Meetings schedule

Programme: Spring 2020

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Due to the government advice on remote working and minimizing travel and social contact due to the COVID-19 situation, LEDS is suspending meetings from 16 March for the remainder of the semester. Please watch this space for further developments.

In the meantime if you have any queries or ideas for future sessions, please get in touch by emailing the LEDS Convener Judith.

The planned programme for our meetings in Spring 2020 is presented in the table below.  Sessions normally run between 4.30 – 5.30pm (with optional discussion continuing for those who are able to stay, until 6pm).

Date (all 2020)	Topic/Title	Session leader
19th February (Room 2.04)	Ethics in linguistic ethnography – focus on fieldwork	Judith Reynolds (Cardiff University)
4th March	Meeting CANCELLED due to industrial action
25th March (Room 2.46)	Meeting CANCELLED Using ethnographic data in designing a small, specialized spoken corpus: The case of care home interactions	Almut Koester (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
29th April (Room TBC)	Meeting CANCELLED Researching writing and identity in post-compulsory teacher education	Rachel Stubley (Lancaster University/University of South Wales)

Programme: Autumn 2019

The programme for our meetings held in Autumn 2019, with links to blog posts where available, is presented in the table below. 

Date (all 2019)	Topic/Title	Session leader
16th October	Introducing linguistic ethnography – the benefits of combining linguistic and ethnographic methods in researching social life	Judith Reynolds (Cardiff University)
30th October	Discussion of recently published work in linguistic ethnography	Judith Reynolds (Cardiff University)
20th November	Exploring an ethnohistorical approach to multimodality	Lauren O’Hagan (Cardiff University)
27th November	session cancelled
11th December (2.15pm – 3.30pm)	Extraordinary Session: Q&A with Ben Rampton	facilitated by Judith Reynolds (Cardiff University)

Please see details of past LEDS programmes below – for inspiration and ideas!

Programme: Spring/Summer 2019

Date (all 2019)	Topic/Title	Session leader
6th February	Language, culture and social difference: Using linguistic ethnography to explore collective class identity in cultural texts	Beverley Hill (Swansea University)
27th February	Ethnopoetics and the reflexive researcher	Natasha Carver (Cardiff University)
20th March	Video Reflexive Ethnography: considering LE and visual/multimodal data through a discussion of Rick Iedema’s work	Piotr Wegorowski and Judith Reynolds (Cardiff University)
27th March 2.10-3.00pm, Rm. 1.57	Extraordinary Session: Q&A with Rick Iedema – Video Reflexive Ethnography	Facilitated by Judith and Piotr
10th April	Data session – communicating Assisted Voluntary Return programmes to migrants	Katy Brickley (Cardiff University)
8th May	Online linguistic ethnography	Tereza Spilioti (Cardiff University)
5th June	Ethics in linguistic ethnography	Kate Steel (Cardiff University)
26th June (Room 2.50)	Interactional sociolinguistics and linguistic ethnography: considering the relationship	Piotr Wegorowski (Cardiff University)

Programme: Autumn 2018

Date (all 2018)	Topic/Title	Session leader
24th October	Why ethnography? Introducing linguistic ethnography	Judith Reynolds and Piotr Wegorowski (both Cardiff University)
14th November	Research presentation and discussion – The Pen and the Sword: The Linguistic Pedagogies of Chinese Taijiquan and European Longsword	George Jennings (Cardiff Metropolitan University)
5th December	Researching multilingually in linguistic ethnographic projects	Judith Reynolds (Cardiff University)

Programme: Spring 2016

Date (all 2016)	Topic/Title	Session leader
3rd February	Online ethnography	Matteo Fabbretti (Cardiff University)
9th March	“Ethnographic aspects of job interview research: taking things further”.	Celia Roberts (King’s College London)
27th March	Team ethnography	Frances Rock (Cardiff University)

Programme: Autumn 2015

Date (all 2015)	Topic/Title	Session leader
14th October	Introducing Linguistic Ethnography: Language and the ‘Real World’	Jaspal Singh and Piotr Węgorowski (Cardiff University)
11th November	How to get involved in a research site without becoming distracted	Amal Hallak (Cardiff University)
9th December	Fieldnotes in linguistic ethnography	Zayneb Al-Bundawi (Cardiff University)

Possible further topics for discussion

The topics below were suggested during LEDS discussions in 2015 – perhaps you would like a session to focus on one of these topics or a related topic?   Contact Judith with any ideas or suggestions.

• Fieldnotes in LE research
• Spoken naturally occurring data in LE research
• Written naturally occurring data in LE research
• Focus groups in LE research
• Linguistic landscaping in LE research
• Ethnography as performance/enactment
• “Muddling/muddying up” the data
• How to get involved in a research site without becoming distracted
• Novel methods in LE
• Relationships between Action Research and Linguistic Ethnography
• Something else… please feel free to suggest a topic that interests you

Programme: Spring 2015

Date (all 2015)	Topic/Title	Session leader
28th January	Transcription	Piotr Węgorowski (Cardiff University)
18th February	Issues in data collection from a literacy studies perspective	Rachel Stubley (University of South Wales and Lancaster University)
11th March	Gifts and gratitude: What can we ‘give’ to our research participants?	Jaspal Singh (Cardiff University)
1st April	My first year as a linguistic ethnographer	Amal Hallak (Cardiff University)
22nd April	Achieving a balance between linguistic and ethnographic data / findings: Is this desirable or needed?	Helen Watts (University of the West of England)
13th May	Negotiating professional identities in Syrian internship workplaces: Access, learning and evaluation	Maryam Almohammad (The University of Bristol)
10th June	Linguistic Ethnography going online: challenges and opportunities	Tereza Spilioti (Cardiff University)