Kate Pahl - Living Literacies: Rethinking Literacy Research and Practice Through the Everyday

Kate Pahl would like to thank her wonderful colleagues at Manchester Metropolitan University, in particular Janet Batsleer, Geoff Bright, James Duggan, Abigail Hackett, Liz de Frietas, Gabrielle Ivinson, Deborah James, Maggie MacLure, Christina Macrae, and David Rousell.

Her special thanks to Christian Ehret for reading the Creating chapter (chapter 6) and to Elizabeth Campbell, Hugh Escott, Candace Kuby, Joanne Larson, Karen Salt, Anna Smith, Sarah Truman, and Lalitha Vasudevan for their insightful conversations.

Kate would like to thank the Feeling Odd in the World of Education project teamRachel Holmes, Steve Pool, Amanda Ravetz, Becky Shaw, and Alma Park Primary School, Manchesterand the Imagine project team, especially Sarah Banks, Angie Hart, and Paul Ward. She joins Zanib Rasool in thanking the Threads of Time Utopia Festival project team, especially Shaheen Shah, Helen Mort, and the girls poetry group, especially Aliya Qaddar, Hafsah Wahid, and Aisha.

Thank you as well from Kate to the Taking Yourselves Seriously project team, in particular Andrew McMillan and Josie Webster at Clifton School in Rotherham. Steve Pool would like to thank Patrick Meleady at Pitsmoor Adventure Playground, Sheffield. And Zanib would like to thank Nazia Latif, Mariam Shah, and the 1970s Clifton School cohort of Pakistani women and their mums.

Kate would also like to thank Hugh Escott, Deborah Bullivant, Richard Steadman-Jones, Marcus Hurcombe, and Johan Siebers from the Inspire Rotherham, Writing in the Home and in the Street, Language as Talisman, and the Communicating Wisdom: Fishing and Youth Work research projects. And she gives thanks to the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Creative Partnerships, and Yorkshire Forward for funding these projects.

Jennifer Rowsell would like to thank her colleagues at Brock University, in St. Catharines, Ontario, in particular Fiona Blaikie, Diane Collier, Dane Di Cesare, Tiffany Gallagher, Shelley Griffin, Deb Harwood, Julian Kitchen, Dolana Mogadime, and Peter Vietgen, for their support, humor, and friendship. Her thanks also go to Cynthia Lewis, Cheryl McLean, Christian Ehret, Sandra Schamroth Abrams, Candace Kuby, Hans Christian Arnseth, and Mark Shillitoe for their help in thinking through ideas central to this book, as well as to Julianne Burgess, Amlie Lemieux, Terry Trzecak, Jennifer Burkitt, Larry Swartz, Melissa Turcotte, Vanessa Crosbie-Ramsay, Tara Markovitch, Glenys McQueen-Fuentes, and Kari-Lynn Winters for the hard work, creativity, and energy they brought to the research studies featured in Living Literacies. Jennifer acknowledges the special group of people who took part in the Rolling in the Deep: Seeing Differently research study in JuneJuly of 2016. Jennifer would also like to commemorate the memory of Sean. She is grateful to the Niagara Catholic District School Board, the District School Board of Niagara, Start Me Up Niagara, and the Niagara Folk Arts Multicultural Centre for endorsing and supporting the reported research, as well as to Brock Universitys Social Justice Research Institute, the James Hugh Corcoran Memorial Foundation, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Canada Research Chair Secretariat for their funding support. And she gives a special tribute to St. Catharines and Welland, Ontario, as key sites that inform the thinking and community spirit of living literacies research in the book.