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Published on: 11/24/2007
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Ms Rachel Hodge
Research Associate
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Rachel is Research Associate at the Lancaster Literacy Research Centre.She has been working on a range of DFES funded projects through the National Research and Development Centre (NRDC) on language and literacy learning and how this relates to people'severyday lives.Her broad research interests relate to social uses of language and literacy, particularly in multilingual settings in Britain.Based in Blackburn, Lancashire, she has researched with people of South Asian ethnic minority groups, with young learners of English seeking asylum and refugee status and with young people who are homeless.In Nepal she worked with Community Literacy Project Nepal (DfID funded) supporting participatory/ethnographic research and programmes related to social uses of literacy in rural communities.She is committed to linking research and practice working collaboratively with local co-researchers and practitioners in an effort to promote positive social change.She draws on ethnographic, innovative, multi-method approaches and has a particular interest in photography as a research tool.
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Hodge, R. 2004 Nightsafe- a shelter for young people who are homeless: engaging young people in learning, Lancaster Literacy Research Centre, Working Paper No.7, Lancaster: Lancaster University.
Hodge, R. and Pitt, K. with Barton, D. 2004 "This is not enough for one's life:" Perceptions of living and learning English in Blackburn by students seeking asylum and refugee status", in Roberts, C. et al. ESOL case studies of provision, learner's needs and resources.London: National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy.
Hodge, R. 2003 A Review of Recent Ethnographies of Literacy, Lancaster Literacy Research Centre, Working Paper No. 1, Lancaster: Lancaster University.
Hodge, R. and Jones, K. 2000 "Photography in collaborative research on multilingual literacy practices: Images and understandings of researcher and researched", in Multilingual Literacies: Reading and writing different worlds, Marilyn Martin-Jones and Kathryn Jones (eds), John Benjamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia.