This Lancaster Literacy Research Centre event will be a talk from Professor Jennifer Rowsell on:

Research creation during a pandemic

During the 2020 pandemic I struggled as a researcher at heart because the whole notion of ‘going into the field’ became challenging if not impossible. Of course, the urgency and uncertainty of the pandemic disrupted familiar research practices because the world was in crisis. But I had the good fortune to engage in a digital/analogue research creation project by sheer serendipity with Harriet Hand and Mark Shillitoe that led to one of the most fascinating research journeys I have experienced to date. For this presentation, I will talk through the intergenerational research study on mapping and multimodal creations with nine-and-ten-year olds online in Delft, the Netherlands, undergraduate students at the University of Bristol, and middle-aged researchers.

Short bio: Jennifer is Professor of Literacies and Social Innovation in the School of Education, University of Bristol. A core theme of her widely known research is to reimagine literacy teaching and learning and to develop more expansive notions of what literacy is and can be in informal and formal learning spaces. An overview of her scholarly work and publications can be found at https://www.drjenrowsell.com/research.

Event start time - Welcomes & introductions (please enter the meeting with your 'real' name as your display name, and your camera switched on, to allow us to all put faces to each others' names)

Event start time + 5 - Presentation from Jennifer Rowsell (please turn your camera off and mute your microphone during the presentation)

Event start time + 40 - Discussion (please use the raise hand feature on Teams to indicate you would like to have a turn speaking and once asked to speak by an event facilitator, please un-mute your microphone and turn your camera on)

Research Creation during a Pandemic