on the move

Today sees me back in Brisbane. I'm heading towards AERA. This conference has become somewhat of an annual event for me. This will be my fifth year in a row and because of the conference I've experienced something of San Francisco (2006), Chicago (2007), New York (2008) and San Diego (2009). The cycle that AERA attendance generates has been a very useful one for me -so far I'm managed to publish something each year as a follow up to the conference.

This year I'm presenting two co-authored papers on transcription. One is with Robyn Brandenburg and is for the self-study SIG and the second is with Teresa Moore and is for the Qualitative Research SIG. I'm looking forward to getting those presentations done, catching up with some folk and seeing a bit of Denver.

I left Wagga early this morning and it took two flights to get to Brisbane. I'm staying at the Royal Albert, an old favourite. I've just had a glass of wine and a vegetarian moussaka in the restaurant that sits under the hotel. it's a warm evening here and it was very pleasant.

Tomorrow I will meet up with Teresa and we will make out way to Denver via LA. on the way we hope to work on our powerpoint presentation. We have only 10 minutes for our talk and then 20 minutes of questions. It's going to be interesting. our paper examined transcription in PhD theses informed by grounded theory, phenomenography, critical discourse analysis and conversation analysis. it was only a pilot study but threw up some interesting findings in relation to how researchers address transcription. I hope others will find it interesting when we present in Denver.