Here is a great fellowship opportunity for scholars who are based in the Global South. Please do share: baice.ac.uk/compare-fellow…

Lots of events next week:
* Silencing of universities in times of #genocide
* #MentalHealth & psychosocial support in #Gaza INEE
* Literacy in #Mozambique BALID
* Accelerating progress for women & girls British Council
More information: ukfiet.org/news-and-event…

📢 Our next #InformalLiteracyDiscussion is 'Literacy, capabilities & empowerment in Mozambique' w/ Ana Mlambo, drawing from MICAIA's literacy & numeracy approach w/ strong focus on gender transformation & sustainability.

📅 5 March
⏰ 12-1:30pm (GMT)
🔗bit.ly/mozambiquelite…

📢 Our next #InformalLiteracyDiscussion is 'Literacy, capabilities & empowerment in Mozambique' w/ Ana Mlambo, drawing from MICAIA's literacy & numeracy approach w/ strong focus on gender transformation & sustainability.

📅 5 March
⏰ 12-1:30pm (GMT)
🔗bit.ly/mozambiquelite…

Really looking forward to hearing about Stephen Black's new book, based on many years of ethnographic research on adult literacy. Don't miss this webinar, all welcome! UKFIET BALID UEA UNESCO Chair-BDU Suresh Gautam Kamal Raj Devkota UST Research Center for Social Sciences & Educ. Empowering Communities in Public Health UNESCO-UIL UNESCO UK

📢 Join our in-person talk on the semiotic heritage of #Muslim #communities in #China , with Dr Ibrar Bhatt and Heng Wang from Queen's University Belfast 🎓, moderated by Dr David Stroup.

🗓️ Tuesday, 20 Feb;
⏰ 5:00-6:30 pm;
🏛️ Oddfellows Hall;

🔗 Free tickets: eventbrite.co.uk/e/796066134237…

Greatly honoured. I am awarded the 4th IA Research Grant by the prestigious human rights organization of Pakistan, Human Rights Commission of Pakistan Human Rights Watch UN Human Rights International Decade of Indigenous Languages United Nations Human Rights Council | #HRC55 UNESCO Bangkok 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture Endangered Languages Project UN Human Rights Asia

Delighted to join this roundtable and looking forward to reflecting on insider, outsider & inbetween-ness in research...Do come along! BALID UEA UNESCO Chair-BDU Empowering Communities in Public Health UEA UNESCO Chair UNESCO-UIL UKFIET Kamal Raj Devkota School of Education Suresh Gautam NORRAG BAICE Nidhi Singal

Don't miss this opportunity to share insights from Stephen Black's groundbreaking ethnographic literacy research with prisoners, diabetes patients,council workers, migrant workers.... UEA UNESCO Chair-BDU
UNESCO UK UKFIET Studies in the Education of Adults BALID Empowering Communities in Public Health UNESCO-UIL School of Education

Today, we had a #BALID Annual General Meeting (AGM) in the morning. Thank you for attending and sharing about your projects for this year and last. We hope to see you upcoming Informal Literacy Discussions(ILDs)!

We are happy to share our Annual Report 2023. Please go to link below and we hope you enjoy reading! sway.cloud.microsoft/X3kSDayzauWslQ…

Join at BALID Annual General Meeting and engage with literacy scholars and practitioners online and in-person! Registration for registration below:

Join our next literacy discussion on impact measurement of adult learning programmes w/ examples from ALEF’s work in Togo & Kurdistan. Registration link below. Please share widely & hope to see you there!

UEA UNESCO Chair BAICE Goldsmiths Education UKFIET

Our next #InformalLiteracyDiscussion will explore challenges in measuring the 'life-changing' (?) impact of non-formal adult education. Led by Adam Bott of ALEF w/ Faroq Hamo of Imprint of Hope, Kurdistan. Join us!

🗓️14 Nov 2023, 1-2:30pm (UK time)
🔗bit.ly/LifeChangingLi…

Here is the published version (OA) of my closing keynote lecture at the annual conference of the British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL) held at the University York last month:
'Postdigital Possibilities in Applied Linguistics'
link.springer.com/article/10.100…
#BAAL2023York

Starting in a few! Join us in this exciting & insightful #InformalLiteracyDiscussion ! Link and info below!

Happy International Literacy Day!

We join BALID institutional member Rural Aid Pakistan (Rural Aid Pakistan) in marking #LiteracyDay2023 through a community session w/ rural women, literacy facilitators and community leaders in the rural area of district Narowal Pakistan.