On Friday 24th June 2016 from 10am to 5.30pm we are holding a one-day conference for up to 50 PhD students who are researching any aspect of Global Englishes. The event will begin with a keynote from Professor Anna Mauranen and then the rest of the day will consist of presentations and discussions from PhD […]

Please join us for the next Centre for Global Englishes (CGE) seminar. When: Wednesday 24th February 2016, 5-6.30pm Where: Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus Who: Prof Anna Mauranen, Vice-Rector and Professor of English, University of Helsinki How do we write in English as a Lingua Franca? As ELF research has shown, communicating in English as […]

Please join us for the next Centre for Mexico-Southampton Collaboration (MeXsu) seminar. When: Wednesday 17th February 2016, 5-6.30pm Where: Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus Who: Dr Adriana Patiño-Santos, University of Southampton and Dr Rosina Marquez Reiter, University of Surrey The discursive construction of moral agents among Latin American entrepreneurs in Elephant and Castle. This paper examines stories […]

Please join us for the next Centre for Transnational Studies (TNS) seminar. When: Wednesday 10th February 2016, 5-6.30pm Where: Room 1177, Avenue Campus Who: Dr Scott Soo ‘A place of utter desolation and abandonment…’: Administrative noise, neglect and the commemoration of the camp de Gurs. The camp de Gurs was an internment centre that was initially […]

Please join us for the next Centre for Linguistics, Language Education and Acquisition Research (CLLEAR) seminar. When: Wednesday 3rd February 2016, 4-5.30pm Where: Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus Who: Prof Steve Walsh, Newcastle University L2 Classroom Interactional Competence and Teacher Development In this talk, I offer an initial conceptualisation of Classroom Interactional Competence (CIC), defined […]

When: Wednesday 27th January 2016, 5-6.30pm Where: Building 65, Room 1177, Avenue Campus Who: Dr Steve Dorney The University is strongly committed to ensuring that all of our activities – in research, education and enterprise (broadly understood) – are of benefit to the wider society outside the institution. In Humanities, there is now a committee dedicated […]

The TNS Debate The Impact of Research What do we understand by it and what counts as evidence in the Humanities and the Social Sciences Please see below the presentations from the seminar: Wrigley – TNS Debate Adams – Impact REF2014 Meinhof – Impact study cultural diasporas

Please join us for the next Centre for Transnational Studies (TNS) seminar, in collaboration with Archaeology. When: Wednesday 9th December 2015, 5-6.30pm Where: Room 1173, Building 65, Avenue Campus Who: Dr Rodney Harrison Assembling Alternative Futures for Heritage How does heritage make the future? From nuclear waste in Sweden to global endangered languages, from a […]

Please join us for the next Centre for Global Englishes (CGE) seminar. When: Wednesday 2nd December 2015, 5-6.30pm Where: Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus Who: Prof Jennifer Jenkins, University of Southampton International English-language university entry tests: are they fit for purpose? My talk will begin by exploring some empirical data in which international students discuss […]

Please join us for the next Centre for Transnational Studies (TNS) seminar. When: Wednesday 25th November 2015, 5-6.30pm Where: Room 1173, Building 65, Avenue Campus Who: Prof Neil Wrigley, Prof Jon Adams and Prof Ulrike Meinhof The Impact of Research: What do we understand by it and what counts as evidence in the Humanities and […]