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Researchers working across cultures face particular challenges around power, identity, and voice, encountering ethical dilemmas which extend beyond the researcher-researched relationship. Using a cross-cultural perspective on how to conceptualise research problems, collect data, and disseminate findings in an ethical manner, they engage with the geopolitics of academic writing, language inequalities, and knowledge construction. In sharing expe...

Researching across Languages and Cultures is a guide for doctoral students and other researchers engaged inmultilingual and intercultural research, providing a framework for analysis and development of their experiences.

Winner of the BMW Group LIFE Award for Contribution to Intercultural Learning, 2007 The research student population of higher educational institutions continues to expand to include people from an ever-widening range of cultural and educational backgrounds. However, many research methods courses are still directed at the traditional student population. This book examines aspects of postgraduate research from a cross-cultural perspective, analy...

This book presents a new perspective on the assumed links between women's literacy and development and explores current innovative approaches to research and policy around women's literacy.

Are literate women more likely to use contraceptives or to send their children to school? This is a question that has dominated much development research and has led to women's literacy being promoted by governments and aid agencies as the key to improving the lives of poor families.However, high dropout rates from literacy programs suggest that the assumed link between women's literacy and development can be disputed. This book explores why w...

Researching across Languages and Cultures is a guide for doctoral students and other researchers engaged inmultilingual and intercultural research, providing a framework for analysis and development of their experiences.