CA for Beginners January 2026
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| Type | Training |
| Categories (tags) | Uncategorized, Training |
| Dates | 2026/01/15 - 2026/01/15 |
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| Tweet | Loughborough University's next one-day CA for Beginners workshop will be held remotely on Thursday Jan 15th 2026. |
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CA for Beginners January 2026:
Details:
Loughborough University's next one-day CA for Beginners workshop will be held remotely on Thursday Jan 15th 2026.
Loughborough University's Discourse and Rhetoric Group holds a number of workshops on Conversation Analysis throughout the year.
Our next one-day Conversation Analysis for Beginners workshop will be held online on Thursday Jan 15th 2026.
The day will start at 10.00 am and end at 5.00 pm, UK time. Cost for attendance (online): £45, or £90 for those in professional employment.
Led by Loughborough faculty including Saul Albert, Charles Antaki, Tilly Flint, Magnus Hamman, Emma Richardson, Jessica Robles and Ruth Parry, the workshop is meant for anyone who has a growing interest in CA.
It should be of interest to anyone who has heard of CA, come across it in their studies, or are working in a group which uses it as an approach for research. It would also be useful for anyone starting out on research which may take them down the line of analysing talk in great detail.
The kinds of questions we will cover include:
- What is the relationship between CA and discourse analysis?
- Why does CA insist on the close analysis of talk, with very detailed transcription?
- What does CA tell us about what people are doing in everyday life?
- Can we use CA to understand institutional encounters, for example medical consultations or police interviews?
- How can you use CA in your particular research?
The day will include lectures and hands-on group work on:
- How to transcribe
- How to identify the components of turns
- How to identify actions
- How to build a collection
- How to develop an argument in conversation analysis
Cost: £45 for waged or funded academics (staff members, post-docs, funded postgraduates..) If you are unwaged or unfunded, please contact us to see about a waiver. £90 if you work for a commercial or public-sector organisation.
Registration, which will open in autumn 2025, will be via the Loughborough University Online Store. Preference will be given to those already on the waiting list.
For more information: email Charles Antaki at this address: c.antaki@lboro.ac.uk.
