Research Methods in Literacy Studies

Julia Gillen is Professor of Literacy Studies and Co-Director of the Lancaster Literacy Research Centre. Her current research interests include developing a posthuman approach to the study of writing systems, and young children's use of digital media. She is editor of the Journal of Early Childhood Literacy as well as the author of Digital Literacies (Routledge, 2014) and The Edwardian Picture Postcard as a Communications Revolution: A Literacy Studies Perspective (Routledge, 2023).

Uta Papen is Professor of Literacy Studies and, together with Julia Gillen co-directs the Lancaster Literacy Research Centre. Julia and Uta co-edit the Routledge Research in Literacy and Literacies series. She is the author of Literacy and Globalization: Reading and Writing in Times of Social (Routledge, 2006) and Cultural Change and Literacy and Education: Policy, Practice and Public Opinion (Routledge, 2015). In her research, she examines literacy policy and practice for children and adults.