I recently gave the plenary lecture at the annual symposium of the ‘Professional, Academic, and Work-Based Literacies’ (PAWBL) special interest group, which sits under the aegis of BAAL. The lecture, titled “Eat. Pray. Live. How Literacies of Food Heritage, Faith and Commerce Merge in Sino-Muslim China“, was based […]
I am thrilled to announce my new book emerging from my work in the Sino-Muslim Heritage Literacy project (funded by the Leverhulme Trust, see here). This book, a Cambridge Element, brings together some important strands in the data collection from the project and I hope that it will […]
Earlier this year, I gave the closing plenary at the annual conference of the British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL). My lecture was on ‘Postdigital possibilities in Applied Linguistics’. It presented a valuable opportunity for me to bring together various ideas speculatively, and the response was quite positive. […]
On Sunday 15th October, Heng Wang and I presented on our Sino-Muslim Heritage Literacies project to an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars as part of a seminar series at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar. The seminar was titled ‘A Semiotics of Sino-Muslim Heritage Literacy in China’ […]
Earlier this year I undertook an extended research visit to China and conducted some lectures for both Jilin University, fruitfully following on from last year’s stint with them, and Changchun University of Science & Technology. Both sets of talks were well attended and allowed me to continue themes […]
I am pleased to announce that Lesley Gourlay and I have decided to work with Petar Jandrić (Chief Editor of PDSE) to compile a special issue of the journal on ‘Postdigital / More-Than-Digital Meaning-Making’. The study of how meaning is made is distributed across various subfields, including applied […]
I am excited to be the guest of Jilin University (China) for two weeks delivering a lecture series covering issues around sociolinguistics and literacy research. I was supposed to be in China this year as part of my Levehulme Research Fellowship but unfortunately this trip is not possible […]
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