Inclusive Academic Writing- Gihan Ismail, Anna Robinson-Pant and Pat Thomson

Gihan Ismail is an Associate Lecturer in Sociology at Oxford Brookes University and a teaching assistant in Education at the University of Bath. She is also a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Education and her study explores the experiences of international doctoral students in UK universities, using a framework that draws on the theories of Critical Pedagogy and Critical Race and Capabilities Approach. She focuses on the complex relationship between knowledge, power and ethics. 

Anna Robinson-Pant is Professor of Education at the School of Education and Lifelong Learning, University of East Anglia, UK. She holds the UNESCO Chair in Adult Literacy and Learning for Social Transformation, working with university partners in Nepal, Ethiopia, Malawi, Egypt and the Philippines. Her ethnographic research in Nepal - Why eat green cucumber at the time of dying? Exploring the link between women’s literacy and development - received the UNESCO International Award for Literacy Research in 2001.  Since moving into UK higher education, she has been active in developing methodological approaches to researching across languages and cultures, and received the BMW Group Award for Intercultural Learning (Theory Category) 2007. Her current research focuses on adult literacy, gender and sustainable development; the geopolitics of academic writing and the internationalisation of higher education. As former editor of the journal Compare, she set up the BAICE/Compare Writing for Publication Programme in 2008 with Theresa Lillis and Anna Magyar. This programme is still running, and alongside mentoring for junior scholars now includes institutional capacity strengthening activities, based on academic literacies research with journal editors, writers and reviewers in the Global South.

Pat Thomson PSM PhD FAcSS FRSA is Convenor of the Centre for Research in Arts, Creativity and Literacy (CRACL) at the University of Nottingham.  Pat is known for her interdisciplinary engagement with questions of creative and socially just learning and change. She is an Adjunct Professor at the Free State University, South Africa; Visiting Professor at the University of Iceland; a Visiting Professor at Deakin University, Victoria and The University of South Australia, Australia and a visiting Associate in the School of Education, University of Western Ontario. 

Pat chairs the research group of the APPG for Art Craft and Design. They will publish a major report Art Now later in 2022. 

 
Today’s episode is an edited version of a 50 minute online conversation hosted by Gihan on inclusive academic writing . The guests give advice about submitting to journals, and speak of the pitfalls as women and for people outside the anglosphere.