If you work in communication and primary care then please do consider submitting original research to BMC primary Care's “Communication in Primary Care” Collection. I’m delighted to guest edit this collection alongside Prof Russel Rothman, and we’ll be accepting submissions until 30th July 2026 👇

Given nursing/the NHS is in crisis, and nurses keep the NHS running, it is short-sighted to be cutting high quality nursing courses at Nottingham University. If you want high quality care for you and your children in the future sign this petition. c.org/qzXwSs8XP5

Come across Conversation Analysis and want to know more? Loughborough University's annual online CA for Beginners workshop is on Jan. 15, 2026. Talks, group work & data sessions with experts. Registration (£45 or £90) is now open. More information here emcawiki.net/CA_for_Begin... #EMCA

Interested in retention of nurses in general practice 👀. Summary of our new paper below ⬇️

When we ask for something big—time, effort, money—do we hedge against rejection or assume success? With @gio-rossi.bsky.social & Tanya Stivers, we find that people are incurably optimistic, even though big requests often meet resistance. Published open access in @socquarterly.bsky.social. #EMCA

📣 📣📣 EACH Nursing SIG - tomorrow, Oct. 16th, 11am BST) @becca-voicestudy.bsky.social will present on "The VOICE studies: evidence-based training resources for improving healthcare professionals' communication with people living with dementia." Sign-up each.international/organisation...

A (now-defunct) AI bot makes calls to restaurants etc. It was apparently pretty successful at call openings, second summonses, uh(m)s that precede a reason for the call, and other-initiated self-repair. Authors: test actions, not intelligence. #EMCA journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

New paper. Really proud of this one - the first publication from my PhD: Older patients' verbal communication in interactions with primary care staff: a qualitative systematic review and meta‐ethnography. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10..... Supervisor and co-author: @speters123.bsky.social

📢Join us for an online workshop on multimodal transcription with @calvirgi.bsky.social Mode: Online Venue: Zoom Date: Friday 26 September 2025 Time: 10:00 – 13:00 SAST / 09:00-12:00 BST Registration: forms.office.com/r/0Hj096p3ds (Please check your spam folder for the meeting link)

Very excited to announce this faculty search at Rutgers! Looking for a wonderful new colleague to join us in Communication #EMCA #LSI @ica-lsi.bsky.social @lansi2024.bsky.social jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/258...

There's now a special interest group for Conversation Analysis within the International Association for Communication in Healthcare.

“Do You Want to Continue?”—Coordinating the Closing of Conversations and Managing Face Concerns - Koskinen - Symbolic Interaction - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A great day of planning with @charlottealbury.bsky.social and the resident dragon.

*So* much research starts with difference-based questions and researchers' categories/assumptions - helping to feed or legitimise communication myths and stereotypes. But the evidence about what people say/do in actual non-lab non-post-hoc accounts of interaction shows something else entirely #EMCA

Last year I gave a plenary talk at the International Conference on Communication in Healthcare #ICCH2024 last year. I've now posted it on YouTube along with the Q&A (edited to anonymise those asking questions). You can find them here: youtu.be/U8O7JO5YnFs and youtu.be/S9sQODEyFAs

Ever wanted to access and use data without informed consent but couldn’t find any guiding principles on how to do that ethically? Look no further… read our new paper out now in @rolsi-journal.bsky.social special section 🙂 doi.org/10.1080/0835...

A run through of the articles in the Special Section on "The Ethics of Collecting, Curating and Sharing Data in Conversation Analysis", now online (1st of 6 posts) #EMCA 1. Joyce et al www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The new edition of ROLSI features 6 papers on "The Ethics of Collecting, Curating and Sharing Data in Conversation Analysis", and two 'ordinary' articles, one on managing expectations in dementia, and one on how live streaming is organised.. www.tandfonline.com/toc/hrls20/c...

Are you a UK clinician who manages children & young people with musculoskeletal pain? The CAM-Pain study @keeleuniversity.bsky.social would love you to take part in our E-Delphi study gathering views on developing resources for children & young people with MSK pain. Link: tinyurl.com/53b2a2jn

Nurse lecturer redundancies and severances in higher education will impact the quality of education nursing students receive. This is an incredibly serious moment risking the quality of nursing education, the future domestic workforce, and patient safety. We need urgent action. Read more.

Were you inspired by our speakers at our iHV EBP 2025 conference? Next year it could be you! Our call for abstracts for iHV Evidence-based Practice (EBP) Conference 2026 is now open! ihv.org.uk/events/ihv-e... #iHVEBP2026 #HealthVisiting #CallForAbstracts

Across the UK, UCAS data shows that applications to study nursing have fallen by 34% since 2021. We can’t afford to lose the next generation of nursing staff – sign our petition to demand governments across the UK do more to improve financial support for nursing students ➡️ buff.ly/7LmGXKM

Listening to Rest is Politics, Rest is Politics US, and reading respected commentators, it's striking how 'left-wing bias' in universities is now taken for granted. That matters, especially in the US, where academia faces political attack. Thoughts from having worked in US/UK universities. 🧵

This'll be probably the last time I get to teach this course that has given me a lot of joy and has made many people happy (not my words, read the reviews and what people have said about this course on social media 😍!). We have only a couple of places left to join us. See you next month!

As a member of the #EMCA community @oxprimarycare.bsky.social I would encourage you to give this application a go! Supportive team @charlottealbury, lots of opportunities and fascinating projects. Happy to talk informally about working in Health Behaviours/Clinical Communication Team at Oxford⬇️⬇️

Our new qualitative researcher post is now hiring. I completely understand (& have been there) that Oxford might feel challenging to apply to. But if you think this job could be for you, please do apply. And if you want to talk do get in touch. We are kind, inclusive, supportive team & department.

Our new interactive training tool supports h/c professionals to develop skills to have positive & well received conversations with patients living with obesity. tinyurl.com/7ubu7nz2 #WorldObesityDay @rcn.org.uk @theqni.bsky.social @drfinney77.bsky.social @drhelenanderson.bsky.social

This #WorldObesityDay, a new tool to help healthcare professionals talk about weight loss with patients living with obesity is now live 🗣️ Built by @charlottealbury.bsky.social & @rachaeldrewery.bsky.social, the interactive tool was co-designed with HCP & people living with obesity.

This new communication skills training tool is based in our #ConversationAnalysis research, and was co-designed with healthcare professionals & people living with obesity. Training is brief, CPD accredited, & free. #WorldObesityDay @oxprimarycare.bsky.social @lizstokoe.bsky.social

Our new interactive training tool supports healthcare professionals to develop skills to have positive & well received conversations with patients living with obesity. tinyurl.com/7ubu7nz2 #WorldObesityDay @oxprimarycare.bsky.social @designscience.bsky.social @rachaeldrewery.bsky.social

Dr Carmel Conefrey at University of Bristol is seeking a Research Associate / Senior Research Associate to work on QuinteT (Qualitative Research Integrated within Trials). Closing date: 5th March. www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/research...

Our starter pack for the qualitative methods community is growing! Check out these brilliant qual scholars, and reply to this post if you'd like to be included: bsky.app/starter-pack... #qualitative

Nursing degree programmes are critical to developing and maintaining high quality, evidence-based nursing practice. In 2025, it is just not acceptable to be proposing to cut nursing degree programmes (or many of the other degree programmes that are under threat)

Our new paper out now in @jama.com provides specific insights for clinicians on how to have supportive and helpful conversations about weight loss with patients living with obesity. @oxprimarycare.bsky.social

A @mgsesrcdtp.bsky.social funded collaborative PhD studentship to work with me and @lizpeel.bsky.social on "Identity work in palliative care" - a postgraduate research project using conversation analysis. Full details on how to apply here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...

If you are a #nursing student or just graduating, and meet the eligibility criteria, I would encourage you to apply. I have a project advertised in primary care. @rcn.org.uk #studentnurse #newlyqualifiednurse

Explore postgraduate study at Oxford University this summer. Apply now for our UNIQ+ research internships to work with Oxford researchers on projects in a range of subject areas: www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/g...

This looks like a really interesting conference. Still taking submissions. "Atypical" will cover quite range of different kinds of interactions (dementia, aphasia, autism etc), so should be of wide interest to CA researchers. liu.se/en/research/...

#ICCA2026 is committed to offering 🌟 Pre-Conference Workshops 🌟 tailored to sharpen your research skills and support your academic journey. Share your topic ideas via this survey and feel free to forward it to colleagues! forms.gle/RmZrjJcFEDLT...

Fully funded #PhD see www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLN059/p... Deadline 28 Feb. Please share.

We're hosting a conference in Conversation Analysis in July, aimed at PhD researchers. The call for abstracts is out now. The invited speakers are Paul Drew and Lorenza Mondada. Info below!

Glad to have this network and thank you for the opportunity to share #emca work

🎉 Exciting news! The 2025 YorCCA will take place on July 18th and 19th, 2025 at the University of York. Invited speakers: Paul Drew and Lorenza Mondada 🗓️ Save the date and stay tuned for more details! 🌐 For more information, visit: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/y... #FeelTheYorCCA

We are looking for ways to best support networking opportunities for our community. To support this work, we would like to learn more about existing opportunities and how networking needs can be met. We would be grateful if you could answer a few short Qs via this link: forms.office.com/e/HgAQJXmzGZ

A great starter pack for anyone using, thinking of using or applying #EMCA

Inequalities in childhood vaccination are widening in England, with uptake rates of five key vaccines consistently lower in young children living in areas of higher deprivation from 2019 to 2023, finds this new study www.bmj.com/content/387/...

New Lancet paper 'The cost of not investing in the first 1000 days'. Cites our Cochrane review on preschool-based feeding programmes in socio-economically deprived settings. FEED STARVING CHILDREN in a timely way. Later (when they're older) may be too late. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... 🧪

Video is AI’s new frontier – and it is so persuasive, we should all be worried | Victoria Turk

🚨Save the date 🚨 One-day symposium: ⭐️ Qualitative Open Science: Challenges, Opportunities, Tensions, & Synergies ⭐️ 📆 28th of March 2025 📌 At Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Registration will open ⏳shortly ⏳ Below’s a 👀 sneak-peak 👀 at the programme & stellar line-up of speakers

Did you know there’s an entire field of scientific research dedicated to exploring how humans get things done through social interaction? Interaction is at the centre of human sociality and conversation analysts systematically examine how this works in the wild. #emca