I am pleased to announce that I have won a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for a project which focuses on what has been an area of interest of mine for the last few years. The project is entitled ‘Literacy and Harmony: A study of Sino-Muslim heritage literacies in modern […]
I recently became interested in Ottoman literacies (see previous post), and came across another aspect of that history which piqued my interest: the Ottoman board game Şatranc-i Urefa. I finally managed to track down the game to play at home. Şatranc-i Urefa is a game that was played […]
Here is an interesting artefact of historical literacy that I encountered, during a brief stay in Cyprus last year as a visiting lecturer. In a visit to the Hala Sultan Tekke and surrounding salt lake, one of my favourite places on the island, I saw this compilation from […]
The following are the slides for a paper I delivered today at the Annual Conference for the SRHE (the Society for Research into Higher Education) The whole paper is available via the following link: Click to access 0163.pdf
I am pleased to announce a new publication out in the Taylor & Francis journal ‘Language and Education’. This is the third installment of a series of my Literacy-focused methods-related research papers. I have discussed the other papers in previous posts here (journal of Research in Learning Technology) […]
I am pleased to announce the open access publication of my PhD thesis. It is now available to download through this link, and directly via the White Rose repository: http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/8642/ Bhatt, I (2014) A sociomaterial account of assignment writing in Further Education classrooms, PhD thesis (submitted: Nov 2014), […]
The following is a post from my project-related page: When did you first use a mouse? Send a text message? Search for something on the Web? Set up a social media profile? What caused this first usage? Was it mere inquisitiveness? Or did you have to? Can you […]
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