BA English Language and TEFL: Festive Fun 2020
Written by Jessica Bryan, 3rd year rep for BA English Language and TEFL As the year draws to a close, it is common and encouraged to spread a little festive…
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‘Reflections from Black History Month Event with British Council’ [Dr Saba Hussain with Emmanuel Johnson and Prof. Katherine Wimpenny]
PhD candidate Emmanuel Johnson (pictured above), Professor Katherine Wimpenny and School of Humanities Sociology Lecturer, Dr Saba Hussain reflect on their recent discussions at a British Council organised for this…
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Sociology Lecturer, Dr Ryan Scoats, interviewed for Justin Lehmiller’s Sex and Psychology podcast!
Click the link below to listen to Ryan discuss 'Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Threesomes' with Dr Justin Lehmiller: https://www.lehmiller.com/podcast/2020/11/30/episode-14-everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-threesomes
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Language, Health, and Psychology: Exploring the Links [Dr Severine Hubscher-Davidson, Research Seminar Series]
Wednesday December 12, 2020 The cognitive benefits of learning a new language have drawn much attention from the UK media in recent years. Indeed, it is thought that speaking more…
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‘Doctoral students’ experiences of academic writing as posthuman practice’ [Dr Emma Waight, Research Seminar Series]
Wednesday November 4 How do doctoral students experience writing in time and space? In this talk I will discuss a study conducted earlier this year in which I interviewed PhD…
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‘Bulgarian national radio chief hits out at media interference from state’ – Interview with Dr James Dawson, Politics
James Dawson (Lecturer in Politics) was interviewed and quoted in an article about the decline in Bulgarian media freedom by Euronews. The context of this interview is that mostly young…
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Top Five Reads by Historian Dr Kristopher Lovell!
The first lockdown in the UK back in March had a mixed effect on our reading habits. For some who found themselves furloughed there was more time than ever to…
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“Totalitarianism by Consent”: The British Press during the People’s War, 1939-45 [Dr Kris Lovell, Research Seminar Series]
Weds 21 October, 16:00 This paper explores the political role of the British popular press during the Second World War. By drawing on quantitative and qualitative research, this paper explores…
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Question illocutionary force indicating devices in academic writing [Niall Curry, Research Seminar Series, 7/10]
A corpus-pragmatic and contrastive approach to identifying and analysing direct and indirect questions in English, French, and Spanish Corpus research on questions as reader engagement markers in academic writing typically…
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School of Humanities Research Talks schedule, Semester 1 2020-2021
All talks run from 16:00-17:00 and will be accessible via this Zoom link: https://coventry-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4496245002 Date Speaker Oct 7 Niall Curry (CAW, CAMC) Question illocutionary force indicating devices in academic writing:…
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