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Ms Rachel Hodge
Research Associate
Degree: MA language Studies (Dist.) Lancaster
Associated research centres and groups: Lancaster Literacy Research Centre
Research Interests
Rachel is Research Associate at the Lancaster Literacy Research Centre. She has been working on a range of DFES funded projects through the National Research and Development Centre (NRDC) on language and literacy learning and how this relates to people'severyday lives. Her broad research interests relate to social uses of language and literacy, particularly in multilingual settings in Britain. Based in Blackburn, Lancashire, she has researched with people of South Asian ethnic minority groups, with young learners of English seeking asylum and refugee status and with young people who are homeless. In Nepal she worked with Community Literacy Project Nepal (DfID funded) supporting participatory/ethnographic research and programmes related to social uses of literacy in rural communities. She is committed to linking research and practice working collaboratively with local co-researchers and practitioners in an effort to promote positive social change. She draws on ethnographic, innovative, multi-method approaches and has a particular interest in photography as a research tool.
Publications
Barton, D., Ivanic, R., Appleby, Y., Hodge, R. and Tusting, K. 2007, Literacy, Lives and Learning, London & New York, Routledge.
Barton, D., Ivanic, R., Appleby, Y., Hodge, R. and Tusting, K. 2006, Relating lives and learning: Adults' engagement in community settings, London: National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy.
Barton, D., Ivanic, R., Appleby, Y., Hodge, R. and Tusting, K. 2006, Relating language, literacy and numeracy teaching to adult learners' lives:A social perspective, London: National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy.
Hodge, R. 2006 'Inspiration and Aspiration: exploring the nature of success in family literacy, language and numeracy provision in a multilingual context.' Lancaster Literacy Research Centre Working Paper No. 12, Lancaster: Lancaster University.
Hodge, R. 2005 Learning and life transitions of young people on an Entry to Employment programme, Lancaster Literacy Research Centre Working Paper No. 11, Lancaster: Lancaster University.
Hodge, R. 2004 Nightsafe- a shelter for young people who are homeless: engaging young people in learning, Lancaster Literacy Research Centre, Working Paper No.7, Lancaster: Lancaster University.
Hodge, R. and Pitt, K. with Barton, D. 2004 "This is not enough for one's life:" Perceptions of living and learning English in Blackburn by students seeking asylum and refugee status", in Roberts, C. et al. ESOL case studies of provision, learner's needs and resources. London: National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy.
Hodge, R. 2003 A Review of Recent Ethnographies of Literacy, Lancaster Literacy Research Centre, Working Paper No. 1, Lancaster: Lancaster University.
Hodge, R. and Jones, K. 2000 "Photography in collaborative research on multilingual literacy practices: Images and understandings of researcher and researched", in Multilingual Literacies: Reading and writing different worlds, Marilyn Martin-Jones and Kathryn Jones (eds), John Benjamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia.
Hodge, R. et al. 2000 Literacies, Communication and Access to Information, Report of the Baseline Study, Dhanusha District, Nepal, Reading: Centre for British Teachers Education Trust (CfBT).
Hodge, R. et al. 1999 Literacy, Communication and Community Participation", Report of the Baseline Study, Dhankuta District, Nepal, Reading: Centre for British Teachers Education Trust (CfBT).
Hodge, R. 1997 A Review of Rural Development Approaches and Strategies for the Support of local Non-Government Organisations, Kathmandu, Nepal: UMN Publications.
Associated Keyword: Language
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