CLER Strengthens Research Culture Through Early Career Capacity Building
Dr Elina Stylianou and two School of Education Postgraduate Researchers, Xuechun Huang and Hongyi Zhao, have recently had a blog post published on the BERA webpage.
Titled ‘Why should early career researchers organise an academic conference?’, the contribution shares insights which are based on last year's BAAL Vocab SIG conference, led by Dr Yen Dang.
The blog draws on personal experiences to share and detail the benefits which can be gained throughout the process of organising an academic conference while highlighting exactly how these are especially rewarding for early career researchers and for the research community as a whole.
Are you an early career researcher (ECR) who is hesitant about organising an academic conference? Are you a senior academic who has few occasions to collaborate with ECRs for such a purpose? This blog post illustrates how organising a conference can be rewarding for ECRs and the whole research community. Drawing on our experience as ECRs organising the British Association for Applied Linguistics–Vocabulary Special Interest Group (BAAL Vocab SIG) Conference 2024, we highlight the key benefits of being involved in this process
The Vocabulary Studies SIG report, co-authored by Dr Yen Dang, Dr Elina Stylianou, and Postgraduate Researchers Xuechun Huang, Airen Zhang, and Hongyi Zhao has also been published by BAAL, appearing in the latest edition of BAAL News, sharing experiences of the organisation process of the BAAL VocabSIG Conference 2024.
Leading the BAAL VocabSIG 2024 conference was a rewarding experience. It helped our team to grow as leaders and demonstrated the value of inclusive, collaborative knowledge-sharing at Leeds and beyond. Sharing our experience of organising the conference with the wider BAAL and BERA communities allows us to reflect on our journey, celebrate our success, and contribute to a more equitable and sustainable academic culture, which fosters knowledge exchange, belonging, and collective responsibility, and lies at the heart of CLER, BAAL and BERA.
- Dr Yen Dang, Associate Professor of Language Education
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