along the biggest and busiest arterial roads. Although many of the people we have talked to over the past few years were clear that they will not cycle in a mixed traffic environment, I admit that it is plausible that bringing the speed limit of such major roads down to 20 mph could have a similar effect, but is that any more 'realistic'? In case it doesn't go without saying, the Understanding Walking and Cycling project sees the provision of dedicated cycling infrastructure as part of a broader package of measures (as set out in the Project's summary report) designed to normalize cycling whilst de-normalizing the car for short-urban journeys. Until we make these changes, driving will for the majority of people remain the default option, whilst cycling will remain simply too difficult to contemplate. And we will remain stuck with the kinds of dirty, dangerous and uncivilized urban spaces which, over the last half-century especially, we have so effectively built. David Dansky is right, the measures proposed by the Understanding Walking and Cycling project will cost. But even given the current economic climate, I don't see this as a major problem. Perhaps such measures are too costly from a mindset which sees the car as king, but when it comes to designing urban space for the twenty-first century such a mindset should be - and is fast becoming - anachronistic; and transport spending needs to adapt accordingly. Lastly, I really must mention the spirit with which David has engaged with the findings of the Understanding Walking and Cycling project. From a position of profound disagreement with our call for segregated cycling infrastructure along big, busy urban roads, he has encouraged the development of thoughtful and respectful discussion and reflection on the way ahead for cycling across Britain. It is precisely this spirit of engaged and respectful collaborative inquiry which we should be fostering, in order most effectively to get Britain on its bike. And having explored and inspected 'cycling in London' by bike, we are soon to do the same - this time as Andy Salkeld's guest - in Leicester. Long may this wonderful spirit of mutual exploration - of cities and of ideas, in the pursuit of more sustainable urban futures - continue and flourish!" Dave HortonLancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1366/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1366/ Tue, 01 Nov 2011 12:03:58 +0000 An article by Dr Carolyn Jackson and Dr Nigel Sherriff entitled 'A qualitative approach to intergroup relations: exploring the applicability of the Social Identity Approach to "messy" school contexts' was the subject of a two-page piece in the TES on 7th October. The article, soon to be published in the journal Qualitative Research in Psychology, explores intergroup relations in schools. Jackson and Sherriff argue that Social Identity approaches to intergroup relations, which are currently dominant worldwide, are limited by their reliance on positivist approaches. In the article, Jackson and Sherriff focus on the complex interplay between discourses about popularity within schools, constructions of gender identities, and intergroup relations. In doing so, they demonstrate the benefits that qualitative research may have for social psychological intergroup theories and their applications. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1353/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1353/ Thu, 20 Oct 2011 12:18:27 +0100 Mick Short will be giving an invited plenary paper at the International English Language and Literary Studies Conference in Bangkok. The title of the paper is 'Listing and Impressionism in Charles Dickens's Description of Genoa in Pictures from Italy'. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1339/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1339/ Tue, 18 Oct 2011 09:34:17 +0100 Congratulations to Warren Todd who successfully defended his PhD thesis"A selfless response to an illusory world - a comparative study of Santideva and Sankara" on Friday 14thOctober 2011. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1398/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1398/ Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:25:14 +0000 The Department of English and Creative Writing and the Department of English Language and Linguistics are delighted to announce that J.Hillis Miller is to be a Visiting Professor at Lancaster University in May 2012.J. Hillis Miller is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and English at the University of California at Irvine and one of the world's most influential literary and cultural critics. He holds honorary degrees as Doctor of Letters from the University of Florida, Doctor of Humane Letters at Bucknell University and Doctor Honoris Cause at the University of Zaragoza. He is also Honorary Professor of Peking University and past President of the Modern Language Association. Before coming to Irvine, Hillis Miller taught at The Johns Hopkins University and Yale University. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Philosophical Society. His research interests are in the areas of Victorian literature, modern English and American literature of the nineteenth-and twentieth-centuries, comparative literature and literary theory. He has published many essays and reviews and is an editor of various literary journals. Among Hillis Miller's books are Charles Dickens: The World of His Novels; The Disappearance of God; Poets of Reality; The Form of Victorian Fiction; Fiction and Repetition; The Linguistic Moment; The Ethics of Reading; Hawthorne and History; Ariadne's Thread; Illustration; Victorian Subjects; Tropes, Parables, Performatives; Theory Now and Then; New Starts and Topographies. Among his recent books are Reading Narrative from Oklahoma Press, Black Holes from Stanford Press, Speech Acts in Literature from Stanford University Press, Others from Princeton University Press and For Derrida, from Fordham University Press.In his time at Lancaster, J. Hillis Miller will be giving a public lecture and research seminars, and participating in a conference dedicated to his work and thought. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1347/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1347/ Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:17:31 +0100 Bron Szerszynski is currently on sabatical and is taking the opportunity to become a visiting fellow at the IAS at Durham University for October, November and December. Whilst at the IAS,Bron will be interacting with the Durham project'New Story Lines for Living with Environmental Change: Citizens' Perspectives', and working on a new monograph critically assessing the possibility of a transition to a green capitalism. To see more about the'New Story Lines for Living with Environmental Change' project see http://www.dur.ac.uk/ias/livingwithenvironmentalchange/ To see more about Bron's work at CSEC and in the SociologyDepartment (Lancaster)see http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology/profiles/Bronislaw-Szerszynski/and about Bron's work at Durham, see http://www.dur.ac.uk/ias/fellows/1112/szerszynski/ http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1348/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1348/ Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:35:24 +0100 Niklas Hartmann, previously a graduate student on the MA Society, Technology and Nature (Environment Pathway) in the Sociology Department, has been awarded a Lancaster University Faculty of Science scholarship to carry out a PhD thatwill be supervised acrossthe Lancaster Environment Centre (LEC)and the Sociology Department. The title of his proposed thesis is, 'Ecosystem Services - studying how a concept transforms ecological theory, research practice and human-environment relations'. This is a highly topical research issue and Niklas intends to do STS informed ethnographic study, following the work of ecologists in both the UK and Germany who are taking up the theory and practice of 'Ecosystems Services' in their day to day research. Claire Waterton (CSEC, Sociology), Rebecca Ellis (LEC) and Richard Bardgett (LEC) are all excited to supervise this timely project as the concept of 'Ecosystems Services' begins to have real influence in ecology, economics and policy making. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1350/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1350/ Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:45:28 +0100 Amaranta Herrero Cabrejas from the Autonomous University of Barcelona will return to study at CSEC next year ( March - July 2012), having received a scholarship from the 'mobility program' of the Ministry of Science in Spain. Her thesis title is 'The Anatomy of a socio-environmental conflict: the case of the opencast coal mining in the Laciana Valley (Leon- Spain)'. Claire Waterton and Brian Wynne are very happy to help supervise Amaranta on this fascinating and important research about open-cast mining, and the way such mining is being technologised and characterised as a 'green option' in Spain and Europe. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1351/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1351/ Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:58:08 +0100 The Doctoral Programme in Educational Research, now in its sixteenth year of successful operation, is expanding. In conjunction with colleagues at the University of Cumbria we are introducing, from January 2012, a route through the programme focusing on Teacher Education. This will involve taking a module of that name and focusing on appropriate research topics in the remainder of the programme. We're looking forward to working more closely with our Cumbrian colleagues and with the new students this will bring in. Further information is available on our Doctoral Programme Web Pages. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1345/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1345/ Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:42:40 +0100 Paul Baker gave the opening plenary talk at the American Association of Corpus Linguistics conference in Atlanta, Georgia. The talk was called "Has American English gotten any different? Using the Brown family to track diachronic change in American (and British) English." http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1346/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1346/ Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:08:08 +0100 Martin will be giving a talk at the TESOL Conference 'Putting research into practice' in Doha, Qatar. He will be reporting on an aspect of his research into the application of dynamic systems theory as a way of understanding the relationship between classroom task, learner engagement, and learning outcome. He will be discussing how this can be useful for the use of tasks in language classrooms. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1335/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1335/ Tue, 04 Oct 2011 12:11:51 +0100 The Department of English & Creative Writing is delighted to welcome three new members of staff, who will join us in Michaelmas Term 2011: Jenn Ashworth, a novelist who will join Creative Writing as a specialist in literary prose; Jo Carruthers, whose research interests are in literature and religion and literature and place; and Eleanor Rycroft, whose research investigates the relationship between drama and politics at the court of Henry VIII http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1455/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1455/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:00:33 +0000 Roger Bromley, Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies and Honorary Professor of Sociology at the University of Nottingham, has been appointed Visiting Professor with the Department of English & Creative Writing at Lancaster, where he will work closely with the Centre for Transcultural Writing and Research. Author of the seminal work, Narratives for a New Belonging, Roger is currently working on a new book, Narratives of Hope? Conflict, Reconciliation and Cultural Forms (with reference to Bosnia, Rwanda and South Africa). He is also involved with a project on the representation of migration and displacement in cinematic forms, provisionally entitled People on the Move: Narratives of Displacement and Belonging. Professor Bromley says: 'Having had a small part in the Moving Manchester project and some of the Glocal Imaginaries conference and of its outcomes, I am genuinely delighted and honoured by this appointment, which will provide the opportunity to work more closely with the Department and the Centre. I look forward very much to the intellectual stimulus and fresh challenges offered by meeting with colleagues and students, planning new projects and sharing in research initiatives.' http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1456/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1456/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:02:39 +0000 The film actor Greg Wise has visited Lancaster University in preparation for his role as the Victorian art critic and writer John Ruskin. The feature film "Effie" centres on Ruskin's ill-fated marriage to Effie Gray, who will be played by the Hollywood actress Dakota Fanning. After the loveless marriage, Effie fell in love with Ruskin's protégé, the Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais. Greg Wise looked through Ruskin's drawings and papers from the Whitehouse Collection housed in the Ruskin Library, which is the largest single collection of material about one of the Victorian era's most influential thinkers. He said: "It is very kind to let a scruffy actor touch these things but it has helped immensely. Seeing Ruskin's own work has enabled me to see what he did, the style and phrasing and drawing. I feel I understand him better now." The Ruskin Library is supplying images of books and drawings to be recreated for use in the film, which will be shot in Scotland, London and Venice and is due to be premiered at the 2012 Venice Film Festival. Derek Jacobi and Julie Walters are Ruskin's parents while the screenplay is by Emma Thompson who also plays Lady Eastlake. Edward Fox will play her husband Sir Charles Eastlake. Professor Stephen Wildman, Director of the Library, said: "It shows that Ruskin is still of great interest today, and this film, following two recent biographies of Effie, will renew the attention his extraordinary life and work deserve. Greg and Emma are doing their best to make the settings as accurate as is practical, and the great range of material we have helps to make that possible." The next exhibition at the Ruskin Library is Ruskin's Flora (opening 10 October), botanical drawings by Ruskin which have been identified and catalogued by Professor David Ingram of the Lancaster Environment Centre. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1343/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1343/ Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:46:45 +0100 Ruth Wodak gave a public lecture in Linz, Austria, on 27th September entitled 'Wie Fremde zu "Fremden" gemacht werden: Reden und Schreiben über MigrantInnen', which loosely translates as 'How others are turned into "others": Writing and talking about migrants'. http://www.markierungen.at/tips/ruth-wodakwie-fremde-zu-%E2%80%9Efremden%E2%80%9C-gemacht-werden-reden-und-schreiben-uber-migrantinnen/ http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1344/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1344/ Tue, 04 Oct 2011 12:13:16 +0100 The European Sociological Association has just held its largest ever conference with close to 3000 delegates in Geneva in early September. Professor John Urry (Sociology) was one of 3 speakers in the opening session where he delivered a plenary lecture on 'Social Turbulence and Peaking'. In the closing ceremony Professor Sylvia Walby (Sociology) gave one of the 2 plenaries on 'The Future of Capitalism'. Half a dozen other colleagues from the Sociology Department also gave significant talks/papers elsewhere in the programme. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1342/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1342/ Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:16:16 +0100 The 6th framework project DYLAN is coming to an end. Ruth Wodak was the PI of the Lancaster team and will lead the first of three 'tables rondes', dedicated to EU Institutions and Multilingualism: See the Dylan project website for details. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1340/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1340/ Tue, 04 Oct 2011 12:09:15 +0100 Dr Rebecca Braun (Department of European Languages and Cultures) has been awarded the 2010 Max Kade Prize for the best essay published in the leading US journal German Quarterly throughout 2010. The American Association of Teachers of German will formally award the prize of $1500 at a ceremony on 19 November 2011 in Denver, Colorado. The essay, '1967-2007: The Gruppe 47 as a cultural Heimat', looks in detail at how the high-profile post-war German authorial grouping, Gruppe 47 (Group 47), has been presented in the media since its official demise in 1967, and considers why the group still has a high level of symbolic capital decades after its active participation in the German literary field. Focusing on previously unresearched TV documentary material from the 1960s, 70s, 80s, 90s and 2000s, it posits that the group's enduring importance in the German cultural landscape can be traced to the way it has been narratively and visually reconstructed within the mythologizing, emotive, and widely resonant terms of the Heimat discourse. Drawing on various philosophical and conceptual approaches to Heimat, a particularly German term that evokes both a physical homeland and a spiritual sense of belonging, it conceives of the Gruppe 47 as a "cultural Heimat" for the economically and culturally dominant white, middle class German literary field. In so doing, it shows how a specifically literary culture can be repackaged in the age of mass media to carry important debates about national identity and symbolize the search for an elusive collective cultural heritage. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1341/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1341/ Tue, 20 Sep 2011 21:26:15 +0100 On 16 September 2011 Monika Buscher received an Honorary Doctorate in Sociology from Roskilde University and gave a special lecture with the title Design futures: Mobilities in crises In this talk Monika explored forms of collaborative, experimental and iterative design that try to shoulder some of the responsibility, with examples of mobilities in crises drawn from the Bridge project (http://www.bridgeproject.eu/). You can view a video of her lecture here: Mobile, Experimental, Public: 'Postdisciplinary' Social Science and Design and a video of the presentation ceremony is also available. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1434/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1434/ Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:41:52 +0000 Emeritus Professor Geoffrey Leech and Professor Mick Short were invited as honorary guests to the Université Lyon 3, France on 22-23 September 2011, to give keynote addresses at a conference on Style in Fiction Today. The conference was a joint event of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) and the Société de Stylistique Anglaise (SSA) to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of Leech and Short's Style in Fiction in 1981. Five years ago, Style in Fiction won the Silver Jubilee prize awarded by PALA for the most influential stylistics book written since the association's founding in 1980. A new edition of the book was published by Pearson/Longman in 2006. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1338/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1338/ Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:39:08 +0100 On 8-9 September 2011, Karin Tusting from the Literacy Research Centre was the invited European opening speaker at the conference "Tracer / auditer les denrées alimentaires" (Tracing and auditing food produce), organised by Nathalie Joly and colleagues from the Institut Nationale de Recherche Agronomique. She presented an account of Literacy Studies as an approach to the study of accountability practices, drawing on her own research into accountability practices in educational workplaces. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1214/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1214/ Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:24:28 +0100 Ruth will attend the Societas Linguistica Europaea Conference 2011, in Logrono, Spain. As presient of the SLE, she will be giving the presidential address on Thursday, September 8, on 'Integrating Sociolinguistics and (Critical) Discourse Studies: Multilingual Practices in European Union Institutions:. Moreover, Ruth will speak at the commemorative event for Anna Siewierska, also on Thursday, September 8. For more details of the conference, see http://sle2011.cilap.es/ http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1334/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1334/ Tue, 06 Sep 2011 17:22:38 +0100 Paul gave an invited lecture at the TEDxEastEnd event 'Society beyond borders' entitled 'Who's an Eastender now? Migration and the transformation of the Cockney dialect'. This event was held at the Human Rights Action Centre in Hackney. Paul was one of 14 speakers, who included a film maker, a refugee advocate, an architectand a rapper. TEDx is a spinoff of the TED series of lectures and website, on which a large number of lectures are uploaded. The 'Society beyond borders' event will likewise be placed on the internet in its entirety. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1336/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1336/ Fri, 09 Sep 2011 00:11:44 +0100 Lancaster University is one of the biggest risers in the QS World University Rankings published on Monday 5 September 2011, making a gain of 28 places to be ranked 153 out of 300 universities globally and in the top one per cent in the world. Lancaster is also ranked 100th for employer reputation and 85th for the proportion of international students.Lancaster is ranked 84th for Social Sciences and Management and 122nd for Arts and Humanities with Sociology at Lancaster individually ranked 49th. This latest global ranking follows top ten positions for Lancaster in all the major UK university league tables. www.topuniversities.com http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1337/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1337/ Tue, 13 Sep 2011 10:12:16 +0100 The History Department is pleased to announce theappointment oftwo new lecturers for the academic year 2011/12. Our new colleagues are Dr Nicola Clarke and Dr Dariusz Gafijczuk. Nicola, a specialist in early Islamic Spain,was awarded a DPhil at Oxford in 2009 and is currently at the Institute of Oriental Studies at Oxford. Dariusz, whose PhD was awarded by the University of Alberta in 2007, has been Newton International Fellow in History2009-11, after teaching at Trinity College Dublin. He is an expert in Central European history and culture. These appointments have been made possible by the success of Dr Alex Metcalfe and Dr Deborah Sutton in securing a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship and a Leverhulme Fellowship respectively for 2011/12. These external awards are in addition to Dr Paul Hayward's appointment to the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, for the academic year 2011/12. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1333/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1333/ Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:54:31 +0100 Martin will be presiding over the 16th AILA Congress to be held at Beijing Foreign Studies University, from 23-28 August. This is the premier applied linguistics conference world wide, withupwards of 2500 participants. During his 3-year term as AILA President, Martin has been overseeing the reviewing and programming of 1400 presentations, with teams of 200 reviewers across 27 different strands, from Corpus Linguistics, through Forensic Linguistics, Language and Migration, to Second Language Acquisition and Foreign Language Teaching. Plenary speakers include Malcolm Coulthard (Aston University), Gu Yueguo (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences), Diane Larsen-Freeman (University of Michigan), Allen Bell (Auckland University of Technology, NZ), and Barbar Seidlhofer (University of Vienna).With invited symposia convened by scholars from Venezuela, the USA, the Netherlands, Israel, China, Canada, the conference offers a 5-day programme of papers, symposia, workshops and posters. After the conference, Martin will begin a 3-year period as Past President on the Executive Board of the Association. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1316/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1316/ Tue, 06 Sep 2011 10:08:52 +0100 Data recently published from the 2011 National Student Survey (NSS) show exceptionally high levels of satisfaction with our Psychology in Education (PinE) degree. 96% of students responded that overall they were satisfied with the quality of the course. 100% agreed that 'staff are good at explaining things' and 'staff have made the subject interesting'. Commenting on the results Dr Carolyn Jackson, Head of Department, said: 'We are delighted that students value our degree so highly. We work hard to ensure that students have the best possible experiences with us, and that they leave qualified and well equipped to find graduate level jobs. It's great to know that students feel well supported, that the course is intellectually stimulating, and that they develop skills that make them attractive to employers; the latter is reflected in our graduate employment rates, which are exceptionally good'. The NSS is commissioned by HEFCE (Higher Education Funding Council for England) and asks final year undergraduates across all publically funded higher education institutions to provide feedback on their courses. Questions relate to: teaching; assessment and feedback; academic support; organisation and management; learning resources; personal development; and overall satisfaction. The response rate from our PinE students was 90% in 2011, and satisfaction levels were very high across all areas. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1332/ http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1332/ Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:29:21 +0100 The Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion is extremely pleased to announce that over the summer it has received major new investment from the University. The department has made 8 new appointments who will be joining PPR during the 2011-12 academic year. The new staff bring a stimulating range of new expertise and energy to the department and will be a substantial addition to the teaching and research profile. The new members of PPR staff are: · Dr. Brian Black · Dr. Anderson Jeremiah · Dr. Sossie Kasbarian · Professor Kim Knott · Dr. Tom Mills · Dr. Kunal Mukherjee · Dr. Martin Steven · Professor Ian Reader http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1329/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1329/ Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:09:22 +0100 Lancaster University will lead one of four AHRC Knowledge Exchange Hubs, as part of £16m funding for the UK Creative Economy. This Lancaster led hub called 'The Creative Exchange' will include collaboration with the BBC, Microsoft, TATE Liverpool, SAGE Gateshead, Opera North, NESTA, Lancaster City Council, the Storey Creative Industries Centre, FutureEverything and over 30 small and medium sized companies working in the sector, such as Stardotstar. The lead contact is Professor Rachel Cooper, Professor of Design Management at the Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1328/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1328/ Tue, 16 Aug 2011 11:15:12 +0100 Rebecca Braun, recently appointed Lecturer in German Studies in DELC (September 2010), was invited to present her latest research to the Vice Chancellor of the University, Professor Paul Wellings, and other members of Senior Management on 28 June 2011. In her 20 minute presentation, Rebecca outlined how her work on authors in contemporary Germany helps her frame bigger questions about what culture means for a society. In the past, theories of authorship have been linked primarily to close textual analysis - figuring out how a text works on a micro level, how meaning is created and communicated within the closed triangle of author-reader-text relations. Rebecca's research into the way German-language authors have been represented in popular public discourse (including TV documentaries and Internet sites) from the 1960s to the present, and how they have engaged with these various representations in their writing merges traditional close-textual analysis with a much broader sociological understanding of authorship. Authors act as a key interface between culture and its social and political context. The precise way in which they are constructed, branded and reflected on as cultural products in their own right, and how these constructions have changed over time, tells us a great dealabout a specific society. At the same time, authors have much to say about the processes of construction and branding to which they are subjected. One of Rebecca's key points is that the way in which key figures have refined their aesthetic technique to engage with and reflect upon these dominant media processes has significantly shaped the evolution of German literature and literary culture over the past fifty years. Rebecca's research is by no means limited to the German context, however. Over the last year, inspired by the outward-looking nature of DELC, Rebecca has worked on the concept of literary celebrity within the global context, analysing the Nobel Prize and different attitudes to intellectual achievement in Europe, Britain and North America. She has also strayed into Linguistics, Sociology, Literary Theory, and Media Studies in her work on 'the impact process', a term coined to help conceptualise how cultural products are received in the world, and how processes of reception in turn condition what is produced. During her presentation to the Vice Chancellor she was operating in equally interdisciplinary environs: other invited presenters were Luke Harding from Linguistics, Mark Butler from Law, and Sarah Casey from LICA. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1313/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1313/ Tue, 05 Jul 2011 16:27:43 +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 The Department of History was delighted to host an inter-disciplinary symposium in November 2010 called "Liberty and its Histories". It was inspired by the work of Prof. Quentin Skinner, and Prof. Skinner attended as the guest speaker and commentator. There wereseven papers, and the programme is reproduced below. Prof. Skinner consented to his lecture being video-ed. You can see it at this url:http://www.lancs.ac.uk/iss/digital/Flash/historysymp The symposium was co-organised by Dr Stephen Pumfrey (Lancaster University) and Dr Neil Foxlee (Univeristy of Central Lancaster). Any enquiries should be emailed to me, Stephen Pumfrey at: s.pumfrey AT lancaster.ac.uk. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1291/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1291/ Tue, 07 Jun 2011 16:07:45 +0100 Colin Pooley (Geography/LEC) with colleagues from Leeds and Oxford Brookes, EPSRC, £1,198,654 (Lancaster element £657,149), 1st October 2008 - 30th September 2011 This research focuses on household decision making for short journeys in urban areas with the aim of providing information to inform policies to increase walking and cycling. It is widely recognised that an increase in walking and cycling for short journeys in urban areas could significantly reduce traffic congestion, improve the quality of the urban environment, promote improved personal health, and contribute to a reduction in carbon emissions. However in most towns and cities rates of walking and cycling remain stubbornly low. A mixed quantitative and qualitative methodology will be used in four study areas to examine household and individual decision making about everyday travel, and the researchers will work closely with a range of stakeholders to develop new policies and avoid unintended consequences from existing schemes to promote sustainable travel in cities. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/574/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/574/ Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:13:37 +0100