The Visual and Multimodal Research Forum is a student run platform for academic discussion on multimodality and open to all postgraduate research students and other researchers at UCL Institute of Education and elsewhere. Participation is free. Please contact Sophia Diamantopoulou, Forum Coordinator, at sdiamantopoulou@ioe.ac.uk for any queries.
2015:
- 11th May 2015 Dr Sumin Zhao, Chancellor’s Post-doctoral Research Fellow, University of Technology, Sydney; Visiting Research Associate, UCL Institute of Education, London
Mobile applications as semiotic technologies: a multimodal social semiotic approach to interactivity & picture book apps
2016:
- 11th June 2016 Dr Elisabetta Adami, University Academic Fellow in Multimodal Communication, University of Leeds
Can multimodal analysis help us to understand superdiversity in place?
- 19th May 2016 Dr Ioanna Noula, Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science
Multimodal approaches to the concept of citizenship in educational contexts
- 16th June 2016 Ana Rita Claro Rodrigues, Wellcome Trust Medical Humanities doctoral researcher ICCESS – Imperial College Centre for Engagement and Simulation Science
Towards a multimodal description of a demonstration performed at a science festival
- 12nd July 2016 Jenifer Ho, PhD student in Applied Linguistics at the UCL Institute of Education
Using a multimodal approach to investigate translanguaging in online Chinese learning
2017:
- 27th Apr 2017 James Lamb, ESRC-funded PhD student in the Centre for Research in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh
Constructing meaning beyond words: Architecture, assessment and multimodality
- 25th May 2017 Marie-Louise Crawley, PhD Candidate at the Centre for Dance Research of the University of Coventry
Please do not touch: Dancing in the Museum
- 15th June 2017 Ana Rita Claro Rodrigues, PhD student at the Imperial College Centre for Engagement and Simulation Science (ICCESS)
Analysing public engagement through a multimodal framework: The case of a Public Science presentation - 5th October 2017 Dr Eva Insulander, Stockholm University, Sweden and Dr Eva Svärdemo Åberg, Stockholm University, Sweden
Representing 4 ½ billion years of evolution: a multimodal design perspective of knowledge representations
2018:
- 18th January 2018 Dr Geraldine Horan, Senior Lecturer in German Language at UCL
Image and text in the creation of dialect-related identity: the case of the Cologne dialect in Germany
- 8th March 2018 Sahra Abdullahi, a research assistant in the Department of Culture, Communication and Media at the UCL Institute of Education on an ESRC funded project about Family Language Policy
When children translate: A multimodal exploration of conversation between teachers, children and parents
- 26th April 2018 Dr Germán Canale, Assistant Professor, Universidad de la Repúblic, Uruguay
Recognising learning in the foreign language classroom: multimodality, technology and policy
- 14th June 2018 Prof Cláudia Hilsdorf Rocha, University of Campinas, Brazil
Pluralities in Brazilian Portuguese: Language MOOCs, design and multimodality
- July 2018 Jiawei Ding, Qian Tan, Hou Yee (Louisa) Tsi, MA students in Applied Linguistics, UCL
Multimodal approaches to research in applied linguistics: Insights into the MA student research experience
- 20th September 2018 Dr Emilia Djonov, Maquarie University, Australia
Beyond the semantics of objects and texts: Semiotic artefacts in library story time sessions
- 17th October 2018 Dr Sylvana Sofkova Hashemi, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
“Should you read this text?” Young students negotiating meaning from digitally mediated multimodal texts
- 28th November 2018 Dr Constadina Charalambous, European University Cyprus
Augmented reading: Using technology to enhance student’s experience with literature
- 12nd December 2018 Dr Victor Lim Fei, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Teaching Multimodal Literacy: Issues in the Pedagogisation of Multimodal Studies
2019:
- 6th February 2019 Prof Kristiina Kumpulainen, Faculty of Educational Sciences of the University of Helsinki
Researching interaction in a school-based makerspace: The meaning of social objects
- 20th March 2019 Signe Kjær Jensen, PhD candidate at the Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies, Linnaeus University, Sweden
Children’s meaning making of animated film characters: a multimodal and musical audience study
- 5th June 2019 Dr Martin Siefkes, Research Associate, University of Technology Chemnitz
‘Gestures- in the past, present and future’: A museum exhibition based on multimodal research
- June 2019 Dr Vânia Soares Barbosa, Federal University of Piauí and Dr Maria Zenaide Valdivino da Silva, State University of Rio Grande do Norte (UERN), Brazil
Multimodality and Teacher Education: investigating and promoting visual literacy practices
- 9th October 2019 Dr Sigrid Ørevik, Department of Foreign Languages, University of Bergen
Web resources for English as second language in Norwegian Schools
- 30th October 2019 Prof Wendy L. Bowcher, Director of the Functional Linguistics Institute and Deputy Director of the Centre for Australian Studies at Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Multimodality in discourse analytical approaches: Challenges and priorities
- 4th December 2019 Dr Dimitra Christidou, Senior Researcher, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
From map using to map making: The museum experience through visitors’ digital maps - 5th December 2019 Dr Louise Ravelli, University of New South Wales Australia
Analysing spatial discourse in a Disney theme park: The Na’vi River Ride in ‘World of Avatar: Pandora’
2020:
- 8th January 2020 Dr Jena Habegger-Conti, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences in Bergen, Norway
“Seeing eye to I”: A multimodal approach to reading faces in graphic novels - 11th March 2020 Dr Rumiko Oyama, Associate Professor of English Literature, Meiji University, Japan
Reading as designing: A multimodal approach to understanding visualizations of literary texts in EFL classes
Online via Microsoft Teams:
- 26th June 2020 Dr Fei Victor Lim, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University
Designing Digital Learning Experiences
- 17th July 2020 Dr Styliani Karatza, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Making meanings about school learning during the pandemic: The experiences of students in a Greek primary school
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