— CALL FOR PAPERS NOW CLOSED —
The Department of Language and Literacy
Graduate Student Conference
May 16 2015, UBC
Living Methods: Doing Research in Language and Literacy
In line with the Faculty of Education’s Year of Research in Education, the theme of this year’s LLED graduate student conference will focus on research methods as they relate to issues in language and literacy education, including but not limited to the following:
- ethnography
- case study
- narrative
- arts-based inquiry
- digital methods
- action research
- critical perspectives
- policy analysis
- discourse analysis
- indigenous methodologies
- research with children
- other methods and approaches used to accomplish research
The conference welcomes presentations on projects in progress as well as finished projects with a focus on the lived experience of any phase of the research process, from conception to dissemination. Presenters should give a general description of their project emphasizing the methods they employed or are employing and make links to relevant methodological scholarship. They should also give a personal account of the successes and challenges they have encountered with their chosen method/s throughout the research process. In the spirit of peer collaboration, presenters are also encouraged to come with specific questions for the audience in order to obtain useful feedback for the continuation of their projects.
Papers could address one or more of the following:
- Selecting a method to help answer your research question (e.g., comparison of the strengths and weaknesses of different methods for different types of questions)
- Data collectiontechniques (e.g., experiences with recruitment in different contexts, developing protocols, running interviews or focus groups, managing data, engaging equitably and reflexively, obtaining appropriate consent, etc.)
- Approaches toanalysis (e.g., experiences with coding schemes, software, quantification, transcription, translation, etc.)
- Knowledge translation (e.g., experiences with publication, curriculum development, or community outreach, etc.).
- Research ethics andreflexivity (e.g., writing yourself into your work, working with marginalized populations, etc.)
- Other – We are open to proposals that relate to research methods in alternative ways.