I’m hiring a #qualitative researcher with experience in #ConversationAnalysis to work with me on an NIHR policy research program grant, exploring the new ‘Healthy Weight Coach’ role in primary care. More info, and how to apply 👇 www.phc.ox.ac.uk/about/work-w... @oxprimarycare.bsky.social

📣 Conference Announcement 🎉 Digital P(a)lates: The Language of Online Food Practices March 26-28, 2026, at FU Berlin The call for papers is now open & I couldn't be more excited about this: www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/en/we06/digi... 😍 #LanguageAndFood #CulinaryLinguistics #Linguistics

We encourage doctoral & research masters students to submit. - Oral Presentations should be 15 mins long, followed by 5 minutes for discussion. Abstracts up to 200-300 words. - Data sessions should fit within 60-mins slots. Abstracts up to 300 words. 5/6

Please submit your abstract by 23rd May 2025, contacting one of the organisers @Eve Mullins (University of Edinburgh). 6/6 ⭐️

📣 Call for Abstracts: "Conversation Analysis and Social Work - 4th Online Conference" 20/11/2025✨ 1/6🧵 for details.

we've started up a new thing @uoncompsci.bsky.social the Social Interaction and Technology (SIT) group advances the adoption and deployment of interaction-oriented studies of tech-in-use, particularly #EMCA approaches for more info, we have a website here: people.cs.nott.ac.uk/pszsr/sit/

Calling local EMCA scholars: Unlock the Power of Membership Categorisation Analysis with Visiting Professor @robinjsmith.bsky.social 27 – 29 May | Wits University | Research Methods Workshop Register here: forms.office.com/r/y9v7BW9Zuh Start preparing for @iiemca27.bsky.social

Hot off the press by our very own Helena Tegler: 'But I don’t know, she might actually ask?' Detecting sources of self-efficacy and conditions fostering collective teacher efficacy by analysing transcribed panel and group discussions www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #CARM @lizstokoe.bsky.social

“The concept of race has little utility as a biological taxonomy. But it is enormously important socially & culturally. Social constructs are how the world works: money & time are both socially constructed too.” - @adamrutherford.bsky.social www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Thanks to those who’ve registered & submitted abstracts! FORENSIC CONVERSATIONS symposium: conversation analysis in criminal justice settings. 📅 17 Sep ‘25 Lboro/online ✅ book now bit.ly/4ivADkN ⭐️ Bonus half-day in-person data sessions (18 Sep). Places limited #emca @darg-sessions.bsky.social

Sometimes traditional databases can miss publications as conversation analysts publish in lots of different types of journals. This is particularly a problem for healthcare communication publications as a medical database might not pick up social science journals. #emca

A few years ago I wrote this for MJA InSight+. I've re-published it on the Bedside Manners blog: www.bedsidemanners.com.au/blog-1-1/whe... There has since been development of a free online module created by the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences: www.phc.ox.ac.uk/research/res...

The deadline is approaching for LSE's inaugural impact prize, which recognises excellent engagement, impact & impact culture across LSE. Prizes (💰💰💰) awarded at a special event on 25 June with @lizstokoe.bsky.social Apply by 9 May: info.lse.ac.uk/staff/servic...

A new guest blog by @alexahepburn.bsky.social . A fascinating, line by line transcription and analysis of the Trump – Vance - Zelenskyy White House interview that caused ripples around the world. rolsi.net/2025/03/19/g...

York Conference on Conversation Analysis (YorCCA) is organised by postgraduates in 👉 @uoylangling.bsky.social 👉 @uoy-sociology.bsky.social and affiliated with 👉 @uoycaslc.bsky.social A conference by postgrads, for postgrads 🧠💬

Dipping into the new H'book of Methods in CA usually throws up good stuff. Here, John Heritage on how to be sure your cherished discovery is solid. It might not be. A salutary reminder of the discipline that CA requires (and can be hard to achieve...) #EMCA www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

Are you a UK based self-funded post grad researcher? (PhD, MRes etc) If so, I'd like to send you a copy of my book. I have *five* to give away. Please share and drop a note below or DM me. I'll announce next Friday (from the pub) 🐕 📖 🍺 more info - www.immersiveresearch.co.uk/bookshop

New from our department! Rational Anger: Emotions and the Power of Critique explores the rationales behind legal anger, its logic, and its origins. This book builds on judges' and prosecutors' perspectives. 📘Open Access www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon... #SociologyEmotions #BehavioralSciences

I’m planning on running a 10 week course on doing conversation analysis - learner time commitment will be a few hours per week. It’ll be online, asynchronous, & with direct feedback from me. It will be available worldwide. Join the mailing list to find out more! www.bedsidemanners.com.au/contact

Book launch tomorrow! @kevinawhitehead.bsky.social @raymond-sociology.bsky.social and I will be talking about Categories in Social Interaction with discussants Ann-Carita Evaldsson & Jason Turowetz - 14.00 PDT & 22.00 BST in person and online (ucsb.zoom.us/j/7574427215) #EMCA

How to support someone who is having suicidal thoughts. Our fact sheet may help: www.devon.gov.uk/adult-social...

We're excited to invite you to the opening of the exhibition “Sleepless Nights Are a Daily Reality for Us” A Photovoice Study with Homeless Women in Addis Ababa.📍 Gottsunda Centrum Kulturhus. 🕔 From March 24 at 5 PM till March 30. Project: www.uu.se/centrum/womh... #sociologyandhealth #research.

📢 New PhD Position: our department is now accepting applications for a PhD position as part of the project "How Strong Emotions Become Everyday: Emotions and Rituals in Client Interactions in a Heterogeneous Society. uu.varbi.com/se/what:job/... #AcademicJobs #EmotionStudies #SociologyJobs

We @kevinawhitehead.bsky.social @raymond-sociology.bsky.social are very happy to announce a new book and a new paper, both on conversation analysis and membership categorization, published rn in Jan 2025! 📕📄 🧵 1/4 "Categories in Social Interaction" is out now from Routledge #AcademicSky #EMCA

**SECOND #EMCA Starter Pack!** The 1st is full: go.bsky.app/DHMkXcX so the 2nd is linked below. If you're a #ConversationAnalysis #DiscursivePsychology #MCA #Ethnomethodology researcher and want to be added (or removed!), reply below. Repost to keep building our community! go.bsky.app/6p8x2UZ