projects
DILAN – Communicating science beyond expert audiences (2022-1-ES01-KA220-HED-000086749)
The main objective of DILAN is to improve the ability of scientists to communicate their research results beyond the specialised community so that they reach diversified audiences and society at large. The European Union has recognised that public communication of science is a key priority for society. To support this priority, DILAN will provide solutions for the digital transformation of human resources in research. DILAN involves the creation of resources and materials in digital format, as well as online training courses and a MOOC with innovative learning/teaching practices. In this way, DILAN will support the European scientific community (with a special focus on women researchers), enhancing their resilience and capacity to communicate on Web 2.0. The resources will be designed for STEM and non-STEM areas and will also promote civic engagement, social responsibility and democratisation of science, as well as other key EU values (multilingualism, digital literacy learning, and citizens’ scientific literacy).
GENCI 2.0 – Digital Genres and Open Science (PID2019-105655RB-I00)
Web 2.0 has brought about dramatic changes in the transmission and dissemination of science, facilitating the communication between scientists and also with non-specialized audiences through digital genres. Digital affordances facilitate the emergence of hybrid genres and the combination of genres to form complex generic assemblages to communicate science to diversified audiences. In this context, this project seeks to respond to the problematization of the traditional concept of genre and explore the use of genre repertoires to communicate science openly on the Internet. Our purpose is to identify the intertextual relationships in the new combinations of genres afforded by the digital environments, paying special attention to processes of generic innovation through the use of multimodal elements, and processes of generic hybridization, and appropriation of non-scientific discourses.
D_SCI DIGITAL SCIENCE: Sustainable, transformative & transversal
D_SCI es un grupo de acción multidisciplinar que involucra a investigadores especialistas en computación y física de sistemas complejos, ciencias biomédicas y de la salud, periodismo científico, ciencia de datos, lingüística, retórica, escritura académica y educación. Su objetivo es investigar cómo se comunica el conocimiento científico en Internet tanto a audiencias especializadas como al público en general (ciencia ciudadana) y valorar desde un enfoque multidisciplinar si la ciencia abierta digital es sostenible, transformativa y transversal, tanto en el momento actual como a corto y a largo plazo.
ARCHIVED PROJECTS
Ecologies of genres and ecologies of languages
Ecologies of genres and ecologies of languages: an analysis of the dynamics of local, cross-border and international scientific communication (FFI2015- 68638-R)
This is a project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and the European Social Fund aiming to answer these questions. We investigate what genres academics use to communicate in their everyday professional practices. We also investigate how, in using academic genres, they may use several academic languages. We seek to understand how ecologies of genres and ecologies of languages are shaped in today’s academic settings in the context of ongoing internationalization processes at universities. How internationalization policies and language policies at universities make these ecologies evolve over time is one of our main investigative goals.
Events: International conference of Ethnographies of Academic Writing: Research and pedagogy, May 16-17, 2019. University of Zaragoza (Spain)
Linguistic diversity on the international campus
This is a project led by Prof. Jennifer Jenkins (University of Southampton) and Prof. Anna Mauranen (University of Helsinki). This is an international research collaboration seeking to explore multilingual practices on university campuses. All universities advertise their international orientation, with English as the principal means of communication. What needs deeper exploration, however, is to what degree do actual realities match the avowed principles. We therefore delve into the linguistic practices people are engaged in, and what personal and collective meanings are involved. We look into policies, practices and multilingual realities with an ethnographic case study approach. Our team is based on a research project between the universities of Helsinki and Southampton, and our nine collaborating teams come from Europe, Asia, and Australia, each exploring the uses of language in their home university campuses.
Events: 9th International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca, June 27-29, 2016. University of Lleida (Spain)