Study

Doctoral Programme
CMR runs the following courses for the Doctoral School.

  • Studies in Representation and Communication: an introduction to a multimodal social semiotic perspective
  • Studies in Representation and Communication: Research Methods
  • Analyzing Image
  • Introduction to video data collection
  • Introduction to Analysing video data (1)
  • Analysing video data workshop (2)
  • Reading seminar: Looking beyond language

The courses can be attended by doctoral researchers of the IOE, staff and visitors.

Video Data Analysis
Spring Term Sessions 2010
More information

Visual and Multimodal Research: Postgraduate Research Student Forum
Next meetings:
Tuesday 12th January 2010
1-3pm at the London Knowledge Lab
23-29 Emerald Street, WC1N 3QS
Speaker Tim Neumann
'This session will revolve around an inherently multimodal web communication tool, starting with a discussion of its graphic user interface with a focus on the affordances of the elements to enhance usability. In the second part, we will venture into the area of multiliteracies and discuss an example of a multimodal web presentation.' 

Tuesday 9th February 2010
Art and Design Studios, 8th Floor, IOE
20 Bedford Way, WC1H 0AL
Speaker E.Dimitris Kitis
'Urban Semiotics in Thessaloniki: Street Slogans and Indexicality'
'Street slogans are a type of anarchist graffiti that is ubiquitous in an urban Greek setting. What will be considered is the indexing performed by these short texts, which constitute a transgressive semiotic system. The historical body of the involved social actor(s) (habitus), the interaction order holding for the particular actional moment amongst the participants who are co-constructing the action and the discourses in place (textual, visual and place semiotics), enabling or constraining the mediated action will all be considered'

March 9th, Art and Design Studios, (speaker tbc)
April 13th, Art and Design Studios (speaker tbc)
May 11th, London Knowledge Lab (speaker tbc)

Recent PhD Topics
Multimodal representation and the making of knowledge : a social semiotic excavation of learning sites

Multimodal design : the semiotic resources of children's graphic representation

Rights, representation and resources : multimodal communication in South African classrooms

A multimodal framework for computer mediated learning : the reshaping of curriculum knowledge and learning

Exploring the need to mean : a multimodal analysis of a child's use of semiotic resources in the mediation of symbolic meanings

The rhetorical structure of the science classroom in Israeli schools from a social semiotic and multimodal perspective

Learning in archeological sites: An investigation of how archeological sites in Greece are used and can be used for different kinds of learning

The drama classroom as a place of learning: the meaning of dramatic performance

The production of Realism in Television: A socio, semiotic and multimodal investigation of the issue of TV realism

Making meaning in many modes: transduction and transformation: An investigation into the multimodal production / interpretation by MA students in South Africa of Western (Shakespearean ) plays

Writing across the curriculum: a multimodal approach

Multimodal teaching and learning of language: pedagogic discourse and student writing in multilingual Greek primary classrooms

Researcher Development Initiative Programme
With King's College London and Oxford University CMR runs the ESRC-funded Researcher Development Initiative on Ethnography, Language and Communication. For more details see the RDI website.