Category: projects

Artefactual literacies & heritage

Some literacy researchers refer to artefactual literacy as the study of literacy practices embedded in material cultural objects. Literacy practices that are connected to objects and physical experience are often key to heritage, in this case a fan that is used within a traditional tea ceremony. According to Dr Naoki Yamamoto, […]

Quranic script and stone carving

The practice of stone carving is an important part of Chinese history, art, and culture, and likely one of mankind’s oldest crafts. This video presents a fascinating confluence of stone carving and traditional Islamic calligraphy. The video shows how Wang Fengtong [王凤桐], along with three generations of his family, carved […]

Year in review (2017)

Lectureship I am now a year into a lectureship at Queen’s University Belfast. This role has meant that I have not had the time to write updates on this blog as I have been busy focussing on a new location and new institution. The change and new role […]

Learning to write as an academic

The following are the slides for a seminar I delivered today with my colleague Karin Tusting as part of the Dynamics of Knowledge Creation project. The session was entitled ‘Learning to write as academic’. We had a useful discussion about the self-management of ongoing ‘on the job’ learning […]

CGHE seminar slides

I was pleased to recently participate in a seminar with my project team, hosted by the Centre For Global & Higher Education. The slides are below: Our next event is entitled ‘Learning to write as an academic‘, the slides for which will be posted next week. More detailed […]