School of Languages and Cultures

Winter Research Program - 2019 Projects

Available Projects

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  1. Locating and analysing Aboriginal language data in UQ- and SLQ-held audio tapes.
  2. The investigation of teachers and university students’ perception of environmental discourse in China.
  3. Data analysis on EFL students’ motivation (quantitative and qualitative analysis)
  1. Gender, Humour and Ageing in Modern Japanese Culture
  2. Translating Maïa Alonso’s 2017 Novel, Le Rêve assassiné
  3. How to improve the quality of telephone interpreting services in Australia? Insights from interviews of Mandarin/English telephone interpreters, their authentic telephone interpretation data, and retrospective interviews

4. Gender, Humour and Ageing in Modern Japanese Culture

Project duration: 4 weeks (24 June - 19 July 2019) 25 hours per week

Description: 

This Winter Research Project is to assist the supervisor’s international collaborative research projects, which involves the Distinguished Visitor Program (24-28 June, 2019), the JSAA Conference (1-4 July, 2019), and preparation for two other conference in November. 

Expected outcomes and deliverables:

1) to complete an international collaborative project on “Youth and Democracy in Post-war Japanese Culture” – This is based on the 2017 JSAA (Japanese Studies Association of Australia) panels and to which previous UQ Winter/Summer researchers have contributed. The project, with five Japan-based scholars and three Australia-based scholars, is at its final stage. 
2) to work on another major on-going collaborative project on “Gender, Humour and Ageing in Modern Japanese Culture” and its sub-projects - Humour subverts, empowers and soothes. Japan, the country with the world’s most rapidly ageing culture, has seen a surge of innovative examples of humour concerning old age in literature, film, theatre, and visual art. 
The Winter Researchers will be given a series of tasks such as translation (from Japanese to English), editing, archival and web search, annotated bibliography, and liaising with scholars, writers/artists and publishers in Japan.

Number of participants: 2

Further info: 

Contact Associate Professor Tomoko Aoyama t.aoyama@uq.edu.au for more information.