Key Concepts and Methods in Ethnography, Language & Comms
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Course Director: Dr Ben Rampton, Professor of Applied and Sociolinguistics, King’s College London
19 July-23 July 2010 (5 full days)
Is ‘qualitative data analysis’ too vague for you? Are you wondering how to do justice to your data? If you are researching social processes, institutions, culture or identity, but are unsure about how to analyse the discourse data from your fieldwork, then consider joining this five day research training course.
The programme is designed to help PhD and post-doctoral researchers to navigate the twin perils of over- and under-interpreting discourse data. It introduces a range of key perspectives and tools used to study language and communication ethnographically and it facilitates the study of social practice in a wide range of different settings – education, workplace, recreation, health etc. Initiated with funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) in 2007, this will be our third annual ELC five-day course.
The Course Director
Dr Ben Rampton, Director of the Centre for Language Discourse and Communication, and Director of the ESRC-RDI Programme on ‘Ethnography, Language and Communication’, is Professor of Applied and Sociolinguistics at King’s College London. His work combines ethnography and interactional sociolinguistics. He is the author of Crossing: Language & Ethnicity among Adolescents (1995) and Language in Late Modernity: Interaction in an Urban School (2006), and has been on the editorial boards of Ethnography and the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology.
Course Faculty
The programme is taught by an international team of leading researchers:
Prof Ben Rampton (Course Director), King’s College London
Dr Jeff Bezemer, Research Fellow, Imperial College London
Prof Jan Blommaert, Professor of Linguistic Anthropology and Director of the Babylon Research Centre, Tilburg University (Netherlands)
Prof Carey Jewitt, Professor in Learning & Technology, and Research Councils UK (RCUK) Academic Fellow, Institute of Education
Dr Adam Lefstein, Senior Lecturer in Education, Institute of Education
Prof Celia Roberts, Professor of Applied Linguistics, King’s College London.
For more information, go to the: Ethnography Language Communication website.
Prof Ben Rampton (Course Director), King’s College London
Dr Jeff Bezemer, Research Fellow, Imperial College London
Prof Jan Blommaert, Professor of Linguistic Anthropology and Director of the Babylon Research Centre, Tilburg University (Netherlands)
Prof Carey Jewitt, Professor in Learning & Technology, and Research Councils UK (RCUK) Academic Fellow, Institute of Education
Dr Adam Lefstein, Senior Lecturer in Education, Institute of Education
Prof Celia Roberts, Professor of Applied Linguistics, King’s College London.
For more information, go to the: Ethnography Language Communication website.
Is this course for me?
This course is designed for social scientists and researchers, who have collected verbal data they need to analyse qualitatively, in particular PhD and post-doctoral researchers, lecturers and others.
Fees
Course fees: £700
Students/PhD-students and King’s College London Alumni are entitled to a reduced course fee of £595.
Course fees include access to all parts of the course and all course material. Upon completion of the summer institute short course, participants will be awarded a King’s College London Certificate of Attendance.
Some bursary funds are available to offset cost of tuition and will be divided among applicants with demonstrated need, who have exhausted other available sources of funding. Successful applicants will be notified and invited to submit bursary applications very soon afterwards. Successful applicants will be notified in early May.
Accommodation:
King’s College London cooperates with hotels close to the Campus, which offer special rates to participants. In addition, we are happy to recommend a number of hostels/youth hotels in Central London. For details, please contact: Eleanor Salt at cpd@kcl.ac.uk or +44 (0)20 7848 8183.
Students/PhD-students and King’s College London Alumni are entitled to a reduced course fee of £595.
Course fees include access to all parts of the course and all course material. Upon completion of the summer institute short course, participants will be awarded a King’s College London Certificate of Attendance.
Some bursary funds are available to offset cost of tuition and will be divided among applicants with demonstrated need, who have exhausted other available sources of funding. Successful applicants will be notified and invited to submit bursary applications very soon afterwards. Successful applicants will be notified in early May.
Accommodation:
King’s College London cooperates with hotels close to the Campus, which offer special rates to participants. In addition, we are happy to recommend a number of hostels/youth hotels in Central London. For details, please contact: Eleanor Salt at cpd@kcl.ac.uk or +44 (0)20 7848 8183.
How to apply
The available places for this course are currently taken. If you wish to register for the course’s waiting list please contact Dr Cordula Janowski, Programme Manager Executive Education at cordula.janowski@kcl.ac.uk
Please ask your supervisor, Head of Department or equivalent to provide a brief statement in support of your application via the recommendation form.
Please ask your supervisor, Head of Department or equivalent to provide a brief statement in support of your application via the recommendation form.
Contact
To learn more about the course contact: elc.ss@kcl.ac.uk
To learn more about how to apply: cpd@kcl.ac.uk
To learn more about how to apply: cpd@kcl.ac.uk
