The doctoral thesis in the digital and multimodal age

British Library, Euston Road, London – Conference Centre

Tuesday 18 May 2010 10.15am to 4.30pm

This is the final conference in the ESRC Research Seminar series ‘New forms of doctorate: the influence of multimodality and e-learning on the nature and format of doctoral theses’

Keynote speakers

Gunther Kress, Professor of Semiotics and Education and Director, Centre for Multimodal Research, Institute of Education, London

‘Social fragmentation and epistemological multiplicity: the doctoral thesis in an era of provisionality’

Steve Benford, Professor of Collaborative Computing, University of Nottingham ‘Interdisciplinary Research in Mixed Reality Performance - implications for the doctorate’

Sessions/workshops

Andrew Brown, Director of the Doctoral School, IOE, ‘Professional doctorates, electronic theses and other challenges and opportunities in the evaluation of 'a contribution to knowledge in the field'’

Joanna Newman, Head of Higher Education, British Library, ‘Ethos: opening up research'

David Durling, Associate Dean (Research), Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, ‘Designing the doctorate’

Jude England, Head of Social Science Collections and Research, British Library, ‘Preserving the present for the future’

Myrrh Domingo, Doctoral candidate, New York University, ‘Research into interactive multimodal texts’

Lesley Gourlay, Learning Innovation Applied Research Group, Coventry University, ‘Virtual worlds, textual limits? Doctoral research into the multimodal, hybrid and posthuman’

There will be a launch of the guidance document New forms of dissertation: guidance for students, universities and libraries.

Attendance is free.

Coffee, lunch and tea included.

Please register with Richard Sheldrake, Institute of Education, London on r.sheldrake@ioe.ac.uk. We can accommodate up to 200 delegates, on a first-come, first-served basis.

The series and conference is organized by Richard Andrews, Erik Borg, Jude England and Stephen Boyd Davis.

Leverhulme Trust Public Lectures

by Professor Caroline Haythornthwaite

Caroline Haythornthwaite is a professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is a Leverhulme Trust visiting professor in the Department of Learning, Curriculum and Communication at the Institute of Education during 2009/10.

Public lectures presented by Professor Caroline Haythornthwaite:

• Learning in the age of web 2.0 (1 December 2009, 17:00-18:00) [ text | slides ]
  
  (Learning in the Age of Web 2.0 by Caroline Haythornthwaite is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License)


• Learning and scholarly communication in the age of the Internet (4 Feb 2010) [ slides ]
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• New theories and perspectives on learning in the digital age (23 Feb 2010) [slides | handout | paper]


• Social networks and learning (11 Mar 2010) [slides]


• Social informatics (30 Mar 2010) [slides]


• Ubiquitous learning (10 May 2010) [slides]

All lectures will be held in the Large Seminar Room at the London Knowledge Lab from 17:00 – 18:00. Light refreshments will be served from 16:30

For more information and to register for lectures, please contact:

Vanessa Taylor
Office/Project Administrator
London Knowledge Lab
Institute of Education
23-29 Emerald St
London WC1N 3QS
Tel 020 7763 2159
fcpadmin9@ioe.ac.uk

References:

Andrews, R. & Haythornthwaite, C. (2007). Introduction to e-learning research. In R. Andrews & C. Haythornthwaite (Eds.) (pp. 1-52). Handbook of E-Learning Research. London: Sage.

Haythornthwaite, C. (in press). Online knowledge crowds and communities. In Knowledge Communities. Reno, NV: Center for Basque Studies.

Haythornthwaite, C. (Jan. 2009). Crowds and communities: Light and heavyweight models of peer production. Proceedings of the 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society.

Haythornthwaite, C. (Sept. 2006). The social informatics of elearning. Paper presented at the Information, Communication and Society 10th anniversary conference, York, UK.