Research

Centre for Multimodal Research Reseach Themes

  • Multimodal Literacy and writing
  • The Pedagogic Design and USe of Multimodal Learning resources
  • Social semiotics and Multimodal theory and methods
  • Multimodal Discourse across the Curriculum
  • Learing theory
  • The body and gesture in representation and communication space
  • Visual research methods
  • Technology mediated learning and teaching
  • The effects of representation on learning
  • Drawing
  • Identities
  • Museum studies
  • Children's text making

This following is a selection of research projects involving members of the Centre for Multimodal Research. For further details, please follow the links under 'People'.

NCRM Node: Multimodal Methods for Researching Digital Data and Environments
Funded by Economic and Social Research Council
Oct 2011 – September 2014
Carey Jewitt (Director), Jeff Bezemer, Andrew Burn, Gunther Kress, Diane Mavers and Sara Price.
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Digital Technologies in the Operating Theatre
Funded by Economic and Social Research Council
2011-2014
Investigators: Jeff Bezemer (PI), Roger Kneebone, Gunther Kress

Methods and Challenges for Digital Technologies and Embodiment
Funded by Economic and Social Research Council
2011-2014
Investigators: Sara Price and Carey Jewitt

Transient Teams in the Operating Theatre: A Case Study of Changing Social and Economic Contexts for Clinical Communication
Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (Imperial College London)
2012 – 2013
Investigators: Roger Kneebone (PI), Jeff Bezemer, Gunther Kress, Kathryn Nicholson

Mapping Educational Activity in the Operating Theatre
Funded by the London Deanery (Imperial College London)
2009 – 2012
Investigators: Roger Kneebone (PI), Jeff Bezemer, Alexandra Cope, Gunther Kress, Ged Murtagh

GeoSciTeach
Funded by JISC
Feb 2011 – Oct 2011
Investigators: Sara Price (PI), Paul Davies Carey Jewitt and George Rousous
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Investigating Student Access to Changing Multimodal Texts and Pedagogies
Funded by National Research Foundation Council, South Africa
2009 – 2011
Investigators: Arlene Archer (PI) and colleagues


Teaching, Learning and Assessing Literacy with Whole-Class Technologies
Funded by the Centre for Excellence in Work-Based Learning for Education Professionals (WLE), Institute of Education
May 2009 – April 2010
Investigator: Diane Mavers (PI)

Designing Tangibles for Learning
Funded by EPSRC
2007 – 2010
Investigators: Sara Price (PI) and George Roussos
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Museums, Exhibitions and Visitors: Meaning-Making in a New Arena for Learning and Communication
Funded by Swedish Research Foundation
2007 – 2009
Investigators: Gunther Kress (Co-Director) and Staffan Selander (University of Stockholm), Sophia Diamontopoulou and colleagues in Sweden

The Museum, the Exhibitions, and the Visitors: Interactive Digital Communication
Funded by Swedish Research Foundation
2009
Investigator: Carey Jewitt
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Learning with Visualisers in the Early Years
Funded by Barking and Dagenham Local Authority
2008 – 2009
Investigator: Diane Mavers (PI)

Gains and Losses: Changes in Representation, Knowledge and Pedagogy in Learning Resources
Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council
2007 – 2009
Investigators: Gunther Kress (PI) and Jeff Bezemer

From Object to Visualiser to Page
Funded by the Centre for Excellence in Work-Based Learning for Education Professionals (WLE), Institute of Education
2007
Investigator: Diane Mavers (PI)

Sociolinguistic Ethnography in a Changing Society
Funded by Economic and Social Research Council Researcher Development Initiative
Awarded 2007
Ben Rampton (Director), Jeff Bezemer, Carey Jewitt and colleagues
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Screen and the Social Landscape: Representation, Communication and Interaction
Funded by AHRB/EPSRC: Designing for the 21st Century Research Programme
2005
Investigator: Gunther Kress (PI), Carey Jewitt and Teal Triggs

The Production of School English
Funded by Economic and Social Research Council
2000 – 2003
Investigators: Gunther Kress (PI), Jill Bourne, Anton Franks, John Hardcastle Carey Jewitt, Ken Jones, Euan Reid

Signs of Difference
Funded by Economic and Social Research Council
2001 – 2002
Investigators: Charmian Kenner and Gunther Kress (Co-Director)

Rhetorics of the Science Classroom
Funded by Economic and Social Research Council
1997 – 1999
Investigators: Gunther Kress (PI), John Ogborn

Children's Media Culture: Education, Entertainment and the Public Sphere
Funded by Economic and Social Research Council
1996 – 1998
Investigators: Gunther Kress (Co-Director), David Buckingham and Ken Jones