Case Studies in Intercultural Dialogue

Nazan Haydari is Associate Professor of Media School, Faculty of Communication at Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey. Previously, she worked at Maltepe University, Istanbul for eight years and at Foothill Community College, California for four years. Her research interests are on alternative media studies, feminist media, use of various media forms for the development of critical pedagogy and intercultural dialogue, and radio studies. She is a Board Member of Research and Implementation Center on Street Children (SOYAÇ) at Maltepe University (and Advisory Board Member of Center for Intercultural Dialogue (http://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/). Haydari is involved in the development of various media projects with street-involved children and youngsters. Her recent publications appear in Innovations in Education and Teaching International Journal, New Public Spheres: Recontextualizing the Intellectual (Edited by Thijssen et al., Ashgate Publications, 2013); and The Social Dimension of the Economic Crisis in Europe: Social Work in European and Transnational Context (Ed. Steph-Fine Schibri- Verlag Publications, 2013). Nazan holds a Ph.D. in Communications and MAIA in Communication and Development from Ohio University, USA.

Prue Holmes is Reader in Intercultural Education in the School of Education, Durham University, where she teaches an MA in Intercultural Communication and Education, and Adjunct Professor, Department of Teacher Education, University of Helsinki, Finland. She has a Ph.D. and M.MS from the University of Waikato, New Zealand, and an M.Ed. from Hong Kong University. She has taught intercultural communication at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, and English as a Foreign Language and English language teacher education in Italy, China, and Hong Kong. Prue supervises post-graduate theses and dissertations in intercultural communication, identity, and competence; international and intercultural education; English and foreign language education; and student mobility experiences. Prue has led the AHRC-funded “Researching Multilingually” project (http://researching- multilingually-at-borders.com/) on the complexities and possibilities of researching in contexts where more than one language is at play. This research is now embedded in the larger AHRC-funded project “Researching Multilingually at the Borders of Language, the Body, Law and the State” led by Professor Alison Phipps http://gramnet.wordpress.com/2013/09/18/research ing-multilingually-at-the-borders-of-language-the-body-law-and-the-state/. She is a partner in the European multilateral Erasmus project entitled “Intercultural Education Resources for Erasmus Students and their Teachers” (IEREST http://ierest-project.eu/), and received funding from HEA/UKCISA on internationalisation and the student experience. Other current research includes intercultural dialogue; the cultural and intercultural dimensions of language education and lingua francas. She has published extensively on intercultural encounters, intercultural dialogue, communication and learning experiences of international and Chinese students, intercultural competence, immigrant communication experiences, and intercultural education. She has received further research commissions from UNESCO (Paris), Education New Zealand, and the Ministry of Education (International), New Zealand. Prue chairs the International Association of Language and Intercultural Communication (IALIC) http://ialic.net/?page_id=2.