I welcome proposals to study the language of children and young people or to conduct multimodal analysis in digital contexts. I'm open to a broad range of methodologies and approaches to literacies, language and learning whether formal or informal, especially using new technologies. I'm also interested in the social history of communications technologies, combined with linguistic analysis, for example of the Edwardian postcard and the telephone.

Current doctoral student: S-Y Ruby Chen. Dissertation title: Adolescents' linguistic practices in College-affiliated Bulletin Board Systems(BBSs) in Taiwan.

Journals

I am co-editor of the Journal of Early Childhood Literacy.

Professional Associations and External Examining

Member of: American Educational Research Association, British Association of Applied Linguistics, International Society for Cultural and Activity Research and the UK Literacy Association.

External examiner for BA (Hons) English Language and Linguistics and BA (Hons) Communication at York St John University.

Publications and Presentations

CURRENT AND RECENT

Editor/series editor- books

Forthcoming:

Gillen, J. & Cameron, C.A. (eds) International perspectives on early childhood research: A Day in the Life. Palgrave Macmillan.

Peachey, A., Gillen, J., Livingstone, D. & Robbins, S. (eds) Researching Learning in Virtual Worlds. Springer.

(All 2007): J. Swann & J. Gillen series editors: Exploring the English Language:

Changing English (edited by D. Graddol, D. Leith, J. Swann, M. Rhys and J. Gillen). London: Routledge, in association with the Open University.

Using English (edited by J. Maybin, N. Mercer and A. Hewings). London: Routledge, in association with the Open University.

Learning English (edited by N. Mercer, J. Swann and B. Mayor). London: Routledge, in association with the Open University.

Redesigning English (edited by S. Goodman, D. Graddol and T. Lillis). London: Routledge, in association with the Open University.

Journal articles

2010

Littleton, K., Twiner, A. & Gillen, J. (forthcoming) Instruction as orchestration: multimodal connection building with theInteractive Whiteboard. Pedagogies: an international journal.vol 5 (4).

2009

Twiner, A., Cook, G. & Gillen, J. (in print) Overlooked issues of religious identity in the school dinners debate. Cambridge Journal of Education 39 (4).

Gillen, J., Twining, P., Ferguson, R., Butters, O., Clough, G., Gaved, M., Peachey, A;, Seamans, D. & Sheehy, K. (2009) A learning community for teens on a virtual island - The Schome Park Teen Second Life Pilot Project. eLearning Papers no. 15:The New Learning Generation. Also available in Spanish: El proyecto piloto Schome Park: una comunidad de aprendizaje para adolescentes en una isla virtual de Second Life

Gillen, J. (2009) Literacy practices in Schome Park: a virtual literacy ethnography. Journal of Research in Reading 32 (1) 57-74.

2008

Gillen, J., Littleton, K, Twiner, A., Kleine Staarman, J & Mercer, N. (2008) 'Using the interactive whiteboard to resource continuity and support multimodal teaching in a primary science classroom.' Journal of Computer Assisted Learning 24, 348-358.

Pollmuller, B., Clough, G. & Gillen, J. (2008) Animation in Education: its impact on learning, literacy and creativity - understanding teenagers' creativity through making machinima in a 3D virtual world known as Schome Park. Networks 11, July. 3-4.

2007

Young, S. & Gillen, J. (2007) 'Toward a revised understanding of young children's musical activities: reflections from the "Day in the Life" project.' Current Musicology 84, pp. 7-27.

Hancock, R. & Gillen, J. (2007) 'Safe places in domestic spaces: two-year-olds at play in their homes' Children's Geographies (vol. 5 no. 4). pp. 337-351.

Gillen, J. (2007) Derwent's Doors: Creative Acts. Mind, Culture and Activity 14 (3) 150-159.

Gillen, J., Kleine Staarman, J., Littleton, K., Mercer, N. & Twiner, A. (2007) 'A "learning revolution"? Investigating pedagogic practice around interactive whiteboards in British primary classrooms' Learning, Media and Technology 32 (3) pp. 243-256.

Gillen, J., Cameron, C.A., Tapanya, S., Pinto, G., Hancock, R., Young, S. & Accorti Gamannossi, B. (2007) 'A Day in the Life': advancing a methodology for the cultural study of development and learning in early childhood. Early Child Development and Care. vol. 177 no. 2 pp. 207-218. [also published in Italian, see below]

2006

Gillen, J., & Hancock, R. (2006) 'A day in the life': exploring eating events involving two-year-old girls and their families in diverse communities. Australian Journal of Early Childhood vol. 31 no. 4 pp. 23-29.

Gillen, J., Cameron, C.A., Tapanya, S., Pinto, G., Hancock, R., Young, S.,Accorti Gamannossi, B., Didkowsky, N. (2006) Una metodologia per lo studio culturale dello sviluppo e dell'apprendimento nella prima infanzia. A Day In The Life: advancing a methodology for the cultural study ofdevelopment and learning in early childhood. in Pinto, G. (ed.) special issue "A Day In The Life": ecological investigation of learning in diverse communitiesnumero speciale "A Day In The Life": un'indagine ecologica sul costruirsidegli apprendimenti in comunità diverse. Rassegna di Psicologia. 3 (XXIII), 11-24

Gillen, J. & Hancock, R. (2006) I pasti, gli artefatti e la trasmissione dei valori. Eating, artefacts and the communication of valuesin Pinto, G. (ed.) special issue "A Day In The Life": ecological investigation of learning in diverse communities. numero speciale "A Day In The Life": un'indagine ecologica sul costruirsidegli apprendimenti in comunità diverseRassegna di Psicologia. 3 (XXIII), 21-59.

Young, S. & Gillen, J. (2006) La musicalità comunicativa come pratica educative. Communicative musicality as parenting practice. in Pinto, G. (ed.) special issue "A Day In The Life": ecological investigation of learning in diverse communitiesnumero speciale "A Day In The Life": un'indagine ecologica sul costruirsidegli apprendimenti in comunità diverseRassegna di Psicologia. 3 (XXIII), 61-77.

Cameron, C.A., Tapanya, S. & Gillen, J. (2006) Swings, Hammocks, and Rocking Chairs as Secure Bases during A Day in the Life in Diverse Cultures. Child and Youth Care Forum 35 (3) 231-247.

Book chapters including published conference papers

Gillen, J. (forthcoming) New literacies in Schome Park. In Peachey, A., Gillen, J., Livingstone, D. & Robbins, S. (eds) Researching Learning in Virtual Worlds. Springer.

Gillen, J. & Hall, N. (forthcoming) The early postcard: an instantiation of an era of revolutionary change in mobilities and as contribution to developing mobile methods.In J. Urry, M. Buscher & K. Witchger (eds) Mobile Methods. London: Routledge.

Gillen, J. & Hall, N. (forthcoming) Edwardian postcards: illuminating ordinary writing. In D. Barton & U. Papen (eds) The Anthropology of Writing. Continuum.

Mercer, N., Gillen, J., Kleine Staarman, J., Littleton, K. & Twiner, A. (forthcoming) Interactive Whiteboards: does new technology transform teaching? in A. Lund, S. Ludvigsen, R. Saljo & I. Rasmussen (eds) Learning across sites: new tools, infrastructures and practices. Oslo: Intermedia.

2008

Gillen, J. (2008) Literacy practices in Schome Park: a virtual literacy ethnography. In A. Peachey (ed.) ReLIVE08: Proceedings of Researching Learning In Virtual Environments, pp. 142-153, Milton Keynes: The Open University.http://www.open.ac.uk/relive08/documents/ReLIVE08_conference_proceedings_Lo.pdf

Stone, L. & Gillen, J. (2008) White cars like mice with little legs: poetry in the early years. In J. Marsh & E. Hallet (eds) Desirable Literacies: approaches to language and literacy in the Early Years2nd edn. London: Sage Publications in association with the UK Literacy Association. pp. 37-60.

2007

Hall, N. & Gillen, J. (2007) Purchasing Pre-packed words: Complaint and Reproach in Early British Postcards in M. Lyons (ed.) Ordinary writing, personal narratives: writing practices in the 19th and early 20th century. Berne, Switzerland: Peter Lang. pp. 101-117.

2006

Gillen, J. (2006) 'Child's play', in J.Maybin and J. Swann (eds) The Art of English: everyday creativity. Basingstoke, Hants: Palgrave Macmillan.

Reports & misc.

Passey, D. & Gillen, J. (2009) BBC News School Report 2008/2009 Independent Evaluation.

Sangiorgi, D., Junginger, S., Whitham, R. & Gillen, J. (2009) Development, Participation, Design. Project Report. ImaginationLancaster.

Dowdall, C., Flewitt, R., Gillen, J., Herschmeier, S., Precious, C. & Wilkinson, S. (2009) Occasional paper on Literacy in the Early Years. United Kingdom Literacy Association.

Flewitt, R.S. and Gillen, J. (2006) UK Literacy Association Response to Draft Early Years Foundation Stage. >

Invited presentations

2009

Gillen, J. (2009) Archaeology with teenagers in a virtual world. Invited paper at 3rd International Roundtable on Discourse Analysis: discourse and creativity. City University of Hong Kong. 7-9 May.

Gillen, J. & Barton, D. (2009) Digital literacies. A discussion document for the TLRP-TEL (Teaching and Learning Research Programme - Technology Enhanced Learning) workshop on digital literacies. Lancaster University 12-13 March.

2008

Schome Park: exploring digital literacy practices in a Teen Second Life project. Keynote presentation at Digital Readings: new Literacies for the classroom. UKLA regional conference. University of Sheffield November 8.

The Edwardian postcard: a radical innovation in near-synchronous, multimodal writing practices. Linguistics Colloquium, York St John University. 23rd October.

2007

A Day in the Life: an ecological approach to development and learning in early childhood. Invited presentation at the Dipartimento di Psicologia, Universita degli Studi di Firenze 11 December 2007.

(with N. Pandya and M.Turner) Improvisational performance with the interactive whiteboard. Play, Creativity and Digital Cultures - ESRC seminar series final conference Institute of Education 9 June 2007.

Refereed conference presentations (other than those listed above)

2009

Gillen, J. & Hall, N. (2009) The Edwardian postcard: a revolutionary moment in rapid multimodal communications. Paper presented at British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, University of Manchester, 2-5 September.

Gillen, J. & Twining, P. (2009) Literacy practices in Schome Park: a perspective on learning in virtual worlds with teenagers. Paper presented in the symposium 'Literacy in Virtual Worlds' British Educational Research Association annual conference, University of Manchester,September 2nd-5th.

Soler, J. & Gillen, J. (2009) "5,000 on building a school that doesn't even exist", Children and teenagers in virtual worlds: a media study of literacy issues. Paper presented at British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, University of Manchester, 2-5 September.

Gillen, J., Ferguson, R. & Peachey, A. (2009) Regattas in Schome Park: fostering a community of learners in a virtual world project with teenagers. Paper presented in the symposium Learning with computer games, virtual 3D environments, and computer simulations: in and between form. 13th biennial conference of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction. Amsterdam, August 25th - 29th.

Gillen, J. & Twining, P. (2009) Virtual literacy ethnography: investigating literacy practices in a Teen Second Life project. Paper presented at American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, USA, April 13th-17th.

2008

Gillen, J. (2008) Navigating Schome Park: cognition in the virtual wild. Paper presented at Space Interaction Discourse, University of Aalborg, Denmark. November 12-14.

Gillen. J. (2008) Schome Park: my avatar Rowan learning with teenagers on a virtual archipelago in Second Life. Poster presented at Ecologies of Diversities: the developmental and historical interarticulation of human mediational forms: meeting of the International Society for Cultural and Activity Research, San Diego,USA. September 8-13.

Gillen, J. Accorti Gamannossi, B. & Hancock, R. (2008) 'A day in the life': relating understandings of 'eating events' to the concept of 'literacy events' as cultural activities in the lives of two-year-old girls in diverse global communities. Paper presented at Ecologies of Diversities: the developmental and historical interarticulation of human mediational forms: meeting of the International Society for Cultural and Activity Research, San Diego,USA. September 8-13.

Gillen, J., Cook, G. & Twiner, A. (2008) "I'm having on my tombstone: 'he got a daily fresh vegetable on the school menu'": the UK school dinners debate. Poster presented at Ecologies of Diversities: the developmental and historical interarticulation of human meditational forms: meeting of the International Society for Cultural and Activity Research, San Diego,USA. September 8-13.

Peachey, A., Gillen, J. & Ferguson, R. (2008) Fluid leadership in a multi-user virtual environment educational project with teenagers: Schome Park. Paper presented at Ecologies of Diversities: the developmental and historical interarticulation of human mediational forms: meeting of the International Society for Cultural and Activity Research, San Diego,USA. September 8-13.

Cook, G., Twiner, A. & Gillen, J. (2008) "Saint Jamie", "A normal bloke": celebrity language in public debate, the Jamie Oliver school-dinners intervention. Paper presented at British Association of Annual Linguistics 41st annual conference. University of Swansea, September 11-13.

Gillen, J. & the Schome Community (2008) Literacies in Schome Park: a 'Second Life' virtual worlds project for teenagers.Paper presented at 'Identities, cultures and literacies' 44th International Conference of the UK Literacy Association, Liverpool Hope University 11-13 July.

2007

Cook, G., Twiner, A. & Gillen, J. (2007) 'But it's all true!' ideology and technology in the discourse of food promotion. Paper presented at Technology, Ideology and Practice in Applied Linguistics, 40th British Association of Applied Linguistics Annual Conference, University of Edinburgh, 6th-8th September.

Gillen, J. & the Schome Community (2007) A virtual island: clashes of discourses around a 'Teen Second Life' online project. Paper presented at Language Ideologies and Media Discourse: Texts, Practices, Policies, University of Leeds 3rd - 5th September, 2007

Littleton, K., Twiner, A., Gillen, J., Mercer, N. & Kleine Staarman, J. (2007) Orchestration with the Interactive Whiteboard. Paper presented at Developing Potentials for Learning 12th Biennial Conference for Research on Learning and Instruction University of Szeged, Budapest, 28 August - 1 September.

Hancock, R. and Gillen, J. (2007) Children at play in safe domestic spaces. Paper presented in a symposium: A 'Day in the Life': Studying strong children in diverse global communities: An ecological approach at Developmental Social Cognitive Neuroscience: the 37th Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, Amsterdam, 31 May - 2 June.

Cameron, L., Accorti Gamannossi, B., Gillen, J. and Cameron, C.A. (2007) Two-year-olds' use of playful language and humour in three family contexts. Paper presented in a symposium: A 'Day in the Life': Studying strong children in diverse global communities: An ecological approach at Developmental Social Cognitive Neuroscience: the 37th Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, Amsterdam, 31 May - 2 June.

Gillen, J., Hancock, R., Cameron, C.A. and Pinto, G. (2007) How versatile is video data?: connecting methodology to theory in an international study of two-year-old girls. Discussion session at Developmental Social Cognitive Neuroscience: the 37th Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, Amsterdam, 31 May - 2 June.

2006

Hancock, W.R. & Gillen, J. (2006) Safe places in domestic spaces: two-year-olds at play in their homes. Paper presented at annual conference of British Educational Research Association.University of Warwick, September 6th-9th.

Gillen, J. and Hall, N. (2006) Creativity and the Edwardian picture postcard: responses to change in the materiality of literacy. Paper presented at the 28th session of the International Standing Conference for the History of Education: Technologies of the Word: literacies in the history of education. Umea, Sweden, August 16th-19th.

Hall, N. and Gillen, J. (2006) Purchasing pre-packed words: complaint and apology in early British postcards. Paper presented at the 10th conference for the International Society for the Study of European Ideas: The European Mind: Narrative and Identity. Malta, 24th-29th July.

Young, S. and Gillen, J. (2006) Technology assisted musical experiences in the everyday life of young children. Paper presented at Touched by Musical Discovery: disciplinary and cultural perspectives. Proceedings of the ISME Early Childhood Music Education Commission Seminar July 9-14 Chinese Cultural University, Taipei.

Cameron, C.A. and Gillen, J. (2006) 'Joint meaning making: recontextualizing language to accommodate communicative distance'. Paper presented as part of the symposium Narrative thought: what develops and how? Narrative Matters, Acadia University, Wolfville Nova Scotia May 24-27.

Gillen, J., Kleine Staarman, J., Littleton, K., Mercer, N. & Twiner, A. (2006) A learning revolution? Investigating the pedagogic practice around Interactive Whiteboards in British primary classrooms. Paper presented as part of a symposium: Technology as an agent of change in K-12 environments, American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, April 7th-11th, San Francisco, USA.

Other

Sangiorgi, D., Junginger, S., Whitham, R. & Gillen, J. (2009) Development, Participation, Design. Project Report. ImaginationLancaster.

Dowdall, C., Flewitt, R., Gillen, J., Herschmeier, S., Precious, C. & Wilkinson, S. (2009) Occasional paper on Literacy in the Early Years. United Kingdom Literacy Association.

Flewitt, R.S. and Gillen, J. (2006) UK Literacy Association Response to Draft Early Years Foundation Stage.

EARLIER WORK

Authored Book

Gillen, J. (2003) The Language of Children. London: Routledge.

Journal articles

2004

Gillen, J., Hancock, W.R., Accorti Gamannossi, B., Pinto, G., Tapanya, S., Didkowsky, N., Jackson, L. & Cameron, C.A. (2004) Social spaces of two-year-old girls: 'a day in the life'. [Abstract] Canadian Psychology 45 2a, p. 122-3.

Kendrick, K., Jackson, L., Khan, S., Hodge, B., Gillen, J. & Cameron, C.A. (2004) "I'm not done yet!' children connect by telephone. [Abstract] Canadian Psychology 45 2a, p. 116.

2003

Gillen, J. (2003) Socialized subjectivity: exploring the 'double reality' of an EdD (doctorate of education) bulletin board. International Journal of Educational Research 39 (8) 873-884.

2002

Gillen, J. (2002) Moves in the territory of literacy? - the telephone discourse of three- and four-year-olds. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy 2 (1) 21-43.

2001

Gillen, J. and Hall, N. (2001) "Hiya, Mum!" An analysis of pretence telephone play in a nursery setting. Early Years 21 (1) 15-24.

2000

Gillen, J. (2000) Recontextualization: The Shaping of Telephone Discourse in Play By Three- and Four-Year-Olds. Language and Education 14 (4) 250-265.

Gillen, J. (2000) Versions of Vygotsky. British Journal of Educational Studies 48 (2) (183-198).

Gillen, J. (2000) Listening to young children talking on the telephone: a reassessment of Vygotsky's notion of 'egocentric speech'. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood. 1 (2) 171-184.

1999 and earlier

Abbott, L. and Gillen, J. (1999) 'Revelations through research partnerships' Early Years 20 (1) 43-51.

Gillen, J. (1999) 'Reflexivity, consciousness and linguistic relativity: an attempted link.' Chreods 13 29-37. [non-refereed] (2002-5 selected for the Linguistic Anthropology Library of AllLearn: the online learning alliance among Oxford, Stanford and Yale Universities.)

Gillen, J. (1997) Education in prison camps. Didsbury Ideas 2 (3) 22-36. July 1997 (published by the School of Education, Manchester Metropolitan University.) [non-refereed]

Book chapters including published conference papers

2005

Gillen, J. & Petersen, A. (2005) 'Discourse Analysis' in B. Somekh & C. Lewin (eds) Research Methods in the Social Sciences. Thousand Oaks, CA/London: Sage Publications.

Gillen, J. , Accorti Gamannossi, B. and Cameron, C.A. (2005) "'Pronto, chi parla?' ('Hello, who is it?') telephones as artefacts and communication media in children's discourses" in J. Marsh (ed.) Popular Culture, New Media and Digital Literacy in Early Childhood. London: RoutledgeFalmer. pp. 146-162.

2003

Gillen, J. (2003) 'Engaged from birth: children under two talking on telephones' in A. Schorr, B. Campbell & M. Schenk (eds) Communication Research and Media Science in Europe. Berlin: DeGruyter. pp. 479-97. ISBN 3 11 017216 X.

Gillen, J. and Hall, N. (2003) 'The emergence of early childhood literacy' in Hall, N., Larson, J and Marsh, J. (eds) The Handbook of Early Childhood Literacy. Thousand Oaks, CA/London: Sage Publications.

Gillen, J. and Goddard, A. (2003) 'Medium Management for Beginners: the discursive practices of undergraduate and mature novice users of internet relay chat, compared with those of young children using the telephone' inM. Bondi and S. Stati (eds) Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Association for Dialogue Analysis. Universita degli Studi de Bologna, Italy. 15th-17th June 2000. Niemeyer: TFC Bingen. pp219-230.

2002

Gillen, J.(2002) Methodological issues involved in studying children's interactions with ICT. In K.S. Miller and P. Thompson (eds) Unity and Diversity in Language Use: selected papers from the Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics held at the University of Reading, September 2001. London: Continuum in association with BAAL.

2001

Gillen, J. (2001) '"Is that the little pig?" - using toy telephones in the Early Years classroom' in P. Goodwin (ed.) The Articulate Classroom. London: David Fulton. (pp. 93-99)

2000

Gillen, J. (2000) '"It's not really time for going home," Three- and four-year-old children learning to talk on the telephone' in M. Coulthard, J. Cotterill and F. Rock (eds) Working with Dialogue: Selected Papers from the 7th IADA Conference, Birmingham 1999. Tubingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag GmbH. (pp. 226-240).

1999 and earlier

Gillen, J. (1997) '"Couldn't put Dumpy together again": the significance of repetition and routine in young children's language development,' in L. Abbott & H. Moylett, (eds) Working with the Under Threes: responding to children's needs. (Early Interactions, volume 2) pp. 90-101. Buckingham: Open University Press.

Hall, N., Gillen, J., & Greenall, R. (1996) 'Don't cry, I ring the cop shop': young children's pretend telephone behaviours, in N. Hall & J. Martello, (eds) Listening to children think: exploring talk in the early years. London: Hodder and Stoughton (pp. 34-53).

Contributor to The National Literacy Trust's Guide to books on literacy published during 1996 edited by Nigel Hall, pub. National Literacy Trust 1997.

Invited presentations

2004

'A Day in the Life': exploration of a new project methodology. Presentation at British Educational Research Association Early Years Special Interest Group seminar: Conceptualizing childhood (birth to eight years) substantive and methodological issues. University of Warwick. 27 May.

'Telephones as artefacts and communication media in young children's worlds - an international perspective. Invited seminar at the dissemination conference of the ESRC Research Seminar series 'Children's Literacy and Popular Culture' University of Sheffield, 20 March.

'A Day in the Life: introduction to project methodology' Invited research seminar at the School of Education, University of Exeter (22nd January)

2002

Young children's telephone discourse. Invited research seminar at University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. (May).

The Vygotskyan approach to researching early childhood. Invited plenary at the project conference: an interdisciplinary examination of the role of culture on human development. Centre for Research on Culture and Human Development, St Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, Canada (April 22-28).

Refereed conference presentations (other than those listed above)

2005

Gillen, J. and Cameron, C.A. (2005) ''It might not even be a shape that has a name,' exploration of an intermental development zone in a corpus of child-parent telephone dialogues.' Paper presented at the First ISCAR Congress (International Society for Cultural and Activity Research), Seville, 20-24 September.

Gillen, J., Cameron, C.A., Tapanya, S., Pinto, G., Hancock, W.R., Young, S. & Accorti Gamannossi, B. (2005) A 'Day in the Life': methodology. Paper presented as part of the research symposium A 'Day in the Life': ecological investigation of learning in diverse communities with two-year-old girls at American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Montreal. 11th-15th April.

Gillen, J. & Hancock, W.R. (2005) Exploring 'eating events' in interactions between children and family members. Paper presented as part of the research symposium A 'Day in the Life': ecological investigation of learning in diverse communities with two-year-old girls at American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Montreal. 11th-15th April.

Gillen, J. and Cameron, C.A. (2005) Linguistic ethnography applied to a corpus of mother-children telephone calls. Poster presented at British Educational Research Association Literacy and Language Special Interest Group interactive research seminar. University of Sheffield, 14th March.

2004

Gillen, J. (2004) Discourse Analysis. Paper presented as part of the symposium 'New Constructions of Research Methodology in the Social Sciences' British Educational Research Association Annual Conference UMIST Manchester 16-18 September 2004.

Hancock, W.R. & Gillen, J. (2004) Eating, artefacts and the communication of values. Poster presented at the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development Biennial Meeting, Ghent, Belgium, July 11th-15th. (Part of a poster symposium: 'A Day in the Life': Ecological investigation of an interactional construction of childhood in diverse communities).

Young, S., Didkowsky, N. & Gillen, J. (2004) Musicality in Early Childhood: flourishing of proclivities; forms of cultural organisation. Poster presented at the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development Biennial Meeting, Ghent, Belgium, July 11th-15th. (Part of a poster symposium: 'A Day in the Life': Ecological investigation of an interactional construction of childhood in diverse communities).

Kendrick, K., Jackson, L., Khan, S., Hodge, B., Gillen, J. & Cameron, C.A. (2004) "I'm not done yet!' children connect by telephone. Poster presented at the Canadian Psychological Association Annual Convention, St Johns, June 10-12.

Gillen, J. & Cameron, C.A. (2004) An 'intermental development zone' in informal talk: linguistic ethnography applied to a corpus of mother-children telephone calls. Paper presented at the 34th Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, Toronto, June 3-5.

Gillen, J. & Hall, N. (2004) A revolutionary moment in informal, near-synchronous, multimodal writing practices: the Edwardian postcard. Paper presented at Sociolinguistics Symposium 15: Culture, Contact, Change. University of Newcastle upon Tyne. 1st-4th April.

2003

Gillen, J. & Cameron, C.A. (2003) 'A Day in the Life': advancing a new methodology for cross-cultural research. Quality in Early Childhood Education - possible childhoods, possible choices, 13th Annual Conference of the European Early Childhood Education Research Association. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. 3rd- 6th September, 2003.

Gamannossi, B. Accorti and Gillen, J. (2003) "Insegnare la psicologia dello sviluppo a distanza: un modello di elearning applicato alla didattica universitaria (Teaching distanced developmental psychology: an elearning model applied to academic teaching)" Poster presented at Contesto, Cultura, Intervento: quale psicologia per la scuola del futuro, Universita degli studi di Lecce, Italia, 20-22 June 2003.

2002

Gillen, J. (2002) Half Life or Whole Life? approaching the challenge of multimodality. Paper presented at the Georgetown University Round Table on Language and Linguistics: Discourse Analysis & Technology, Multimodal Discourse Analysis, Washington DC, March 7-9.Gillen, J. (2002) Utilising WebCT in the enhancement of EdD education programmes: the Manchester Metropolitan University story. Part of a group symposium: exploring potentials - internet-based course tools and the development of reflective practitioners held at the 23rd Annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum 'Dialogue Across Time, Space and Perspective' University of Pennsylvania, March 1st-2nd.

2001

Gillen, J. and Hall, N. (2001) 'The application of a new instrument'- an exploration of an episode of computer activity by two eleven-year-old boys. Paper presented as part of the symposium in Literacy and Popular Culture at BERA, University of Leeds, 13th- 15th September.

Gillen, J. (2001) Methodological issues involved in studying children's communications in multimedia communicative events. Paper presented at British Association of Applied Linguistics Annual Conference: Unity and Diversity in Language Use. University of Reading, 6th - 8th September.

Goddard, A. and Gillen, J. (2001) "What do you do?" "You just put it back down." Mediated discourse as learnable social interaction: a study of the language of novice users of communication channels. Paper presented at Georgetown University Round Table Linguistics, language and the real world: discourse and beyond. Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. March 8th-10th.

Gillen, J. (2001) The development of young children's telephone discourse. Paper presented at 22nd Annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum, University of Pennsylvania 2nd-3rd March.

2000

Gillen, J., Abbott, L., Moylett, H. and Ackers, J. (2000) 'Problems of puddle splashing, running free and a dead fish: an exploration of controversial curriculum issues in designing multimedia training materials for use by practitioners working with children under three.' Paper presented at the British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, Cardiff University, 7-9th September 2000.

Gillen, J. and Young, S. (2000) Participatory research with young children: engagements in dialogue with instrumental music-making and on the telephone. Paper presented at 10th European Conference on Quality in Early Childhood Education - EECERA Conference, Institute of Education, University of London. 29th August - 1st September. ERIC database accession no. ED464744

Abbott, L. and Gillen, J. (2000) "Put the baby genius kits in the bin," (Ted Wragg, 2000) What did the geniuses say? Paper presented at the symposium 'Looking Back to Shape the Future' at the 10th European Conference on Quality in Early Childhood Education - EECERA Conference, Institute of Education, University of London 29th August - 1st September.

Gillen, J. and Goddard, A. (2000) Medium Management for Beginners: the discursive practices of undergraduate and mature novice users of internet relay chat, compared with those of young children using the telephone. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the International Association for Dialogue Analysis. Universita degli Studi de Bologna, Italy. 15th-17th June.

Gillen, J. (2000) The acquisition of speech genres: a study of young children talking on the telephone in pretence and dialogic modes. Sociolinguistic Symposium 2000. University of the West of England 27th - 29th April.

Gillen, J. (2000) Engaged from birth: children under two talking on telephones. Paper presented at the European Communication Association's First Experts' Conference: Communication Research in Europe and Abroad: Challenges of the First Decade. Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, 3rd-5th March 2000.

1999 and earlier

Gillen, J. (1999) Young children's creation of self through discourse: some angles from pretence play with telephones. British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, The University of Sussex. (3rd September).

Gillen, J. (1999) "It's not really time for going home," Three- and four-year-old children learning to talk on the telephone. Paper presented at the 7th International Congress of the International Association for Dialogue Analysis, The University of Birmingham. (9th April)

Gillen, J. (1999) Recontextualization in telephone talk by three- and four-year-olds. Paper presented at Sharing Research in Early Childhood Education: The Third Warwick International Early Years Conference, The University of Warwick. (13th April).

Gillen, J. (1999) "Development of 'colour spectrum discourse analysis' as a categorisation tool in the investigation of young children's discourse." Poster presented at British Association for Applied Linguistics Annual Meeting, University of Edinburgh 12-16 September.

Gillen, J. (1998) Listening to young children talking on the telephone: a reassessment of Vygotsky's notion of 'egocentric speech'. Paper presented at British Educational Research Association Conference, Queens University, Belfast. 28th August.

Gillen, J. (1997) The development of young children's telephone discourse skills. Paper presented at British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, York. 11th September.

Gillen, J. (1997) 'A proximal view of the methodology of an interpretive research study of 'educare' for children under three.' Paper presented at the 7th European Conference on the Quality of Early Childhood Education. Munich. 3rd - 6th September.

Abbott, L., Ackers, J., Gillen, J., Grant-Mullings, N., Griffin, B. and Marsh, C. (1997) Educare for the Under Threes - identifying need and opportunity. Paper presented at the 7th European Early Childhood Education Research Association Conference. Munich. 3rd - 6th September.

Gillen, J. (1996) The development of young children's ability to use the language of telephone discourse. Paper presented at British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, Lancaster University. 12th September.

Other publications

Multimedia Training Package

Abbott, L., Ackers, J., Gillen, J. and Moylett, M. (2000) Shaping the Future: working with the under threes. A multimedia training pack. Buckingham: Open University Press

Research Report

Abbott, L. and Gillen, J. (1997) (eds.) Educare for the under threes - identifying need and opportunity. Report of the research study by the Manchester Metropolitan University jointly funded with the Esmee Fairbairn Charitable Trust. Manchester: Manchester Metropolitan University.

Book Reviews

Gillen, J. (2006) review of 'Papen, U. Adult literacy as social practice: more than skills. London: Routledge. 2005' Literacy 40 (3) 182-183.

Gillen, J. (2003) review of 'McNaughton, G., Rolfe, S.A. & Siraj-Blatchford, I. (eds) Doing Early Childhood Research: international perspectives on theory and practice. Buckingham: Open University Press. 2001' Journal of Education for Teaching 29 (1) 81-82.

Gillen, J. (2002) review of 'Tomasello, M. and Bates, E. (eds) Language Development: The Essential Readings. Oxford: Blackwell. 2001' Journal of Early Childhood Literacy 2 (3) 318-322.

Gillen, J. (2002) review of 'Mercer, N. Words and Minds. London: Routledge. 2000.' British Educational Research Journal 28 (5) 733.

Gillen, J. (2001) review of 'Signposts for Educational Research CD-ROM: a multimedia resource for the beginning researcher' Elizabeth Barrett, Vic. E. Lally, Sean Purcell & Robert Thresh, 1999. British Educational Research Journal 27 (1) 114-115.

Gillen, J. (2001) review of 'Barrett, M. (ed.) The Development of Language. Hove: Psychology Press, Taylor and Francis, 1999. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy 1 (2) 227-230.

ePrints Publications Repository

Julia Gillen has 14 publication records in the Lancaster University ePrints repository. Use links to access abstracts and full text where available. View all records to sort by date, type and title.

Gillen, Julia and Littleton, K. and Twiner, A. and Kleine Staarman, J. and Mercer, N. (2008) Using the interactive whiteboard to resource continuity and support multimodal teaching in a primary science classroom. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 24 (4). pp. 348-358. ISSN 0266-4909

Gillen, Julia and Kleine Staarman, J. and Littleton, K. and Mercer, N. and Twiner, A. (2007) 'A "learning revolution"? Investigating pedagogic practice around interactive whiteboards in British primary classrooms'. Learning, Media and Technology , 32 (3). pp. 243-256. ISSN 1743-9892 (electronic) 1743-9884 (paper)

Gillen, Julia and Cameron, C. A. and Tapanya, S. and Pinto, G. and Hancock, Roger and Young, S. and Accorti Gamannossi, B. and , (2007) 'A Day in the Life': advancing a methodology for the cultural study of development and learning in early childhood. Early Child Development and Care , 177 (2). pp. 207-218. ISSN 1476-8275 (electronic) 0300-4430 (paper)

Gillen, Julia (2007) Derwent's Doors: Creative Acts. Mind, Culture and Activity, 14 (3). pp. 150-159. ISSN 1532-7884 (electronic) 1074-9039 (paper)

Hancock, Roger and Gillen, Julia (2007) 'Safe places in domestic spaces: two-year-olds at play in their homes'. Children's Geographies, 5 (4). pp. 337-351. ISSN 1473-3285

Cameron, C. A. and Tapanya, S. and Gillen, Julia (2006) Swings, Hammocks, and Rocking Chairs as Secure Bases during A Day in the Life in Diverse Cultures. Child and Youth Care Forum, 35 (3). pp. 231-247. ISSN 1053-1890 (Print) 1573-3319 (Online)

Gillen, Julia and Hall, H. (2003) 'The emergence of early childhood literacy'. In: The Handbook of Early Childhood Literacy. Sage, London.

Gillen, Julia (2003) The language of children. Routledge, London.

Gillen, Julia (2003) Socialized subjectivity: exploring the 'double reality' of an EdD (doctorate of education) bulletin board. International Journal of Educational Research, 39 (8). pp. 873-884. ISSN 0883-0355

Gillen, Julia (2000) Versions of Vygotsky. British Journal of Educational Studies, 48 (2). pp. 183-198. ISSN 0007-1005

Associated Keywords: Children, Culture, Digital technologies, Discourse analysis, Informal learning, Informal orthographic practices, Interactive whiteboard, Interdisciplinary, Language, Language education, Linguistic ethnography, Literacy, Literacy learning, Technology enhanced learning

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