Abstracts, readings, recorded sessions
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 to design a questionnaire, what are the dos and don’ts, and how to make sure that you can publish from your results. For a basic introduction of how questionnaires mightContinue reading “BART RIENTIES – QUESTIONNAIRE DESIGN FOR BEGINNERS”
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 analysis. How can we justify the norms we use in order to criticise something? Or is it even possible to be critical without having an own normative stance? We willContinue reading “BENNO HERZOG – DISCOURSE AND CRITIQUE”
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 different types of interview, and consider the advantages, drawbacks and relevant critiques of this popular research instrument. Participants are encouraged to talk about their own intentions and experiences and shareContinue reading “CHRISTINE PLEINES – USING INTERVIEWS AS A RESEARCH INSTRUMENT”
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 of approaches, including web-based surveys, the use of social media services, and ‘big data’ approaches. Both the practicalities and ethics of internet research methods will be considered. Practical issues includeContinue reading “CLAIRE HEWSON – GATHERING RESEARCH DATA ONLINE: PRACTICAL AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS”
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 social dynamics and social realities. The presentation will discuss the key ontologies and methodologies associated with CDA as well as providing specific examples of their applications to the analysis ofContinue reading “FRANCO ZAPPETTINI – CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS: CONCEPTS, METHODS, APPLICATIONS”
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 complex and yet most rewarding methods. This presentation will summarise the three main approaches to grounded theory, give an overview of its advantages and pitfalls and, finally provide an exampleContinue reading “HELENE PULKER – GROUNDED THEORY IN PRACTICE”
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 of its theoretical underpinnings, and look at the affordances and possible drawbacks of conducting an ethnographic study. Jackie will illustrate using examples, particularly from her own field of literacies research,Continue reading “JACKIE TUCK – ETHNOGRAPHIC APPROACHES”
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 elements, i.e. with (the affordances of) the displayed relation of the visual, linguistic, auditory channels and their combination in the design of the respective composition. The apparatus or dispositif theoryContinue reading “JAN KRASNI – MEANING MAKING IN DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT (APPARATUS THEORY AND MULTIMODAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS ONLINE)”
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 last century, the ethnographic study of discourse has developed a rigorous understanding of the importance of context and contextualisation. Contexts make discursive fragments socially meaningful and context is therefore alsoContinue reading “JASPAL NAVEEL SINGH – ETHNOGRAPHIC DISCOURSE STUDIES: HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONS”
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 of dealing with intellectual discourse since texts are written to convey a message to be understood by the readers. Accordingly, in the social sciences and humanities, many interpretive methodologies haveContinue reading “JOHANNES ANGERMULLER – DISCOURSE ANALYSIS”
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 not to shy away from the big ‘O’ (Ontology) question and to actively work with ontology in their research to produce concepts that “expose us to the interesting, the remarkable,Continue reading “MARTINA EMKE – ONTOLOGY: FROM SOCIO-CULTURALISM TO POST-HUMANISM”
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 in enriching our understanding of multimodal communicative competence, multiliteracies, and translanguaging practices. Then, we will explore the key premises and key methodological tools of social semiotics: signs, modes and modalContinue reading “MUGE SATAR – MULTIMODALITY/ 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 experiences using a timeline to trace significant occurrences that influenced learning over a lifespan. This story telling method is used to illuminate and build historical narratives to challenge and shapeContinue reading “NEIL SUMMERS – FROM SCHOOLBOY TO NURSE TO LECTURER TO COUNSELLOR: AN AUTO ETHNOGRAPHY OF DECONSTRUCTIONS AND RECONSTRUCTIONS OF THE SELF AS A LEARNER””
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 research studies in which I have used this approach, I will explore the contextual shaping of our thematic analyses and the need for rigour, attention to detail and the explicitContinue reading “TERESA CREMIN – THEMATIC ANALYSIS IN CONTEXT”
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 attention during synchronous online speaking tasks. By recording students’ and teachers’ gaze movements during computer-mediated tutorials we can make tentative claims about their attention. Stimulated reflection interviews based on viewingContinue reading “URSULA STICKLER & LIJING SHI : EYETRACKING IN A SOCIO-CULTURAL FRAMEWORK”
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 group to another?) and politics (which MPs influence each other?). Social network analysis is a research approach that uses both qualitative and quantitative methods to explore relationships and their effects.Continue reading “VICTORIA MURPHY – SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS”
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 the key ideas. To illustrate strengths and limits of ethnographic and discourse analytic methods I present field notes and transcripts from two Studies of Work research projects – one ofContinue reading “YANNIK PORSCHÉ – ETHNOGRAPHIC DISCOURSE STUDIES: METHODOLOGICAL OPERATIONALISATIONS”