Author Archives: Lisa Bernasek

CGE seminar today: Professor Anna Mauranen

15/10/2014

English as a lingua franca – Broken English? Please join us for today’s seminar by the Diamond Jubilee Fellowship visitor Professor Anna Mauranen, Vice-Rector of the University of Helsinki and Professor of English. Wednesday 15th October 2015, Lecture Theatre C (Avenue Campus) 17:00-18:30 Abstract: Although it has become generally accepted that English is the global […]

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ILC seminar programme Semester 1

02/10/2014

Research Seminar Series (ILC, CGE, CLLEAR, TNS) Wednesdays Avenue Campus All Welcome Date Centre Time Room Speaker Title 01-Oct ILC 5pm-7pm 1177 Dr Jane Lavery, Dr Mark Dinneen, Dr Claire Eldridge, Professor Ulrike Meinhof University of Southampton Research Leave presentations 15-Oct CGE 5pm-7pm LTC Prof Anna Mauranen Helsinki University ‘English as a Lingua Franca – […]

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ESRC network grant success

01/10/2014

Laura Domínguez and Roumyana Slabakova have been successful in securing an ESRC network grant (£30,000) as part of an international network of researchers led by Monika Schmid (Essex). This will fund a series of seminars on the topic of First Language Attrition – the process by which the first language of a speaker who uses […]

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ILC seminar: Research leave presentations 1 October 2014

28/09/2014

Join us on Wednesday, 1st October 2014 from 5.00pm-7.00pm in 65/ 1177 for the first ILC seminar of 2014-15. Research Leave presentations Dr Jane Lavery: ‘The Art of Ana Clavel: Ghosts, Urinals, Dolls, Shadows and Outlaw Desires’     Dr Mark Dinneen: ‘Brazilian Popular Culture: from Community Tradition to the Hybrid’       Dr […]

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AHRC Network grant success

25/09/2014

Professor Roumyana Slabakova has secured funding of £42,800 from the AHRC for the Meaning in Language Learning Network, in collaboration with Dr. Heather Marsden (York). The network will create a new forum for dialogue among language learning experts and stakeholders. It includes 18 participants in the UK and 4 international members from Europe and the […]

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New project on Internationalisation of Higher Education

25/09/2014

Dr Julia Hüttner will participate in a three year project (2014-2016) called “Internationalization of Higher Education in bilingual degrees: Analysis of the linguistic, cultural and academic challenges”. The project is led by Prof. Emma Dafouz of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and is funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) to 20,000 […]

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British Council ELT Partnership Research Award

15/09/2014

Dr Ying Zheng has been successful in obtaining a British Council ELT Partnership Research Award. She has been awarded £10k for a project entitled:  Investigating the Practice of the CEFR outside Europe: A Case Study on English Writing Assessment in China. This project investigates the practice of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages […]

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Dr Aude Campmas presentation at Association of Medical Humanities conference

01/09/2014

Supported by the ILC research travel fund, Dr Aude Campmas recently presented a paper at the Association of Medical Humanities Annual Conference  ‘The Art of Compassion’, on 7–9 July 2014 at the University of Southampton. Abstract: Martyrdom and (com)passion in Huysmans’s St. Lydwine of Schiedam In the presentation I explore the influence of medical models […]

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Visiting Scholars 2013-14

12/08/2014

Professor Ute Smit from the University of Vienna visited the University of Southampton through the Institute for Language and Culture from 19 – 25 February 2014. While she was here Professor Smit gave a seminar in the CLLEAR and CGE seminar series entitled English-medium education in multilingual university settings: A sociolinguistic examination of interactive explaining […]

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Research grant success for Ying Zheng

13/06/2014

Dr. Ying Zheng has been successful in obtaining an award under the British Council East Asia Assessment Research Grants scheme 2014. The title of the project is ‘Aptis in China: Exploring Stakeholders’ Perceptions of its Validity and Practicality’. This project is a collaboration with Dr. Yanyan Zhang, Associate Professor from Wuhan University.  The project aims […]

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