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| Fully funded studentship in Loughborouh and Nottingham 2017 + | Receptionist-led telephone triage in GP Practices: Communication barriers to patient access? - ESRC DTP Joint Studentship in the Midlands Graduate School Midlands Graduate School Doctoral Training Partnership - Loughborough University and University of Nottingham * Qualification type: PhD * Location: Loughborough * Funding for: UK Students, EU Students * Funding amount: £14,553 * Hours: Full Time, Part Time * Placed on: 30th January 2017 * Closes: 17th February 2017 The Midlands Graduate School is an accredited Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP), with the first intake of students to begin in October 2017. One of 14 such partnerships in the UK, the Midlands Graduate School is a collaboration between the University of Warwick, Aston University, University of Birmingham, University of Leicester, Loughborough University and the University of Nottingham. The Midlands Graduate School is now inviting applications for an ESRC Doctoral Joint Studentship between Loughborough University (where the student will be registered) and the University of Nottingham to commence in October 2017. The project will investigate how receptionist-led triage happens in patients’ telephone calls to GP practices. The study will investigate a corpus of real-time recorded interaction between receptionists and analyse the data using conversation analysis. Analysis might focus on, for instance, what happens when receptionists ask patients to ‘give some idea of what the problem is’, in order to ‘triage’ their needs. Overall, the project will identify troubles that can emerge, as well as practices that work, in enabling patient access to GP services. Application Process To be considered for this PhD, please complete the Joint Studentship application form available online here. Please include a CV along with two references and email all documents to Dr Bogdana Huma (b.huma@lboro.ac.uk). Application deadline is Friday, 17th February 2017 Midlands Graduate School ESRC DTP Our ESRC studentships cover fees and maintenance stipend and extensive support for research training, as well as research activity support grants. Support is available only to successful applicants who fulfil eligibility criteria. To check your eligibility, visit: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/mgsdtp/studentships/eligibilty/ Informal enquiries about the research or the Department of Social Sciences prior to application can be directed to Professor Elizabeth Stokoe (e.h.stokoe@lboro.ac.uk). + |
| Funded DPhil/PhD Studentship Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford 2023 + | ‘Improving the management of patient risk in urgent primary care’ Funded DPhil/PhD Studentship Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford The [https://www.phc.ox.ac.uk/ Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences] is inviting applications for a funded DPhil/PhD Studentship, to commence in October 2023. The student will be based in the Medical Sociology & Health Experiences research group and supervised by [https://www.phc.ox.ac.uk/team/rebecca-barnes Dr Rebecca Barnes], with internal and external collaborators. The [https://www.phc.ox.ac.uk/research/health_experiences Medical Sociology & Health Experiences] research group has an international reputation as a centre of excellence in qualitative methods and social science informed research. We do applied research directed to making a positive difference to health and care. Risk work is integral to urgent primary care encounters (e.g., NHS 111, GP Out-of-Hours, Urgent Treatment Centres), but many features of interpreting, communicating, and recording risk remain poorly understood and under researched. Without greater understanding, we cannot provide adequate guidance to clinicians about what information to share with patients or advise patients (or their family members) about what questions to ask to keep them safe. It could also mean that policies or guidelines that address risk problems might have unintended consequences. This funded DPhil/PhD studentship is a unique opportunity to understand the process of interpreting, communicating, and recording risk for different patient groups (e.g., terminally ill people, very sick children and older people who are living with frailty) during urgent contacts with primary care services. You will undertake a mixed methods study, at the heart of which will be a conversation analysis of recorded urgent primary care encounters. Conversation analysis is an inductive qualitative approach to the analysis of recorded social interaction, focusing on verbal and bodily conduct. Detailed comparative analysis of multiple episodes allows identification and explication of recurrent patterns and their social interactional consequences. Through this research your findings will highlight areas of risk work clinicians, patients (and/or their family members) currently find challenging, and whether there are recurring contexts for these challenges, as well as successful strategies developed by participants to negotiate and overcome them. Findings will be disseminated to clinicians and policy makers with the assistance of the supervisory team. '''Award details''' This three-year award covers full university fees at the home rate, with a maintenance stipend of £20,775 per annum and support for research training, as well as research activity. The award is available only to successful applicants who fulfil entry requirements. To check your eligibility, visit: https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate/courses/dphil-primary-health-care '''Application process''' To be considered for this DPhil, please first check our Graduate Course entry requirements and Application Guide [https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate/courses/dphil-primary-health-care available here]. You will be required to provide a CV and two references. '''Application deadline''' Midday 28th July 2023. Interviews will be held on Teams. Informal enquiries about the research prior to application are strongly encouraged and can be directed to Dr Rebecca Barnes ([mailto:rebecca.barnes@phc.ox.ac.uk rebecca.barnes@phc.ox.ac.uk]). + |
| Funded PhD University of Padova 2022 + | A fully-funded doctoral position starting October 2022 in HCI within the EU Maria Sklodowska Curie Cofund program and spent at the University of Padova in the doctoral course Brain, Mind and Computer Science (3 years) Project's title: Human-centered transparency, with secondment at Expert.ai. Projects crossing computational linguistics, discourse analysis, and psychology are welcome. Contact person: anna.spagnolli@unipd.it Candidates can apply by submitting a research proposal at https://pica.cineca.it/unipd/ by 8 March 2022, at 1 pm CET (Italian time zone). At the date of the call deadline, applicants of any nationality are required to meet the following criteria: * Mobility. They should not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in Italy for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately before the call deadline. * Qualification. They should hold a Master’s degree or another academic qualification recognized as equivalent to a second-cycle degree in the framework of the Bologna process, allowing them to embark on a Ph.D. course in the country where the degree was obtained. The academic qualification should be obtained no later than 30 September 2022. * Early Stage. They should not have already been awarded a doctoral degree and must be in their first 4 years (or full-time equivalent) of research experience. More information: http://hit.psy.unipd.it/BMCS/admission + |
| Funded PhD in Rotterdam CA in emergency care + | Wetenschappelijk onderzoeker Huisartsgeneeskunde * 23.04.19.TG * 36 uur per week * Huisartsgeneeskunde Functie inhoud U doet onderzoek naar de effectiviteit van spoedzorgonderwijs aan huisartsen in opleiding. Het onderzoek is gericht op de mate waarin de vaardigheden die men tijdens een spoedzorg cursus leert beklijven en in de praktijk toegepast worden. Dit wordt gedaan aan de hand van video-opnames van een simulatietoets, welke worden getranscribeerd en geanalyseerd door middel van discours analyse en een vergelijking van de beoordelingen van de toets. Er worden ook vragenlijsten en interviews met deelnemers afgenomen om te onderzoeken in hoeverre men het geleerde in de praktijk toepast. U verzamelt en analyseert bovengenoemde gegevens. Hiebij wordt u ondersteund door de projectgroep. Daarnaast bent u verantwoordelijk voor het presenteren en publiceren van de resultaten en het onderhouden van goede contacten met zowel de deelnemers aan het onderzoek als de staf van de Huisartsopleiding en Schola Medica. U zorgt ervoor dat uw kennis op het gebied van de onderzoeksmethodes up-to-date blijft. Het is de bedoeling dat het onderzoek na drie jaar leidt tot een promotie. U heeft de gelegenheid om deel te nemen aan conferenties en cursussen die relevant zijn voor de promotie. Het project is een samenwerking van de Huisartsopleiding van het Erasmus MC en het spoedzorg onderwijscentrum Schola Medica. Schola Medica geeft spoedzorg onderwijs aan artsen in opleiding tot specialist. Met name door het geven van scenario-simulatie onderwijs in kleine groepen leert de aios goed te handelen in een acute situatie. U bent deels werkzaam binnen het Erasmus MC en deels bij Schola Medica te Utrecht. Werkomgeving In het Erasmus MC werken we hard aan het verbeteren van de zorg van vandaag en de gezondheid van morgen. Baanbrekend werken, grenzen verleggen en voorop lopen. In onderzoek, onderwijs en zorg. We werken met de nieuwste apparatuur, technieken en zorgprocessen in een state-of-the-art gebouw. De afdeling Huisartsgeneeskunde heeft, onder meer, de taak huisartsen op te leiden; de driejarige huisartsopleiding is een medische specialisatie na het artsexamen. De artsen in opleiding werken 4 dagen per week in een huisartspraktijk onder begeleiding van een ervaren huisartsopleider. Daarnaast volgen zij één dag per week groepsonderwijs op de afdeling. Een aantal van deze terugkomdagen op de afdeling zijn gegroepeerd in landelijk onderwijs bij Schola Medica in Utrecht. Hier wordt het onderzoek ook uitgevoerd. Profiel U heeft een masteropleiding waarin u ervaring met discours analyse of vergelijkbaar kwalitatief onderzoek heeft opgedaan. U heeft de ambitie om te promoveren en affiniteit met medisch onderwijs en de huisartsgeneeskunde. U bent communicatief vaardig in woord en geschrift in zowel de Nederlandse als de Engelse taal, in staat om zelfstandig te werken en resultaten te vertalen naar de onderwijspraktijk. U bent een netwerker met goede contactuele eigenschappen. U heeft de ambitie om onderzoek te publiceren in toonaangevende wetenschappelijke tijdschriften. Onderwijservaring en ervaring met onderzoek in medische en/of onderwijscontext, interviewen en kwalitatief onderzoek is een pre. Het overleggen van een Verklaring Omtrent het Gedrag (VOG), een geldig identiteitsbewijs, diploma’s en/ of relevante registraties zoals BIG/ RGS zijn een voorwaarde voor de aanstelling. Wat bieden wij Wij bieden een tijdelijke aanstelling voor een periode van drie jaar. Het bruto maandsalaris bedraagt, afhankelijk van opleiding en ervaring, maximaal € 4.361,- (schaal 10) bij een volledige werkweek van 36 uur. Daarnaast bieden wij onder andere een eindejaarsuitkering van 8,3%, een individueel reiskostenbudget en studiemogelijkheden. De arbeidsvoorwaarden zijn conform de CAO Universitair Medische Centra (UMC). Inlichtingen en solliciteren Voor meer informatie over deze functie kunt u contact opnemen met dhr. M. Veen, onderzoeker, telefoon: 010-7043631. Heeft u vragen over de sollicitatieprocedure? Dan staat Jerry Chandansingh, recruiter, u graag te woord. U kunt hem bereiken via: 06 500 310 06 of stuur een WhatsApp. Deze vacature staat open voor in- en externe kandidaten. Bij gelijke geschiktheid krijgen interne kandidaten voorrang. Een test gebaseerd op de gevraagde werkzaamheden maakt onderdeel uit van de sollicitatieprocedure. U kunt solliciteren door gebruik te maken van de sollicitatiebutton. Acquisitie naar aanleiding van deze advertentie is niet gewenst. + |
| Funded two-day introductory workshop to EMCA video analysis in Hong Kong for prospective PhDs + | '''Video Analysis in Sociology: A Two-Day Introductory Workshop for Students Interested in Doing a PhD in Hong Kong''' 29/30 August 2019 @ The Department of Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong AIMS This two-day introductory workshop (in English) will be held at the Department at Sociology at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) on 29/30 August 2019. It will provide an introduction to qualitative video analysis for international Master’s students and final-year undergraduate students. We are looking for students from a variety of backgrounds (sociology, anthropology, communication, linguistics) who would be interested in conducting video-based studies. Existing experience in video analysis is not a requirement. Workshop participants should be interested in applying for a PhD scholarship in Hong Kong in December 2019 (for starting in August 2020). At the workshop, participants will be able to discuss and brainstorm their possible PhD proposal and have time to explore the Department, the University, and Hong Kong. FUNDING We have funding for 10 international students to attend this two-day workshop. Each student will receive HK$9000 (approximately US$1150) to cover airfare and accommodation. HONK KONG PHD FELLOWSHIP SCHEME (HKPFS) Workshop attendees are encouraged to apply for the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS) in December 2019. The Scheme was established by the Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC) and aims to attract the best students from around the world to pursue PhD studies in Hong Kong. · Provides a monthly stipend of HK$25,100 (~US$3,218) and a conference travel allowance of HK$12,600 (~US$1,615) per year during the normative study period for up to three years. In addition, CUHK provides: · For awardees with a normative study period of four years, stipend and conference travel allowance at HKPFS level for the 4th year. · A tuition fee waiver for awardees’ whole normative study period. · An award of HK$20,000 (~US$2,564) for lodging in awardees’ 1st year of study. · Guaranteed on-campus accommodation during awardees’ normative study period. The on-campus hostel fee will be waived in the 1st year of study. Further information: https://cerg1.ugc.edu.hk/hkpfs/index.html ORGANIZER The workshop is hosted by the Department of Sociology at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. The Department has the longest history in Hong Kong and is well known in not only Hong Kong but also overseas. http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/soc/ The workshop is organized by the Video Analysis, Science, and Technology (VAST) Research Group at the Department. VAST is led by Prof. Christian Greiffenhagen, an international expert in qualitative video analysis, investigating how social interaction is impacted by new technologies and scientific developments. http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/soc/GREIFFENHAGEN_Christian.html Current members of VAST are conducting studies on video-mediated communication, the setup of psychology experiments, transactions with digital money, and human-robot interactions. Student projects that have been done at VAST include eating together (e.g., round table in Chinese meals), collaboration in sports (e.g., turn-taking in skateboarding), and interaction in parties. THE WORKSHOP The workshop will run for two days and provide the following: · An introduction to video analysis in sociology. Qualitative video analysis (Heath et al. 2010), informed by ethnomethodology (Garfinkel, 1967) and conversation analysis (Sacks, 1992), is an innovative methodology that has provided new insights to many core sociological topics, including the sociology of interaction, the sociology of everyday life, the sociology of work and organization, and the sociology of new technologies. · Brainstorming discussions on students’ possible PhD projects. This session will be devoted to discussing your research interests and to help you with thinking about a possible video-based PhD project. · Information sessions on the Department of Sociology, the University, and the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme. You will be meeting with members of the Department, current PhD students at CUHK as well as former HKPFS awardees. · Outings to explore the city of Hong Kong. APPLICATION In order to apply for the funding for the two-day workshop, applicants have to submit # Two-page statement of interest, describing (a) their relevant background and interest in the workshop; (b) two or three possible topics for a video-based PhD project. # Curriculum vitae (CV). To vast@cuhk.edu.hk by Monday 20 May 2019. The result will be announced by Friday 31 May 2019. REFERENCES Garfinkel, H. (1967). Studies in Ethnomethodology. Englewood-Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. Heath, C., Hindmarsh, J., & Luff, P. (2010). Video in Qualitative Research. London: Sage. Sacks, H. (1992). Lectures in Conversation. Oxford: Blackwell. + |
| FundedPhDGothenburg2020 + | * Doctoral student(s): Learning and Information Technologies * Diary id: PAR 2020/545 * Employment level: Fixed term * Location: Applied Information Technology * Apply by: 2020-05-27 * The division for Learning, communication and IT at the Department of Applied IT are looking to hire one or more PhD-students within the area of Learning and IT. The department offers education and carries out research within the areas informatics, learning, communication and cognitive science in close collaboration with the industry and the public sector. Development of the individual’s knowledge and ability to analyze, understand and handle the aspects of digitalization of society, different aspects of IT, interaction between people and interaction between people and technology are in focus. About 20 persons work at the division for Learning, communication and IT, half of which are employed PhD-students. We focus on issues concerning how IT changes the possibilities for learning and communication in schools, work and everyday life.The divison is ambitious in being a strong research environment within the area of learning, communication and IT. We are part of several strong national and international networks to which the student will be introduced. The division host the Gothenburg Knowledge LAB, a technology and methodology resource for research, development work and teaching within the area. Job assignments Admission to a third cycle education, is aiming at a PhD-exam in the subject area. The education runs for four years of fulltime studies equivalent to 240 HEC, comprising thesis work, and academic education i.e. course work and literature studies. The third cycle education consists of courses that are examined gradually, and individual research work resulting in a written PhD thesis that demonstrates the advance of scientific knowledge within the field of study. The PhD-student will perform the study under supervision by a principal supervisor and one or several co-supervisors aiming at the development of the PhD student’s methodology, experience, analytical skills, and theoretical depth and width. Results will be communicated in the form of scientific articles, conference presentations, etc. and a PhD thesis. To obtain a Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, doctoral candidates must have written and verbally defended a doctoral thesis that has been passed at a public defence (disputation), and he or she must also have passed the courses and examinations that are included in the study plan. Besides conducting PhD-studies the students are expected to contribute to the common activites of the division, and conduct departmental duties at 20% of fulltime. The division´s research is multidisciplinary and researchers explore different research objects, theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches. We conduct design and action oriented research as well as more analytical studies. This means that applicants are asked to describe their interest in relation to relevant current issues such as: * Learning and virtual or augmented reality (VR/AR) * Simulations for training and learning * Robots in education, and for learning * Plattforms in education, and for learning * IT and learning at work * Learning through games and plattforms * Design and development of new technologies for learning and education * Knowledge development in relation to the digitalization of society * Research that adresses IT in relation to learning, teaching and education in school or higher education * Applicants are expected to gain a view of the research at the division and formulate their research plans in relation to this. The publications from the division can be found here: https://ait.gu.se/lki/publikationer The applicant will be offered an affiliation to the national graduate for digital technologies in teacher education – UPGRADE. A network connecting nine partners in Sweden: University of Gothenburg, Gävle University, Halmstad University, Jönköping University, University West, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Linneaus University, Mid Sweden University and Umeå University. More information on: https://graderesearch.umu.se/en/ Eligibility To be accepted to a third cycle education in Applied IT with specialization in Education and Informatics both general and specific eligibility is needed. A person meets the general entry requirements for doctoral education if he or she: * has been awarded a qualification on advanced level, * has satisfied the requirements for courses comprising at least 240 credits of which at least 60 credits were awarded on advanced level, or * has acquired substantially equivalent knowledge in some other way in Sweden or abroad. To be accepted to Applied IT with specialization in Education the applicant must, besides general entry requirements also: have passed courses comprising of at least 45 credits within a subject with relevance to applied IT with specialization in Education, of which at least 30 credits on the advanced level. and hold a teachers degree and a thesis of at least 15 credits on the advanced level or, has acquired substantially equivalent knowledge in some other way in Sweden or abroad. To be accepted to Informatics the applicant must, besides general entry requirements also: # hold a degree on master or bachelor level in informatics, information systems, system science or similar subject # or, acquired substantially equivalent knowledge in some other way in Sweden or abroad. Assessment The selection of the candidate is based on the following criteria: eligibility of the candidate, and the feasibility, quality and originality of the research plan. Independent work as part of education, as well as texts and publications that shows the capability of assimilating and successfully complete a doctoral education. The selected applicant will be accepted to the subject Applied IT with specialization in Education or Informatics. As the research is multidisciplinary we accept candidates with backgrounds in education, pedagogy, cognitive science, social science, or similar, as well as from informatics, computer science, system science, or similar. However, applicants should be able to show some merits from both an educational as well as a more IT-oriented background. The applicant will be assessed on documented excellent ability to communicate in spoken and written English. Employment Only applicants who can be offered supervision and otherwise acceptable conditions for study as well as proper financing may be admitted to doctoral studies. In addition to the doctoral education the doctoral student may be required to fulfil duties relating to education, research and administrative work (max 20%). * The person who gets admitted to doctoral studies and then employed as a doctoral student will be placed at the Department of Applied IT. * The employment as a doctoral student concerns full-time / 100 % and planned start date is 1st of September 2020, or according to agreement. The university applies a local agreement on the salary of PhD students. Appointment procedure The preparation of the employment follows the procedures set out in Chapter 5 of the Higher Education Ordinance and in accordance with the formal employment procedure applicable at the University of Gothenburg. Selection, potential interviews and assessment will be conducted by a local recruitment group. Interviews may be conducted continously. For further information * Regarding the position please contact Johan Lundin, Head of division: +46 707- 19 13 31 * Regarding the appointment procedure, please contact Emil Fägerwall Ödman, Human Resources Officer, +46 31 786 29 04 Unions Union representatives at the University of Gothenburg: http://www.gu.se/english/about_the_university/job-opportunities/union-representatives Information for International Applicants Choosing a career in a foreign country is a big step. Thus, to give you a general idea of what we and Gothenburg have to offer in terms of benefits and life in general for you and your family/spouse/partner please visit: https://www.gu.se/english/welcomeservices/staff https://www.movetogothenburg.com/ How to apply In order to apply for a position at the University of Gothenburg, you have to register an account in our online recruitment system. It is the responsibility of the applicant to ensure that the application is complete in accordance with the instructions in the job advertisement, and that it is submitted before the deadline. The selection of candidates is made on the basis of the qualifications registered in the application. The application shall be written in English. The application shall include: * A short cover letter with a motivation that describes the applicant’s suitability for the position (max. one A4 page) * An attested list of qualifications (CV) * Examination certificates and a transcript of courses with grades * A copy of the master thesis (or equivalent), and other relevant publications * A research proposal that describes previous and planned research within the field (max. 2000 words, references excluded) * Employments certificates and other documents deemed important by the applicant * Contact information for at least two references that are familiar with the applicant’s qualifications. * Closing date: 27th of May 2020 The University of Gothenburg promotes equal opportunities, equality and diversity. Applications will be destroyed or returned (upon request) two years after the decision of employment has become final. Applications from the employed and from those who appeal the decision will not be returned. + |
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| GESPIN 2023 Nijmegen + | '''GESPIN 2023''' '''"Broadening perspectives, integrating views"''' Location: Nijmegen Date: Wed 13- Fri 15th of September Paper submission opens: January 10th, 2023 Paper submission deadline: March 15th, 2023 Notification of acceptance/rejection: end of May, 2023 Registration open: TBA Registration open: TBA GeSpIn is an interdisciplinary event for researchers working on the interaction between speech and visual communicative signals, such as articulatory, manual, and bodily gestures co-occurring with speech. At GeSpIn 2023 we hope to bring together researchers working on visual signals together with vocalization or speech, from multidisciplinary perspectives in order to exchange ideas and present the cutting edge of their field. This 8th edition of GeSpIn will be held in Nijmegen, the Netherlands and will focus on the theme of “Broadening Perspectives, Integrating Views: Towards General Principles of Multimodal Signaling Systems”. As such, we encourage researchers working on (multimodal) prosody, social anthropology, philosophy, (psycho)linguistics, psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, human movement science, computer science (e.g., human-computer interaction), comparative biology, and more to submit their research to address topics such as: - Do principles of speech-gesture interaction generalize to, or interact with, other multimodal interactions and forms of audiovisual integration (e.g., speech interacting with head gestures or facial signals)? - What methods in computer science can be used to characterize and synthesize the (temporal) interactions between speech and gesture, within and between agents? - How is speech-gesture coupling influenced by the immediate dialogic context (e.g., behavior of the interlocutor, or speech act being performed) - Can multimodal signaling as studied in non-human animals teach us something fundamental about multimodal communication systems that also applies to humans? - What can cross-linguistic comparisons of speech-gesture interaction teach us about the underlying principles of multimodal coordination? - Development of gesture-speech coordination: Can general principles of development be identified? Are there sensitive periods and developmental stages? - What is the role of basic biomechanical or neural processes in visual and auditory signaling and the perception of said multimodal signals? Please note that all researchers and theoreticians/philosophers working on the interaction between gesture/visual and sound-producing cues (e.g., in terms of pragmatics, prosody, semantics) should feel invited, also if their particular study does not fit these topics exactly. '''Organizers''' Wim Pouw & James Trujillo (main contacts: wim.pouw@donders.ru.nl/james.trujillo@donders.ru.nl) Hans Rutger Bosker Linda Drijvers Marieke Hoetjes Judith Holler Lieke van Maastricht Asli Ozyurek + |
| GSLI Symposium 2019 + | Call for papers '''GSLI Symposium 2019''' May 24th, 2019 University of Groningen, Center for Language and Cognition Groningen, The Netherlands '''Keynote speaker''': Prof Jan Svennevig (University of Oslo) The fourth Groningen Symposium on Language and Social Interaction (GSLI) will be organized by the University of Groningen, Center for Language and Cognition on May 24th, 2019. The symposium aims to bring together scholars interested in language and social interaction in everyday and institutional settings to present and discuss their work with colleagues from different (international) universities. GSLI welcomes contributions for 20-minute presentations followed by 10 minutes for questions on any topic investigating language and social interaction. Abstracts should not exceed 3000 characters including spaces (around 400 words), and can be uploaded till February 15th , 2019 via www.gsli.nl. We look forward to welcoming you to the fourth Groningen Symposium on Language and Social Interaction! + |
| GSLI2017 + | The third Groningen Symposium on Language and Social Interaction (GSLI) will be organized by the University of Groningen, Center for Language and Cognition on January 19 and 20, 2017. The theme of this year’s symposium is ‘Survey Interview Interaction’. The symposium aims to bring together scholars interested in interaction in survey interviews, including interviewer-respondent and virtual agent-respondent interaction. The symposium aims to cover both qualitative and quantitative analysis of survey interview-interactions. The symposium is organized to honor Wil Dijkstra and Hanneke Houtkoop-Steenstra (1950-2002), two Dutch scholars that have studied interviewer-respondent interaction from different perspectives. Wil Dijkstra, with a background in psychology, is the creator of the Sequence Viewer program. This program allows for systematic coding and analysing of verbal and non-verbal behavior. Hanneke Houtkoop-Steenstra, who unfortunately is no longer with us since 2002, used CA (conversation analysis), i.e. a qualitative method to study survey interview interactions. In her work the tension between standardized rules and conversational practices play a central role. Keynote speakers are Fred Conrad (University of Michigan), Nora Cate Schaeffer (University of Wisconsin) and Wil Dijkstra (who will be presenting on Sequence Viewer). + |
| Getting others to do things: A pragmatic typology of recruitments - 2020 + | Announcing the publication of a free, open access new volume: "Getting others to do things: A pragmatic typology of recruitments" Edited by Simeon Floyd, Giovanni Rossi & N. J. Enfield Synopsis: Getting others to do things is a central part of social interaction in any human society. Language is our main tool for this purpose. In this book, we show that sequences of interaction in which one person’s behaviour solicits or occasions another’s assistance or collaboration share common structural properties that provide a basis for the systematic comparison of this domain across languages. The goal of this comparison is to uncover similarities and differences in how language and other conduct are used in carrying out social action around the world, including different kinds of requests, orders, suggestions, and other actions brought together under the rubric of recruitment. + |
| Grammar and Social Actions 2016 + | a CA meeting on "Grammar and Social Actions" will take place in April 4-5 in Perugia (Italy) at the University for Foreigners of Perugia. Please see below for details. The program can be downloaded at: https://www.unistrapg.it/it/grammar-and-social-actions Participation is free. For any further information, please contact me -Piera Margutti- at: pimargy@yahoo.it + |
| Groningen Professor in Social Interaction 2021 + | Job description Are you passionate about processes of human communication? Are you fascinated by how we use language to negotiate relationships, acts and events in daily life and in professional situations? Are you willing to join our academic community in Groningen, lead our research group on Language and Social Interaction and contribute to the development of our programme in Communication and Information Studies? Then you might be our next Full Professor of Language and Social Interaction. Qualifications Who are we looking for? ● You are an internationally recognized expert in Communication and Information Studies, in particular in Language and Social Interaction ● You have an excellent research track record, as evidenced by an outstanding publication record and successful grant applications ● You are interested in, and preferably have experience in, both qualitative and quantitative research methods ● You are open or already contributing to interdisciplinary research ● You have an inspiring view on teaching, including curriculum development ● You have extensive experience with teaching and administrative tasks ● You are willing to fulfil administrative roles at cluster or faculty level ● You have excellent leadership qualities and you are able to create and strengthen collaborations within the Faculty, the University of Groningen and other institutions (in the medical or educational fields) and within the broader research field and society ● You have a strong societal network and you are successful in transmitting your research and teaching to societal partners and a general audience ● You have gained the University Teaching Qualification or are prepared to do so within one year ● You are fluent in English (C2 level of the CEFR) and Dutch, or are willing to learn Dutch within two years (to at least C1 level of the CEFR – for reading and listening). Organisation Where will you be working? The University of Groningen and the Faculty of Arts recently formulated a new strategic plan for the coming 5 years, with a focus on research and societal impact and the further development of innovative education (active and blended learning). We focus on the development of interdisciplinary research and teaching in the fields of Healthy Aging and Public Health, Energy Transition and Climate Adaption, Digital Innovation and Artificial Intelligence, and Governance and Sustainable Processes for a Sustainable Society. Please follow this link if you would like to read more about these plans (UG Strategic Plan http://www.rug.nl/(...)ategy/strategic-plan and Arts Strategic http://www.rug.nl/(...)he-state-of-the-arts ). Contact Thealies Oosterman (t.e.oosterman@rug.nl) or hr-letteren@rug.nl for a copy of the profile report. Conditions of employment We offer you in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities (CAO NU): • an appointment at the level of Full Professor with a salary, depending on qualifications and work experience, from € 5,843 gross per month up to a maximum of € 8,508 (salary scale H2) gross per month for a full-time position • a holiday allowance of 8% gross annual income • an 8.3% end-of-the-year allowance. For more detailed information about working conditions and working for the University of Groningen, please check: https://www.rug.nl/about-us/work-with-us/ The appointment will ideally start as soon as possible, but at the latest 1 August 2022 Application You can submit your application until 6 January 11:59pm / before 7 January 2022 Dutch local time (CET) by means of the application form (click on "Apply" below on the advertisement on the university website). Please fill in the form and upload 4 PDF files: 1. a letter of motivation and qualifications for the position 2. a Curriculum Vitae with a list of five self-selected best papers or publications, a complete list of publications and names and contact details of at least three referees 3. a brief description of your academic interests and plans; a statement about teaching goals and experience (maximum two pages in total) 4. an appropriate and characteristic sample of your writing Only complete applications submitted by the deadline will be taken into consideration. The selection interviews will take place over January and March 2022. A trial lecture and a research presentation are part of the standard procedure. A leadership assessment may be part of the procedure. We welcome employees with a wide variety of backgrounds and perspectives, and we consider diversity and gender balance to be very important. Our selection procedure follows the guidelines of the Recruitment Code (NVP), http://nvp-plaza.nl/download/?id=7714 and the European Commission’s European Code of Conduct for recruitment of researchers, https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/charter/code Unsolicited marketing is not appreciated. Information For information you can contact: Prof. Anthonya Visser, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, anthonya.visser@rug.nl Ms T. Oosterman, + 31 50 3635834, t.e.oosterman@rug.nl Please do not use the e-mail address(es) above for applications. + |
| Groningen Symposium Language and social Interaction 2021 + | Dear colleagues, In the autumn of this year, Tom Koole will retire from his position at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. To celebrate this in style, we are currently organizing a hybrid Groningen Symposium on Language and Interaction, on Thursday 4 November. Six speakers will present their work on topics and methods that Tom has also extensively explored during his career: Charles Antaki (keynote; Loughbourough University, UK), Jan Berenst (Emeritus NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands), Jenny Watermeyer (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa), Wyke Stommel (Radboud University, the Netherlands), Jan ten Thije (Utrecht University, the Netherlands), Hedwig te Molder (VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands). To conclude the day, Tom himself will also give a lecture. More details on the programme will be made available in the coming months, but we plan on starting at 9am, and on ending the day around 4:30pm. We are preparing for a hybrid event, for both some of the speakers and for part of the audience. Depending on the corona measures at the time of the symposium, we will determine how much on-site presence is possible. We will keep those interested in participating posted on all developments. If you want to attend, we want to ask you to fill in the following form (https://bit.ly/2U4SXvz), before June 18th. In the form, you can also indicate whether you for sure want to participate online, whether you’d like to come to Groningen, or whether you’d rather wait making any statements on this for now. This way, we can keep you posted about the programme as well as the logistics and practical issues. Tom is aware of us organizing this event and knows which speakers we invited, but the details are still a surprise. Consequently, we want to ask to not to talk to Tom in detail about this day. Kind regards, * Mike Huiskes, * Henrike Padmos, * Nynke van Schepen, * Jana Declercq, * Kees de Glopper en * Myrte Gosen + |
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| HRIrepair2025 + | PhD studentship Repair Mechanisms in (speech-involving) Human-Robot Interaction Robotics Research Group Centre for AI and Robotics Research School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science University of Hertfordshire, UK Contact: Frank Foerster (f.foerster at herts.ac.uk) ============ Shortlisting will start on 14th November 2025 (application before this date is strongly encouraged) Bursary £20,700 p.a. We invite applications for a PhD studentship at the University of Hertfordshire, UK, under the supervision of Dr. Frank Foerster in the area of conversational human-robot interaction. We are particularly interested in pursuing research that connects to the following topic, but alternative ideas will be considered too. '''Research Topic''' Repair Mechanisms in (speech-involving) Human-Robot Interaction More information including relevant papers are provided in [https://www.herts.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/355089/Machine-learning-for-HRI.pdf this PDF] '''Person Profile''' You will have an excellent first degree and a very keen interest and motivation in human-machine interaction in general, and communicative interaction in particular. Optimally, you should have an excellent background in Computer Science, Computational/Cognitive Robotics, (computational) linguistics, artificial intelligence, or similar disciplines with a considerable quantitative/computational component. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the topic we will also consider applicants with a background in psychology, philosophy, or pragmatics as long as they have some experience in programming, machine learning, or dialogue systems. Prior experience with topics such as reinforcement learning, or statistical learning more generally is highly desirable, but not essential if the quantitative background is otherwise very strong. The knowledge of later Wittgenstein is a big plus. If you have questions, have alternative suggestions for a related, but distinct topic, and/or are generally interested in applying, please contact Dr. Frank Foerster (f.foerster at herts.ac.uk) '''About the research environment''' Research in Computer Science at the University of Hertfordshire has been recognised as excellent by the latest Research Assessment Exercise, with 90% of the research submitted being rated as internationally excellent or world-leading. The University of Hertfordshire provides a very stimulating environment, offering a large number of specialised and interdisciplinary seminars as well as general training and researcher development opportunities. The University is situated in Hatfield, in the green belt just north of London. Hatfield is close to Central London (less than 25 minutes by direct train to Kings Cross), with convenient access to Stansted, Luton and Heathrow airports, and, via the nearby historic town of St. Albans, also to Gatwick airport. Application forms and submission instructions are available under https://www.herts.ac.uk/study/schools-of-study/physics-engineering-and-computer-science/engineering-and-computer-science/research-in-engineering-and-computer-science/the-phd-programme-in-computer-science Applications from outside the UK or EU are eligible for this studentship. + |
| HSC Seminars 23 May 2022 Professor Ruth Parry + | Join HSC Seminars on 23 May, 2022 from 11am- 12noon for a talk by Professor Ruth Parry. The seminar is called "How experienced professionals show empathy in sensitive healthcare conversation". Email HSC.News@uea.ac.uk for more info on how to join! + |
| Health Communication - Open Rank, Full-Time, Tenure-Track Faculty Position 2019 + | Health Communication - Open Rank, Full-Time, Tenure-Track Faculty Position Department SC&I - Communication Salary Commensurate With Experience Posting Summary The Department of Communication at Rutgers University’s School of Communication and Information is hiring in the area of Health Communication. The appointment will begin Fall 2020. We welcome communication scholars conducting theory-driven, applied research to address health disparities and improve population health. We are particularly interested in scholars who examine the intersections between communication and community health. Such intersections might include building community capacity to prepare for, cope with, and recover from health-related crises including epidemics and/or disasters; facilitating health screening, prevention, and/or acute/chronic disease management in community settings; supporting the dissemination, transfer, and adaptation of evidence-based policies and practices for improving community health and wellness; and/or examining social support mechanisms or structures to better reach and serve marginalized populations. Our full-time faculty employs a wide range of empirical approaches in their research, and we welcome applications from scholars who use quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods approaches. We also encourage candidates whose scholarship intersects with, and extends, one or more of the department’s other research foci (organizational communication, communication and technology, interpersonal communication, and language and social interaction) and/or other areas within the school such as media studies and information science. For more about the Department of Communication and the School of Communication and Information (SC&I), see comminfo.rutgers.edu. Posting Number: 19FA1808 Posting Open Date: 07/15/2019 + |
| Healthcare Course Oxford 2025 + | Two-day training "Introduction to conversation analysis and health care encounters" *Date: 5 & 6 June 2025 *Course fee: £750.00 *Duration: 2 days *Total places: 20 *Type: Face to face course *Venue: Ewert House, Summertown, Oxford, UK This two day course is a contemporary working introduction to applying conversation analytic methods to the study of communication in health care. It includes formal lectures, practical exercises, demonstrations and an extended supervised small group practicum. Participants will learn about conversation analysis as a qualitative method for studying communication in health care, how to go about making video or audio recordings of naturally-occurring encounters between patients, caregivers and health care providers in different settings and gain practical skills in transcribing and analysing them. By the end of the course participants will understand how to apply conversation analytic methods either within standalone projects or alongside other methods in health services research towards the improvement of patient care. This course is led by Dr Rebecca Barnes, an expert in applying conversation analytic methods. It is open to anyone who would like to understand the basic principles behind conversation analytic methods and to develop practical skills how to apply them to health care encounter data. Participants do not need to have any previous experience or knowledge of conversation analytic methods, although involvement in, or future ambitions towards planning a research project applying these methods would make the course more relevant. + |
| Helsinki2022 + | The relations between Conversation Analysis (CA), sociology and social theory are complex, often ambiguous, and have sometimes been rather fraught. While there might be some relatively high levels of agreement amongst their practitioners of what CA is and does and is meant to achieve, that is not so much the case for the more open and broad terrains of sociology and social theory. Moreover, each of the domains above has changed in orientation, composition and academic location since the late 1960s when CA first came into existence. While initially a child of sociology, as CA has matured and extended its substantive and methodological reach, it has become a large intellectual domain in its own right, with inputs from, and relevance for, a host of other disciplines, notably linguistics, anthropology and psychology. It is now no longer at all clear how CA relates to sociology and social theory, and what each side currently does, or could in future, bring to the other. This symposium both reflects upon such matters and seeks to propose some answers to the question of how each domain may in future engage in new kinds of productive dialogue with the others. It does so by explicitly examining the linkages of multiple types of social and sociological theory with empirical interaction research, by investigating themes such as: the bearing of power, gender, institutions, culture, and other interaction-exogeneous features of context to the analysis of social interaction, the relevance of automatic behaviours and basic human needs for the unfolding of interaction, and the consequences of conceiving conversational turn-exchanges as dynamic systems vs. rituals. Leading international researchers in empirical interaction research and social/sociological theory are brought together to advance the frontiers of knowledge on such matters, critiquing and re-evaluating older positions and elaborating new perspectives on core questions about the nature of human interaction. + |
| Heriot-watt PhD position + | For students interested in Discursive Psychology, there is a funded PhD position associated with a project on Radically open science: Using discursive and rhetorical psychology to explore experimentation in action. The position is offered within the Centre for Applied Behavioural Sciences at Heriot-Watt University and will be supervised by Prof Stephen Gibson. More information about this, including the application deadline, is available here: https://enzj.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX/job/1737/ utm_medium=jobshare or by contacting Stephen at s.gibson@hw.ac.uk. + |
| Human Interaction Lab Launch at Tufts 29th September 2017 + | Lab Director Prof. J. P. De Ruiter is very pleased to invite you to the launch of the Human Interaction Lab at Tufts University, where we will be joined by two distinguished speakers: Prof. Alexa Hepburn and Prof. Jonathan Potter from Rutgers School of Communication and Information. The launch will be held in the Kreplick Conference Room, in the Psychology Department, 490 Boston Ave. Medford, MA 02155 from 9:45am-12:30 followed by lunch in the foyer of the Psychology building. Please RSVP here (http://bit.ly/hil_launch) to make sure we order enough food and refreshments. ===Timetable=== * 9:45: Coffee / biscuits outside the Kreplick Conference Room * 10am to 10:45: Prof. J. P. De Ruiter: How psychologists should not study interaction. * 10:45 to 11:30: Prof. Jonathan Potter: A discursive approach to psychological matters * 11:30-12:15: Prof. Alexa Hepburn: Emotion in interaction: Identifying and responding to upset * 12:30-1:30: lunch and discussion in the Psychology building foyer === Abstracts === ==== Prof J.P. de Ruiter: How psychologists should not study interaction. ==== I will introduce the Human Interaction Lab and our distinguished speakers with a talk that argues how and why human interaction cannot be studied properly using the traditional experimental methods that have been successful in other areas of the cognitive sciences. Of the many problems with these methods, I will focus on two important ones: (a) the trade-off between experimental control and ecological validity, and (b) problems regarding the quantification of interactive behavior. ==== Prof. Jonathan Potter: A discursive approach to psychological matters ==== This interactive session will introduce and overview the discursive approach to psychological matters. It will illustrate the contrast from more familiar cognitivist perspectives by considering how and why notions of memory, attribution and attitude are respecified. This respecification occasions different ways of thinking about data, method and analysis and opens up different pathways to social impact. It will highlight specific issues about the role of interaction in the conduct of psychological research. ===== Related reading: ===== * Potter, J. & te Molder, H. (2005). Talking cognition: Mapping and making the terrain. In H. te Molder & J. Potter (Eds). Conversation and cognition (pp. 1-54). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. * Potter, J. & Edwards, D. (2012). Conversation analysis and psychology. In Sidnell, J. & Stivers, T. (Eds). The handbook of conversation analysis (pp. 701-725). Oxford: Blackwell. ==== Prof. Alexa Hepburn: Emotion in interaction: Identifying and responding to upset ==== The traditional psychological notion of empathy invokes a relationship between two individuals who may possess differing capacities for tuning into the emotional states of the other. This notion of empathy captures something interesting, but it was not developed in a way that is sensitive to what empathy looks like in practice. To develop empathy as an analytic topic, Jonathan Potter and I explored the practices through which it is produced in a UK child protection helpline (see Hepburn & Potter, 2012 for an overview). One common practice we noticed involved call takers͛ formulations of the caller’s experiences, for example, when call takers describe a caller’s experience or emotional state, there are certain things that they attend to, the most obvious being their lack of direct access to them, e.g. ͚’this must be very upsetting for you’. In this paper, I explore responses to upset in a further two contrasting domains – a call between two sisters, and a therapeutic consultation. Analysis will show how interactants in these different environments claim and display access to one another’s experiences, and what this can tell us about the relationship between empathic formulations and the institutional task at hand. ===== Related Reading ===== * Hepburn, A. & Potter, J. (2012). Crying and crying responses. In A. Peräkylä & M-L. Sorjonen (Eds). Emotion in interaction (pp. 194-210). Oxford: Oxford University Press. + |
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| I Encontro de Analise da Conversa Etnometodologica 2017 + | I Encontro de Análise da Conversa Etnometodológica (I EnACE) é proposto pelos grupos de pesquisa Interação Social e Etnografia (ISE-UFRGS) e Fala-em-interação (FEI-Unisinos) e será realizado nos dias 25 e 26 de maio de 2017 na Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). I EnACE tem por objetivo reunir grupos de pesquisa e pesquisadores que se filiam à perspectiva teórica e metodológica da Análise da Conversa Etnometodológica (ACE) e consolidar uma rede de estudantes e profissionais que investigam a fala-em-interação social. + |
| I do CA, I like and/or love CA 2022 + | The wonderful MOVIN network has created a padlet to share the love of #EMCA - please submit your reasons you do/like/love CA! + |
| IADA2019 + | Call for Papers: International Association for Dialogue Analysis Conference, Milwaukee, July 2019 The 2019 IADA conference will be held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 24-27. The deadline for extended abstracts and panel proposals is February 15, 2019. For additional information, please see: https://www.uwp.edu/learn/departments/communication/iada-2019.cfm The conference theme is “Dialogic Matters: Social and Material Challenges for Dialogue in the 21st Century.” IADA 2019 invites presentations and panels that explore the various interconnections of dialogue, matter, matters of concern, and materiality. What are the specific social and material conditions which actually permit or facilitate dialogue? The conference will explore issues including the relevance and potential impact of various forms of dialogue on agency and action, the role of dialogue in addressing societal, political, cultural, medical, environmental, scientific, and technological 'matters of concern'. Proposals from any academic discipline addressing questions related to dialogue and dialogue studies are welcome. Questions regarding the conference may be directed to Theresa Castor, iada2019@uwp.edu + |
| IADA2026 + | The 2026 Conference of the International Association for Dialogue Analysis (IADA) will be held in Jyväskylä, Finland, on May 11-13, 2026, and will be hosted by the Department of Language and Communication Studies of the University of Jyväskylä. The conference will focus on the dynamic interconnections between dialogic processes and materiality in shaping societal and organizational phenomena. Several ongoing global developments, such as the climate crisis, pandemics, growing inequalities, and the proliferation of algorithmic technologies, challenge students, researchers, scholars, and educators to rethink the relationships between humans and their material environments. These developments raise fundamental questions that go to the heart of how we understand the nature of, for example, knowledge, interaction, power, and politics. They call us to overcome disciplinary polarization and contribute to new theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches that can serve as a basis for addressing the pressing issues of our time. Following the so-called ‘material turn’, a growing number of scholars in the human and social sciences recognize the deep entanglement of societal and organizational phenomena with materiality. This turn has recognized that material environments are not only about physical artifacts, but also about social and affective factors that both shape and are shaped by processes such as language, communication, and culture (Kuhn, Ashcraft & Cooren, 2017; Neville, Haddington, Heinemann & Rauniomaa, 2014; Pietikäinen, 2024; Streeck, Goodwin & LeBaron, 2011). To explore this interplay, scholars have developed and drawn upon a variety of theoretical positions, including actor-network theory (Latour, 2005), vital materialism (Bennett, 2007), agential realism (Barad, 2007), posthumanism (Braidotti, 2013), and the assemblage/agencement approach (Deleuze & Guattari, 1987). What these positions have in common is that they seek to overcome traditional dichotomies such as nature/culture, mind/matter, and human/non-human. This conference follows and seeks to enrich this general interdisciplinary trajectory. In keeping with IADA’s general focus on language as dialogue, it welcomes contributions on a wide range of topics and perspectives related to language use (e.g., conversation, discourse, and social interaction) that can help us better understand the dynamic interconnections between dialogic processes and materiality in shaping various societal and organizational phenomena. While much dialogue-related research has focused on human actors, it increasingly recognizes their mutual interconnectedness with materiality. This is evident already in Bakhtin’s words, which do not reduce dialogue to a purely human concern: “I hear voices in everything and dialogic relations among them” (Bakhtin, 1986, p. 169, emphasis in original). More recently, developments in domains such as multimodal conversation analysis (Mondada, 2019), digital discourse studies (Jones, 2020), and the constitutive view of communication (Ashcraft, Kuhn & Cooren, 2009; Cooren, 2006) have helped us to explore materiality in dialogic processes in different empirical contexts. The conference welcomes empirical, theoretical, and methodological papers from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Potential questions papers may address include, but are not limited to, the following: * How can we study and theorize the embodied (e.g., voice, gesture), physical, and environmental features of dialogue? * How do dialogues with materiality transform social narratives, organizational forms, and/or personal identities? * How do emerging technologies (e.g., algorithms, platforms) and ecological considerations challenge traditional understandings of materiality in dialogic practices? * How do material ecologies of contemporary production and consumption shape and orient social action? * What methodologies are needed to explore the material and affective registers of dialogic processes when they are understood as ‘pre-linguistic’ and ‘non-representational’? * How are societal and organizational phenomena materialized in and through material-discursive practices? * How do spaces, places, and atmospheres constitute and are constituted by dialogical action? * What ethical and political questions arise from the study of materiality in dialogical practices? Submit your abstract (max. 400 words including potential references) by 17 November 2025. The language of the conference is English. + |
| ICA-LSI Post-Conference at Georgetown 2019 + | * ICA Post-Conference * Value and Morality in Public Discourse * May 29, 2019 * Georgetown University, Department of Linguistics Concern regarding the morality, quality, and utility of public discourse is growing around the world. The organizers invite participants interested in language and social interaction (LSI) research to look beyond the moral panic and political partisanship permeating social media and the daily news cycle and to examine value (worth) and morality not as abstract philosophical, sociological, or cultural categories but as interactional phenomena. In particular, participants will reflect on the interactional mechanisms, accomplishment, social consequentiality, and cultural foundations of evaluations and assessments in public discourse. The purpose of this post-conference is to explore questions and issues related to value and morality in public discourse from an LSI perspective. Thus, the organizers wish to offer participants an opportunity to share ideas rather than present papers. The day-long conference will begin with a data session in which a panel of senior scholars will present their individual analyses of the same excerpt from public discourse data. Panelists will include Richard Buttny (Syracuse University), Donal Carbaugh (University of Massachusetts Amherst), and Deborah Tannen (Georgetown University). After the data session, participants will continue discussing the same data excerpt in breakout sessions. The afternoon will begin with roundtable sessions dedicated to the discussion of statements participants will be asked to submit to the organizers. Finally, the morning panelists will reflect on key themes and emerging research agendas in a closing session. The day will conclude with a social event. Program: * 8.30-9.00: Introductory remarks by the organizers * 9.00-11.00: Panel featuring senior scholars sharing their analyses of an excerpt from public discourse data * 11.00-11.30: Coffee break * 11.30-12.30: Breakout sessions dedicated to further discussion of the same data excerpt * 12.30-2.00: Lunch * 2.00-4.00: Roundtable sessions dedicated to discussions of abstracts submitted for the postconference * 4.00-4.30: Coffee break * 4.30-5.30: Closing session featuring senior scholars from the morning panel reflecting on key themes and emerging research agendas Participants representing all approaches within the LSI field (i.e., cultural, critical, discourse, EM/CA, practice and pragmatics approaches) are invited to register. The cost of registration is USD 50.00 Participants who register are asked to submit to the organizers a brief statement (150-200 words) responding to the following questions: * What are your research interests related to the post-conference theme (value and morality in public discourse)? * What is your preferred data (i.e., what do you regard as public discourse), and why? * What is your preferred research approach to public discourse? * What gap in relevant scholarship is your research designed to address? * What types of research collaborations would you be interested in pursuing? The organizers will use these statements to organize participants into breakout and roundtable sessions. Please email your statement to LangSocInt@gmail.com by May 3, 2019. Register for the conference here: https://www.icahdq.org/event/ValueandMoralityinPR_Postconf2019 Feel free to contact the organizers for more information. * Jessica Robles (Loughborough U, J.J.Robles@lboro.ac.uk) * Cynthia Gordon (Georgetown U, gordonc@georgetown.edu) * David Boromisza-Habashi (U of Colorado Boulder, dbh@colorado.edu) + |
