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Adult Learners' Lives

Adult Learners' Lives was a major project funded by the National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy. The aim was to under ... Read more»

Project staff: Yvon Appleby, David Barton, Rachel Hodge, Roz Ivanic, Karin Tusting
Keywords: Adult basic education, Learner voices, Literacies, Literacy, Practitioner research

Anthropology of writing: understanding textually-mediated worlds

This is a project to bring together French and British research on reading and writing. Through a series of research visits and invited talks by both ... Read more»

Project staff: David Barton, Uta Papen
Keywords: Ethnography of literacy, Writing (general)

Bilingual Literacy Practices of Welsh speakers

This is a detailed ethnographic study of the bilingual literacy practices of people living in a small town in north east Wales, studying how people us ... Read more»

Keywords: Bilingualism, Literacy

Changing Faces of Adult Literacy, Numeracy & ESOL

This project takes a historical look at policy and practice in the field of Adult literacy, Language and Numeracy (ALLN). By bringing together the per ... Read more»

Project staff: Yvon Appleby, Mary Hamilton
Keywords: Adult basic education, Education, ESOL, Literacy

Creating a resource for policy, practitioners and researchers

A large amount of data and other research-related resources of many different kinds are being generated by NRDC projects. This project aims to ensure ... Read more»

Project staff: Jessica Abrahams (Division of Health Research), David Barton, Karin Tusting
Keywords: Adult basic education, Adult learning, ESOL, Numeracy, Skills for life

'Day in the Life'

A 'Day in the Life' is an ecological investigation of aspects of culture in the interactional construction of childhood in diverse global communities. ... Read more»

Project staff: Julia Gillen
Keywords: Children, Culture, Ecology, Everyday life culture, Families, Family, Literacy, Psychology, Qualitative methods, Qualitative research methods, Video

Discourse of the School Dinners Debate

The 'Discourse of the School Dinners Debate' is a one year ESRC funded project. Professor Guy Cook of the Open University is the Principal Investigat ... Read more»

Project staff: Julia Gillen
Keywords: Corpora and sociolinguistics/discourse, Corpus linguistics, Discourse, Discourse analysis, Education, Focus groups and interviewing, Food

Exploring Public Images Of Literacy

Following earlier work on visual images of literacy, our current study analyses a corpus of newspaper photographs of literacy practices using software ... Read more»

Project staff: Mary Hamilton
Keywords: Literacy

Home/Work: The Roles of Education, Literacy and Learning in the Social Networks and Mobility Patterns of Migrant Carers

This project focuses on the human geographies of skilled migration, specifically the practices, dispositions, relationships, and resources of professi ... Read more»

Project staff: Sondra Cuban

Literacies for Learning in FE - LFLFE

The Literacies for Learning in Further Education (LfLFE) project was a collaboration between two universities - Stirling and Lancaster - and four coll ... Read more»

Project staff: David Barton, Roz Ivanic
Keywords: Everyday literacy practices, Literacies

Literacy in the Digital University

This ESRC seminar series is a collaboration between the Open University, Lancaster University, Glasgow Caledonian and Edinburgh. The aims are to: Cri ... Read more»

Project staff: David Barton
Keywords: Digital literacies, Higher education HE, Literacies

Literacy, Learning and Health

This project, which was funded by the National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy (NRDC), investigated the relations betw ... Read more»

Project staff: Uta Papen
Keywords: Health, Learning, Literacy

Multimodal text-making and learning in online social spaces: The case of Flickr.com

This project is funded by the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The overall aim is to analyze the relationship between words and images in Web 2.0 medi ... Read more»

Project staff: David Barton
Keywords: Digital literacies

Paperwork and Pressure in Educational Settings

This ESRC-funded project explores the impact of increased textualisation in two contrasting educational workplaces, examining the literacy practices a ... Read more»

Project staff: Karin Tusting
Keywords: Ethnography of literacy, Literacy, Stress, Workplace literacy

Persistence, Progression and Achievement

In this countrywide NRDC project looking at persistence in LLN learning we at Lancaster were focusing in particular on priority groups who are said to ... Read more»

Project staff: Rachel Hodge
Keywords: Literacy

Photography In Collaborative Research

We are concerned with 'insider' and 'outsider' images and understandings of multilingual literacy practices. We have used photography in collaboration ... Read more»

Project staff: Rachel Hodge
Keywords: Literacy, Photography

Practitioner-Led Research Initiative Impact Study

The aim of this project was to carry out an impact study of the practitioner-led research initiative and to produce a short guide on how to support pr ... Read more»

Project staff: Paul Davies (Educational Research), Mary Hamilton, Kathryn James
Keywords: Action research, Adult basic education, Partnership, Practitioner research, Public policy

Pregnancy starts with a literacy event: pregnancy and ante-natal care as textually-mediated experiences

This research started as an autoethnographic study of my recent experience of pregnancy. The purpose of this study was to explore the role of reading ... Read more»

Project staff: Uta Papen
Keywords: Ethnography of literacy

Prison Literacy

I am interested in the multiple literacies engaged in by members of the prison community - in particular the literacy events and practices which relat ... Read more»

Project staff: Anita Wilson
Keywords: Literacy

Progression: life and learning

This is the qualitative part of the wider Progression and Personalisation project. The project is studying people's patterns of progression in life an ... Read more»

Project staff: David Barton, Rachel Hodge

Projects at Key Stage 2

We are studying the 'free projects' done by one class of children in each of Years 4, 5 and 6. We are interested in the way these projects span the di ... Read more»

Project staff: Roz Ivanic
Keywords: Literacy

Schome Park

Julia Gillen is a member of the Schome Community - see www.schome.ac.uk - exploring new models of education to meet the needs of society and individua ... Read more»

Project staff: Julia Gillen
Keywords: Literacy

The Edwardian Postcard

The early British postcard is a fascinating multimodal communications technology. In the heyday of the postcard during the Edwardian age, (1901-1910 ... Read more»

Project staff: Julia Gillen
Keywords: communication, Literacies, Literacy, Literacy practices, Material culture, Mobilities, Popular culture, Twentieth century history, Twentieth-century popular culture