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Kathrin Kaufhold

Research Centre Administrator

Degree: M.A. (Leipzig)

Associated research centres and groups: Lancaster Literacy Research Centre

Current Teaching

I'm the part-time administrator of the Lancaster Literacy Research Centre and co-organiser of the Literacy Research Discussion Group. I am also teaching on LING209 Language and Education and taught on LING214 Corporate Communication.

Research Interests

My main occupation is my PhD at Lancaster University. Its broad topic can be described as the sociology of writing. I am interested in the social relations inherent in developing a piece of writing influenced by past writing experiences within and outside formal education and imagined futures. Specifically, I am looking at how master's students appropriate past and co-occurring writing-related practices in doing their dissertation. How do practices in which they have been or are currently participating interact and interrelate? I am drawing here particularly on the notion of practice(s) drawing on New Literacy Studies and the practice theoretical framework of Theodore Schatzki.

My research interests include academic writing/academic literacies, language and power, social practice theories, ethnographic methodology, linguistic anthropology, practice-oriented views of genre, linguistic ethnography, narrative analysis, discourse analysis and multilingualism.

Additional Information

I jointly organised the Fifth LAEL Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics and Language Teaching (2010) and co-edited (with Sharon McCulloch and Ana Tominc) Volume 5 of Papers from the Lancaster University Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics and Language Teaching.

Previously I worked on the AWESOME research project at the Lifelong Learning Institute/School of Education at Leeds University (http://awesome.leeds.ac.uk). The multidisciplinary research team developed a web2.0-based tool to support students engaged in their dissertation project. As RA I was responsible for planning and carrying out trials with user groups at various institutions.

Selected Publications and Presentations

Kaufhold, K., McCulloch, S., Tominc, A. (Eds.). (2011). Papers from the Lancaster University Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics and Language Teaching. Volume 5: Papers from LAEL-PG 2010. Lancaster: Lancaster University.

Kaufhold, K. (2011). Academic writing is English ...or is it? Perceptions of non-UK European students writing their masters dissertation in English, Day Seminar: The sociolinguistics of writing in a global context: resources, centres, peripheries, Open University, UK & University of Cape Town, SA, 30 September (paper).

Kaufhold, K. (2011). Dissertations as socially negotiated practices - how students appropriate past and co-occurring literacy practices while completing their dissertations, 44th Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics, University of the West of England, Bristol, England, 1 - 3 September (paper).

Kaufhold, K. (2011). Weaving a dissertation - how students draw on past and co-occurring practices while 'doing a dissertation', Sociology Summer Conference, Lancaster University, 4 - 5 July (paper).

Kaufhold, K. (2011). Doing a dissertation - Students negotiating diverse literacy practices during their masters level dissertation projects, 6th European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing Conference, University of Limerick, 29 June - 1 July (paper).

Kaufhold, K. (2011). Negotiating discipline and politics: How students draw on diverse practices when 'doing a dissertation', Literacy Research Discussion Group, 21 June (paper).

Lightfoot, S., Kaufhold, K., Dahlgreen, J. & Nelson, E. (2010). Managing transition: the role of the ESSL VLE study skills project. Leeds University Learning & Teaching Conference 2010, 8 January (paper).

O'Rourke, R., Kaufhold, K., Dimitrova, V., Lau, L., Le Bek, A., Bajanki, S. (2009). Academic writing empowered by social online mediated environments (AWESOME) dissertation environment (ADE) - JISC final report. JISC. Available online: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/usersandinnovation/awesomefinal.doc

Kaufhold, K. & O'Rourke, R. (2009). 21st Century Dissertations: Using a Web2.0 environment to empower academic writing through social scaffolding. 6th annual symposium of the Learning Development in Higher Education Network, Bournemouth, UK, 7 - 8 April 2009 (paper).

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