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 | 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) |
- Important announcement: LEDS meetings cancelled
- LEDS Session 6 – 4th March – CANCELLED
- LEDS Session 7 – 25th March – Dr Almut Koester: Linguistic ethnography and corpus linguistics
- LEDS Session 5 – Weds 19th February – ethics in linguistic ethnographic fieldwork
- LEDS Session 3 – Exploring an Ethnohistorical Approach to Multimodality