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Centre for Language in Social Life
Centre for Research in Language Education (CRILE)
Chinese Studies Research Group
Lancaster Literacy Research Centre
LRDG: Greek crisis and stance-taking on Facebook, 14 May 2013
LRDG: Bronwyn Williams: Finding a Way In: Literacy, Popular Culture, and Points of Participation, 7 May 2013
LRDG: Connections and disconnections on home and school literacy practices in Chile, 26 February 2013
LRDG: 'Points of View: reflections on a virtual world in a classroom (or was it a classroom in a virtual world)'?, 19 February 2013
LRDG: Narratives and Evaluation in 'The Murder of Stephen Lawrence' Wikipedia Article, 15 January 2013
LRDG: Beyond Starbucks: the monolingual, multilingual and multimodal discourses of product packaging, 4 December 2012
LRDG: Reading and discussion session, 27 November 2012
LRDG: Imagining literacy: The politics of representation, 20 November 2012
LRDG: A tale of two contexts: A discussion of the school literacies of the Old Colony Mennonites, 6 November 2012
LRDG: Vernacular literacies and Facebook: A case study of mobile multilingual resources in online writing, 30 October 2012
LRDG: Constructing a Culture: the poetic response to the environment of an early-nineteenth-century Cumbrian dry-stone-waller, 23 October 2012
LRDG: #iamscience: Solidarity and boundaries on science twitter, 16 October 2012
LRDG: Methodological challenges in analysing an online debate: the case of a planning application for a Gothic cathedral, 9 October 2012
LRDG - The Academic Writing Zone in LUMS: our experience of introducing a faculty-based peer writing mentor scheme, 19 June 2012
LRDG - Harry Potter and Boys' Literacies, 12 June 2012
Bryan Maddox: Desert Deviants: Ethnography, Camels, Fast Food, ANT, and Item Response Theory in the Mongolian Gobi, 29 May 2012
LRDG - Learning at the ends of life: Multimodality and identity in an intergenerational art program, 8 May 2012
Enriching early childhood literacy curricula and practice - a dialogue with Canada. One day conference., 7 May 2012
LRDG - Writer's stance and the interaction of practices, 24 April 2012
Crossing borders: an exploration of transnational 'readability' and 'comparability' of university qualifications, 20 March 2012
Looking at Picturebook Covers Multimodally: The Case of Two-Mum and Two-Dad Picturebooks, 13 March 2012
"We use Facebook to chat in lectures, of course!" Exploring a Facebook group as a new space transforming higher education, 6 March 2012
Literacy practices in everyday life and in second language education, 28 February 2012
David Hanauer, "A genre analysis of representational wall space in a microbiology laboratory", 14 February 2012
LRDG: Critical discourse analysis and ethnography: a good match?, 7 February 2012
LRDG: The contextualisation of linguistic and textual analysis, 31 January 2012
LAEL raffle in aid of Oxfam, 25 January 2012
LRDG: The Unseen Editor: The Role of the Public in Dictionary Making, 24 January 2012
LRDG - 1001 images from Tahrir Square: Developing a quantitative approach to extract and analyse linguistic data from visual material, 13 December 2011
LRDG - Translating education policy into practice: using Actor-Network Theory to explore practitioners' literacy practices, 29 November 2011
LRDG - What can ethnomethodology do for academic literacies?, 22 November 2011
LRDG - Local literacies at the corner store: Catechism, cantaloupe and calico at Mennomex, 15 November 2011
LRDG: Internet forum as community of practice and as political voice: Researching Mumsnet, 8 November 2011
LRDG: How texts travel across space and time: African Readings of The Pilgrim's Progress, 1 November 2011
Literacy Research Discussion Group: Phonics or Fun?, 25 October 2011
LRDG: Commercial discourses, gentrification and citizens' protest: the linguistic landscape of Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin, 18 October 2011
Leo van Lier Research Workshop, 29 June 2011
LAEL Departmental Lecture by Leo van Lier, 29 June 2011
LRDG: Negotiating discipline and politics: How students draw on diverse practices when 'doing a dissertation', 21 June 2011
Paper discussion session: From variation to heteroglossia in the study of computer-mediated discourse, 14 June 2011
Literacy Research Discussion Group: Competing Discourses Embedded in a Dyslexic Child's Story Writing, 31 May 2011
Literacy Research Discussion Group: Visuals in cookbooks: Jamie Oliver and recent transformations, 10 May 2011
Literacy History: Pushing the Disciplinary Boundaries, 7 March 2011
Fleeing from an ash cloud: Languages, literacies and technologies as resources in a coach hurtling across Europe. Literacy Research Discussion Group, 15 February 2011
Revisiting speech vs. writing in the age of the Internet: Literacy Research Discussion Group, 8 February 2011
Texts, text-reader conversations, and institutional discourse (Dorothy Smith): Literacy Research Discussion Group, 1 February 2011
LRDG - Discussion of recent papers and activities, 14 December 2010
When Diglossia Meets Digraphia: Reading Egyptian Arabic in Arabic Script and Latin Script - LRDG Seminar, 7 December 2010
Aganetha and Isaac go to school: A principal's reflections on the in- and out-of -school literacies of Mennonite children - LRDG seminar, 30 November 2010
Aganetha and Isaac go to school: A principal's reflections on the in- and out-of -school literacies of Mennonite children, 30 November 2010
Changing lifeworlds, changing writing: researching how adults take on new writing practices at times of change, 23 November 2010
Katy and the internet: some perspectives on the embededness of internet use in a particular family's literacy practices - LRDG seminar, 16 November 2010
Katy and the internet: some perspectives on the embeddedness of internet use in a particular family's literacy practices, 16 November 2010
Postcard Fair, 13 November 2010
On dialect spelling, social practice and sociolinguistic salience, 9 November 2010
Adolescents' linguistic practices in College-affiliated Bulletin Board Systems(BBSs) in Taiwan - LRDG seminar, 2 November 2010
LRDG - Discussion of recent papers and activities, 26 October 2010
Changing practices in museum interpretation - LRDG seminar, 19 October 2010
International Summer School in Digital Literacies, 28 June - 1 July 2010
Diane Mavers: Redesign in copying, 15 June 2010
Carole Sedgwick: Crossing borders: the feasibility of harmonising academic literacy standards across Europe, 25 May 2010
LRDG visit to the Hesketh Collection, 10 May 2010
CANCELLED Adam Jaworski: Language as Spectacle: The Linguistic Landscape of Tourism: LRDG Multimodalities Seminar, 21 April 2010
Amy Burgess: I don't want to be a China buff, 20 April 2010
Revisiting the pains of imprisonment: Dr Ben Crewe, Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, 16 April 2010
Using a wiki to underpin research: an international project about children's everyday musical activity: LRDG Seminar, 9 March 2010
Functional Literacy - New idea or déjà vu?: Reflections on adult literacy policy in England, 24 February 2010
Multimodality Data Session - LRDG Research Seminar, 23 February 2010
Mandated literacy assessment and the reorganisation of teachers' work: An institutional ethnography : LRDG seminar, 16 February 2010
Farmers Facing Traceability: A case-study approach from Burgundy, France LRDG Seminar, 9 February 2010
Launch of Literacy Research Centre Multimodalities Seminar Series, 2 February 2010
Carbon literacy practices: textual footprints between school and home: an LRDG seminar, 26 January 2010
Introduction to Second Life, 13 January 2010
Paperwork in the workplace: responses to 'imposed' literacy practices: a Literacy Research Discussion Group Seminar, 1 December 2009
Discourses in transit: LRDG seminar, 24 November 2009
Writing in Fula in North Senegal : two graphic systems and some questions for the study of digraphia and multiscriptal situations : LRDG seminar, 17 November 2009
How Academics Write - LRDG seminar, 10 November 2009
Academics Writing in a Changing World : LRDG seminar, 10 November 2009
Ethnography as method, methodology, and 'deep theorizing': Discussion of Paper by Theresa Lillis - LRDG session, 3 November 2009
The value of literacy in a rural community in Mali: An ethnographic account of one man's writing practices - LRDG Seminar, 20 October 2009
Learning, Literacy and Mobility: LRDG seminar, 13 October 2009
Linking Learning to Literacies: Sites of Learning, 14 July 2009
Summer School for Literacy Professionals and Researchers, 13 July 2009
Digital Literature as a Tool for (Foreign) Language Learning: Collaboration, Creativity, Transliteracy - LRDG Seminar, 16 June 2009
Designing for digital literacies - LRDG seminar, 9 June 2009
Online Ethnography - LRDG Seminar, 2 June 2009
Spiralling through Change: Literacies and Technologies across the Lifespan - LRDG Seminar, 5 May 2009
The Performativity of Writing in a Public Space: An Ethnography of Paris Subway Signage - LRDG Seminar, 28 April 2009
Using Mobile Phones for Field Research - LRDG Seminar, 21 April 2009
TLRP-TEL digital literacies workshop, 12 March 2009
LRDG Seminar: Dyslexia, digitality and deconstruction, 10 March 2009
LRDG Seminar: Hidden dialogicality: the past and present in Soviet/Russian teacher training text-books, 13 January 2009
LRDG seminar: The Stresses and Thrills of Fieldwork in Literacies, Language, and Education, 25 November 2008
LRDG seminar: Changing discourses: literacy and development in Nepal, 18 November 2008
LRDG seminar: "Who do you think wrote that?" : The Discoursal Construction of Writer Identity by Three Adult Literacy Students, 11 November 2008
LRDG seminar: 'Saint Jamie' or 'A normal bloke': celebrity language in public debate, a study of the Jamie Oliver intervention.., 4 November 2008
LRDG seminar: Digital Literacies: young children learning to use new technologies at home, 28 October 2008
LRDG seminar: Literacy and the Victorian local paper in Preston, 21 October 2008
LRDG seminar: Interrupted Education, Interrupted Life, 14 October 2008
BAAL Linguistic Ethnography Forum: 'ethnographies of literacy: an Anglo-French dialogue', 8 May 2008
North West SfL Research Forum Seminar: Practitioner Research - can it support professional development?, 28 April 2008
LRDG Seminar: Threads of Knowledge: the rabbi's wife, the Hebrew mourning-embroidery, and transmission of Jewish identity, 22 April 2008
LRDG seminar: Revisiting the New Literacy Studies language of description: some questions about literacy events, practices and domains, 18 March 2008
LRDG seminar: Lending Ears to the Visual in Writing, 4 March 2008
LRDG seminar: 'I wouldn't do without her' - the role of literacy mediators in relation to patients' health literacy, 26 February 2008
LRDG seminar: The Romani approach to literacy, 19 February 2008
LRDG seminar: A revolutionary moment in informal, near-synchronous, multimodal writing practices: the Edwardian postcard, 5 February 2008
LRDG seminar: Literacy network analyses of a Chinese migrant child's multiliteracy practices in Britain, 29 January 2008
LRDG seminar: Simplification, 22 January 2008
LRDG seminar - Bookcrossing.com, 15 January 2008
LRDG seminar: Cultural Articulations of the North: Carers Cruising Cumbria and Meals on The Mile. Sondra Cuban and Corinne Fowler, Lancaster University, 11 December 2007
LRDG seminar: Two research studies from Spain, 4 December 2007
LRDG seminar: What Happens to Diaries? Irving Finkel, British Museum, 27 November 2007
LRDG seminar: David Barton - Writing on Web2, 6 November 2007
Being creative with academic writing : practical workshops, 5 November 2007
LRDG Seminar - Orthography as social practice: spelling and the new literacy studies. Mark Sebba, Lancaster University, 30 October 2007
LRDG Seminar: Exploring Textually Mediated Institutional Space: Gate keeping, Docility, Ceremonies and Signs. Lee James Tipton, Lancaster University, 23 October 2007
LRDG seminar: The discourses of a virtual island: the Schome-NAGTY 'Teen Second Life' project. Julia Gillen, Lancaster University, 16 October 2007
The Radiophonics Project, 19 June 2007
Pregnancy starts with a literacy event, 12 June 2007
Reading the Signs: Institutional Interpretations of Bodily Text in a Culture of Risk, Blame and Acco, 15 May 2007
What's the new in New Literacy Studies?, 8 May 2007
LRDG Special Seminar, 21 March 2007
LRDG Seminar Series, 20 March 2007
LRDG Seminar Series, 13 March 2007
Literacy Research Centre Seminar, 27 February 2007
Investigating Functionality in Bilingual Adult Literacy Programmes:, 20 February 2007
Literacy Research Discussion Group Seminar, 15 February 2007
Literacy Research Discussion Group Seminar, 13 February 2007
LRDG seminar series, 13 February 2007
LRDG Seminar, 6 February 2007
LRDG Seminar, 30 January 2007
Ways with Words? LRDG Seminar, 23 January 2007
Transparent Opacity: Assessment in the inclusive academy, 31 October 2006
Land, language and literacy, 24 October 2006
Narratives of migration and artefacts of identity: new imaginings and new generations, 17 October 2006
Reading and Writing the Self as a College Student: Fluidity and ambivalence across contexts., 10 October 2006
Reclaiming Family Literacy, 27 June 2006
The Makeover: A New Logic Of Practice In Policy Making?, 20 June 2006
LRDG Seminar, 6 June 2006
LRDG seminar, 30 May 2006
What am I reading?, 9 May 2006
Changing literacies in the knowledge-based economy?, 4-5 May 2006
LRDG Seminar: 'Intercontextuality' & 'Recontextualisation' in Learning and Teaching Argumentation, 2 May 2006
LRDG Seminar - Embedding the development of writing within a science faculty: a case study of a postgraduate writing course, 25 April 2006
Language, Ideology and Power Group (LIP)
Language Testing Research Group (LTRG)
Language Variation and Linguistic Theory (LVLT)
Research in Language, Gender and Sexuality
Second Language Learning and Teaching Research Group (SLLAT)
University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language (UCREL)
