Ideas from PhD Researchers
Welcome!
After the great success of the first Reflective Educational Research Conference 2022, we are happy to announce RERC2023.
The conference will be held fully in person at Lancaster University, UK.
RERC 2023 will be on June 26th 2023, from 10 am to 4 pm.
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Keynote Panel
Dr Natasa Lackovic.
I am a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Educational Research at Lancaster University. My research interest broadly tackles educational futures as linked to challenges and complexities of material, digital and social futures, via interdisciplinary approaches and theories. These incorporate concerns for social justice; visual and arts based research and pedagogy (photographs, sketching and graphic narratives), socio-materiality; (digital) semiotics and a semiotic theory of learning; multimodality, critical thinking and critical media literacy; student/staff wellbeing and mental health. I am particularly interested in methods development and innovation, and exploring a relational ontology in theory and practice at the nexus of “the society (cultural and ideological production and impact) – material artefacts – digital technology – ecology”. My scholarship also includes critical approaches to graduate employability and identity, the postdigital, posthuman, and post-truth.
Dr Ella Houston.
I am a Senior Lecturer in Disability Studies at Liverpool Hope University. I am a core member of the Centre for Culture & Disability Studies and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. I am course lead and manage placements for Level I Disability Studies and I am a member of the Learning, Teaching and Assessment Enhancement Group in the School of Social Sciences. Since 2018 I have co-led the university’s Academic Literacies Community of Practice.
Dr. Simona Palladino
I am a Lecturer in Social Sciences at Liverpool Hope University. My research interest includes ageing and migration, place attachment and identity. These were the themes explored during my PhD at Newcastle University. During my ethnographic fieldwork, I conducted participant observation amongst a community of older Italian migrants in Newcastle upon Tyne. I am interested in video ethnography. My background is in Social Psychology and Cultural and Museum Anthropology. Since 2013, I am a Chartered Psychologist, a fellow of the Italian Psychological Society, involved in previous video ethnographic research projects in Molise, Morocco, Portsmouth.
Conference Introduction
The conference “Reflective Educational Research: Ideas from PhD Researchers” is happy to invite all doctoral and early researchers in the broad field of Educational Research and related areas to participate in the call for proposal for its second edition.
The conference will be held fully in person on June 26th, at Lancaster University campus, in the UK.
As part of the ongoing development of the Educational Research field, the doctoral researcher plays an indispensable role in pushing the frontiers of knowledge with forward-thinking and well-rounded research projects, as well as in the rejuvenation of academic thinking with fresh ideas and new experiences. At the same time, the reflective processes undertaken throughout the research journey is of immense value for the PhD community for its continuous learning and development.
Thus, the aim of the conference is to provide a space for PhD researchers to share ideas, provide a nurturing space for debating how to move from early ideas to mature projects and allow for networking between PhD scholars who share similar interests. The conference is intended to foster the exchange of experiences and personal-research stories and, by doing so, to create a supportive academic community of peers for the learning process that we are all going through.
The conference is focused on unique reflective pieces that may be research experiences or research-informed personal learning processes that could enlighten the journey of the fellow PhD researchers. In that sense, the conference is intended to be a hub for in-development new ideas and shared experiences and to be a peer-led space to foster academic and personal encounters with fellow doctoral researchers.
Although we are mindfull of all the interesting topics in Educational Research, the aim of this conference is to step away from our own specific areas of interest and move into a common space for shared reflection. As such, at this conference you should be able to find insightful discussions of issues that we all can relate to as academic researchers.
To that end, we offer not typical research themes but we suggest discussion spotlights. Following the idea of enabling a space for reflecting on our research practices, insights and challenges, we invite academics to frame their proposals within our broad suggestions, as they encapsulate shared aspects of research where everyone can reflect upon beyond their own research topics.
As an ongoing process of constructing and reconstructing a doctoral research project, we would like to highlight unfinished thoughts and ideas that are deemed valuable for the larger academic community; therefore, it is not expected that any submitted proposal is completely sorted out and perfect, but that reflects the changing and evolving dynamics of doctoral research.
About the team
The Reflective Educational Research Conference is a project led by PhD researchers, currently based on the Educational Research Department at Lancaster University UK.
Coming from different backgrounds, our motivation is to foster community building spaces to tackle the isolation and individuality that may surround the doctoral endeavours. Thus, we want to help the larger doctoral community by creating a peer network for discussing and sharing reflective learning and research processes that arise from the PhD experience within the broad Educational Research field.
Venue: Lancaster University
Reflective Educational Research Conference 2023. 