Research themes
Language and literacy education research
The Language and Literacy Research and Scholarship Group, which is a sub-group of the Education Research Network, has a particular focus on the changing nature of literacy, and the implications of this for the curriculum and professional training and development.
Key areas of recent work include
- academic literacies
- digital literacies
- literacy and identity
- multimodal analysis of children's interactions
- socio-cultural studies of literacy practices
Current members include Sylvia Ashton, Ruth Barley, Dr Cathy Burnett, Sarah Butler, Susan Chantler, Karen Daniels, Fufy Demissie, Claire Drewery, Anne-Florence Dujardin, Lyndsay Gray, Professor Guy Merchant, Julia Myers, Dr Diana Ridley, Sheila Sharpe, Dr Roberta Taylor, Viv Thom and Alison Tyldesley.
Dr Cathy Burnett is research and scholarship group leader for language and literacy and can be contacted via c.burnett@shu.ac.uk
