Workshops and Seminars
Below are seminars/workshops/consultancy currently available for our Faculty HDRSs* in Semester 2, 2008. More workshops are being planned. Details will be posted as soon as dates are set and confirmed.
HDRSs*are higher degree research students - students enrolled in one of the following degrees; PhD, EdD, DSW, MPhil, MEd Research)
- Being a Research Student in the Faculty of Education & Social Work
- Panel Discussion: Managing Your Supervisor-Student Relations
- Language in Education Seminar
- What examiners are looking for
- Introduction to computer-assisted text analysis: Handling data with NVivo
- Follow-up NVivo Sessions
- Consultancy support in e-learning and e-research methods
- Past Workshops: Semester 2, 2008
- Enquiries
Eligibility: Recommended to
* ALL new Faculty HDRSs*
* HDRSs* who need a refresher
* new academic staff to the Faculty who are supervising HDRSs*
Date: Friday 29 August
Time: 4:00 – 5:30pm (followed by refreshments)
RSVP: Please email
| Agenda | |
|---|---|
| Part 1: | Introduction to key Faculty Staff Introduction to the Faculty |
| Part 2: | Introduction to SUPRA |
| Part 3: | Planning Your Research: Directions & Expectations Roles and responsibilities Guidelines to the Research Process Annual Progress Reports/Interviews |
| Part 4: |
Information on Facilities and Resources Available to Research Students. |
| Refreshments | |
Eligibility: Recommended to
* ALL new Faculty HDRSs*
* HDRSs* who need a refresher
* new academic staff to the Faculty who are supervising HDRSs*
Date: Friday 5 September
Time: 4:00 – 5:30pm (followed by refreshments)
RSVP: Please email
Panel Discussion
A panel representing Faculty academic staff experienced in postgraduate supervision and senior postgraduate students will discuss their personal experiences.
The focus of discussion is on the relationship between student and supervisor during candidature. Topics include what constitutes good supervision, student rights, mutual expectations, etc. This session aims to be interactive: the audience is encouraged to raise issues/questions and share experiences.
Title: Using target vocabulary from source texts in writing: What happens when push comes to shove?
Eligibility: Faculty Postgraduate TESOL/Languages students and HDRSs
Date: Tuesday 2 September 2008
Time: 6:00pm onwards
Venue: Lecture Theatre 351, Education Building
Speaker: Dr Averil Coxhead, Massey University, New Zealand
RSVP: Not necessary
This seminar is organised in conjunction with the TESOL Research Network, University of Sydney and the Changing Practices Research Cluster, University of Technology Sydney.
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Abstract
In this talk I will report on an investigation into the use of vocabulary from input texts in writing in an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) context. The study looks at the effects of requiring second language writers to use targeted words in written output, drawn on both written and spoken data from second language participants in two studies and spoken data from a teacher study. We will begin by investigating productive word use in the literature and move on to the positive and negative effects of instructing learners to use specific words in their essay writing. Some pedagogical implications and possibilities for further research will conclude the seminar.
Averil Coxhead is a lecturer in English for Academic Purposes and Applied Linguistics at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand. She teaches on the Diploma of Second Language Teaching by distance and on the EAP programme both internally and extramurally. Averil is the author of Essentials in teaching academic vocabulary (Boston: Cengage, 2006), the Academic Word List (AWL) (see http://language.massey.ac.nz/staff/awl/index.shtml), and is currently co-authoring a book on the common collocations and recurrent phrases of the AWL (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press).
Dr Coxhead's talk will be followed by refreshments in the staffroom on Level 4 of the Education Building.
Eligibility: Faculty HDRSs* and supervisors
Date: Wednesday 17 September 2008
Time: 4:00 - 5:30pm
Venue: Education Seminar Room 325 (A35)
Speaker: Prof Phillip Jones
RSVP: Not necessary
Workshop summary
In this practical workshop, Professor Phillip Jones will explore issues facing the examiners of research theses. Based on his analysis of hundreds of examination reports across all disciplines, Phillip will provide a user-friendly ‘checklist’ of things to bear in mind at all stages of thesis planning and writing.
The workshop will explore the most common pitfalls encountered, as well as practical means of circumventing them well in advance. It also looks at what examiners particularly admire and appreciate in good theses.
To come to the workshop, you can be at any stage of your research program. Supervisors are also very welcome to attend and join in.
Phillip Jones is a Professor of Education in the Faculty of Education and Social Work, and for many years was a member of the University Committee that considers examiners’ reports for doctoral theses across all disciplines.
Eligibility: Faculty Staff and HDRS
Morning sessions times:
Dates: Monday 29, Tuesday 30 September & Wednesday 1 October 2008
Time: 10:00am – 1:00pm (with a 15 minute break)
Instructor: Dr Lina Markauskaite, Lecturer (eResearch), CoCo Research Centre
RSVP: Email by Wednesday 24 September 2008
OR
Evening sessions times:
Dates: Mondays 15, 22 & 29 September 2008
Time: 6:00pm – 9:00pm (with a 15 minute break)
Facilitator: Dr Lina Markauskaite, Lecturer (eResearch), CoCo Research Centre
RSVP: Email by Wednesday 10 September 2008
Prerequisites:
- Good familiarity with qualitative research methods (Minimal prerequisite for HRDS are one of the following courses: EDPK5001; EDPK6012; EDPK6001);
- Advanced (upper intermediate) word processing skills.
Workshop summary:
This hands-on workshop aims to provide participants with initial knowledge to start their own NVivo research project and sufficient competences to learn more advanced techniques of computer-assisted text, video, audio and other data analysis independently.
The workshop will cover the following core topics of computer-assisted data analysis with NVivo.
| Session (1): | participants will learn to setup a new project, handle data and annotate texts. |
| Session (2): | participants will learn some simple multimodal data coding techniques. |
| Session (3): | participants will learn a range of data and method driven text coding techniques. |
Each session will consist of introduction to new techniques mixed with participants’ individual work on their own projects. A set of self-learning resources for follow up learning of new computer-assisted text analysis techniques will be provided.
Data: An exemplary dataset, which will be used for the demonstration of new techniques, will be provided. Participants are expected to bring their own data for individual work.
Session 1: Cases and queries in qualitative data analysis with NVivo
Date: Thursday 2 October 2008
Time: 10:00am – 1:00pm
Session 2: Exploring patterns in the qualitative data
Date: Friday 3 October 2008
Time: 10:00am – 1:00pm
Facilitator: Dr Lina Markauskaite, Lecturer (eResearch), CoCo Research Centre
RSVP: Email by Monday 29 September
The first follow up session of the workshop “Computer-assisted text analysis” will focus on case analysis and simple data querying techniques, while the second workshop will further explore techniques for creating matrixes and exploring patterns in coded textual data. Overall two sessions will cover key aspects of case management and analysis: how to define attributes and work with casebooks; how to create and manage simple and hierarchical cases; how to attach attributes; how to create matrixes and explore patterns across the cases.
Follow up sessions are designed to support the autonomous learning of intermediate/advanced NVivo users. While participants can come to these classes immediately after the introductory NVivo workshop or joint both or one specific session later, they are encouraged to cover the following self-learning materials independently (ideally before joining the session):
- Tutorial 3 – “Managing data: Cases, Attributes and Sets”: http://www.sagepub.co.uk/richards/pdf/Tutorial_3.pdf (From Richards L. (2006) Teach-yourself NVivo 7: The introductory tutorials)
- Online Tutorial 5 – “Basic Queries” (From online Nvivo tutorials)
- Tutorial 8 – “Finding Items and Querying The Data” (From Richards L. (2006) Teach-yourself NVivo 7: The introductory tutorials)
- Tutorial 9 – “Exploring Patterns in Matrices” (From Richards L. (2006) Teach-yourself NVivo 7: The introductory tutorials)
During the sessions, participants will explore standard NVivo examples and create their own cases, queries and matrixes. Participants are encouraged to bring their own NVivo project with coded data to the session.
Eligibility: Faculty staff and HDRSs*
Consultancy support is available from Dr Lina Markauskaite with designing complex studies and formulation of research proposals that involve network technologies and large, complex datasets. This may involve:
Design e-learning research and e-research projects
Computer assisted data gathering:
(a) Design and management of online surveys
(b) Design of structured or open-ended asynchronous online text-based interviews
(c) Online assessment/evaluation
Computer-assisted data management:
(a) Handling large structured datasets (e.g., integrating, aggregating, transposing)
(b) Synthesising and preparing for analysis unstructured online data
CSCL and analysis of large datasets:
(a) Analysis of online logs (e.g., social networks)
(b) Analysis of online transcripts
(c) SEM and PLSpath modeling
Assistance in other areas of e-research. What is “E-research”? - see DEST website.
In Semester 2, 2008, Lina is available for consultation:
Date: Every Thursday
Time: 3:00 – 6:00pm.
Venue: Room 249, Education Building (A35)
RSVP: Not necessary. However, if your question is complex or you have a specific dataset you would like to look at, please email her in advance.
Past Workshops: Semester 2, 2008
Eligibility: Faculty HDRSs*
Date: Thursday 7 August 2008
Time: 5:00 - 7:00pm
Venue: Room 419, Education Building (A35)
Facilitator: Dr Susan Carter, University of Auckland
RSVP: Not necessary
Organised by the TESOL network Dr Carter is visiting our Faculty from the University of Auckland. She has offered to give our Doctoral students a session on structuring a thesis.
Workshop summary This session considers different ways to approach the structuring of the doctoral thesis and is particularly helpful for those writing Arts Humanities or Social Science theses where structure is not formulaic. Those writing their thesis are likely to find that the session is helpful since it covers some of the areas where decisions need to be made. We will discuss some of the issues that underpin these choice options.
The session is an opportunity for collegial sharing of strategies and will include an optional voluntary data collection of student experience with structuring their theses.
Dr Susan Carter has been involved in generic support of doctoral students for over four years and is particularly interested in the mechanics of the written process.
Bring your questions and comments!
Eligibility: Recommended to new Faculty HDRSs*
Date: Monday 4 August 2008
Time: 10:00 – 11:00am
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Date: Thursday 7 August
Time: 5:00 – 6:00pm
RSVP: Please email
Summary
In response to previous new students’ requests Suin Jung conducts a walking tour of the Education Building as part of the Faculty's Induction Program for new higher degree research students.
Click here for list of places visited.
Enquiries
Please contact Suin Jung for all workshop enquiries.