Professor Carey Jewitt

  • Qualifications and position:
    • Professor in Learning and Technology
    • RCUK Acedemic Fellow
  • Faculty:
    • Faculty of Culture and Pedagogy
  • Department:
    • London Knowledge Lab
  • Summary:
    • My work examines the effects for knowledge, pedagogy and learning of the reconfiguration of multimodal representational and communicational resources (e.g. image, action, and sound), with a specialist focus on digital technologies in secondary schools. Methodologically, I work to develop the field of visual and multimodal theory, research and analytical procedures.
  • Teaching:
    • I teach the following specialist Doctoral courses: Analyzing Image, Introduction to video research, Video data collection, Video transcription and Video data analysis.
  • Research Projects:
    • Evaluation of the Learner Home Access to technology Program BECTA
      Knowledge, Creativity and Communication (Challenge Lead), Beyond Current Horizons Program, DCSF
      Sociolinguistic Ethnography in a Changing Society ESRC Researcher Development Initiative
  • Postgraduate Research:
    • My research interests:
      Digital technologies and representation
      Technology-mediated teaching and learning across the curriculum
      Digital technologies, literacy and English
      Visual representation and communication
      Multimodal representation and communication
      Visual and multimodal research theory and method
      Multimodal teaching and learning
      Video based research

      Tim Shortis
      Revoicing txt in unregimented writing: spelling, identity and meaning making in text messaging

      Jim Cheong
      Multimodal interactive digital pedagogy in the Primary School

      Anthony Malone
      A Multimodal, Social Semiotic analysis of the teaching of literary text in Senior Cycle English in Second Level Irish Schools

      Christina Preston
      Developing multimodal tools to investigate the learning priorities of tutors and teachers
  • Professional Activities:
    • Member of Project Advisory Board
      Digital Literacies in Higher Education, ESRC OU project
      present Center for Multiple Languages and Literacies, Columbia University, New York, USA

      Founding Editor, Visual Communication Journal (Sage)

      Journal editorial board membership
      Digital Culture & Education
      Australian Journal of Language and Literacy
      International Journal of Learning (RMIT)

      Positions
      Deputy Director London Knowledge Lab, Institute of Education
      Director of Research, Centre for Multimodal Research, Institute of Education
      Associate Senior Research Fellow, Stockholm Institute of Education, Sweden
      Member of the Cross London Seminar Series Planning Group

      Member of conference committee
      International Conference on Multimedia and Information and Communication Technologies in Education
      Computer Assisted Learning Conference
      Environmental Intelligence
  • Conferences/presentations:
    • Knowledge of technology mediated learning, visual and multimodal research in UK, South Africa, Mexico and Singapore.
  • Personal Country Knowledge:
    • Changing knowledge, practices and social relations in the digitized pedagogic space of the UK subject English classroom, Multimodal 4-International Conference of Multimodality, National University of Singapore, 31 July 2008.

      Multimodal identities and school English, Researching Visual/verbal Narrative Texts in Education, Department of Education, University of Florence, Florence, 16 November 2007. Multimodal and visual culture in the technologized classroom, DREAM Seminar, Arhus University, Denmark, 24 October 2007.
 

Contact details

Contact details

  • Email:

  • Address:
  • London Knowledge Lab
    Institute of Education
    University of London
    20 Bedford Way
    London WC1H 0AL

  • Office Location:
  • Level 2
    23-29 Emerald Street, WC1N 3QS

Publications

  • Jewitt, C. (ed.) (2009) The Routledge Handbook of Multimodal Analysis. London: Routledge.
  • Bezemer, J. and Jewitt, C. (2009) 'Multimodal analysis' In L. Litosseliti (ed.), Research Methods in Linguistics. London: Continuum.
  • Jewitt, C. (2008) Technology, Literacy, Learning: A Multimodality Approach. London: Routledge.
  • Jewitt, C. (2008) The Visual in Learning and Creativity. London: Creative Partnerships.
  • Jewitt, C. (2008) 'Multimodal classroom research', AERA Review of Research in Education 32, 241- 267.
  • Jewitt, C., Moss, G. and Cardini, A. (2007) 'Pace, interactivity and multimodality in teacher design of texts for IWBs', Learning, Media and Technology 32(3), 302-318.
  • Kress, G., Jewitt, C., Ogborn, J. and Tsatsarelis, C. (2006) Multimodal Teaching and Learning: Rhetorics of the Science Classroom. London: Continuum.
  • Jewitt, C. (2005) 'Multimodal reading and writing on screen', Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 26(3), 315-332.
  • Kress, G., Jewitt, C., Bourne, J., Franks, A., Hardcastle, J., Jones, K. and Reid, E. (2005) Urban Classrooms, Subject English: Multimodal Perspectives on Teaching and Learning. London: RoutledgeFalmer.
  • Kress, G., Jewitt, C., Bourne, J., Franks, A., Hardcastle, J., Jones, K. and Reid, E. (2005) Urban Classrooms, Subject English: Multimodal Perspectives on Teaching and Learning. London: RoutledgeFalmer.
  • van Leeuwen, T. and Jewitt, C. (eds) (2001) A Handbook of Visual Analysis. London: Sage.