We are excited to announce the LLED Graduate Student Conference will be held on Saturday May 16 2015.
In line with the Faculty of Education’s Year of Research in Education, the theme of this year’s LLED graduate student conference will focus on research methods as they relate to issues in language and literacy education, including but not limited to the following: ethnography; case study; narrative; arts-based inquiry; digital methods; action research; critical perspectives; policy analysis; discourse analysis; indigenous methodologies; research with children; other methods and approaches used to accomplish research.
The conference welcomes presentations on projects in progress as well as finished projects with a focus on the lived experience of any phase of the research process, from conception to dissemination.
Papers could address one or more of the following:
- Selecting a method to help answer your research question (e.g., comparison of the strengths and weaknesses of different methods for different types of questions)
- Data collection techniques (e.g., experiences with recruitment in different contexts, developing protocols, running interviews or focus groups, managing data, engaging equitably and reflexively, obtaining appropriate consent, )
- Approaches to analysis (e.g., experiences with coding schemes, software, quantification, transcription, translation, )
- Knowledge translation (e.g., experiences with publication, curriculum development, or community outreach, ).
- Research ethics and reflexivity (e.g., writing yourself into your work, working with marginalized populations, )
- Other – We are open to proposals that relate to research methods in alternative
Submission Guidelines: Only abstracts meeting the criteria will be evaluated.
Please submit your abstract in a Word document by e-mail by March 1, 2015. ONLY ONE PROPOSAL PER PERSON AS FIRST AUTHOR PLEASE. Paper sessions will be designed for a 20‐minute presentation followed by a 10-minute question/discussion period.
Abstracts for single papers should provide a title, be no longer than 250 words (excluding references), in Times New Roman 12 point font and double‐spaced. They will undergo peer review.
Submissions must include the following the following information on the FIRST page:
Presenter name; Institution; Department; Program (Faculty, PhD, EdD, MA, MEd); If applicable, co-presenter information (Please note, if presenting in a group, only one group submission is required but EACH person must register or conference); and contact email.
File names should be saved in the following format: (lastname)_LLED_2015.docx.
Email to: lledgradconference2015@gmail.com
When emailing your proposal, use the following subject line: LLEDGSC2015.