Lancaster Literacy

The Literacy Research Centre at Lancaster University works to understand the role of literacy in all areas of social life. Profile photo - Kate Fox

[Lancaster Literacy @LULiteracy]

New blog post from Emily Peach on her ESRC post-doc fellowship researching students' mental health literacy practices https://t.co/0dA8Hh3V8c

[Research Mobilities in Primary Literacy Education @remple_project]

Cathy Burnett has published a working paper for our project: "Scoping the field of literacy research: how might a range of research be valuable to primary teachers?" Find the paper here https://t.co/qcVHtXiO9C and a blog post explaining the background: https://t.co/ip2hdlL2Sa

[Lancaster Literacy @LULiteracy]

Our PhD/ECR network programme for the autumn is now up at https://t.co/2OAY5ky9MO, theme "Decolonizing literacy education: multilingualism, translanguaging, and multiculturalism". Details of how to join the network on the page, thanks to Sole and Denise for their work on this!

[Research Mobilities in Primary Literacy Education @remple_project]

Start your week with a short reflection on what building bridges between literacy research and practice means across different contexts 🇨🇦🇳🇴🇬🇧. Read our blog written by @JuliaGillen. Includes lovely examples from a Norweigan classroom #literacy #teachertwitter #UKEdChat

[Research Mobilities in Primary Literacy Education @remple_project]

Our article "How does research reach teachers? An agenda for investigating research mobilities in primary literacy education" is published today Open Access in Literacy @The_UKLA @ESRC https://t.co/vl4fmVmhkE

[Natalia I. Kucirkova @NKucirkova]

Literacy, the official journal of @The_UKLA and published by Wiley is looking for new editors. @DianeR_Collier and I truly enjoyed our co-editorship and highly recommend applying. Proposals due 31 May, interviews in July. https://t.co/3vXPEyGUFM

[Julia Gillen @JuliaGillen]

Is project management your thing? Please apply to join our new 0-3s Tech and Talk project https://t.co/P721muP6sT

[Edwardian Postcards @eVIIpc]

Celebrating our main collection of 3000 Edwardian Postcards now permanently hosted as a Lancaster Digital Collection! https://t.co/czXzIJcnOa Card no. 1 was sent to 7 year old Elsie Burley, living with her grandparents on the Isle of Wight after the death of her mother.

[Julia Gillen @JuliaGillen]

We are looking for primary teachers working in England with an interest in literacy/English for our @remple_project Please RT and consider taking a look!

[Lancaster Literacy @LULiteracy]

I am attending https://t.co/Z0prVRhXsx

[Lancaster Literacy @LULiteracy]

Reminder: Jennifer Rowsell's talk tomorrow. Join us at 1pm UK time. https://t.co/ZfxyCYRitL

[Julia Gillen @JuliaGillen]

Are you a primary literacy teacher or interested in literacy research? Do get involved with our new project Research Mobilities in Primary Literacy Education @ESRC https://t.co/vdJfMhCmLx

[Lancaster Literacy @LULiteracy]

Join us next week for a talk by @drjenrowsell https://t.co/ZfxyCYRitL

[Lancaster Literacy @LULiteracy]

An important paper on the use (or not) of synthetic phonics in the teaching of reading: https://t.co/4Td976NgiM

[Lancaster Literacy @LULiteracy]

READ WRITE EASY: Research, practice and innovation in deaf multiliteracies Volumes 1 and 2 Open Access https://t.co/AakVspnwUR

[Lancaster Literacy @LULiteracy]

Black History Month: Voices from the Changing Faces Project https://t.co/dXBNsW8B7b

[Julia Gillen @JuliaGillen]

What a wonderful arrival in the post this morning! It would take me all day to tag the fantastic scholars who have contributed to this but many thanks all!

[Fiona Scott @_FionaScott]

We’re all excited about working on this.. if you’re an early childhood / literacies person please consider submitting something. Happy to chat about the special issue via DM too! #lockdownliteracies #earlychildhood

[Lancaster Literacy @LULiteracy]

By @lit4pleasure Writing For Pleasure Centre: a response to the DfE's Reading Framework - review and implications for teaching writing https://t.co/DBjmqiW0PB

[Lancaster Literacy @LULiteracy]

Our PhD students Soledad Montes Sánchez & Denise de Pauw are setting up a new Literacy Research group for PhD students working on literacy as social practice. More details here https://t.co/9PfhcfFO3o