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LRDG meetings held in 2003

15 Jan - Tony Luxon

The use of base-line studies in language teaching projects

22 Jan - Nigel Hall

Manchester Metro University

Thinking about the materiality of literacy: a small case study.

12 Feb - Moira Peelo

Co-ordinator, Student Learning Development Centre

Working with slow-reading undergraduates

26 Feb - Rachel Emslie-Henry

NRDC, Institute of Education London

A Workplace project: Raising isssues about access, the nature of combining qualitative and quantitative research, and working with ESOL participants.

5 Mar - Joint meeting withDept of Educational Research

Research on teacher and learner identities

12 Mar - Robert Blake

Student study Counsellor, Student Learning Development Centre

Practices around Students' texts: Empowering Students to develop a critical approach to their writing.

19 Mar - Richard Carter

Dept of Engineering

Discourses in Engineering: interfacing with other agencies.

13 May - Lydia Tseng & Roz Ivanic

How learning is accomplished in adult literacy, numeracy and esol educational settings.

10 Jun - Derek Armstrong

University of Sheffield

Experiences of Special Education: Re-evaluating policy and practice through life stories

24 Jun - Euline Cutrim

New Technologies in the ESOL classroom.

7 Oct - Sondra Stein

National Institute for Literacy, Washington

Equipped for the Future: linking policy, research and practice in the U.S.

14 Oct - Literacy Research Centre staff members

The Literacy Research Centre current projects

28 Oct - Teresa Cairns

Centre for Continuing Education
University of Sussex

'Webs of significance' and a search for understanding: grounded theory and interpretive analysis in life history research

18 Nov - Literacy Research Centre

Seminar Series - Work in Progress

• Sue Parkin: ‘The Genre of Personal Investigation in Art at AS level’
• Awena Carter: “Discourses of Writing and Learning to Write”

25 Nov - Jo Arthur, Edge Hill

'Inuu waa beryoo'

(Dawn has broken):
Meanings and uses of Somali literacy in a minoritised community