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2023 Events

June

Sheffield Literacies and Language Conference:

Forging Hopeful Literacies

Friday June 16th – Saturday June 17th, 2023

Venue: The Wave, Faculty of Social Sciences, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2AH

See website for full details Forging Hopeful Literacies.

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January

iHuman / School of Education Seminar

Schools as communities of care in neoliberal times:
A decolonial analysis

Date: 18th January 2023

13.30 - 14.30 pm

Location: 9 Mappin Street, Seminar Room G14 (48)
https://www.accessable.co.uk/venues/9-mappin-street

Associate Professor Dr Mónica Peña
Directora Magíster Psicología - Mención Psicología Social, Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile

In this seminar, Mónica will utitlise a decolonial perspective on care to critically explore how schools, that receive a state subsidy for educational inclusion work, work with children with disabilities in Chile. Mónica will primarily use Latin American authors in this analysis.
 
Any queries please contact Professor Dan Goodley: d.goodley@sheffield.ac.uk

Attendance is free of charge and open to all. 


2022 Events

November

Literacies and Language Research Cluster 

Re-emerge? New Parents, Covid-19 and Creativity: Exploring the challenges of parenting during the pandemic

Visit the Festival of Social Sciences website for more details. 

 

Date: Tuesday 1 November 2022
5.30pm

Location: The Art House, Drury Lane, Wakefield WF1 2TE

Attendance is free of charge and open to all. 

Contact

Dr Jessica Bradley

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October

Literacies and Language Research Cluster and iHuman seminar

Forced migration and resettlement in rural settings: linguistic citizenship

Date: Monday 17th October 2022
12-1.30pm

Location: 215 Jessop Building

Attendance is free of charge and open to all. 

Contact

Dr Jessica Bradley

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2021 Events

June

Masculinity, violence, and young people’s worlds

Date: Monday 14th June 2021
12-1.30pm

Location: Online Event

Chair: Carolyn Leary

Blackboard Collaborate Link


May 

Young people’s experience of online conflict

Date: Monday 10th May 2021
12.00 - 1.00pm

Location: Online Event

Attendance is free of charge and open to all. 

Contact

Dr Tim Herrick

Seminar link


Story and storying in the pandemic: Dismantling official policy

Story and storying in the pandemic: Dismantling official policy and “stuff” for children’s literacy learning withStavroula Kontovourki

Date: Friday 7 May

16:00 – 17:30 BST

Location: Online Event

Attendance is free of charge and open to all. 

Contact

Dr. Becky Parry

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April

Telling Stories about Black Lives in the Twenty-First Century

Telling Stories about Black Lives in the Twenty-First Century: The Affordances of Fantasy and Virtual Reality for Racial Literacies

Date: Friday 23 April

16:00 – 17:30 GMT

Location: Online Event

Attendance is free of charge and open to all. 

Contact

Dr. Becky Parry

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March 

We read, we write: Reconsidering reading writing relationships

We read, we write: Reconsidering reading writing relationships in primary school children - Dr Lucy Taylor

Date: Friday 12 March

16:00 – 17:30 GMT

Location: Online Event

Attendance is free of charge and open to all. 

Contact

Dr. Becky Parry

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2020 Events


March

Literacies & Multilingual Digital Storytelling Research Seminar

Literacies & Multilingual Digital Storytelling - Vicky Macleroy

Date TBC

Information Commons, 44 Leavygreave Road, Broomhall, S3 7RD

Attendance is free of charge and open to all. Light refreshments will be provided.

Contact

Jess Bradley

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March

iHuman: Research and Scholarship Development Programme 2020

Understanding the Academic Career Pathways and Applying for Promotion

25th March 2020
12:00 -13:30

Elmfield Building, Lecture Theatre 01

Suitable for PhD students nearing completion.

Contact

John Flint

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April

iHuman: Research and Scholarship Development Programme 2020

Wellcome Trust’s future strategy & funding opportunities

21st April 2020
14:00 -15.30
Diamond Building Lecture Theatre 8

Suitable for PhD students nearing completion.

Contact

James Wilsdon

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May

iHuman: Research and Scholarship Development Programme 2020

Meet the Editors: Writing for Journals

27th May 2020
14:00 -16:00
Diamond Building Lecture Theatre 8

Suitable for PhD students nearing completion.

Contact

Sarah Neal

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June

iHuman: Research and Scholarship Development Programme 2020

Using social media to promote research: engagement, networking and impact

10th June 2020
12:00-13:30
Diamond Building Lecture Theatre 9

Suitable for PhD students nearing completion.

Contact 

Katherine Runswick-Cole

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