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Projects in Lancaster Literacy Research Centre
PROFI Improving workplace adult basic education
01/10/2013 → 01/10/2015
This porject, initiated and managed by the bbb Buero fuer berufliche Bildungsplanung (a german based training organisation for workplace education), involves 6 European countries. Lancaster Literacy R ... Read more»The role of written texts in doctor-patient interaction
01/02/2013 →
This study looks at the role written texts such as patient education leaflets play in interactions between doctors and patients. In this project, we are looking at 'health literacy' from the perspecti ... Read more»Digital Professionalism in Medical Education
16/01/2013 → 31/01/2014
... Read more»An Oral History of Pecket Well College
01/10/2012 → 31/03/2014
This is a collaborative project creating an archive and oral history project of this user-run adult education college. I am a steering group member of the project. ... Read more»Digital Futures in Teacher Education project
17/10/2011 → 19/10/2012
... Read more»Digital literacies as medial ecology: a case study of communications around cricket.
30/07/2011 → 31/03/2012
The aim of the project is to compile and analyse data from a professional cricket commentator's use of new (Web 2.0) literacies and to understand these in the context of his other professional practic ... Read more»Linguistic landscapes: the cultural production of urban spaces
01/10/2010 →
Drawing on fieldwork in Berlin (October 2010 to June 2011) this project examines the role of writing and visuals in the cultural production of urban spaces. Cultural production here refers to the way ... Read more»Adults learning new forms of writing
01/01/2010 → 30/03/2010
An interview study looking at how adults learn new writing practices at times of transition in their lives. ... Read more»Edwardian Postcard Project
01/09/2009 →
The early British postcard is a fascinating multimodal communications technology. In the heyday of the postcard during the Edwardian age, (1901-1910) it offered an opportunity for rapid vernacular wri ... Read more»Conceptualising information literacy as social practice: a study of pregnant women’s information practices
01/05/2009 → 31/12/2011
In this interview-based study I examined the information practices of pregnant women. The study suggested that information searching and use are best conceptualised not as cognitive skills but as soci ... Read more»Paperwork and pressure in educational workplaces
01/04/2007 → 30/09/2009
A study of the impact of paperwork practices in two contrasting educational workplaces, an early years centre and an adult education college. ... Read more»Discourse of the School Dinners Debate
01/02/2007 → 31/01/2008
The 'Discourse of the School Dinners Debate' is a one year ESRC funded project. Professor Guy Cook of the Open University is the Principal Investigator; Julia Gillen the co-investigator, with Alison ... Read more»Practitioner-Led Research Initiative Impact Study
01/09/2006 → 28/02/2007
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 practitioner research, based on the lessons learned ... Read more»Pregnancy starts with a literacy event: pregnancy and ante-natal care as textually-mediated experiences
01/01/2006 →
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 and writing in relation to pregnancy and ante-nata ... Read more»Adult Learners' Lives
01/09/2003 → 31/03/2005
Adult Learners' Lives was a major project funded by the National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy. The aim was to understand the connections between adults' lives and ba ... Read more»Day in the Life
01/01/2002 → 30/09/2011
A 'Day in the Life' is an ecological investigation of aspects of culture in the interactional construction of childhood in diverse global communities. Regarding culture as a dynamic, interactionally p ... Read more»Exploring Public Images Of Literacy
01/01/1999 → 31/12/2001
Following earlier work on visual images of literacy, our current study analyses a corpus of newspaper photographs of literacy practices using software packages designed for qualitative data analysis. ... Read more»
