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The politics of researching interculturally (2024)
Book Chapter
Holmes, P. (in press). The politics of researching interculturally. In S. Liu, A. Komisarof, Z. Jua, & L. Obijiofor (Eds.), The SAGE handbook of intercultural communication. SAGE Publications

Translanguaging as methodology to study language cafés: implications for managing multilingual data (2023)
Journal Article
Polo-Pérez, N., & Holmes, P. (2023). Translanguaging as methodology to study language cafés: implications for managing multilingual data. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 44(8), 737-750. https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2023.2197882

This article explores the affordances of translanguaging as methodology by reflecting upon the role of the multilingual repertoires of research participants (including the researcher) in shaping an ethnographic inquiry on “language cafés” (LCs), unde... Read More about Translanguaging as methodology to study language cafés: implications for managing multilingual data.

Durham University Case Study (2022)
Book Chapter
Holmes, P., & Kokotsaki, D. (2022). Durham University Case Study. In The experience of examining the PhD: An international comparative study of processes and standards (206-222). Routledge

Reflections on the co-construction of an interpretive approach to interculturality for higher education in China (2022)
Journal Article
Holmes, P., Ganassin, S., & Li, S. (2022). Reflections on the co-construction of an interpretive approach to interculturality for higher education in China. Language and Intercultural Communication, 22(5), 503-518. https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2022.2114491

The inclusion of intercultural communication and intercultural competence in English language education in Chinese Higher Education is now firmly established in the ‘National Standards’ (2020). In a post-project reflection, we explore the opportuniti... Read More about Reflections on the co-construction of an interpretive approach to interculturality for higher education in China.

An ethic for researching multilingually in transnational, multilingual, multidisiplinary research teams (2022)
Book Chapter
Holmes, P., & Rajab, T. (2022). An ethic for researching multilingually in transnational, multilingual, multidisiplinary research teams. In P. Holmes, & J. Corbett (Eds.), Critical intercultural pedagogy for difficult times: Conflict, crisis, and creativity (228-249). New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003150756-15

Working in a multilingual, multinational, and multidisciplinary project invites questions concerning the role of languages among the researchers, participants and stakeholders involved in the project. In this chapter, we attempt to explore how collea... Read More about An ethic for researching multilingually in transnational, multilingual, multidisiplinary research teams.

Participation, understanding and dialogue: Intercultural learning among students in higher education and refugee youth (2022)
Book Chapter
Holmes, P., Moskal., M., & Rajab, T. (2022). Participation, understanding and dialogue: Intercultural learning among students in higher education and refugee youth. In P. Holmes, & J. Corbett (Eds.), Critical intercultural pedagogy for difficult times: Conflict, crisis, and creativity (117-137). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003150756

This case study investigates intercultural dialogue and understanding, participation, and intercultural responsibility among postgraduate students in a British university and recently resettled Syrian and Iraqi refugees who have been excluded from ed... Read More about Participation, understanding and dialogue: Intercultural learning among students in higher education and refugee youth.

Afterword (2022)
Book Chapter
Holmes, P., & Corbett, J. (2022). Afterword. In P. Holmes, & J. Corbett (Eds.), Critical intercultural pedagogy for difficult times: Conflict, crisis, and creativity (250-256). New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003150756-16

A research trajectory for difficult times: decentring language and intercultural communication (2022)
Journal Article
Holmes, P., & Peña Dix, B. (2022). A research trajectory for difficult times: decentring language and intercultural communication. Language and Intercultural Communication, 22(3), 337-353. https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2022.2068563

This study investigates how critical intercultural pedagogy, creative arts methods, inspired by new materialism, can support new forms of language and intercultural learning in contexts of conflict. Columbian university scholarship recipients in pre-... Read More about A research trajectory for difficult times: decentring language and intercultural communication.

Exploring a Pedagogy for Understanding and Developing Chinese EFL Students’ Intercultural Communicative Competence (2022)
Book Chapter
Qin, S., & Holmes, P. (2022). Exploring a Pedagogy for Understanding and Developing Chinese EFL Students’ Intercultural Communicative Competence. In T. McConachy, I. Golubeva, & M. Wagner (Eds.), Intercultural learning in language education and beyond: Evolving concepts, perspectives, and practices (227-249). Multilingual Matters. https://doi.org/10.21832/9781800412613-020

This chapter explores how Byram’s (1997) intercultural communicative competence (ICC) framework can inform the development of an intercultural communication course delivered within English language education in a Chinese university. The theoretical c... Read More about Exploring a Pedagogy for Understanding and Developing Chinese EFL Students’ Intercultural Communicative Competence.

Afterword (2022)
Book Chapter
Holmes, P., Reynolds, J., & Ganassin, S. (2022). Afterword. In P. Holmes, J. Reynolds, & S. Ganassin (Eds.), The politics of researching multilingually (345-352). Multilingual Matters

Latin American universities in a time of crisis: Responses from the arts, humanities, and social sciences (2021)
Book Chapter
Holmes, P., & Corbett, J. (2021). Latin American universities in a time of crisis: Responses from the arts, humanities, and social sciences. In S. Garcia-Ferrari, H. Offerdal, & M. Kania (Eds.), Why Latin America matters (64-79). University of Edinburgh: Centre for Contemporary Latin American Studies

Drawing on the Brazilian context, we discuss the crisis facing Latin American Universities, where the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences have been deemed ‘useless’ by populist politicians, who instead favour technicist, neoliberal approaches to ed... Read More about Latin American universities in a time of crisis: Responses from the arts, humanities, and social sciences.

Intercultural business education: The role of critical theory and experiential learning (2020)
Book Chapter
Holmes, P., & Zhou, V. (2020). Intercultural business education: The role of critical theory and experiential learning. In J. Jackson (Ed.), The Routledge handbook of language and intercultural communication (457-472). (2nd ed). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003036210-35

Workplaces, both locally and globally, are increasingly characterised by complexity, ambiguity, and diversity, but also by individual distinctiveness and local relations. People in the workplace encounter this complexity through technology, and other... Read More about Intercultural business education: The role of critical theory and experiential learning.