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“I was worried if something bad happened”: How language graduates made decisions around migration in the anxious times of the Covid pandemic.

Presentation / Conference
Ratz, S. (2023, December)
“I was worried if something bad happened”: How language graduates made decisions around migration in the anxious times of the Covid pandemic. Paper presented at International Association for Languages and Intercultural Communication (IALIC) 2023, Nicosia, Cyprus

Methodological Issues and Challenges in Researching Transculturally

Book
Victoria, M. (Ed.)
(2022). Methodological Issues and Challenges in Researching Transculturally. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
This book sheds light on the ‘unseen’ challenges encountered by qualitative researchers before, during and long after conducting their study. These issues, often shrouded in m...

Breaking down disciplinary walls: redefining the teaching of Translation for Intercultural Dialogue

Presentation / Conference
Penman, C., & Wilkinson, J. (2021, May)
Breaking down disciplinary walls: redefining the teaching of Translation for Intercultural Dialogue. Paper presented at Breaking down the walls of Babel: dialogues in translation, University of Warwick
The study of translation is experiencing a revival and a transformation as recognition of its pedagogical value beyond the training of future translators grows. Training in tr...

Unlikely hikers? Activism, Instagram, and the queer mobilities of fat hikers, women hiking alone, and hikers of colour

Journal Article
Stanley, P. (2020)
Unlikely hikers? Activism, Instagram, and the queer mobilities of fat hikers, women hiking alone, and hikers of colour. Mobilities, 15(2), 241-256. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2019.1696038
This paper investigates a nascent, primarily online community of so-called 'unlikely hikers', united in the premise that hiking is good for everyone's mental and physical heal...

Ethnography and autoethnography in ELT research: Querying the axiomatic

Book Chapter
Stanley, P. (2019)
Ethnography and autoethnography in ELT research: Querying the axiomatic. In X. Gao (Ed.), Second Handbook of English Language Teaching. Switzerland: Springer
With a view to suggesting ways forward in qualitative ELT research, this chapter surveys two related fields of literature in order to question the taken-for-granted. The first...

Questions of culture in autoethnography

Book
Stanley, P., & Vass, G. (Eds.)
(2018). Questions of culture in autoethnography. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315178738
Autoethnography allows researchers to make sense of the ‘ethno’ – the cultural – by studying their own experiences – the ‘auto’. It links the self to the cultural, allowing fo...

On the difficulties of writing about culture in autoethnography

Book Chapter
Stanley, P. (2018)
On the difficulties of writing about culture in autoethnography. In P. Stanley, & G. Vass (Eds.), Questions of culture in autoethnographyTaylor & Francis
No abstract available.

Walking to heal or walking to heel? Contesting cultural narratives about fat women who hike and camp alone

Book Chapter
Stanley, P. (2018)
Walking to heal or walking to heel? Contesting cultural narratives about fat women who hike and camp alone. In P. Stanley, & G. Vass (Eds.), Questions of culture in autoethnography, 129-141. Taylor & Francis
No abstract available.

"I have many languages in my head": second language identity development of multilingual students

Presentation / Conference
Ratz, S. (2017, June)
"I have many languages in my head": second language identity development of multilingual students. Paper presented at IALIC conference 2017, Edinburgh Napier University

Making sense of not making sense: Novice English language teacher talk

Journal Article
Stanley, P., & Stevenson, M. (2017)
Making sense of not making sense: Novice English language teacher talk. Linguistics and Education, 38, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.linged.2017.01.001
This qualitative study critically examines the intelligibility of the teacher talk of novice native speaker English language teachers. It focuses on difficulties teachers face...