What We Do

The Literacy Research Centre at Lancaster works to understand the role of literacy in all areas of social life and to improve communication and collaboration between researchers and educational practice.

See details of our Research and Publications.

Here are details of the weekly meetings of the Literacy Research Discussion Group.

We offer a distance learning MA in Adult Literacy, Numeracy & ESOL.
We welcome research students and there are various sources of funding for a PhD in Literacy Studies. Details of studentships and bursaries in the Department of Linguistics are at http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/study/phd/bursaries.htm.
Details of possibilities in Educational Research are at http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/edres/study/postgrad/funding.htm
and funding from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences is at http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/gradschool/funding/funding.htm

See Connecting with Practice for teacher-researcher schemes that enable practitioners to take time out of teaching.

Resources

Visit our Resource Centre containing books, journals, reports and pamphlets, with a searchable catalogue.

Here is our Publications list, our latest books and our collection of literacy images.

Materials produced by student projects.

Guide to conferences and external events of interest to literacy researchers.

Who we are

Our research interests and contact details.

We are located in the Institute of Advanced Studies, in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. We are closely associated with the Department of Linguistics and English Language and the Department of Educational Research.