She was a lecturer in adult literacy, language and learning at Garnett College for teachers in further and higher education before joining the staff at Lancaster in 1986.
Ivanić was a full-time member of the Department of Linguistics and English Language of Lancaster University between 1986 and 2008.
She has been an Associate Director of the Literacy Research Centre of Lancaster University since 2002 and she was appointed Professor Emerita in September 2008.
In 1994 Ivanić, along with Lancaster Literacy Research Group including David Barton, claimed that literacy is not a skill but a set of practices which is culturally shaped and embedded in social action.[2]
In a research article, published in the Journal of Second Language Writing in 2001, Ivanić claimed that writing (lexical, the syntactic, the organisational and the material aspects of writing construct identity) conveys a representation of the writer.[3]
In a research article, entitled Discourses of writing and learning to write and published in Language and Education, Ivanić proposed a meta-analysis of theory and research about writing and writing pedagogy.[4] She identified six discourses:
Tseng, M. L., & Ivanic, R. (2005). Understanding the relationships between learning and teaching : an analysis of the contribution of applied linguistics. London: National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy.
Articles
Smith, N., McEnery, T., & Ivanic, R. (1998). Issues in transcribing a corpus of children's hand-written projects. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 13(4), 217–225.
Camps, D., & Ivanic, R. (2001). I am how I sound: Voice as self-representation in L2 writing. Journal of Second Language Writing, 10(1-2), 3-33. doi:[1]
Bolitho, R., Carter, R., Hughes, R., Masuhara, H., Tomlinson, B., & Ivanic, R. (2003). Ten questions about language awareness. English Language Teaching Journal, 49(4), 251–259.
Ivanic, R. (2004). Discourses of writing and learning to write. Language and Education, 18(3), 220–245.
