We are delighted to announce the outcome of our second and final flexible funding call. Beginning in early 2019, the projects will foster innovation in research-led teaching and support curriculum change in modern languages in higher education.
MEITS was part of a parliamentary event to present the research of the four OWRI projects at the House of Commons on Wednesday 28 November.
On 18 November, members of the MEITS team took part in the ‘Diversity Day 2018’ at Netherhall School, an event co-ordinated by one of our project partners, the Cambridge Ethnic Community Forum (https://www.cecf.co.uk).
Language researchers at the University of Cardiff have published a report on a languages mentoring initiative aimed at encouraging secondary school students to take up modern languages.
The strand 1-led international conference ‘Engaging Multilinguality: Language, Identity and National Cohesion in Ukraine’ provided a unique opportunity to address various aspects of multilingualism in Ukraine. Its organisation stemmed from a close collaboration between the MEITS project and Cambridge Ukrainian Studies programme.
In early September ten researchers from across Europe gathered at Gladstone’s Library in the picturesque town of Hawarden, Wales, for a residential workshop addressing the theme ‘Multilingualism in the Public Space’.
On 5 and 6 July 2018, a two-day workshop on Chinese Grammar for teachers of Chinese in the UK was held at the University of Cambridge, as part of Strand 5 of the MEITS project.
The 2nd World Conference of the Association for Borderlands Studies took place on July 10-14 2018 in Vienna and Budapest. Dr Ivan Kozachenko, representing MEITS, was in attendance.
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