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Routledge eBooks, Oct 21, 2018
In this paper, we are drawing on our experience of researching gender and language in different w... more In this paper, we are drawing on our experience of researching gender and language in different workplace contexts in the UK and continental Europe, in collaboration with different research participants (senior managers, healthcare professionals, engineers, politicians), in order to explore the following questions: • What are the implications of the notorious difficulty of getting access to the top levels of these professions for gender and language researchers? • In what ways can and should research designs be adapted to accommodate the exigencies of specific research settings? • How can feminist researchers offer an attractive proposition to leaders in professional contexts and yet be true to their critical principles? • How can feminist researchers convey their principles when attempting to conduct collaborative projects where the researcher and the researched are working together to produce jointly-negotiated research questions and outputs? • And in what ways can feminist research principles transform the research process, intentionally or inadvertently? We argue that we need to be self-reflexive about locating ourselves as researchers within the research topic and process in general, and about maintaining our political/ feminist principles in the process in particular. We look at examples of the multiple positions that we often take during the research process and how our role is reframed within the institutional practices we study. We also suggest strategies for overcoming some of the obstacles associated with conducting research at the top levels of organisations and institutions, while engaging with and reassessing our own value positions.
In this talk I draw on ongoing and recently completed work and discuss the relationship between ‘... more In this talk I draw on ongoing and recently completed work and discuss the relationship between ‘language’, ‘equality’ and ‘work’. All three terms are commonly used in academic work and everyday life. All three, however, are complex and can afford a range of meanings. I am interested in problematising them particularly in relation to the way in which they are operationalised in socio/linguistic work and policy discourse. I engage with data from two different research agendas, one on gender in institutional discourse and one on migration and resettlement. I discuss how interactional sociolinguistic research (can) connect the situated moment to the wider political context and close the paper with implications for future research and my take on the need for renegotiating the political impetus of our research agendas
While ‘discourse’ has long been an object of investigation in many disciplines, the contours of a... more While ‘discourse’ has long been an object of investigation in many disciplines, the contours of a new field of transdisciplinary research are now coming to the fore: Discourse Studies. Known for theoretical orientations and methodological tools at the intersection of language and society, discourse research usually deals with social phenomena with a particular focus on the entanglements of power and language. While Discourse Studies has resulted from the exchange between numerous strands and approaches which deal with the social production of meaning, an increasing need for interdisciplinary exchange can now be observed. The Second International DiscourseNet Congress at Warwick aims to represent the many strands, schools, and perspectives in Discourse Studies, from the humanities to the social sciences, from strictly interpretive to quantifying methodologies, from discourse as a situated practice to discourse as socially distributed knowledge.
Culture, Discourse, and the Workplace
The Routledge Handbook of Language, Gender, and Sexuality, 2021
New Surveys in the Classics, 2002
Reimagining research-led education in a digital age P. a. Societal context P. b. Challenges and o... more Reimagining research-led education in a digital age P. a. Societal context P. b. Challenges and opportunities for research-led education P. 2. Research-led education revisited: Meanings and models of research-led education P. a. Challenge-based learning and research-led education P. 3. Pathways for quality and innovation: a balancing act between standardised versus autonomous and international versus locally oriented systems P. a. Balancing study and work/job insecurity-degrees/employability P. 4. Moving towards the university of the 'Future' P. a. Triptych: Collaboration-Innovation-Policy Implications. A model for achieving change P. 27 b. Resourcing pedagogic excellence P. 5. Reimagining research-led education in a digital age. Key takeaways: P. a. The future is not and must not be all digital P. b. Research-led universities should lend their distinctive strengths to lifelong learning P. c. Pedagogic innovation must be accelerated to educate for continuous change and disruption P. d. We must move beyond red tape to develop enabling policy tools and flexible regulatory frameworks P. e. We must articulate the value added of (international) collaboration P. f. We must invest in the sustainability of pedagogic innovation P. 6. References and image credits P.
Reimagining research-led education in a digital age P. a. Societal context P. b. Challenges and o... more Reimagining research-led education in a digital age P. a. Societal context P. b. Challenges and opportunities for research-led education P. 2. Research-led education revisited: Meanings and models of research-led education P. a. Challenge-based learning and research-led education P. 3. Pathways for quality and innovation: a balancing act between standardised versus autonomous and international versus locally oriented systems P. a. Balancing study and work/job insecurity-degrees/employability P. 4. Moving towards the university of the 'Future' P. a. Triptych: Collaboration-Innovation-Policy Implications. A model for achieving change P. 27 b. Resourcing pedagogic excellence P. 5. Reimagining research-led education in a digital age. Key takeaways: P. a. The future is not and must not be all digital P. b. Research-led universities should lend their distinctive strengths to lifelong learning P. c. Pedagogic innovation must be accelerated to educate for continuous change and disruption P. d. We must move beyond red tape to develop enabling policy tools and flexible regulatory frameworks P. e. We must articulate the value added of (international) collaboration P. f. We must invest in the sustainability of pedagogic innovation P. 6. References and image credits P.
Critical Perspectives on International Business, Feb 28, 2022
and Angouri, Jo (2022) "It's hard for them to even understand what we are saying"(.) Language and... more and Angouri, Jo (2022) "It's hard for them to even understand what we are saying"(.) Language and power in the multinational workplace. Critical perspectives on international business.
Bloomsbury Academic eBooks, 2018
Routledge eBooks, Oct 21, 2018
In this paper, we are drawing on our experience of researching gender and language in different w... more In this paper, we are drawing on our experience of researching gender and language in different workplace contexts in the UK and continental Europe, in collaboration with different research participants (senior managers, healthcare professionals, engineers, politicians), in order to explore the following questions: • What are the implications of the notorious difficulty of getting access to the top levels of these professions for gender and language researchers? • In what ways can and should research designs be adapted to accommodate the exigencies of specific research settings? • How can feminist researchers offer an attractive proposition to leaders in professional contexts and yet be true to their critical principles? • How can feminist researchers convey their principles when attempting to conduct collaborative projects where the researcher and the researched are working together to produce jointly-negotiated research questions and outputs? • And in what ways can feminist research principles transform the research process, intentionally or inadvertently? We argue that we need to be self-reflexive about locating ourselves as researchers within the research topic and process in general, and about maintaining our political/ feminist principles in the process in particular. We look at examples of the multiple positions that we often take during the research process and how our role is reframed within the institutional practices we study. We also suggest strategies for overcoming some of the obstacles associated with conducting research at the top levels of organisations and institutions, while engaging with and reassessing our own value positions.
In this talk I draw on ongoing and recently completed work and discuss the relationship between ‘... more In this talk I draw on ongoing and recently completed work and discuss the relationship between ‘language’, ‘equality’ and ‘work’. All three terms are commonly used in academic work and everyday life. All three, however, are complex and can afford a range of meanings. I am interested in problematising them particularly in relation to the way in which they are operationalised in socio/linguistic work and policy discourse. I engage with data from two different research agendas, one on gender in institutional discourse and one on migration and resettlement. I discuss how interactional sociolinguistic research (can) connect the situated moment to the wider political context and close the paper with implications for future research and my take on the need for renegotiating the political impetus of our research agendas
While ‘discourse’ has long been an object of investigation in many disciplines, the contours of a... more While ‘discourse’ has long been an object of investigation in many disciplines, the contours of a new field of transdisciplinary research are now coming to the fore: Discourse Studies. Known for theoretical orientations and methodological tools at the intersection of language and society, discourse research usually deals with social phenomena with a particular focus on the entanglements of power and language. While Discourse Studies has resulted from the exchange between numerous strands and approaches which deal with the social production of meaning, an increasing need for interdisciplinary exchange can now be observed. The Second International DiscourseNet Congress at Warwick aims to represent the many strands, schools, and perspectives in Discourse Studies, from the humanities to the social sciences, from strictly interpretive to quantifying methodologies, from discourse as a situated practice to discourse as socially distributed knowledge.
Culture, Discourse, and the Workplace
The Routledge Handbook of Language, Gender, and Sexuality, 2021
New Surveys in the Classics, 2002
Reimagining research-led education in a digital age P. a. Societal context P. b. Challenges and o... more Reimagining research-led education in a digital age P. a. Societal context P. b. Challenges and opportunities for research-led education P. 2. Research-led education revisited: Meanings and models of research-led education P. a. Challenge-based learning and research-led education P. 3. Pathways for quality and innovation: a balancing act between standardised versus autonomous and international versus locally oriented systems P. a. Balancing study and work/job insecurity-degrees/employability P. 4. Moving towards the university of the 'Future' P. a. Triptych: Collaboration-Innovation-Policy Implications. A model for achieving change P. 27 b. Resourcing pedagogic excellence P. 5. Reimagining research-led education in a digital age. Key takeaways: P. a. The future is not and must not be all digital P. b. Research-led universities should lend their distinctive strengths to lifelong learning P. c. Pedagogic innovation must be accelerated to educate for continuous change and disruption P. d. We must move beyond red tape to develop enabling policy tools and flexible regulatory frameworks P. e. We must articulate the value added of (international) collaboration P. f. We must invest in the sustainability of pedagogic innovation P. 6. References and image credits P.
Reimagining research-led education in a digital age P. a. Societal context P. b. Challenges and o... more Reimagining research-led education in a digital age P. a. Societal context P. b. Challenges and opportunities for research-led education P. 2. Research-led education revisited: Meanings and models of research-led education P. a. Challenge-based learning and research-led education P. 3. Pathways for quality and innovation: a balancing act between standardised versus autonomous and international versus locally oriented systems P. a. Balancing study and work/job insecurity-degrees/employability P. 4. Moving towards the university of the 'Future' P. a. Triptych: Collaboration-Innovation-Policy Implications. A model for achieving change P. 27 b. Resourcing pedagogic excellence P. 5. Reimagining research-led education in a digital age. Key takeaways: P. a. The future is not and must not be all digital P. b. Research-led universities should lend their distinctive strengths to lifelong learning P. c. Pedagogic innovation must be accelerated to educate for continuous change and disruption P. d. We must move beyond red tape to develop enabling policy tools and flexible regulatory frameworks P. e. We must articulate the value added of (international) collaboration P. f. We must invest in the sustainability of pedagogic innovation P. 6. References and image credits P.
Critical Perspectives on International Business, Feb 28, 2022
and Angouri, Jo (2022) "It's hard for them to even understand what we are saying"(.) Language and... more and Angouri, Jo (2022) "It's hard for them to even understand what we are saying"(.) Language and power in the multinational workplace. Critical perspectives on international business.
Bloomsbury Academic eBooks, 2018
Moving between linguistic, professional and national boundaries is part of the daily reality of m... more Moving between linguistic, professional and national boundaries is part of the daily reality of modern workplaces, where the concept of a 'job for life' is now outdated. Employees move between jobs, countries and even professions during their working lives, but the multilayered process of redefining personal, social and professional identities is not reflected in current workplace research.
This volume brings together a range of scholars from different disciplinary areas in the field, examining the challenges of transition into a (new) workplace, team or community, as well as transitions within different professional communities. By analyzing the strategies individuals adopt to navigate the boundaries they face (in languages, workplaces or countries), this book demonstrates that transitions are not linear but are negotiated and constructed in the situated ‘here and now’ of workplace interaction, at the same time as they are positioned in the wider socioeconomic order.
Key Features
Focuses on the urban workplace environment and workforce mobility
Contributors approach transitions from a number of perspectives representing the range of work currently being undertaken in the area
A range of cases are discussed in each chapter