URSULA STICKLER & JOHANNES ANGERMULLER – INTRODUCTION TO THE PROGRAMME
A warm welcome from the organisers of the Intensive Week Methods Training for Postgraduate Students.
BART RIENTIES – QUESTIONNAIRE DESIGN FOR BEGINNERS
In this short intensive session we will provide the highlights of the “Effective Questionnaire Design” session that is normally run for the Graduate School. How…
BENNO HERZOG – DISCOURSE AND CRITIQUE
Research in general and discourse studies in particular often claim to be “critical”. In this presentation we will ask what exactly critique means for discourse…
CHRISTINE PLEINES – USING INTERVIEWS AS A RESEARCH INSTRUMENT
This session focusses on theoretical and practical aspects of using interviews for collecting data within a qualitative or mixed-methods research design. We will refer to…
CLAIRE HEWSON – GATHERING RESEARCH DATA ONLINE: PRACTICAL AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS
In this session I will outline some of the different opportunities and methods for gathering primary research data online. The session will cover a range…
FRANCO ZAPPETTINI – CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS: CONCEPTS, METHODS, APPLICATIONS
This presentations focuses on CDA as a method of social enquiry that foregrounds language and communication as paramount in the construction, maintenance and challenging of…
HELENE PULKER – GROUNDED THEORY IN PRACTICE
There are many methodologies for qualitative studies, and it is often difficult to decide which approach to adopt. Grounded theory is one of the most…
JACKIE TUCK – ETHNOGRAPHIC APPROACHES
This session will explore the use of ethnographic approaches to research. We’ll consider what may (and may not be) core to an ethnographic perspective, some…
JAN KRASNI – MEANING MAKING IN DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT (APPARATUS THEORY AND MULTIMODAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS ONLINE)
In this session, we will discuss the meaning making processes in the digital environment. The multimodal approach deals with the role of different sensory semiotic…
JASPAL NAVEEL SINGH – ETHNOGRAPHIC DISCOURSE STUDIES: HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONS
In this lecture, I will provide a historical sketch of the foundations of ethnographic discourse studies. Students will learn how, over the course of the…
JOHANNES ANGERMULLER – DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
In specialized as well as in everyday discourse, individuals usually use texts to understand their meaning in a community. Understanding is indeed the spontaneous mode…
MARTINA EMKE – ONTOLOGY: FROM SOCIO-CULTURALISM TO POST-HUMANISM
What happens when your entire world view changes during your doctoral study? How can you successfully continue with your research? This presentation encourages (doctoral) researchers…
MUGE SATAR – MULTIMODALITY/ SOCIAL SEMIOTICS
This session will start with a definition of social semiotics as a method to investigate meaning-making. First, we will explore the relevance of social semiotics…
NEIL SUMMERS – FROM SCHOOLBOY TO NURSE TO LECTURER TO COUNSELLOR: AN AUTO ETHNOGRAPHY OF DECONSTRUCTIONS AND RECONSTRUCTIONS OF THE SELF AS A LEARNER”
This study explores the constructs of self and how learning has been influenced over a lifespan. Autoethnographic narrative methods were used to explore key learning…
TERESA CREMIN – THEMATIC ANALYSIS IN CONTEXT
Thematic analysis is commonly deployed by qualitative researchers who seek to identify, analyse and interpret patterns within their collected data. In this session, drawing on…
URSULA STICKLER & LIJING SHI : EYETRACKING IN A SOCIO-CULTURAL FRAMEWORK
Eyetracking has been used in Applied Linguistics research mainly for reading and related tasks. However, eyetracking can also give us information about the focus of…
VICTORIA MURPHY – SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS
Social relations are at the core of every aspect of society and relevant from disciplines as diverse as health (how do diseases pass from one…
YANNIK PORSCHÉ – ETHNOGRAPHIC DISCOURSE STUDIES: METHODOLOGICAL OPERATIONALISATIONS
In this lecture, I build on Jaspal Naveel Singh’s Thursday’s lecture on historical foundations of ethnographic discourse studies to explore how to operationalise some of…