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Emeritus Professor Roz Ivanic
Emeritus Professor of Linguistics in Education
Degree: BA (Bristol), MA (Lancaster), PGCE (London), PhD (Lancaster)
Associated research centres and groups: Lancaster Literacy Research Centre
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Research Interests
Brief overview of her professional life
From 1970 to 1985 Roz taught English language, literacy and study skills to children and adults in Devon, London and Stockton, California. She was director of the Language Support Unit at Kingsway-Princeton College of Further Education in London. She was a lecturer in adult literacy, language and learning at Garnett College for teachers in further and higher education before joining the staff at Lancaster in 1986. From 1986 to 2008 she was a full-time member of the Department of Linguistics and English Language and from 2002 she was an Associate Director of the Literacy Research Centre. In September 2008 she was appointed Professor Emerita.
She was an active member of The British Association for Applied Linguistics , and was the Chairperson of the Committee for Linguistics in Education .for many years. She has been an active member of the Research and Practice in Adult Literacy Group since its inception.
Recent research activities
She co-directed the Leverhulme and ESRC-funded research projects which developed the Lancaster Corpus of Children's Project Writing . She worked within the Lancaster node of the National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy, based in the Lancaster Literacy Research Centre . She was the overall director of the ESRC TLRP research project Literacies for Learning in Further Education, which was a collaboration between the Literacy Research Centre at Lancaster University and the Centre for Research on Lifelong Learning at the University of Stirling. She was also a co-director of the associated ESRC TLRP research project Bilingual Literacies for Learning in Further Education. These two projects researched the in-college and out-of-college literacy practices of students on a wide range of vocational and academic courses in Further Education colleges inEngland, Scotland and Wales.
Continuing research interests
- writer identity,
- intertextuality,
- multimodal communication,
- writing practices in both academic and non-academic settings,
- the relationship between research and practice,
- adult literacy,
- educational linguistics,
- critical language awareness-raising,
- punctuation,
- academic discourse practices,
- applications of van Leeuwen's Theory of Representation,
- literacies for learning in Further Education,
- the literacy practices of vocational education professionals.
Potential Doctoral Proposals
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Publications
SELECTED BOOKS, PAPERS and DVD
Clark, R. and Ivanic, R. (1997) The Politics of Writing. London: Routledge.
Ivanic, R. (1998) Writing and Identity: The discoursal construction of identity in academic writing. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Barton, D., Hamilton, M. and Ivanic, R. (eds.) (2000) Situated Literacies: Reading and writing in context. London: Routledge.
Ormerod, F. and Ivanic, R. (2002) 'Materiality in children's meaning-making practices.' In Visual Communication 1.1 (pp. 65 - 91).
Ivanic, R. (2004) 'Discourses of writing and learning to write.' Language and Education 18.3. (pp. 220 - 245)
Ivanic, R. (2006) 'Language, learning and identification'. In R. Kiely, P. Rea-Dickens, H. Woodfield and G. Clibbon (eds) Language, Culture and Identity in Applied Linguistics. Equinox.
Barton, D., Appleby, Y., Hodge, R.,Tusting, K.and Ivanic, R. (2007) Literacy, Lives and Learning. London: Routledge.
Pardoe, S. and Ivanic, R. (2007) Literacies for Learning in Further Education: making reading and writing practices across the curriculum more useful for learning. DVD film and booklet. Lancaster University & PublicSpace Ltd. www.publicspace.org.uk/lflfe.html
Ivanic, R., Edwards, R., Barton, D., Martin-Jones, M., Fowler, Z., Hughes, B., Mannion, G., Miller, K., Satchwell, C. & Smith, J. (2009) Improving learning in college: Rethinking literacies across the curriculum. London: Routledge.
RECENT
Ivanic, R. and Tseng, M.L. (2005) Understanding the relationships between learning and teaching: An analysis of the contribution of applied linguistics. London: NRDC.
Ivanic, R.,Appleby, Y., Hodge, R., Tusting, K.andBarton, D.(2006). Linking Learning and Everyday Life: A social perspective on Adult Language, Literacy and Numeracy classes. London: NRDC.
Casey H., Jupp T., Grief, S., Hodge, R., Ivanic, R., Lopez, D. Cara, O., Eldred, J. and McNeil, B. (2006) "You wouldn't expect a maths teacher to teach plastering…" Embedding literacy, language and numeracy in post-16 vocational programmes - the impact on learning and achievement. London: NRDC.
Ivanic, R. and Satchwell, C. (2007) 'Boundary crossing: networking and transforming literacies in research processes and college courses.' Journal of Applied Linguistics 4.1 Special Edition on 'Academic Literacies' pp.101 - 124.
Ivanic, R., Edwards, R., Satchwell, C., and Smith, J.(2007) 'Possibilities for pedagogy in Further Education: Harnessing the abundance of literacy.' British Educational Research Journal Vol. 33, No. 5, TLRP Special Issue, pp. 703-721.
Satchwell, C. and Ivanic, R. (2007) 'The textuality of learning contexts in UK Colleges.' Pedagogy, Culture and Society Vol. 15, No. 3, Special Issue of on Contexts, Networks and Communities pp. 303-316.
Mannion, G. and Ivanic, R. (2007) 'Mapping Literacy Practices: Theory, Methodology, Methods.' International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education Vol 20, no. 1 pp. 15-30.
Ivanic, R. and Satchwell, C., (2007) 'Boundary crossing: Networking and transforming the literacies in research processes and college courses.' International Journal of Applied Linguistics . 4.1. Special Issue on New Directions in Academic Literacies Research ' pp. 101-124.
Satchwell, C. and Ivanic, R. (2009) 'The textual mediation of learning in Further Education.' In R. Edwards, G. Biesta and M. Thorpe (Eds.) Rethinking contexts for learning and teaching: Communities, activities and networks. London: RoutledgeFalmer.
Burgess, A., Hamilton, M. and Ivanic, R. (2009) 'Functional literacy: A new idea or déjà vu? 'RaPAL Journal No 67, pp 25 - 29.
Ivanic, R. (2009) An OPQ of a life in RaPAL - a retrospective. RaPAL Journal No 67, pp 45 - 49.
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SHOULD BE PUBLISHED LATER THIS YEAR OR EARLY NEXT YEAR
Satchwell, C. and Ivanic, R. (2009) 'Reading and writing the self as a college student: Fluidity and ambivalence across contexts.' In K. Ecclestone, G. Biesta and M. Hughes (Eds.) Lost in transition? Change and becoming through the lifecourse. London: RoutledgeFalmer.
Ivanic, R. (2009) 'Bringing literacy studies into research on learning across the curriculum.' In M. Baynham and M. Prinsloo (eds) The future of literacy studies. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Ivanic , R. (2009) 'Languages and literacies in education.' In J. Culpeper, F. Katamba, P. Kerswill, R. Wodak and T. McEnery (eds) The English Language. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan.
Edwards, R., Ivanic, R. and Mannion, G. (due to be published in 2010) 'The scrumpled geography of literacies for learning.' Accepted by Discourse.
Other Interests and Hobbies
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Associated Keywords: Adult basic education, Education, Educational linguistics, English language, Higher education HE, Language education, Literacy, Semiotics, Writing (general)
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