Developing a good translation device is not easy. It requires working closely with data and the theory, theory and data, back and forth. However, a high-quality translation device is a necessary component in your research. It supports knowledge building in LCT, makes your research replicable and allows others to apply your tool in their context. Learning a few key strategies can dramatically simplify the process of creating your translation device and improving the quality of your research.
To do this, this workshop will walk you through some of the important components of creating, questioning and refining a LCT translation device for any dimension. This will include: Covering key concepts, Developing appropriate indicators, targets and relations, Selecting effective examples, Testing your device; and, Refining. Participants will be working in pairs and small groups. If possible, they should bring their own data and a laptop. Materials will be provided online before the workshop.
This hands-on workshop will focus on how we can ‘see’ constellations of meaning and analyse them in text. It will: ● First introduce the concepts of constellations, charging and cosmology, in terms of how they organise knowledge, ● Second, hone in on two types of constellation: axiological constellations that organise meanings associated with political, moral, aesthetic, or affective stances; and epistemological constellations that organise meanings associated with specialised empirical, technical or procedural knowledge. ● Third, introduce a small set of analytical tools for teasing out the relations between meanings in text and show how this can help us build a ‘map’ of a constellation. ● Fourth, give you an opportunity to dive in, have a go and get your ‘hands dirty’ at building constellations from texts from across a range of fields.
Postgraduate education is assessed through a written thesis but supervisors often battle to make the disciplinary norms explicit. In this workshop, we demonstrate the ways in which Specialization and Semantics can be used to make the tacit rules of disciplinary knowledge creation more explicit in the supervision space. LCT provides key tools that can be used explicitly or more metaphorically to reveal key knowledge building strategies to support students at all stages and across all fields. In this workshop, you will learn how to use LCT concepts: ● in a broad brush-strokes way to help scholars to become more aware of the expectations of the discipline ● in a more explicit, fine-grained manner to scaffold the writing of the thesis ● to reflect on critical issues in the formation of a scholarly identity The activities and strategies that we introduce in the workshop emerge from our own practices as a supervisor and doctoral student. As such, we hope the workshop will be useful to postgraduate supervisors, those academics who plan to supervise in the future, and to those students busy with their own PhD studies. Postgraduate education is assessed through a written thesis but supervisors often battle to make the disciplinary norms explicit. In this workshop, we demonstrate the ways in which Specialization and Semantics can be used to make the tacit rules of disciplinary knowledge creation more explicit in the supervision space. LCT provides key tools that can be used explicitly or more metaphorically to reveal key knowledge building strategies to support students at all stages and across all fields. In this workshop, you will learn how to use LCT concepts: ● in a broad brush-strokes way to help scholars to become more aware of the expectations of the discipline ● in a more explicit, fine-grained manner to scaffold the writing of the thesis ● to reflect on critical issues in the formation of a scholarly identity The activities and strategies that we introduce in the workshop emerge from our own practices as a supervisor and doctoral student. As such, we hope the workshop will be useful to postgraduate supervisors, those academics who plan to supervise in the future, and to those students busy with their own PhD studies.
