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Professor of Languages and Intercultural Studies (Creativity Culture and Faith)

telephone: 01413305284
email: Alison.Phipps@glasgow.ac.uk

My research interests focus on languages and intercultural studies, with a particular critical concern for the different ways in which people learn to live and communicate together, by stepping outside comfortable or familiar contexts. My work is interdisciplinary and draws on the resources of social and cultural anthropology, theatre and cultural studies, theology, law, modern languages and education. My Ph.D. research and ethnographic training focused on open air community theatre in Germany. I have continued ethnographic work among tourists, modern language students, adult learners of tourist languages, in conflict transformation and among sanctuary and asylum seekers, refugees and befrienders. At present I am developing research on languages and intercultural advocacy with asylum seekers and refugees; and developing my work and workshops on education for peace and non-violence with a growing focus on constructions of faith and on the contribution of theological perspectives.

I welcome applications from potential research students inall of these areas.

Research interests

Languages, Intercultural Education, Tourism Studies, European Anthropology, Social and Cultural Theory, Theology, Higher Education Studies, Community Theatre, Critical Pedagogy, Cultural Studies, Humanities Education, Sanctuary, Asylum and Refugee Studies, Conflict Transformation

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Number of items: 25.

2011

Levine, H., Phipps, A. and Blyth, C., (Eds.) (2011) AAUSC 2010: Critical and Intercultural Theory and Language Pedagogy. Series: Issues in Language Program Direction. Cengage Learning, Florence, KY. ISBN 9780495800071

Levine, G., and Phipps, A. (2011) Paradigms in transition. In: Levine, G., Phipps, A. and Blythe, C. (eds.) AAUSC 2010: Critical and Intercultural Theory and Language Pedagogy. Series: Issues in Language Program Direction . Cengage Learning, Florence, KY. ISBN 9780495800071

Levine, G., and Phipps, A. (2011) What is language pedagogy for? In: Levine, G. and Phipps, A. (eds.) AAUSC 2010: Critical and Intercultural Theory and Language Pedagogy. Series: Issues in Lanaguage Program Direction . Cengage Learning, Florence, KY. ISBN 9780495800071

2010

Phipps, A. (2010) Training and Intercultural Education: The Danger in Good Citizenship. In: Guilherme, M. (ed.) The Intercultural Dynamics of Multicultural Working. Multilingual Matters, Bristol, pp. 59-77. ISBN 978-1-84769-286-3

Phipps, A (2010) Drawing breath: Creative elements and their exile from higher education. Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 9 (1). pp. 42-53. (doi:10.1177/1474022209350103)

Phipps, A. (2010) 3rd October: Proper 22 Lamentations 1:1-6: The Lord Brings Grief. The Expository Times, 121 (12). pp. 610-619. ISSN 0014-5246 (doi:10.1177/0014524610376728)

Phipps, A. (2010) 7th February: 5th after Epiphany: Isaiah 6:1-8. The Expository Times, 121 (4). pp. 187-188. ISSN 0014-5246 (doi:10.1177/0014524609354744)

2009

Phipps, A., and Saunders, L. (2009) The sound of violets: the ethnographic potency of poetry? Ethnography and Education, 4 (3). pp. 357-387. ISSN 1745-7823 (doi:10.1080/17457820903170168)

Phipps, A (2009) 19th July: Proper 11: David's Big Ideas. Expository Times, 120 (9). pp. 447-449. ISSN 1745-5308 (doi:10.1177/0014524609105737)

Phipps, A (2009) 30th August: Proper 17: Song of Songs 2:8-13. Expository Times, 120 (10). pp. 502-503. ISSN 1745-5308 (doi:10.1177/0014524609106588)

Phipps, A (2009) Violence and Exploitation in the Humanities? Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 8 (2). pp. 5-7. (doi:10.1177/1474022208098453;Editorial)

Phipps, A, and Robinson, M (2009) Are we there yet? Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, 7 (1). pp. 1-4. (doi:10.1080/14766820902872197;Editorial)

Phipps, A. (2009) 6th December: 2nd Advent: Fire and Soap (Malachi 3:1—20). The Expository Times, 121 (2). pp. 76-78. ISSN 0014-5246 (doi:10.1177/0014524609347026)

Phipps, A. (2009) Impact: More Violence and Exploitation for the Arts and the Humanities. Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 8 (3). pp. 227-229. ISSN 1474-0222 (doi:10.1177/1474022209347811)

Phipps, Alison (2009) Ethnographers as Language Learners. In: Gallinet, Anselma and Collins, Peter (eds.) Keeping an Open 'I': Memory and Experience as Resources in Ethnography. Berghahn Books, Oxford.

Phipps, Alison (2009) Tourism and Languaging. In: The Sage Handbook of Tourism Studies. SAGE, London, pp. 658-671.

2008

St Clair, R., and Phipps, A. (2008) Ludic literacies at the intersections of cultures: an interview with James Paul Gee. Language and Intercultural Communication, 8 (2). pp. 91-100. ISSN 1470-8477 (doi:10.1080/14708470802270950)

Phipps, A (2008) 14th September: Proper 19: Exodus 14:19-31. Expository Times, 119 (11). pp. 547-549. ISSN 1745-5308 (doi:10.1177/0014524608094145)

Phipps, A (2008) 15th June: Proper 6: Matthew 9:35 -- 10:8. Expository Times, 119 (8). pp. 394-396. ISSN 1745-5308 (doi:10.1177/0014524608091193)

Phipps, A (2008) 30th March: 2nd Sunday of Easter: John 20:19 Where was Thomas? Expository Times, 119 (5). pp. 240-242. ISSN 1745-5308 (doi:10.1177/0014524608088851)

Phipps, A (2008) Prayers for September. Expository Times, 119 (11). pp. 557-559. ISSN 1745-5308 (doi:10.1177/0014524608094149)

Phipps, A, and St Clair, R (2008) Intercultural Literacies. Language and Intercultural Communication, 8 (2). pp. 69-71. (doi:10.1080/14708470802270786;Editorial)

Phipps, Alison (2008) Was bleibt? After Class and After Culture: Intercultural German Life. In: Schulz, Renate A. and Tschirner, Erwin (eds.) Comminicating Across Borders: Developing Intercultural Competence in German as a Foreign language. Iudicium, Munchen, pp. 217-241.

2007

Phipps, A.M. (2007) The sound of higher education: sensuous epistemologies and the mess of knowing. London Review of Education, 5 (1). pp. 1-13. ISSN 1474-8460 (doi:10.1080/14748460601045671)

2004

Colvin, Sarah, Martin, Laura, Phipps, Alison and Reisenberger, Christl, (Eds.) (2004) Myth and Mythmaking. Series: German life and letters. Blackwell.

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Ph.D. Theses successfully defended

Dickon Copsey: New German Comedy: Film in Contemporary Germany.
Jane Wilkinson: Performing around Lake Constance: Theatre, Borders and Identities in Austria, Germany and Switzerland.
Philippe Pourhashemi: Travelling Light: An Investigation into Languages and Material Culture.
Fiona Barclay: ‘La France une et indivisible’: the impact of North African minorities on contemporary French identity.
Eugene de Clerk: Reclaiming the Subject: A Study of Freire and Lacan in Education.
Heather Moquin: Breathing out the Songs which want to be sung. Postcolonial Reflections on Research in an Inuit Community.

Under Supervision

Hugh Smith: Sites of Atrocity as Heritage Tourism: Educating the Tourist through Interpreting the Spanish Civil War’
Elsa Kao: Interfaith Dialogue and Intercultural Language Education
Vanessa Rasoamampianina: Quality and Encyclopedic Authoring
Ulrike Woitsch: Religion und Interreligiöses Lernen im Landeskunde/ Kulturstudien-Unterricht Deutsch als Fremdsprache
Liam Coutts: Institutionalised Ethics Procedures: A Critical Study (Kelvin Smith Scholarship with Beth Cross, Rebecca Kay, Justin Kenrick Jon Oldfield)
Katja Frimberger: Intercultural Education and Performance
Awol Allo Law and Performativity
Coinneach Maclean: Tourism and the Gaelic Language in Scotland
Caroline Bagelmann: Postmodern Pictures books

External Examining

Ph.D. Thesis on Languages & Intercultural Communication, 2001. University of Surrey
Ph.D. thesis on Jugendweihe - European Anthropology, 2002, University of Durham
Ph.D. thesis on Modern Languages & Higher Education, 2003, University of London
Ph.D. thesis on Modern Languages and Intercultural Education 2004, University of Southampton
Ph.D. thesis on Travellers' Images of 1930s Bali 2007, University of Warwick
Ph.D. thesis on Intercultural Education in Japan 2008, University of Durham
Ph.D. thesis on Muendigkeit: Language Learner Narratives in German Literature, 2009 Trinity College Dublin
Ph.D. thesis on Dutch language teaching in Higher Education, IOE, 2010

Together with Rebecca Kay I co-convene the Glasgow Refugee, Asylum and Migration Network.

I also offer workshops on conflict transformation, sanctuary and asylum seeking, and education for peace and non-violence.

Telling Peace was recently published by the World Council of Churches

My first full collection of poetry was published in 2009 Through Wood.

Further poetry writing at present is concerned with a study of the elements: Air, Water, Fire, Earth and their relationship to language, lore and pedagogy.

Keynote and Plenary Papers

Designing Environments for Life: With Words and Wood: A Poetry Workshop, Dundee Art Gallery, 17th January 2009
Universitaet Giessen, Germany 15th February 2010, 'Gathering Meaning: Translation and Tourism.'
WCC: IEPC Planning Meeting January 2010, Ethiopia
AAAL, Atlanta, USA Voicing Solidarity, Panel on Poststrcuturalism and Applied Lingusitics chaired by Tim McNamara
LLAS GRAMNET, University of Glasgow with Elwira Grossman New directions: How languages promote research and internationalisation in higher education.
GRAMNET: London Detainee Support Group, 'Detained Lives, August 2010
Gramnet: NCADC, Research Workshop, STUC, October 2010

Media

Good Morning Scotland, Radio Scotland, June 2010
Call Kaye, Radio Scotland, March 2010
'Truth, Lies and Asylum Seekers' May 2010
BBC Scotland; Ricky Ross Show, July 2009