Colleagues are invited to the CSHE Seminar taking place on Thursday 22 November, from 13.00-14.00 in the UELT Seminar Room, Canterbury.

The seminar, on using multidimensional methods in higher education research: The case for critical discourse analysis, will be presented by Dr Karen Smith, School of Education, University of Hertfordshire.

In this seminar, Dr Karen Smith will share her experiences of using critical discourse analysis (CDA) in higher education research. She will discuss her initial work, which focused on the textual analysis of policy documents. She will then go on to talk through how she developed her work following a literature review exploring how CDA was being used more broadly in higher education research. Karen will use research, published in HERD, which combined textual analysis of a policy text with in-depth interviews with policy-makers and policy users as an example to talk through the methodological choices she made. Karen will finish by sharing her ongoing collaborative research that combines methods from corpus linguistics with focus groups and interviews, reflecting on the challenges Karen and her co-author have faced in the writing up of this kind of research.

Please see abstract.

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