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SUMMARY: New times\, researcher mobility and multilingual research practic
 e: opportunities\, innovation and constraints  - Professor Marilyn Martin-
 Jones\, University of Birmingham 
DTSTART:20140127T170000Z
DTEND:20140127T183000Z
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CONTACT:Lucian Stephenson
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, I will focus on researcher mobility and on some
  of the ways in which this has contributed to the development of multiling
 ual research practice. For over three decades\, those of us who have been 
 conducting research on urban multilingualism\, in countries like the UK\, 
 have had ample opportunities to explore the potential of multilingual rese
 arch practice\, to build an understanding of how it contributes to knowled
 ge-building and to work out how to deal with the ways in which such practi
 ces are constrained by the monolingual ideologies and practices of many hi
 gher education institutions. Now\, we are witnessing a significant expansi
 on in the scope of multilingual research practice and not just among those
  of us for whom multilingualism is the main object of study. This is a cha
 nge that is taking place across the social sciences. The internationalisat
 ion policies of universities and of funding bodies\, the advent of the int
 ernet and the increase in the global reach of publishing industries have t
 ransformed the worlds of research. Many doctoral researchers work in trans
 national spaces\, drawing on different language resources at different sta
 ges of the research process. Increasingly\, the funding for research proje
 cts requires the establishment of international research teams and collabo
 ration between researchers with diverse language histories. In addition\, 
 there is much more border crossing among post-doctoral researchers seeking
  employment today than there was a decade or so ago. This has also opened 
 up new possibilities for multilingual research practice. \n\nMy talk will 
 be organised around three main themes: the opportunities opened up through
  the use of multilingual resources at different stages of a research proje
 ct\; recent innovation in multilingual research practice and some of the a
 dvantages that accrue from this\; and the institutional constraints on mul
 tilingual research practice and the ways in which new and established rese
 archers are positioned with regard to being able to mount challenges to th
 ese constraints. In addressing these themes\, I will be drawing on three d
 ecades of work in multilingual research teams and on my own experience of 
 doctoral supervision in the field of multilingualism. I will also be drawi
 ng on insights gleaned from two current research projects: (1.) a capacity
 -building project that I organised\, with my colleagues at the MOSAIC Cent
 re for Research on Multilingualism\, at the University of Birmingham. The 
 project was entitled: Researching multilingualism\, multilingualism in res
 earch practice and it was funded from 2010 to 2013 by the Economic and Soc
 ial Research Council (ESRC) under its Researcher Development Initiative (F
 urther details are available on: www.birmingham.ac.uk/researching-multilin
 gualism). (2.) a sister project\, entitled: Researching multilingually\, w
 hich is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) from 201
 1-2012\, under its Translating Cultures scheme. (Further details are avail
 able on: http://researchingmultilingually.com). Both projects were aiming 
 to raise awareness of the nature and scope of multilingual research practi
 ce and to draw attention to the challenges involved in this aspect of ethn
 ographic and interpretive research. \n\n*Bio*\n\nMarilyn Martin-Jones is a
 n Emeritus Professor based at the MOSAIC Centre for Research on Multilingu
 alism\, School of Education\, University of Birmingham. She was the foundi
 ng Director of the MOSAIC Centre (2007—2010). Over the last 30 years or 
 so\, she has been involved in research on multilingualism in classroom and
  community contexts in England and in Wales. She has a particular interest
  in the ways in which language and literacy practices contribute to the co
 nstruction of identities\, in local life worlds and in educational setting
 s\, and with  the ways in which such practices are bound up with local and
  global relations of power. Her work is critical and ethnographic in natur
 e\, combining participant observation and ethnographic interviews with ana
 lysis of multilingual discourse and literacy practices. These theoretical 
 and methodological concerns are reflected in her publications and in her b
 ook series with Routledge entitled: ‘Critical Studies in Multilingualism
 ’.
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