Check out our #OpenAccess #journal #article led by Eilidh Johnstone and Michelle Liao! "How does it feel? #Space and #text as affective #affordances in the #multimodal #museum" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… LINCS Heriot-Watt Heriot-Watt Social Sciences Heriot-Watt IRC Heriot Watt CTISS #research

Call for Chapter Abstracts for proposed book volume, "Confronting Racial and Epistemic Inequities in TESOL and Applied Linguistics". Editors: Leonardo Veliz, Paul Meighan, Waqar Ali Shah. Full call➡️shorturl.at/wcFnq 🗓️Submit abstract by Oct 30 here: forms.gle/FoDd2FGRpXByD8…

Tomorrow! Register for Zoom link here: shorturl.at/2834T

It's the BAAL Annual Conference THIS WEEK! We're very excited and can't wait to hear about the fantastic research underway in the Applied Linguistics community Follow the X account to keep up-to-date on plenary talks, events and other happenings during the conference

REF 2029 main panel chairs: applications are now open! Please share this opportunity with your networks.  We welcome and encourage applications from diverse groups. Deadline 🗓️26 Sep 2024 Research England Scottish Funding Council Economy NI Medr #REF2029 ref.ac.uk/news/ref-2029-…

In case you missed it: BAAL Book Prize 2024 Winner 🥳 Engaging Children in Applied Linguistics Research by Annamaria Pinter, Cambridge University Press CUP Linguistics tinyurl.com/248t86zt

The annual Heriot-Watt IRC #newsletter is out ! #Intercultural #Research #Centre @HW_lifeinLINCS irc.site.hw.ac.uk/newsletter/

I am trying to reorient my PhD teaching away from “find the gap in the literature” to “find your place in the literature” it’s v challenging and rewarding to undo my own conditioning along the way 😵‍💫

VACANCY: Lecturer in Sociology University of Manchester Sociology department 3 yrs, start Jan 2025 Teaching: inequalities, with a focus on ethnicity and ‘race’ and on mental health, and core methods/theory. Apply by 16 Sept 2024. Pls share 🙏🏿 jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?…

NEW STUDY shows, yet again, that schoolchildren who speak more than one languages tend to perform better, including in subjects such as English. Speak all the languages you can to your child(ren). tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

NEW FELLOWSHIP: The Institute is delighted to announce a new Fellowship aimed at artists and creative practitioners of Palestinian heritage. The Artist at Risk Fellowship will support an artist to spend 2 months as a Visiting Fellow at IASH in May/June/July 2025. 🇵🇸

And the book has just arrived!

Now what would be a good thing to do this weekend? Applying to volunteers with Scottish Refugee Council 🧡, that's what.. 4 roles across our Asylum & Refugee Services Team, supporting our work to build a better future with refugees in Scotland.

So delighted with this fantastic new blog website of JLANPOL now being launched! Pls kindly distribute & visit often for news about JLP papers & special issues, interviews w authors & SI editors & so much more! Get in touch w. our Assoc Editor Katy Brown for input/comments!

There's still time to submit proposals to the Bilingualism Matters Symposium 2025! The deadline has been extended until 30 September 2024: see details at bilingualism-matters.org/events/bilingu… Bilingualism Matters

The opacity of academic prose arises from the epistemological imperative to operationalize disciplinary jargon, facilitating intra-specialized discourse while obfuscating heterogenous interpretive accessibility and perpetuating a recursive dialectic of erudition and exclusion.

DAAD Scholarship Germany 2025-2026 (Fully Funded) is Announced* Apply now: techstour.com/daad-scholarsh… International Students for **Masters & Ph.D. **ALL Nationality are Eligible All the #Expenses will be Covered by #DAAD.

It was wonderful to collaborate with Fiona Barclay and Jo Drugan on this important piece on why #languages remain crucial for #scotland’s #schools Tes Magazine tes.com/magazine/analy…

We all - students, teachers and lecturers, but most of all employers - have a lot to learn from the important research being carried out in intercultural communication Heriot-Watt University

Many thanks for inviting me Josh Prada Looking forward to it! #authoritarianism #HateSpeech #multimodality #argumentation #FrontPage Faculty of Arts - University of Groningen University of Groningen