Tag: Literacy Research

Reflections on working with an artist

December 2023

Gill Adams, Parinita Shetty, Cathy Burnett

Since the field of primary literacy research in England (and elsewhere) brings together so many different communities, we are constantly looking for creative new ways to communicate our research findings to diverse audiences. In this podcast episode, Layla Gharib talks to Cathy about how she visualised the findings of a scoping review of literacy research that Cathy produced.

About a year and a half into the project, when we’d generated data on teachers’ encounters with research in primary literacy and were deeply engaged in analysis, we wanted to work with an artist to represent the complexity of teachers’ encounters with research and the way these were entangled in their work and their personal lives. We were fortunate that Lo Tierney was able to take on this work.

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Different ways of looking: Exploring interdisciplinary collaborations and multiple approaches to literacy research

This post is a transcript of the second episode of our podcast Research Mobilities. It looks at how researchers can collaborate with designers to visually represent their research to new audiences. Professor Cathy Burnett chats with designer/researcher Layla Gharib about how the process of developing the images together resulted in new ways of thinking and working. They also explore how these images provide space to invite different interpretations, questions and conversations.

You can listen to the episode here or wherever you get your podcasts by looking for Research Mobilities. 

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What can corpus linguistics tell us about primary literacy research in England?

April 2023

This post is a transcript of the first episode of our new podcast Research Mobilities. It introduces what corpus linguistics actually is and how we’re using the method in our project. Dr Anna Lindroos Cermakova explains what analysing newspapers and Twitter conversations can tell us about how people understand and talk about literacy in primary schools in England.

You can listen to the episode here or wherever you get your podcasts by looking for Research Mobilities. 

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Reflections from Literacy Research Association’s annual conference

December 2022

Julia Gillen

I was extremely privileged to attend this year’s Literacy Research Association’s annual conference in Phoenix, Arizona from November 29th – December 3rd.  With the title: Crossing Boundaries and Borders – in pursuit of equity, solidarity, and social justice, it promised to be an amazingly interesting conference and so it proved.

I will first outline this project’s contribution and reactions and then add a few reflections on the conference overall.

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