Tazin speaks at Talent Day, Bangladesh Forum for Community Engagement Every year, the Bangladesh Forum for Community Engagement in Sydney, Australia hosts an event called ‘Talent Day’ to acknowledge the…
Tazin AbdullahFebruary 20, 2025
Editor’s note: Regular readers of Language on the Move will have noticed that we have been very quiet for the past two months. This is because some core team members…
Language on the MoveMarch 7, 2023
Let's demystify academic publishing! (Image credit: Green Chameleon via Unsplash) The Next Generation Literacies international research network hosts a free 2-day workshop for PhD candidates and early career researchers devoted…
Language on the MoveNovember 12, 2021
Emily Farrell, Britta Schneider, and Dorothea Horst, Europa-Universität Viadrina *** The push towards making research free and open to read, in all its parts and forms, from data sets to…
Emily FarrellAugust 10, 2021
Dr Loy Lising (2nd r.) with members of the SABA collective at the Annual Hazara Academic Awards Night 2021 Editor's note: Members of the Language-on-the-Move research team undertake numerous forms…
Loy LisingMarch 12, 2021
There is a lot of talk about “cancel culture” these days. For instance, we are told that Dr Seuss recently got cancelled because his name was not mentioned during some…
Ingrid PillerMarch 8, 2021
After 3 years of hard work, today I hit the "submit" button on my PhD thesis Today, I’ve submitted my PhD for examination – a major milestone on my PhD…
Pia TenederoJanuary 31, 2021
Dr Vera Williams Tetteh tells her story to AfrOzcentric Often in my work as a sociolinguistic ethnographer, I am the one seeking out people and asking questions to learn about…
Vera Williams TettehOctober 26, 2020
LI Jia and LV Yong, Yunnan University *** Editor’s note: There is a Chinese saying that two heads are better than one (三个臭皮匠赛过一个诸葛亮). This proverb emphasizes both collective wisdom and the…
Li JiaOctober 21, 2020
LI Jia and LV Yong, Yunnan University *** Editor's note: There is a Chinese saying that two heads are better than one (三个臭皮匠赛过一个诸葛亮). This proverb emphasizes both collective wisdom and the…
Li JiaOctober 19, 2020
https://vimeo.com/440477672 Besides meetings, webinars, and classes, another traditionally face-to-face event organized this year via Zoom is the 3-minute thesis (3MT) competition. This yearly academic contest, which challenges students to explain…
Pia TenederoAugust 20, 2020
Editor’s note: We find ourselves in a time of deep global crisis when reflections on research ethics take on new urgency. Language on the Move is delighted to bring to…
Taina SaarinenJune 24, 2020
It’s another International Women’s Day and time to reflect on powerful women: what is most noticeable about them is that there are so few of them. In academia, for instance,…
Ingrid PillerMarch 8, 2020
Laura and Alex getting ready for their presentation at the Humboldt Symposium This time two years ago, Alexandra Grey (my blog co-author) and I had realized that there were important…
Laura Smith-KhanJanuary 20, 2020
Professor Simon Handley, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Human Sciences, congratulates our HDR Excellence Award winners The year ends on a final high note for our team with three…
Language on the MoveDecember 13, 2019
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