Kathrin Kaufhold
Research Student
County South
Lancaster University
Bailrigg
Lancaster
United Kingdom
LA1 4YL
Location: C33
Affiliations
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Research Interests
My research interests are around academic writing/academic literacies, social practice theories, ethnography, practice-oriented views of genre, linguistic ethnography, linguistic anthropology, situated learning, narrative analysis, discourse analysis and multilingualism.
Thesis Title
Interaction of practices in doing a master's dissertation
Thesis Outline
I am looking at academic writing as socially-formed activities that are part of wider social practices. I investigate how master's students draw on past and co-occurring practices when they complete their dissertation. How are elements of practices they participated in previously relocated and transformed into the activities that make up dissertation practices? How is such an interaction of practices enabled or limited by the particular student's history and the specific institutional context? How are these processes negotiated in relation to other human and non-human co-participants? And does it ultimately mean that students participate in shaping what can be understood as dissertation in their discipline?
Current Teaching
I have been a seminar tutor since 2010 at the Linguistics Department on Language and Education and Corporate Communication. I also taught on the EAP (Study Skills) course at Lancaster University, as Associate Lecturer at the University of Bolton and for several years as Language Tutor at Manchester University and Manchester Metropolitan University.
Qualifications
PhD Candidate (Lancaster University)
Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching German as a Foreign Language (Universität Leipzig)
M.A. English Studies, Communication & Media Studies, Business Studies (Universität Leipzig)
Professional Role
I am currently co-organiser of the Literacy Research Discussion Group with Uta Papen.
In 2010, I jointly organised the Fifth LAEL Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics and Language Teaching and co-edited (with Sharon McCulloch and Ana Tominc) Volume 5 of Papers from the Lancaster University Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics and Language Teaching.
External Roles
Since 1 February 2013, I am a part-time research assistant for the Mobigam project (language on the move in India) at the University of Leeds.
2012
Uses and perceptions of English in academic writing by European non-native English speakers during their UK-based masters – a social practice perspective
Kaufhold, K. 2012
Research output: Contribution to conference › Conference paper
Mixing genres in master’s thesis writing
Kaufhold, K. 2012
Research output: Contribution to conference › Conference paper
2011
Academic writing is English...or is it? Perceptions of non-UK European students writing their masters dissertation in English
Kaufhold, K. 2011
Research output: Contribution to conference › Conference paper
Doing a dissertation – students negotiating diverse literacy practices during their master’s level dissertation projects
Kaufhold, K. 2011
Research output: Contribution to conference › Conference paper
Dissertations as socially negotiated practices – how students appropriate past and co-occurring literacy practices while completing their dissertations
Kaufhold, K. 2011
Research output: Contribution to conference › Conference paper
Papers from the Lancaster University Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics and Language Teaching Volume 5: Papers from LAEL-PG 2010
Kaufhold, K. (ed.), McCulloch, S. (ed.) & Tominc, A. (ed.) 2011 Lancaster: Lancaster University. 204 p.
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Proceedings