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<div><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Developing Pathways to Impact: A Training Workshop for Early Career Researchers in Bi-/Multilingualism and Education</b></font></div>
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The Westminster Forum for Languages and Linguistics and the Department of English, Linguistics and Cultural Studies are pleased to announce a training workshop on developing pathways to impact for early career researchers (ECRs) in bi-/multilingualism and education,
to be held at the University of Westminster on </span><b style="font-family: Arial;">2 December 2017</b><span style="font-family: Arial;">.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The aim of the workshop will be to illustrate how research into bi-/ multilingualism can generate positive change in policy and practice with an emphasis on education, and to invite ECRs to develop ideas on how their work can
generate pathways to such types of impact. It will include three types of training sessions led by senior researchers who are members of the Peer Review Colleges of the AHRC and the ESRC and have proven track records of large-scale public engagement and impact-generating
activities in the fields of bi-/multilingualism, literacy and education:</span><br>
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<li><span style="text-indent: -18pt; font-family: Arial;">talks by senior researchers on their impact experience, showing how they were able to create links between their research findings and demonstrable cases of impact</span></li><li><span style="text-indent: -18pt; font-family: Arial;">break-out sessions, during which ECRs will present their research with a non-academic audience in mind, including ideas about how it can generate economic and/or societal impact, and will receive feedback
from senior researchers and other ECRs</span></li><li><span style="text-indent: -18pt; font-family: Arial;">a round-table discussion on challenges and ways forward in pursuing the impact of research.</span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The following senior academics have confirmed their participation</span><span lang="EL" style="font-family: Arial;">:</span><br>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Professor Jenny Cheshire</span></b><br>
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Professor of Linguistics, Queen Mary University of London, FBA champion of the event</span><br>
<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Dr Elena Ioannidou</span></b><br>
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Assistant Professor in Language Education, University of Cyprus</span><br>
<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Dr Andrew Linn</span></b><br>
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Professor of Language, History and Society, University of Westminster, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, member of the Peer Review College of the AHRC</span><br>
<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Dr Vally Lytra</span></b><br>
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Senior Lecturer in Languages and Education, Goldsmiths, University of London</span><br>
<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Professor Antonella Sorace</span></b><br>
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Professor of Developmental Linguistics, University of Edinburgh, member of the Peer Review College of the ESRC, director of
</span><a style="font-family: Arial;" href="http://www.bilingualism-matters.org.uk/">Bilingualism Matters</a><span style="font-family: Arial;"> (keynote speaker)</span><br>
<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Dr Stavroula Tsiplakou</span></b><br>
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Associate Professor of Linguistics, Open University of Cyprus</span><br>
<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Professor Li Wei</span></b><br>
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Chair of Applied Linguistics, UCL Institute of Education</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The workshop is open to 60 PhD students and ECRs within 10 years of the award of their PhD. Participants will have an excellent opportunity to</span><br>
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<li><span style="text-indent: -18pt; font-family: Arial;">consider in detail concrete examples of how scientific research on bi -/multilingualism and bi-/multilingual education can make a demonstrable contribution to society by positively changing the quality
of life of bi-/multilingual individuals and communities</span></li><li><span style="text-indent: -18pt; font-family: Arial;">develop their knowledge of current trends in academia in relation to impact</span></li><li><span style="text-indent: -18pt; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span style="text-indent: -18pt; font-family: Arial;">appreciate how important it is in the current
climate for their research to sit well within the political, social and economic context in which academia operates</span></li><li><span style="text-indent: -18pt; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span style="text-indent: -18pt; font-family: Arial;">learn how to communicate academic knowledge to
non-specialist audiences</span></li><li><span style="text-indent: -18pt; font-family: Arial;">apply their newly-acquired skills to their own research</span></li><li><span style="text-indent: -18pt; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span style="text-indent: -18pt; font-family: Arial;">receive advice on how to explore this new avenue
for their work from senior colleagues and other ECRs.</span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">If you are interested in participating in the workshop, follow the link below and complete the expression of interest form by
</span><b style="font-family: Arial;">27 October 2017</b><span style="font-family: Arial;">:</span><br>
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</font><a style="font-family: Arial;" href="https://goo.gl/forms/W5aYCOcEjryeGXQ53">https://goo.gl/forms/W5aYCOcEjryeGXQ53</a><br>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Notification of acceptance will be sent by </span>
<b style="font-family: Arial;">3 November 2017</b><span style="font-family: Arial;">.</span><br>
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</font><span style="font-family: Arial;">A small number of </span><b style="font-family: Arial;">travel bursaries
</b><span style="font-family: Arial;">are available for participants who do not currently hold an institutional affiliation or who do not have access to financial support from their home institutions. If you would like to be considered for a bursary, tick the
appropriate box in the expression of interest form and provide a short statement of support.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">For any enquiries, please contact </span><a style="font-family: Arial;" href="https://www.westminster.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/directory/karatsareas-petros">Dr Petros Karatsareas</a><span style="font-family: Arial;"> at
</span><a style="font-family: Arial;" href="mailto:P.Karatsareas@westminster.ac.uk">P.Karatsareas@westminster.ac.uk</a><span style="font-family: Arial;">.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The workshop is organised under the auspices and the financial support of the British Academy as part of a Rising Star Public Engagement Award to Dr Karatsareas for his project “Transforming heritage language education” (EN160023).</span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(108, 16, 72); font-family: Futura; font-size: 11px;">Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics</span><br>
<span style="color: rgb(108, 16, 72); font-family: Futura; font-size: 11px;">Course Leader for MA English Language </span><br>
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