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Affect and materiality of Graffiti in times of crisis (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Victoria, M. (2023, December). Affect and materiality of Graffiti in times of crisis. Paper presented at Rethinking intercultural communication beyond verbal language, Nicosia, Cyprus

The impetus for this visual-based presentation comes from serendipitous encounters with certain types of graffiti in Edinburgh during the covid-19 lockdown. As a flâneuse (Elkin, 2016) of Asian heritage, I explore my subjective and embodied (gendere... Read More about Affect and materiality of Graffiti in times of crisis.

Research and Teaching Integration (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Victoria, M. (2023, October). Research and Teaching Integration. Presented at Learning and Teaching ENssentials, Edinburgh Napier University

Toilet graffiti: What can we learn from the visual languaging in the stalls? (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Victoria, M. (2023, September). Toilet graffiti: What can we learn from the visual languaging in the stalls?. Paper presented at DN29 Visiolinguistics: Panoramas of Languaging and Visuality, Online

Academic research has conceptualised toilet graffiti or latrinalia (Dundes, 1966) as a ‘symbol of a sociological subculture, juvenile delinquency, and regulatory problem’ (Halsey & Young, 2006);as a ‘communal public diary’ (Kurniawan & Anderson, 2008... Read More about Toilet graffiti: What can we learn from the visual languaging in the stalls?.

Understanding international students' experiences with assessments through rich pictures (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Victoria, M., & Ratz, S. (2023, June). Understanding international students' experiences with assessments through rich pictures. Paper presented at The Gathering 2023: Learning & Teaching conference, Edinburgh

Higher education institutions continue to see an increasing number of international students who bring with them diverse forms of assessment ‘literacies’ acquired from previous sociocultural and educational contexts. This presentation explores the ex... Read More about Understanding international students' experiences with assessments through rich pictures.

Interculturality-in-Action: Communication Affordances used by International Postgraduate Students at a Thai University (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Victoria, M. (2023, February). Interculturality-in-Action: Communication Affordances used by International Postgraduate Students at a Thai University. Paper presented at GXUST-ENU 2023 Research Seminar

The current investigation explores interculturality by looking at the communicative practices of a culturally and linguistically diverse group of international and local postgraduate students from China, Japan, Vietnam, the Philippines and Thailand.... Read More about Interculturality-in-Action: Communication Affordances used by International Postgraduate Students at a Thai University.

What's in a Cake: Diversity, Inclusivity and Interculturality (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Victoria, M., & Smith, D. (2022, June). What's in a Cake: Diversity, Inclusivity and Interculturality. Paper presented at Future Visualities: Visual Methods & Ethnography in Interdisciplinary Research, Edinburgh Napier University

Food, death and taxes have been claimed by anthropologists as some of the factors that are common to all human beings. Food is considered an important marker of identity and cultural membership (Brulotte & Di Giovine 2014). In this public engagement... Read More about What's in a Cake: Diversity, Inclusivity and Interculturality.

Graffiti, Place and Society (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Victoria, M. (2022, May). Graffiti, Place and Society. Paper presented at TBS Research Seminar, Edinburgh Napier University

‘DON’T KIL URSELF’. ‘ YOU SHALL OVERCOME.’ The impetus for this study comes from serendipitous encounters with certain types of graffiti around Edinburgh during the covid-19 pandemic. Using walking and photography as data collection methods, I drew... Read More about Graffiti, Place and Society.

Graffiti: fugitive and illegal writing as ARTivism (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Victoria, M. (2022, May). Graffiti: fugitive and illegal writing as ARTivism. Paper presented at Tourism and Languages Research Seminar, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh

‘DON’T KIL URSELF’. ‘ YOU SHALL OVERCOME.’ The impetus for this study comes from serendipitous encounters with certain types of graffiti around Edinburgh during the covid-19 pandemic. Using walking and photography as data collection methods, I drew... Read More about Graffiti: fugitive and illegal writing as ARTivism.

Transparadigming or Methodological Promiscuity: Analysing the verbal, the visual and the digital in Applied Linguistics research (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Victoria, M. (2021, September). Transparadigming or Methodological Promiscuity: Analysing the verbal, the visual and the digital in Applied Linguistics research. Paper presented at Doing Research in Applied Linguistics 4, Online

The aim of this presentation is to show how moving across, beyond and through disciplinary boundaries and methodological approaches can open up new ways of seeing and knowing in Applied Linguistics research. The study was conducted at a university in... Read More about Transparadigming or Methodological Promiscuity: Analysing the verbal, the visual and the digital in Applied Linguistics research.

Wall of Support: New Perspectives on Students’ Use of Graffiti (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Victoria, M. (2020, February). Wall of Support: New Perspectives on Students’ Use of Graffiti. Paper presented at Department of Learning and Teaching Seminar, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh

What compels students to solicit personal advice from strangers by writing inscriptions on the toilet wall? Why resort to graffiti to cope with depression, deal with the fear of ‘coming out’ or even to express their (dis)satisfaction with the univer... Read More about Wall of Support: New Perspectives on Students’ Use of Graffiti.

Exploring Language and Culture through Film (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Victoria, M. (2019, June). Exploring Language and Culture through Film. Paper presented at DLTE Learning and Teaching Conference, Edinburgh Napier University

This presentation reports on the results of the project Exploring Language and Culture through Film which was part of the Enhancement initiative.

The Use of Indigenous Methods in Research (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Victoria, M. (2019, June). The Use of Indigenous Methods in Research. Paper presented at ENU Research Conference 2019, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh

Transculturing in the Third Space Using English as a Lingua Franca (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Victoria, M. (2018, July). Transculturing in the Third Space Using English as a Lingua Franca. Paper presented at ELF 11 – the 11th International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca, King's College, London

This ethnographically informed investigation, conducted over 28 weeks at a Thai university, explores the discursive construction of a transcultural ‘third’ space by analysing the language practices of a culturally diverse group of English conversati... Read More about Transculturing in the Third Space Using English as a Lingua Franca.

Transculturing through English as a Lingua Franca (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Victoria, M. (2017, June). Transculturing through English as a Lingua Franca. Paper presented at Interrogating the 'Third Space': Negotiating meaning and performing 'culture', Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh

The notion of third space has been often associated with sites of struggle, ambivalence and instability (Bhaba, 1994), as well as marginality and resistance (hooks, 1990). The findings of this data-driven study point to a third space more closely res... Read More about Transculturing through English as a Lingua Franca.

The Selfie Project: Learning/Teaching English in an Innovative Way (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Victoria, M. (2015, July). The Selfie Project: Learning/Teaching English in an Innovative Way. Paper presented at The Languages of Language Learning: 11th Annual Conference of the BAAL Language Learning and Teaching SIG, University of Edinburgh

It is a truism to say that in order to motivate language learners, we need to know what they find interesting and then design lessons that capture or reflect those interests. And yet, there are some things that are so obvious that we fail to notice t... Read More about The Selfie Project: Learning/Teaching English in an Innovative Way.

Using the liminal, off-task spaces of the classroom as a pedagogical tool (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Victoria, M. (2015, January). Using the liminal, off-task spaces of the classroom as a pedagogical tool. Paper presented at Teaching Fellows Conference, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh

Existing literature on pedagogic practices has yielded many interesting insights on classroom discourse, sometimes called ‘teacher talk’. The centre piece of most of these studies, however, tends to be on the institutionally sanctioned and legitimize... Read More about Using the liminal, off-task spaces of the classroom as a pedagogical tool.