{"id":171,"date":"2011-03-09T14:21:10","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T14:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/?page_id=171"},"modified":"2012-02-20T13:03:14","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T13:03:14","slug":"our-charities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/our-charities\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<div class=\"three_fifth\">\n<h2>Research Activities<\/h2>\n<p>Since it was founded in 2006, the Centre for Transcultural Writing and Research has\u00a0raised the profile of a range of transcultural and intercultural research activities, including:<\/p>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_half\">\n<ul class=\"actions\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/radiophonics\/index.html\">Crossing Borders<\/a><br \/>\nLinking young writers in Africa with experienced mentors in the UK.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/radiophonics\/contents\/onlineworkshops\/index.html\">Radiophonics<\/a><br \/>\nStimulating new writing for English-language radio in Africa.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/LUFWP\/index.html\">Friends Writing Project<\/a><br \/>\nLinked twelve Ugandan women writers<br \/>\nwith four UK mentors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"one_half last_col\">\n<ul class=\"actions\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/movingmanchester\/index.htm\">Moving Manchester<\/a><br \/>\nHow migration impacted upon contemporary writing in Manchester.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancs.ac.uk\/fass\/projects\/narrating_north\/crew\/NarratingNorth\">Narrating the North<\/a><br \/>\nCollaboration between Litfest and<br \/>\nLancaster producing new texts.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/regarding_war\/about.html\">Regarding War<\/a><br \/>\nThe ways in which armed conflicts touch individuals and communities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"line-hor\"><\/div>\n<h2>Journal of Transcultural Writing<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Transcultural_journal.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-916\" style=\"margin-left: 12px; margin-right: 12px;\" title=\"Transcultural_journal\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Transcultural_journal.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"181\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Planned for 2013, our journal of transcultural writing will be an innovative multi-media publication derived from our Trans-Scriptions events series, featuring creative and critical writings, video and sound recordings, and recorded interviews with participating writers.<\/p>\n<p>Each new issue will be featured on our home-page, providing resources for scholarship and new creative work.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"two_fifth last_col\">\n<h2>Current Projects<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"actions alt\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Liberty_square.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-900\" title=\"Liberty_square\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Liberty_square.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"74\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Writing for Liberty\u00a0<\/strong>As part <em>Trans-Scriptions <\/em>we are launching a new three-part events series entitled\u00a0<em>Writing for Liberty\u00a0<\/em>in 2012.. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/?page_id=173\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Grassroutes_square.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-901\" title=\"Grassroutes_square\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Grassroutes_square.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"74\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Grassroutes\u00a0<\/strong>Researchers at Lancaster and Leicester Universities are collaborating on a new literature project \u2013 Grassroutes. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/?p=252\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Database_square.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-902\" title=\"Database_square\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Database_square.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"74\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Transcultural Writing Database<\/strong><br \/>\nThe CTWR database will\u00a0provide a digital media platform for the dissemination of research findings and narratives. <a href=\"#\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"line-hor\"><\/div>\n<h2>Postgraduate Community<\/h2>\n<p>The Lancaster University postgraduate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancs.ac.uk\/fass\/english\/postgrad\/creativewriting\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Creative Writing Programme<\/a> is one of the longest established and most prestigious writing programmes in the UK. It forms an integral part of the larger <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancs.ac.uk\/fass\/english\/\" target=\"_blank\">Department of English &amp; Creative Writing<\/a> and is located in County College for most teaching and administrative purposes. \u00a0It also has a rapidly growing distance learning programmes at both <a title=\"Distance Learning MA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/?page_id=768\">MA<\/a> and <a title=\"PhD in Creative Writing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/?page_id=1275\">PhD<\/a> level, enabling students to study wholly or partly away from the university campus.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research Activities Since it was founded in 2006, the Centre for Transcultural Writing and Research has\u00a0raised the profile of a range of transcultural and intercultural research activities, including: Crossing Borders Linking young writers in Africa with experienced mentors in the UK. Radiophonics Stimulating new writing for English-language radio in Africa. Friends Writing Project Linked twelve&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/our-charities\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Research<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-171","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":73,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/171\/revisions\/443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}