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| The 22nd Annual Conference on Language Interaction, and Culture 2016 + | 22ND ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE, INTERACTION AND CULTURE April 21-23, 2016 University of California, Los Angeles Kerckhoff Grand Salon (Map) Plenary Speakers: * Hannah Appel (University of California Los Angeles) * Mary Bucholtz (University of California Santa Barbara) * Graham Jones (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Presented by: The Center for Language, Interaction and Culture Graduate Student Association at the University of California, Los Angeles & The Language, Interaction, and Social Organization Graduate Student Association at the University of California, Santa Barbara + |
| The 25th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Social Organization + | The Language, Interaction, and Social Organization (LISO) Graduate Student Organization at UCSB & The Center for Language, Interaction and Culture (CLIC) Graduate Student Association at UCLA are pleased to host: The 25th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Social Organization University of California, Santa Barbara * May 17-18, 2019 * “Disrupt and Advance” * PLENARY SPEAKERS: TBD The LISO conference promotes interdisciplinary research and discussion in the analysis of naturally occurring human interaction. Papers will be presented by national and international scholars on a variety of topics in the study of language, interaction, and culture. This year’s conference theme is “Disrupt and Advance.” We understand ‘disrupt’ broadly as actions or ideas that intervene in or challenge the established theoretical, institutional, or narrative frame. The emphasis on disruption is an intentional examination of disciplinary constraints. By including ‘advance’ we hope to encourage submissions that operationalize critique into praxis. We welcome papers that engage in a critique of disciplinary conventions or somehow broaden the scope of (inter)disciplinary research, presenting innovative models for paths forward. We seek proposals for 20-minute paper presentations which address the conference theme as they relate to any of the following topics (see list below). While submissions based on the conference theme will be particularly welcome, innovative work on all aspects of language and interaction will be considered. * Cross-disciplinary perspectives * Ethics and research * Language acquisition * Language and class, (dis)ability, race/ethnicity, gender/sexuality and age * Language and education * Language and media * Language policy and practice * Meta-commentary on disciplinary frameworks * Multilingualism and cross-/intercultural communication * Non-dominant epistemologies * Political discourse, discussions of power * Politically-engaged scholarship + |
| The 26th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction and Social Organization May 19-20, 2023, UCSB + | The Language, Interaction, and Social Organization GSO at UCSB (LISO) and the Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture GSA at UCLA (CLIC) are pleased to host: The 26th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction and Social Organization May 19-20, 2023 University of California, Santa Barbara Theme: "Continuing and Restarting" Plenary Speakers: Marjorie Harness Goodwin (University of California, Los Angeles) (Full program will be announced soon) The LISO conference promotes interdisciplinary research and discussion in the analysis of naturally occurring human interaction. Papers will be presented by national and international scholars on a variety of topics in the study of language, interaction, and culture. We seek proposals for 20-minute paper presentations which address the conference theme as they relate to any of the following topics (see list below). While submissions based on the conference theme will be particularly welcome, innovative work on all aspects of language and interaction will be considered. Presentations related to the conference theme may include but are not limited to: Cross-disciplinary perspectives Ethics and Research Language acquisition Language and class, (dis)ability, race/ethnicity. gender/sexuality and age Language and Education Language and media Language policy and practice Meta-commentary on disciplinary frameworks Multilingualism and cross-/intercultural communication Non-Dominant epistemologies Political discourse, discussions of power Please send your abstract (up to 300 words) by 11:59 pm PST on February 18, 2023, to the LISO Coordinating Committee at lisoconference@gmail.com. For more information, visit the website: https://www.liso.ucsb.edu/conferences. + |
| The 2nd Annual CASLC End-of-Academic-Year Celebratory Talk 2021 + | The 2nd Annual CASLC End-of-Academic-Year Celebratory Talk, The Centre for Advanced Studies in Language & Communication (CASLC) at the University of York is delighted to present a talk by… * Professor Anssi Peräkylä * Department of Sociology, University of Helsinki, Finland * Disengagement in psychiatric encounters * Date: Tuesday 22nd June 2021 * Time: 2.00pm-3.30pm (UK time) * Place: Zoom. If you’re on the CASLC or CASLC-guest mailing list, you will receive a zoom link via google calendar. If you’re not on our mailing list, you can register for the talk by clicking on this link. * If you’re unable to use the online registration form, please contact: merran.toerien@york.ac.uk. Abstract Engagement is a substratum of social encounters. It involves the orientation by the interaction participants to each other physically and through perception, their collaboration in joint actions, and their sharing of the local moral order of the encounter. Goffman's early work pointed out a paradox of engagement: Engagement on one hand is a moral obligation for the interaction participants, but on the other, engagement is always shadowed by tendencies towards disengagement through withdrawal and side involvements. In my presentation, I will show how a young patient in psychiatric evaluation interviews oscillates between engagement and disengagement in her interactions with the clinicians interviewing her. I will also show how patients in couple therapy disengage posturally and through bodily side involvements during the talk where their spouses complain about them. I will suggest that it is analytically worthwhile to consider (dis)engagement as a multimodal Gestalt, where action, bodily participation and sharing of the moral order go together and index each other. Anssi Peräkylä is Professor of Sociology at the University of Helsinki. In 2019-2023 he holds the prestigious position of Academy Professor. He received his PhD at University of London (Goldsmiths' College) in 1992. His research topics include counselling, medical consultations and psychotherapy, as well as emotion and psychophysiological reactions in social interaction. His current research project focusses on the interconnections between narcissistic personality and interactional practices. Peräkylä has co-edited Conversation Analysis and Psychotherapy (CUP 2008) and Emotion in Interaction (OUP 2012); currently he is editing Body, Participation and the Self: Revisting Goffman (Routledge) with Lorenza Mondada. In recent years, his work has been published in Research in Language and Social Interaction, American Journal of Sociology, Social Psychology Quarterly and International Journal of Psychoanalysis. + |
| The 4th Annual CASLC Celebratory Talk - Lorenza Mondada 21st Sept 2023 + | The 4th Annual CASLC Celebratory Talk The Centre for Advanced Studies in Language & Communication (CASLC) at the University of York is delighted to present a talk by… Professor Lorenza Mondada, University of Basel Title: Offering an object here and now: multimodal, sequential and comparative issues * Date: Thursday 21st September 2023 Time: 2.30-4.00pm (UK time) * Place: Zoom. If you’re on the CASLC or CASLC-guest mailing list, you will receive a zoom link via google calendar. If you’re not on our mailing list, you can register by clicking on this link. https://forms.gle/YXbPZtkVqxWBSU5J8 If you’re unable to use the online registration form, please contact: merran.toerien@york.ac.uk. Abstract Offers have been described in CA, by mostly highlighting their linguistic formats (Couper-Kuhlen 2014, Curl 2006, Raymond et al. 2021) and categories such as ‘benefactor’/‘beneficiary’ (by contrast to requests, Schegloff 2007; Clayman/Heritage 2014; Kendrick/Drew 2014). The embodied formatting of offers has been less considered (but see Kärkkäinen/Keisanen 2012). This talk shows how the action of offering an object here and now (vs. offers to do a future action) is multimodally produced, involving the body manipulating the offered material objects, and is recognized on the basis of its visible-audible features. The paper also reveals offers’ potential ambiguities, both from the perspective of action formation and action ascription: the study focuses on possible “genuine” offers vs. offers that are treated as preliminaries to other actions, and accepted/refused in relation to them. This multiple-barreled nature of offers contributes to current debates and thoughts about action formation and action ascription. It also shows how the distinction between benefactor/beneficiary is questioned and even subverted, in relation to the way offers index and create specific rights and obligations. Finally, the paper discusses several sequential environments that might favor certain action ascription over others, making e.g. genuine offers unproblematically accepted or rather making offers in service of another action legitimate (or not). The analyses focus on offers of food samples in markets (see Mondada 2022), with some references to (and differences with) similar offers in shops (see Mondada, 2021). Despite their similarities, offers of samples to taste diverge importantly in the way they are recognized and (dis)aligned, inviting to reflect about the details that make an offer acceptable or not and about the comparability of actions in context. While offering food can be seen as a gift, in commercial encounters it can be made and interpreted as part of a larger activity (selling) and in service of its progressivity (offers as conducive to buying). Participants orient to these distinctions, shaping the sequential trajectory of offers and their responses, as well as the sequential environment within the larger activity in which they are produced. Video data are in French and German, collected in various markets in Alsace. + |
| The 4th Nordic Interdisciplinary Conference on Discourse and Interaction 2016 + | The 4th Nordic Interdisciplinary Conference on Discourse and Interaction Oslo, 23-25 November 2016 The registration is now open for abstracts to the next NORDISCO conference. You may submit an individual presentation or organize a panel with 3-6 invited participants. The deadline for submissions is 1 April (in less than a month!). For more information, see http://www.hf.uio.no/iln/english/research/news-and-events/events/conferences/2016/nordisco/ Plenary speakers: # Marja-Leena Sorjonen, Helsinki University:TBA # Kjersti Fløttum, University of Bergen: Genres of climate change narratives # Michal Krzyzanowski, Örebro University: Re/Constructing Neoliberalism through Policy Discourse: On Economisation of Language and Multilingualism in the European Union # Johannes Wagner, University of Southern Denmark: Cultural Probes in Second Language Learning in the Wild # Carla Jonsson, Stockholm University: Languaging, literacies and the negotiation of identies among multilingual children and adolescents On behalf of the organizing committee: Jan Svennevig, Margareth Sandvik, Kjell Lars Berge, Pia Lane, Johan Tønnesson, Kamilla Kraft, Yngve Hågvar, Karianne Skovholt, Jan Grue + |
| The 5th International Workshop on Symbiotic Interaction 2016 + | The call for papers for SYMBIOTIC 2016 (Padua, 29th - 30th September 2016) is open. This year it will include a qualitative track on the strict interdependence between humans and computers. In particular, works are welcome that address the following questions: * In what aspects of the interaction can we see that humans and machines are a whole ensemble, a hybrid? * What differentiates interaction with an adaptive or subliminal system from interaction with a regular computer system? * Is any assumption of adaptivity already present in interaction with regular computers? * How does the user make sense of the changes in an adaptive system? The accepted papers are published by Springer in a volume within the Lecture Notes on Computer Science series. More details can be found on the website: http://symbiotic2016.org. Submission deadline is April 30. Contact: symbiotic2016[at]gmail.com + |
| The 6th annual meeting of The Language and Social Interaction Working Group 2016 + | The 6th annual meeting of The Language and Social Interaction Working Group (LANSI) Teachers College, Columbia University New York City October 7-8 (Fri & Sat), 2016 INVITED SPEAKERS * Cecilia Ford (University of Wisconsin-Madison) * Agnes He (Stony Brook University) Call for proposals LANSI brings together scholars and students working on naturally-occurring data within the broad area of language and social interaction. In keeping with the LANSI spirit of diversity and dialog, we welcome abstracts from colleagues working on a variety of topics using discourse analytic approaches that include but are not limited to conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and critical discourse analysis. Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words and should include descriptions of the following aspects of the study: (1) problem(s) being addressed; (2) central claim(s); (3) data source(s) and analytic approach(es); (4) a short piece of data to support the main argument; (5) implication(s) of the findings. Please also include a 50-word summary. Abstracts will be blind-reviewed on the basis of clarity, specificity, originality, and the inclusion of the required components. Papers will be presented within a 15 or 20-minute slot with an additional 10 or 5 minutes for discussion. Deadline for electronic submission is May 31, 2016. Notification of acceptance or non-acceptance will be sent via email by July 15, 2016. For additional information and to submit an abstract, please visit: www.tc.edu/lansi Conference Co-chairs * Hansun Zhang Waring * Elizabeth Reddington * Di Yu lansi@tc.columbia.edu + |
| The 8th International conference on Conversation Analysis and Psychotherapy Helsinki + | The 8th International Conference on Conversation Analysis and Psychotherapy (ICCAP) Helsinki, 8-10 June 2016 Psychotherapies and counselling are based on talk. Obviously, it is not only the client’s own talk that is helpful by itself, but talking in interaction with a professional who helps the client towards therapeutic change. As a method for the study of talk-in-interaction, conversation analysis offers a way of observing the emergence and the social organisation of the therapeutic process. The conference brings together CA researchers who study psychotherapy or other types of mental health care encounters, such as counselling or psychiatric consultations. We also aim to further the dialogue between CA, clinical psychotherapy research and clinical work. Plenary talks will be given by Auli Hakulinen, Peter Muntigl and William B. Stiles. There will also be commentaries on the conference papers, given by Lorenza Mondada, Mikael Leiman, Christian Heath and Leena Ehrling. The abstract submission is closed. Notifications of acceptance have now been sent to all those who submitted abstracts for the conference. + |
| The Centre for Advanced Studies in Language & Communication (CASLC) at the University of York is delighted to present a talk by Kobin H. Kendrick, Judith Holler and Stephen C. Levison + | The Centre for Advanced Studies in Language & Communication (CASLC) at the University of York is delighted to present a talk by Kobin H. Kendrick, Judith Holler and Stephen C. Levison Title: On the multimodal nature of turn-taking: The interplay of talk, gaze and gesture in the coordination of turn transitions Note: the talk will be given by the first author; the second author will be in attendance and will join in the discussion; the third author will be with us in spirit. Date: Thursday 12th May 2022 Time: 2.30pm-4.00pm (UK time) Place: Zoom (please see our site to register for the talk) Abstract Turn-taking is a fundamental and universal feature of conversation. A central question in research on turn-taking is how speakers recognize the points of possible turn completion where transitions occur. Over the last 50 years, a cumulative body of research in conversation analysis (CA) has investigated turn-taking through naturalistic observation and rigorous qualitative description, identifying the precise linguistic cues that signal the relevance of transition. In the CA model of turn-taking, visible bodily actions play a minimal role. Quantitative research outside the CA tradition has, however, argued that visual cues are in fact central to the organization of turn-taking, but these studies have tended to employ relatively coarse measures that lack the emic validity required by CA. In this talk, we begin to reconcile these disparate strands of research and present new quantitative evidence for the role that gaze and gesture play in the organization of turn-taking. The data come from a corpus of dyadic conversations in which participants wore eye-tracking glasses for direct measurement of their gaze while they were also recorded by multiple cameras for a fine-grained analysis of their gestures. Combining quantitative and conversation-analytic methods, we show how the direction of a speaker’s gaze and the temporal organization of their gestures influence the relevance of transition between speakers. The findings, we will argue, demonstrate the fundamentally multimodal nature of the human turn-taking system and bring us one step closer to a model of turn-taking in which visible bodily actions play a central role. Presenter’s bio Kobin H. Kendrick is a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of York. His research uses conversation analysis, at times combined with quantitative methods, to investigate basic organizations of social interaction such as turn-taking, action-sequencing, and repair. A recent line of research, conducted with Paul Drew, has examined the organization of assistance in interaction and identified linguistic and embodied methods by which participants recruit assistance. More can be found at http://www.kobinkendrick.org/. + |
| The Centre for Advanced Studies in Language & Communication (CASLC) is delighted to present a talk by Dr Ivor Sokolić + | The Centre for Advanced Studies in Language & Communication (CASLC) is delighted to present a talk by… Dr Ivor Sokolić Politics and International Relations University of Hertfordshire, UK Meaningful Acknowledgement: Types and Triggers in Transitional Justice Interactions Date: Thursday 21st October 2021 Time: 2.30pm-4.00pm (UK time) Place: Zoom. If you’re on the CASLC or CASLC-guest mailing list, you will receive a zoom link via google calendar. You do not need to register if you’re on one of our mailing lists. If you’re not on our mailing list, you can register for the talk by clicking on this link. If you’re unable to use the online registration form, please contact: merran.toerien@york.ac.uk. Abstract Acknowledgment of wrongdoing is considered necessary for relationship transformation in processes of transitional justice. However, the concept has only been studied in the institutional and legal context. Its social and interpersonal dimensions remain poorly understood. This talk addresses this gap by studying interactions between ordinary citizens across ethnic lines in response to war crimes trials. The talk proposes a novel typology that is used to identify meaningful acknowledgement in 162 inter-ethnic exchanges derived from focus groups in four former Yugoslav countries. The study also identifies what triggers this ideal type and finds that the triggers are related to conversational changes in identity constructions and knowledge claims. But the triggers only occur when individuals also endorse each other’s views across ethnic lines. The article thus shows how relationships transform in inter-ethnic interactions, even when individuals hold differing views and arguments about transitional justice. + |
| The Centre for Advanced Studies in Language & Communication presents a talk by Simon Stewart + | Date: Thursday 19th November 2020 Time: 2.30pm-4.00pm (UK time) Place: Zoom. To receive joining instructions, please contact Merran.Toerien@york.ac.uk. Merran can also add you to the CASLC-guests mailing list should you wish to receive information about our future events. Abstract The presented research examines the sequential organisation of treatment-related preferences expressed by patients and their co-present romantic partners during clinical consultations for people with low or intermediate risk localised prostate cancer. A conversation analysis of 28 diagnostic and treatment consultations was carried out with data collected from four clinical sites across England. When healthcare professionals challenged, rejected, or dismissed expressions of preference, it caused a sequential pattern of discordance and activity contamination, pivoting the interaction toward an adversarial configuration. This pivot led to patients and partners silencing themselves. Two deviant cases were identified that did not contain this structural pivot. These findings highlight the immediate consequences of expressions of preference being resisted, rejected, and dismissed in a context that should be sensitive to such expressions. The adversarial configuration of these moments contaminated the interactions during a time where cooperation is desirable. The deviant case analysis offers an alternative to the salient pattern observed across the collection. Biography Simon is a final-year PhD Candidate at the University of Southampton whose primary research relates to communication during clinical encounters for people with localised prostate cancer who attend with their spouse or romantic partner. Simon graduated with a first-class BSc in Psychology from the Open University before attending the University of Southampton to carry out an ESRC funded 1+3 PhD programme. + |
| The Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) conference + | The Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) conference will be held on March 9-11, 2018. The GURT 2018 theme is Approaches to Discourse. Discourse analysis, or the study of language in use or language “beyond the sentence,” has long been recognized in linguistics as one of its most expansive, yet least defined, areas. It also transcends the field, fitting comfortably in disciplines as varied as communication studies, anthropology, sociology, and education (among many others). GURT 2018 will bring together leading researchers from around the world and from various disciplines to take stock of current research and foster communication across approaches to discourse. Plenary speakers include Donal Carbaugh (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), John Heritage (University of California, Los Angeles), Susan Philips (University of Arizona), Jürgen Streeck (The University of Texas at Austin), Deborah Tannen (Georgetown University), and Ruth Wodak (Lancaster University). GURT 2018 invites proposals for individual papers, posters, and colloquia from various approaches to discourse analysis that address any of the field’s diverse topical and theoretical foci, types and sources of data, methodological questions, and practical applications. The submission deadline is October 31, 2017. More information about the conference, including submission guidelines, can be found here: https://gurt.georgetown.edu/GURT2018 Conference organizer: Cynthia Gordon gordonc@georgetown.edu / cyngordon@gmail.com + |
| The Rollercoaster of Conversation at New Scientist Live - London 22nd-25th September 2016 + | Dear EM/CA colleagues, You are invited to join a group of analysts testing out a new event format designed to demo EM/CA methods to a non-specialist public in the context of a science communication fair. From the 22nd - 25th September 2016, the New Scientist Live (https://live.newscientist.com) will be hosting a huge public communication of science event, within which the 'Chat Lab' will host representatives from various methodologies for analyzing spontaneous human interaction, from Natural Language Processing to EM/CA methods. The 'Rollercoaster of Conversation' is format designed for this event to demonstrate how EM/CA works - it involves using media technologies and a mix of skilled and trainee analysts to to quickly capture, transcribe and produce ad-hoc collections and analyses. The outcome for the public is that they get a snapshot insight into the intricate structure of the natural interactions they have just participated in - like seeing a photo of yourself at the bottom of a roller-coaster ride. You can find a full description of the format and further details here: http://bit.ly/chatlab2016 If you are available to join in with one of the days - from Thursday 22nd to Sunday 25th September, 11:30-5:30pm - at the Excel Centre in London, please get in touch with s.albert@qmul.ac.uk and we will be happy to add you to one of the EM/CA demo teams for the day and send you further information in preparation for the event (ticket to the NSL event and a lunch between 1-2pm will be provided). NB: On Sunday 25th at 10:30-11:10, Liz Stokoe will also be on the Technology stage presenting 'Talk as Technology' and having a short discussion/Q&A with Saul Albert: https://live.newscientist.com/elizabeth-stokoe/ + |
| The Second Conference of the International Association for Cognitive Semiotics + | The Second Conference of The International Association for Cognitive Semiotics, 20-22.VI.2016 Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland iacs2016@bacon.umcs.lublin.pl Cognitive semiotics is the study of meaning-making writ large: in language and by means of other sign vehicles, as well as in perception, and in action. Cognitive semiotics investigates the properties of our meaningful interactions with the surroundings – as well as those of other animals – in all domains, in the natural as well as in the social world. It integrates perspectives, methods and insights from cognitive science, cognitive linguistics and semiotics, placing signs and sign use (in the broadest sense) into the wider context of cognitive, social, and neurobiological processes, using experimental methods, as well as classical text analysis and theoretical disquisitions. The International Association for Cognitive Semiotics (IACS) aims at the further establishment of Cognitive Semiotics as the trans-disciplinary study of meaning, combining concepts, theories and methods from the humanities and the social and natural sciences. Organizers of the IACS 2016 conference: International Association for Cognitive Semiotics (IACS) and Dept. of Logic and Cognitive Science, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin in cooperation with Dept. of Cognitive Linguistics, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin Previous edition: IACS 2014: Establishing Cognitive Semiotics, 25-27.IX.2014, Lund, Sweden + |
| The Social Side of Robots and AI - Aalborg course 2024 + | Title: The social side of robots and AI. Exploring video-based method for the analysis of interaction with robots and artificial intelligence Time: November 12-15, 2024 Place: Aalborg University, Denmark ----- THE SOCIAL SIDE OF ROBOTS AND AI. EXPLORING VIDEO-BASED METHOD FOR THE ANALYSIS OF INTERACTION WITH ROBOTS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE – NOVEMBER 2024 The Doctoral School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Aalborg Universitet Welcome to The social side of robots and AI. Exploring video-based method for the analysis of interaction with robots and artificial intelligence ECTS: 3 Time: November 12-15, 2024 Place: Aalborg University, Rendsburggade 14, 9000 Aalborg. Room will follow Number of seats: 12 Deadline: 29 October 2024 Organizer: The Doctoral Programme in Communication and Psychology ===Lecturers:=== Dr. Antonia L. Krummheuer, Associate Professor for Qualitative Methods and Technology Studies, Institute for Communication and Psychology, member of the HRI Lab at Aalborg University and the steering committee of Aalborg Robotic Challenge, is organizing and teaching on the course. Dr. Hannah R. M. Pelikan, postdoc in the AI in Motion group, Department of Culture and Society, Linköping University, developed several techniques for bridging video ethnography and interaction design. She is part of the program committee for the HRI 2024 conference and co-editor of the special issue on Sound in HRI at the ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction. ===Enrolment requirements:=== No paper will be required. However, we will need an abstract from every participant before the course starts to get an overview over the topics and be able to relate to their projects during the course. Participation will also require preparing and hold a presentation during the course. Description: This PhD course prepares students to explore video-based methods for the analysis and design of peoples’ interactions with robots or artificial intelligence (AI) in social settings. Social and collaborative robots as well as AI systems are increasingly leaving factory shop floors and research laboratories and enter the everyday life and routines of various people in private, public, institutional, and organizational settings. Robots and AI are integrated in diverse contexts including family interactions, education, teamwork, public transport, and hospital settings. In difference to controlled laboratory environments, the technologies increasingly enter the complexity and “messiness” of real-world contexts. They meet a diversity of people engaging and interacting in various forms and for various purposes with the technology. Traditionally, laboratory research uses quantitative methods often focusing on dyadic task-based interaction, with one user and one robotic or AI system solving one specific task. However, to understand what happens when people engage with robots and AI in real-world settings, we need to open our perspective to the specific social context, the diversity of people that engage with the technologies and the various forms in which people engage/disengage, interact or collaborate with the technology as a single user, in groups or with other participation forms or roles. Therefore, we need to turn to qualitative methods that can deal with the complexity and dynamics of interaction with robots and AI in real world settings. The course introduces video-based methods for analyzing and designing robots or AI for real-world settings, combining video/ethnography and co-creation tools from participatory and interaction design. We will focus on methodological issues concerning 1) Describing practices using ethnomethodology, video ethnography and analysis, 2) Intervening in practices using enactments, bodystorming, and voice-overs, 3) Reflecting on how these practices inform our understanding of real-world practices and concrete guidelines and how this in turn can inform the design of robots and AI, thus facilitating interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration. ===Learning Objectives:=== The students will gain knowledge and practical experience in: a) Planning and conducting video ethnographic studies, including data collection, ethics, transcription, and video analysis. b) Preparation and facilitation of collaborative data sessions and co-creation workshops, using techniques for rapid prototyping, including doing enactments, bodystorming and vocal sketching. c) Facilitating and navigating interdisciplinary collaborations by using techniques that can bridge both fields. ===Teaching methods:=== The course will be divided into two parts. The first part will be taught through lectures that introduce methods and workshops in which the students gain firsthand practical experience with these methods. In the second part of the course, the students will relate and apply the acquired knowledge to their own PhD-projects and present their results for discussion at the end of the course. For practical and pedagogical reasons, the exercises in the first part of this course will particularly focus on video-based methods exploring the impact of robots on social practices in public settings and explore how a deeper understanding of these practices can inform design. Public spaces are easy to access for students during exercises in the workshops and the course lectures have the relevant data to supplement the workshops. In the second part of the course, we will encourage students to apply the methods to their own PhD projects, which may include robots and AI in any social settings. ===Target group=== This course is directed to an interdisciplinary audience looking for a) students of social science and humanities aiming to understand meaning-making processes in social settings in which robots or AI are or should be embedded, b) design students who are interested in exploring material and social aspects when designing robots or AI for interactions in real world settings, and c) students of robotics, HRI, HCI who are programming or building robots and AI and are interested in learning techniques for grounding their development in a deeper understanding of human practices and human-centred design processes. To summarize, the course is for every PhD student who is studying, designing or developing human-robot or human-AI interaction in any social setting. Both Danish and foreign students are welcome. The course will be taught in English. ==Program outline::= ===Day 1: Describing=== Overview of the course & welcome Introduction Lecture to the topic of observation for design (video observation, transcription, and video analysis Workshops on observation, transcription, and video analysis Q&A ===Day 2: Intervening=== Introduction Lecture video-based and participatory methods for rapid prototyping with focus on co-creation methods like enactment and bodystorming Workshops testing different methods of enacting human robot interaction Open Q&A session Day 3: Describing and intervening in own PhD projects Broadening the perspective to other application scenarios & bridging analysis and design in a mini-project: Dive into particular themes of observing, analyzing enacting and informing/designing in regard to your own project (lecture and discussion) Afternoon: group or individual work relating the knowledge to the students’ own projects Day 4: Reflecting Finalizing mini-project work and individual / group presentation preparation Students’ presentations Final Discussions and evaluation ===Key literature=== Mandatory Interaction analysis (methods) Heath, C., Hindmarsh, J., & Luff, P. 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Ethnographic Approach to Design. In K. L. Norman & J. Kirakowski (Eds.), The Wiley Handbook of Human Computer Interaction (pp. 125--141). https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118976005.ch7 Lucero, A., Dalsgaard, P., Halskov, K., & Buur, J. (2016). Designing with Cards. I P. Markopoulos, J.-B. Martens, J. Malins, K. Coninx, & A. Liapis (Red.), Collaboration in Creative Design: Methods and Tools (s. 75–95). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29155-0_5 Secondary Related to the case of traffic: Haddington, Pentti and Rauniomaa, M. (2013). Interaction between road users: offering space in traffic. Space and Culture Vol 17 (2). Laurier, E., Muñoz, D., Miller, R., & Brown, B. (2020). A Bip, a Beeeep, and a Beep Beep: How Horns Are Sounded in Chennai Traffic. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 53(3), 341–356. https://doi.org/10.1080/08351813.2020.1785775 Liberman, K. (2013). The Local Orderliness of Crossing Kincaid. I K. Liberman (Red.), More Studies in Ethnomethodology (s. 11–43). SUNY Press. More general Crabtree, A., Rouncefield, M., & Tolmie, P. (2012). Doing Design Ethnography. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2726-0 Matarić, M., 2018: On Relevance: Balancing Theory and Practice in HRI. ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, 7(1):8:1–8:2. https://doi.org/10.1145/3209770. Moore, R.J., M.H. Szymanski, R. Arar & G-J. Ren, (Eds.), 2018: Studies in Conversational UX Design. Wiesbaden: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95579-7. Šabanović, S., 2010: Robots in Society, Society in Robots. International Journal of Social Robotics, 2(4): 439–450. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-010-0066-7. Šabanović, S. & W.-L. Chang, 2016: Socializing Robots: Constructing Robotic Sociality in the Design and Use of the Assistive Robot PARO. AI & SOCIETY, 31(4): 537–551. https://doi. org/10.1007/s00146-015-0636-1. Suchman L. Human-Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated Actions. Second edition. Cambridge University Press; 2007. Weiss A, Spiel K. Robots beyond Science Fiction: mutual learning in human–robot interaction on the way to participatory approaches. AI & Society. 2022; 37:1-15. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-021-01209-w. Ylirisku, S. & J. Buur, 2007: Designing with Video. Focusing the User-Centred Design Process. Wiesbaden: Springer. Important information concerning PhD courses: We have over some time experienced problems with no-shows for both project and general courses. It has now reached a point where we are forced to take action. Therefore, the Doctoral School has decided to introduce a no-show fee of DKK 3.000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start. This can hopefully also provide new students a chance to register for courses during the year. We look forward to your registration. For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration, aauphd@adm.aau.dk + |
| TherapeuticCommunityTalk 2016 + | http://www.therapeutic-communities-talk.com/ Website on communication in drug addiction rehabilitation group meetings. A project using conversation analysis + |
| Thinking, doing, learning 2019 Finland + | '''Thinking, doing, learning 2019, Jyväskylä, Finland''' ''''Call for Papers''' The 4th international conference Thinking, doing, learning: Usage based perspectives on second language learning will be held in the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, on June 17-19, 2019. The aim of TDL is to advance our understanding of what it means to take a usage-based approach to L2 learning and L2 research. We invite researchers to explore a wide variety of topics related to language usage, language learning, and cognition. These include questions such as what it means to interact in L2 in different social contexts, how speakers accomplish social actions in moment-to-moment sense-making activities, and what is the nature of language use environments as well as sediments of usage events left as “acquired linguistic constructions” in the individual language learner. This variety of questions involves strong, empirical and theoretical considerations of language, learning, and cognition: *what is language – constructions or interactional competence? *what is learning – social action or long-term portability? *what is cognition – an individual property or a socially distributed phenomenon?, and *what are the implications for L2 teaching? We therefore invite conference contributions that draw on epistemologies, theories, and methods from across the spectrum of usage-based language learning research, including data-driven and theory driven empirical investigations of the relation between cognition, context, interaction, and language learning. We are particularly, but not exclusively, interested in research that tackles (aspects of) the above-mentioned questions about the nature of language, learning, and cognition. We invite the submission of abstracts (for paper or poster presentations) addressing these aspects of L2 learning research. These include, but are not limited to: *Construction-based language learning *Conversation Analytic approaches to L2 learning and interactional competence *Embodiment, gestures and language learning *Dynamic Systems / Chaos-Complexity-based language learning *Linguistic relativity, thinking-for-speaking and language learning *Language socialization *Socio-cognitive, socio-cultural, ecological language learning *Pedagogical implications of the above-mentioned strands Talks will be allocated 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for questions. Posters will be put up on the first day of the conference and remain up for the duration of the conference. The language of the conference is English. Abstracts of no more than 300 words (excluding references) should be submitted via the electronic abstract submission system. Please indicate whether you would like to present a poster or a paper. All abstracts will be subject to double-blind peer review by an international Scientific Committee. The deadline for abstract submission is 5 November 2018. Notification of acceptance will be given by 10 December 2018. For further information, contact tdl2019@jyu.fi Welcome to Jyväskylä! + |
| Three doctoral student positions in conversation analysis / interaction analysis at the University of Oulu 2018 + | Three 4-year and salaried doctoral student positions in conversation analysis / interaction analysis open at the University of Oulu (http://www.oulu.fi/university/) in the COACT (Complexity in (inter)action) research community (http://www.oulu.fi/coact/). One doctoral student position the project “Smart Communication: The Situated Practices of Mobile Technology and Lifelong Digital Literacies” (http://www.oulu.fi/university/node/52132), led by Assistant Professor Florence Oloff (florence.oloff@oulu.fi) 1. Doctoral student, Faculty of Humanities (Topic: The use of mobile devices in face-to-face interaction): https://rekry.saima.fi/certiahome/open_job_view.html?did=5600&jc=1&id=00005573&lang=en Two doctoral student positions in the project “iTask: Linguistic and embodied features of interactional multitasking” (http://www.oulu.fi/englishphilology/node/13399), led by Professor Pentti Haddington (pentti.haddington@oulu.fi) 2. Doctoral student, English philology, Faculty of Humanities (Topic: Interaction in international crisis management): https://rekry.saima.fi/certiahome/open_job_view.html?did=5600&jc=1&id=00005570&lang=fi 3. Doctoral student, English philology, Faculty of Humanities (Topic: Linguistic and embodied features of interactional multitasking): https://rekry.saima.fi/certiahome/open_job_view.html?did=5600&jc=1&id=00005569&lang=fi + |
| Tilburg-Professorship-2025 + | Tilburg University's School of Humanities and Digital Sciences is seeking a full professor of Communication, Cognition, and Information Department: Communication and Cognition Location: Tilburg Contract size: 0.8 – 1.0 FTE (32 – 40 hours per week) Full-time gross monthly salary: minimum €7,202 and maximum €10,441 Contract duration: 18 months, with the prospect of permanent employment Context The Department of Communication and Cognition is highly multidisciplinary and combines communication and cognitive sciences with artificial intelligence (AI) and (computational) linguistics, human-computer interaction, psychology, and sociology. We conduct both fundamental and applied research, striving to contribute to today's major issues. For example, we study how we can improve communication about climate change, how we can use data to properly inform patients about treatment options, and how we can turn polarized online discussions into more constructive interactions. We also work on improving the understanding and the responsible use of AI and digital technologies. We use a wide range of methodologies, including experiments, surveys, corpus analysis, computational modeling, interviews, digital ethnography, and design research. In addition, we are responsible for a successful Bachelor's and Master's program in Communication and Information Sciences. Within these programs, students can follow three tracks: Bedrijfscommunicatie and Digitale Media, Communication and Cognition, and New Media Design. In the Department, we place great emphasis on sustainable research and education and attach great importance to academic freedom and scientific independence. We do also encourage team science and (interdisciplinary) collaboration (with colleagues within and outside the Department) because we believe this is essential to tackle the complex challenges we face. We see research as a steady and curiosity-driven process that requires careful reflection and attention. That is why we value slow science and prefer quality over quantity. Description of the chair Due to the departure of a colleague and the growth of our Department, we are looking to strengthen our team with a full professor who will conduct research and teach on the cognitive or social aspects of human communication (face-to-face or digital). In terms of content, you will align with and help shape one of the Department's priorities (e.g., climate communication, responsible and human-centered AI research, health communication, misinformation and polarization, and interpersonal and multimodal communication). You are also expected to be willing and able to take on administrative positions within the Department and to help shape education and research for the coming years, based on the values that are central to the Department. + |
| Traces-goodwin + | This special issue of Tracés originates in the idea that although the work of many foreign scholars is (more or less) accessible to French academics, it is not equally read and debated. This special issue is thus structured around the translation of original papers and chapters by foreign scholars, which have been selected by the editorial team as illustrative of a lack of adequate reception of certain works, and divided into three thematic sections. The first section is dedicated to Charles Goodwin’s work. A professor at UCLA, Goodwin is famous as a linguist anthropologist for his pioneering research on situated action and for his studies of interaction. The four articles deal more specifically with his latest work on what is referred to as the principle of co-operation, in an interdisciplinary perspective (sociology, linguistics, semiotics and art). A second section stages a methodological debate in economic history, prompted Francesco Boldizzoni’s 2011 book, The Poverty of Clio : Resurrecting Economic History. This section includes the French translation of the first chapter of the book about the birth of cliometrics in the middle of the twentieth century and the discussion of its thesis by French practitioners of economic history. The third section is devoted to the commons in Italy. It demonstrates the originality of a theory of common goods elaborated by scholars in Italy where political struggles and initiatives have fuelled alternative conceptions of the relationships between law and politics. The papers collected in this section analyse current social transformations and the way the law tentatively reflects them. [http://traces.revues.org/6509 Link to the volume] (FR) [https://traces.hypotheses.org/1674 Charles Goodwin's general comments on the special issue] (EN) [https://traces.hypotheses.org/1763 Charles Goodwin's response] to [http://emcawiki.net/Quere2016 Louis Quéré] (EN) [https://traces.hypotheses.org/1749 Charles Goodwin video clips] (EN) + |
| Transcription job + | Applications are invited for a Transcriber to work with a team working with Dr Jack Joyce on a research programme on the New remission care pathway: Diabetes Adaptive Weight management Network “NewDAWN” project. This will deliver a new pathway for patients to achieve remission from type 2 diabetes—our aim is to offer a care pathway which supports the varied needs of patients so they can each lose as much weight as possible. The successful applicant will support Qualitative Researchers in the Health Behaviours team by transcribing audio recordings using the Jeffersonian system of transcription. The line manager and Health Behaviours team will be committed to supporting your professional development. Responsibilities will include transcribing audio recordings, prepare and manage the interactional data, including data anonymization, and closely follow information security protocols. You will have experience in transcription for research purposes, have experience with or willingness to learn Jeffersonian transcription, be able to manage your own workload and administrative activities, have a strong attention to detail and excellent communication skills. You will had experience and knowledge of audio/video software (e.g. Audacity, Adobe Audition) and Microsoft Office. You will be able to work remotely, and be able to work flexibly around data collection which will include very light and intense periods of transcription You will be based in the Radcliffe Primary Care building, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, Radcliffe Primary Care Building, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6GG as your normal place of work but you will be able to agree a pattern of regular remote working with your line manager. The position is funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and Diabetes UK until 28 February 2024 in the first instance. For further information or to discuss the post please contact Dr Jack Joyce jack.joyce@phc.ox.ac.uk. + |
| Turn-taking workshop VU Amsterdam 2027 + | <b>Turn-taking in Social Interaction: 5-day workshop</b><br> 3-7 May 2027<br> Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Facilitators: * Galina B. Bolden (Rutgers University) * Elliott M. Hoey (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, local organizer) * Chase Wesley Raymond (University of Colorado, Boulder) * Jeffrey D. Robinson (Portland State University) Conversations are built out of turns at talk, whose orderly exchange serves as a fundamental form of social organization. This five-day workshop centers on this turn-taking organization from the perspective of Conversation Analysis. The workshop is organized in-person at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam (The Netherlands). The workshop covers the Sacks, Schegloff, & Jefferson (1974) turn-taking model and is based on the forthcoming book <i>Turn-taking in Social Interaction</i> by Raymond, Robinson, and Bolden (Cambridge University Press). The topics we will cover include: * Turn-constructional units, transition relevance, and projectability * Multi-unit turns * Turn-allocation ordering and techniques * Overlapping talk * Silence and tun-taking * Specialized turn-taking systems The workshop features a mix of plenary sessions and small-group work on data provided by the facilitators, with emphasis on hands-on experience in the analysis of turn-taking in actual interactions. By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to describe and defend the turn-taking model, to apply it toward the analysis of conversation, and to identify and pursue researchable turn-taking phenomena. <i>Who is this for?</i> Applications are welcome from all, but the workshop is geared toward those interested in pursuing the study of, and who have some prior familiarity with, Conversation Analysis. The application form will ask you to specify your experience/training to date. Spaces are limited. <i>How much will it cost?</i> The cost per applicant is €480. This includes workshop participation and catered coffee breaks. All other expenses are participants’ responsibilities. We will put those interested in sharing lodging with others in contact. <i>How do I apply?</i> Apply using this application form: https://forms.gle/p2YetUcZ1p7N2RcYA <u>Important dates</u> * Deadline for application: 30 September 2026 * Decision of acceptance/waitlist: 20 October 2026 * Final dropout date: 31 January 2027 * Workshop: 3-7 May 2027 Questions may be directed to Elliott Hoey (e.m.hoey@vu.nl) and Galina Bolden (gbolden@comminfo.rutgers.edu) + |
| Two CA courses at York University 13th-17th June 2016 + | TWO CONVERSATION ANALYSIS COURSES UNIVERSITY OF YORK, 13-17 JUNE 2016 These two CA courses run consecutively in the week of 13-17 June 2016. Potential participants can apply to do one or both (see below for booking details for each). For any further enquiries please contact Ray Wilkinson (ray.wilkinson@sheffield.ac.uk) 1. ADVANCED CONVERSATION ANALYSIS SUMMER SCHOOL Date: 13-15 June 2016 Venue: University of York Cost: Free (But participants will need to sort out their own accommodation, food, transport etc as necessary) TEACHING STAFF: Celia Kitzinger (University of York) Ray Wilkinson (University of Sheffield) Sue Wilkinson (University of York) Richard Ogden (University of York) Merran Toerien (University of York) Further details and an on-line booking form are available here: http://wrdtc.ac.uk/event/conversation-analysis-summer-school2016/ 2. ACTION SEQUENCING WORKSHOP Date: 16-17 June 20162 Venue: University of York TEACHING STAFF: Gene Lerner (University of California, Santa Barbara) Ray Wilkinson (University of Sheffield) Cost: £150 Further details, including how to book, are available here: https://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/about/news-and-events/department/2015/workshoponactionsequencing/ + |
| Two Marie-Curie PhD positions, University of Tampere, Finland + | The Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tampere, Finland, invites applications for two Doctoral Student (Marie Skłodowska-Curie) positions for three years (36 months) in EuroAgeism research programme. The planned commencement date for the positions is in June – October 2018. Programme overview The EuroAgeism research programme, funded under Horizon 2020, MSCA-Innovative training network, consists of a multi-disciplinary, multi-sectorial, science-policy international network of researchers, policy makers and social and health care professionals. The goal of the network is to train professionals who can function effectively and comfortably at any of the intersections between science and policy. EuroAgeism is a consortium of high profile universities, research institutions and an NGO that are located in Israel, Belgium, Czech Republic, Poland, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Finland and Sweden. Across participating universities a total of 15 Doctoral Student positions are being advertised. The PhD students will benefit not only from leadership by expert research supervisors, but also from secondments in academia, policy and health organizations, training and transferable-skills courses and active participation in workshops and conferences over the course of the program. LINKIKSI https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Pl4S5f7pgeI7Xa8gp7JPVkIV1vAU5Ytug-Nv0IqzWHg/edit Eligibility To be eligible, the candidate must simultaneously fulfil the following criteria at the time of recruitment by the beneficiary concerned in the frame of this project: • The candidate must have a Master’s (or equivalent) Degree in an applicable field with interest to gain PhD in the field social sciences. • The candidate must have an excellent command of English. Please see the required minimum scores in English language tests (TÄHÄN LINKKI) • At the time of selection by the host institute, the candidate must not have resided or carried out his/her main activity (work, studies, etc.) in Finland for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to his/her appointment. • The candidate must be, at the time of recruitment by University of Tampere, in the first four years (full-time equivalent) of his/her research careers and have not been awarded a doctoral degree. Salary The remunerations of the recruited early stage researchers will be according to Marie Skłodowska-Curie Horizon 2020 requirements for early stage researchers by the European Commission (Horizon 2020, Work Programme 2016–2017). The salary is based on a fixed monthly payment set by the EU. For more information on the MSCA ITN, including information about country coefficient, see: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/wp/2016_2017/main/h2020-wp1617-msca_en.pdf There will be a four-month trial period in the beginning of the work contract. Application Candidates are invited to submit all application documents in English through the University's online application system. The deadline for submitting applications is 15:45 (UCT+2) on 31 January, 2018. The link to the application form is on the bottom of the page. If you are interested in both EuroAgeism positions at the University of Tampere, please submit your application with to research proposals. The applications must include the following attachments: • A cover letter, stating your research motivation and interests; including relevant background (max 1 page) • A brief outline of a research proposal pertinent to the project chosen (max 1 page) • CV following TENK template, including a publication list (LINKKI OHJEISIIN) • 2 letters of recommendation • Master degree documentation- Official documents confirming that you have successfully finished pre-graduate studies and can apply for PhD position • Previous scientific experience and the topic of the diploma thesis (or other small research thesis successfully passed before the application) • The relevant documents confirming your qualifications and English skills Timeline: Deadline for submission of applications January 31st, 2018 Interviews will be held in February-March, 2018 Job offers to successful candidate, April, 2018 Start of the employment, June-Oct, 2018 The distinct profiles of the two PhD -positions are defined as follows: 1. The Grass-Roots of Ageism: The Dynamics of Ageist Practice in Institutional Interaction, co-Supervisors: Dr. Nikander (pirjo.nikander@uta.fi), Prof. Ruusuvuori (Johanna.Ruusuvuori@uta.fi) Objectives: Using data from carefully selected institutional and professional sites, this project looks at age dynamics and ageist practice in (inter)action. Central empirical focus will be given to key client -professional, employer - employee encounters to enable detailed scrutiny of ageism as it unfolds on the everyday grass-root level. Utilizing conversation and discourse analytic perspectives and methodology, the project yields details of how ageist practice is born, sustained and challenged in and through situated language use. The study assumes that such understanding of the key characteristics, and the dynamic unfolding of –isms-in-interaction, represents a crucial step towards working against such practice. Expected Results: The project sets out to map current ageist or age-inclusive institutional and professional practice. Through this mapping, the project also ameliorates the deleterious effects of ageism. The results will provide research-based forms of intervention and support for the schooling through which new professional best practice and policy can be implemented. 2. Emerging workspaces in ageing societies: ageism and near-retirement people, co-Supervisors: Dr. Nikander (pirjo.nikander@uta.fi), Dr. Kirsi Lumme-Sandt (Kirsi.Lumme-Sandt@uta.fi) Objectives: The project explores the dynamics of labour market participation and exit trajectories from the perspective of older near-retirement workers. The study assumes that while measures towards prolonging work careers is an urgently outspoken goal in most ageing societies, age bias and ageist attitudes still work against age-inclusiveness in the workforce. Expected Results: Using qualitative longitudinal methodology, the study will produce an empirically-based understanding of work profiles and retirement pathways as they unfold over time. The study expands on previous, predominantly quantitative or panel research studies and yields novel knowledge on the agency, decision-making and participation of near-retirement people. A status report on ageism and one's career and retirement trajectories and a policy paper will be the main products. More information from: Research Director Pirjo Nikander, pirjo.nikander(at)uta.fi (positions 1 & 2) Dr. Virve KallioNiemi-Chambers, virve.kallioniemi-chambers(at)uta.fi (positions 1 & 2) Professor Johanna Ruusuvuori, johanna.ruusuvuori(at)uta.fi (position 1) Dr. Kirsi Lumme-Sandt, kirsi.lumme-sandt(at)uta.fi (position 2) HR Specialist Sari Past, sari.pasto(at) uta.fi (recruitment process) ------------------------- About the University of Tampere: The University of Tampere is an internationally renowned research-led university and one of the few in the world to specialise in the social sciences. It has a lively, multidisciplinary and international research environment with a staff of 2.200 and 15.000 students. The University of Tampere offers a dynamic and international research community with strong national and international collaborative networks. At the Faculty of Social Sciences (SOC) the research focuses on society, social change and people’s welfare, health and functional ability. The Faculty educates independent professionals for a changing, ever more complex world and engages in critical debate on the status of society and the direction in which it is developing. More about University of Tampere see HERE http://www.uta.fi/en/ , and more about SOC see HERE http://www.uta.fi/en/faculty-of-social-sciences/ The University’s HR Services provide intensive support for international recruits, especially on matters such as residence and work permits, registration, taxation, retirement pensions, social security issues, finding accommodation, day-care for children, schooling, health care and other local services in Tampere. You can contact the International HR Team (international.hr@uta.fi) during your application process with specific queries or see our Join us!-pages on our website. The University of Tampere received the European Commission’s acknowledgement of HR Excellence in Research in March 2015. About Finland: Finland is a well-ordered and culturally sophisticated EU country that enjoys world-leading free schooling (including in English), affordable childcare, excellent public services, moderate taxation and low levels of bureaucracy. The Tampere region is one of the fastest-growing urban areas in Finland. Tampere is the largest inland city in the Nordic countries and Finland’s second largest city. The city offers an extremely pleasant environment in which to live and work. Whilst a traditional industrial centre, with an attractive heritage built environment, today the city is best known for its high-tech expertise. The city has a lively cultural life, with many theatres, galleries and museums etc. and is the most popular city to study in amongst Finnish students. More about Tampere, see HERE https://www.tampere.fi/en/index.html + |
