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Programme

Days 1-3, 26th-28th June

The focus will be on a group project; Coventry as a Multilingual City.

Wednesday 26th June

Time
Activity
 

Room R0.12

09:30-10:00 Registration
10:00-10:15 Opening & introductory remarks
 
Project preparation: Coventry as a Multilingual City
10:15-11:00 Core issues on Multilingualism and Diversity
11:00-12:00 Designing and carrying out a linguistic landscaping project
12:00-13:00 Lunch

Room R0.14

13:00-14:00 Census training
14:00-14:40 Translation issues; exophony
14:40-15:00 Fieldwork & observation
15:00-15:30 Tea & Coffee (Ramphal foyer)
15:30-16:30 Project design & research questions
16:30-17:00 Group preparation

Thursday 27th June

Time
Activity
08:30-13:00 Fieldwork in Coventry city centre
15:00-15:30 Return to Warwick
 

Room R0.12

15:30-16:30 How to turn talk & texts to data

Friday 28th June

Room R0.12

Time
Activity
10:00-11:00 How to analyse data
11:00-12:00 Organisation of fieldwork material and analysis in groups
12:00-13:00 Lunch (Ramphal foyer)
13:00-15:00 Data analysis in groups
15:00-15:30 Tea & Coffee (Ramphal foyer)
15:30-17:30

Presentation of findings in groups

(20 mins presentation & 10 mins discussion per team)

Day 4, 30th June

Translation of project findings and transition to academic writing.

Room R0.12

Time
Activity
10:00-11:00

Translation of findings

Writing blog posts for the MITN webpage

11:00-11:30 Tea & Coffee (Ramphal foyer)
11:30-12:30

Translation of findings

Writing blog posts for the MITN webpage

12:30-13:30 Lunch (Ramphal foyer)
13:30-14:30 Translating research for wider audiences
14:30-15:00 Tea & Coffee (Ramphal foyer)
 
Transition to academic writing
15:00-15:30 Academic writing workshop: Qualities of a good academic paper
15:30-16:30 Input on submitted papers/abstracts

Day 5, 1st July

Writing workshop.

Room R0.12

Time

Activity

 

Full-day writing workshop

10:00-11:00

Writing

11:00-11:30

Tea & Coffee (Ramphal foyer)

MITN brainstorming session

11:30-12:30

Writing

12:30-13:30

Lunch (Ramphal foyer)

13:30-14:00

Academic writing workshop

14:00-15:00

Writing

15:00-15:30

Tea & Coffee (Ramphal foyer)

15:30-16:30

Writing