Tag Archives: events
New MOOC run starts today – 9 January 2017
The fourth run of our successful Massive Open Online Course will start today. You are all invited to join this free 3-week course, available through the Future Learn website: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/multilingual/4/
How researchers can draw on their multilingual resources when undertaking their research: “Researching Multilingually” doctoral researcher workshops
By Prue Holmes, Durham University Doctoral researchers, when undertaking their research, must often work multilingually during various phases of their project, e.g., with supervisors, gatekeepers and participants in the research site, translators and interpreters, people in the community in the … Continue reading
New MOOC run starts 7 November
The third run of our successful Massive Open Online Course will start on the 7th of November. You are all invited to join this free 3-week course, available through the Future Learn website: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/multilingual/3/
The Languaging of Distress
The Senate Room, University of Glasgow Tuesday 11th October 2016, 9.30am and 4.00pm This knowledge exchange event aims to facilitate discussion between researchers, voluntary sector organizations and clinicians about the challenges and opportunities that exist in relation to supporting people … Continue reading
How we write, multilingually: a round table
Date: Wed 24 Feb Time: 2.30–4.00 pm Venue: Wolfson medical building, Hugh Fraser seminar room (257) University of Glasgow, University Avenue Across disciplines, and in different countries, many academics are thinking about how we write—not how ‘to’ write, or how we should … Continue reading
Reminder – Deadline Monday 30 November: Call for Papers “Language Learning and Ethnographic Fieldwork”
University of Glasgow, Scotland 11-12 April 2016 For many researchers, learning a new language or working in a second or additional language is a crucial aspect of carrying out ethnographic fieldwork. Language learning and ‘competence’ affect all aspects of our … Continue reading
Languages, Refugees and Migration: Research Roundtable Event
Monday, 7 December 2015 from 12.00 to 18:30 Seminar room 3 (Gannochy), Wolfson Medical School Building, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ About this FREE half-day participatory Knowledge Exchange event: Numerous projects across Glasgow (and further afield) are working in Languages … Continue reading
In praise of public engagement workshops and big, fat Glasgow Language Fests
In this post Katja Frimberger shares secret project plans to take over Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) through arts-workshops and multilingualism. And all in the name of humanities research and the Being Human Festival in particular. On 15th July I … Continue reading
