Ursula Canton

Research Title:

Assessing the Impact of Writing Development through Consensus – Consensus among Subject Lecturers and Learning Developers

Academic Publications:

Canton and Zahn. Assessing the Impact of Writing Development through Consensus – Consensus among Subject Lecturers and Learning Developers. under review; 3 planned including the paper we still owe JLDHE. The reason for the delay is a problem with the statistical analysis and the search for a collaborator that took various years.

Conference:

EARLI SIG Writing Conference 2024 Nanterre:

Canton, Zahn and Danyi. Academic Literacies Approach and Quantitative Methods are they Anathema? presented at Lancaster Literacies ECR and PhD Forum Feb 2024

Zahn and Canton. Developing consensual assessment to evaluate writing development: success and pitfalls. LD@3 2020

Canton and Zahn. 2019. Assessing the impact of writing development through consensus – but whose consensus? ALDinHE Conference

Further Research Funding:

linked: 2022 internal funding from my institution to conduct a project where the methodology we developed further through the ALDinHE project was applied again

Other:

Small pots of money like the ALDinHE funding can make the difference for those who have no support / opportunities to apply for traditional research funding. What has made a big difference was that ALDinHE was willing to fund something that EVENTUALLY will have an impact on LD, rather than a small scale project with an immediate effect, but no huge scope. The results of this funding might take a long time, but without such long shots there will be far less original research LDers can do, so please keep on funding such projects.