@saulalbert.bsky.social is now leading us through a GailBot demonstration and workshop which will conclude Forensic Conversations 2025 🎉

It’s the morning after Forensic Conversations and we’ve gathered for a data session. We’re on a deep dive into a 911 call from MA Criminology student Scarlett Vaughan’s recently submitted thesis 👏

@charlesantaki.bsky.social is closing Forensic Conversations 25 with some reflections on the day. What a day it’s been! Huge thank you to every speaker, attendee and to @darg-sessions.bsky.social who make this day such a joy to organise and participate in. A really exciting field to be in!

Thanks Charles for capturing the backstage as well as the marvellous front of house of the Forensic Conversations symposium! It’s a global gathering of scholars using conversation analysis and ethnomethodology in criminal justice settings. Welcome to Loughborough and online #emca #Lboro

Next at the Forensic CA meeting: Aefke Diepeveen on police investigative interviews & how they compare to their written summaries

📌'Forensic Conversations' (Loughborough/Online) 📆 17th September, the Symposium (hybrid) 📆 18th September, data sessions & 🤖GailBot workshop (in-person) 📣UPDATE📣 📋The programme and book of abstracts for our fantastic range of speakers is now live! 👇 darg.lboro.ac.uk/event/forens...

📢 Lboro CA Day 2025 A fantastic day of #EMCA presentations & networking. 📍 Lboro/hybrid 📅 15 Dec Register now! Call for abstracts open! darg.lboro.ac.uk/event/ca-day... @darg-sessions.bsky.social @saulalbert.bsky.social @lizstokoe.bsky.social @emma-richardson.bsky.social @lborocrcc.bsky.social

🗨️Forensic Conversations 17th of September, Lboro/Online 📆Abstracts due 15th of June ⏰Just 10 days left to craft and submit an abstract Coming in person and want to host a data session on the 18th? Perfect! 📋Registration is also OPEN. Details below👇

Come and work @lborouniversity.bsky.social from 1st September: 12-month full time and fixed term UT in Human Geography, following my BA fellowship news - it's a great department! Closing date 22/06 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNH236/u...

We are excited to announce an interaction-based open science sandpit event! Insights from ongoing discourse analysis and experimental research Experimental researchers' experiences of the project. Open discussions on future funding opportunities for researchers. #EMCA #DiscursivePsychology

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

'Forensic Conversations' hybrid symposium is BACK! 📆 17 Sep 2025 An informal day of networking, discussions & presentations with researchers using EMCA methods to explore conversations in policing and criminal justice contexts. Reg & call for abstracts now open: darg.lboro.ac.uk/event/forens...

What a fantastic few days it’s been in Oslo presenting ongoing work on police interviewing. Some excellent discussions, great to see everyone. Very excited for all involved in the project 👇 and what this means for L2 speakers who are interviewed by the police. www.uia.no/english/abou...

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

I'm very much looking forward to joining the InterAct Research Group (@interactemca.bsky.social) on the 28th of March to talk about 'how ‘vulnerability’ manifests as an interactional asymmetry in police interviews.' I'll be giving an overview of the work so far, then we'll get into some data.

Here, Emma Tennent & I combined calls made reporting domestic violence & abuse to the police in the UK & NZ. We documented how lockdowns provided a new form of spatial-moral order; previously ordinary activities of coming/going from home took on new moral meanings. www.emerald.com/insight/cont...

Stacey Dooley: Rape on Trial review – it’s impossible not to feel profound admiration for these brave women

We're recruiting! New fully funded PhD studentship in Forensic Linguistics, starting October 2025: 'Conceptual mapping in psychiatric evidence'. Would you like to work on a research project with @felicitydeamer.bsky.social and @timgrant123.bsky.social? Apply now 👇 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Fully funded PhD studentship at Aston University, starting October 2025: "Linguistic representations of medical weight loss treatments in the news" Application deadline: 24th April www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Digital scribes aim to cut GP admin by recording & transcribing conversations. But their timesaving benefits remain untested. That’s why we're studying them. We need your help to put patient & public perspectives at the heart of this work. Find out more and apply by 27 March: ths.im/3DxP35x

Celebrating international women’s day with a sunrise walk at Beacon Hill with some amazing women I get to call my friends ❤️

On 28 March join us for our next ONLINE data session where @emma-richardson.bsky.social will share her coauthored work on 'vulnerability' in police interviews. #EMCA register to receive the link: forms.office.com/r/968kzaMtmA

And we're off! Today with Nicci MacLeod at Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics we've released the first three episodes of our brand new podcast Writing Wrongs 🎙️Follow Writing Wrongs here 👉 podfollow.com/1797795962 #forensiclinguistics #linguistics #truecrime #podcasts #academicsky

Beautiful morning out and about around #Loughborough this morning with the wee #Vizsla 🌶️

Great to have our article, “Police Officer-Involved Domestic Violence: Examining the Unique Risks and Barriers to Safety” now published. Our article examines victim’s experiences of domestic violence perpetrated by a police officer. 👉🏼 Read our article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

www.lboro.ac.uk/arts/feature... Submissions welcome to the Five Pillars exhibition @Loughborough University, curated by Dr Kerri Akiwowo

Pilot of domestic abuse experts helping in 999 call rooms begins in England

I’m (with Rebecca Clift and Ely Manrique) bringing data to @darg-sessions.bsky.social tomorrow - and for those coming in person there will be CAke! The data are from mine and @lizstokoe.bsky.social’s (non)emergency police calls. We’ll be analysing child callers reporting domestic violence & abuse.

The next paper on asymmetries in action for our special issue of Symbolic Interaction is out. @robinjsmith.bsky.social @francescaorfw.bsky.social Daniella & I examine a dorm room urination incident as an attempted and resisted status degradation ceremony #EMCA @interactemca.bsky.social

A highly recommended read! Also watch out for more soon-to-be-published papers on asymmetries-in-action building into our upcoming special issue of Symbolic Interaction. @robinjsmith.bsky.social @francescaorfw.bsky.social #EMCA

Hundreds of women were raped and burned alive during the chaos after a Rwandan-backed rebel group entered the Congolese city of Goma last week. The female inmates were attacked in their wing inside Goma’s Munzenze prison during a mass jailbreak. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Interested in #migration, #discourse and #identity in the EU and beyond? @FOMATPLAY @fyl-ugr.bsky.social Conference on Migration, identity and transnational discourse U. Granada, 2-5 September 2025 Info 👉👉👉https://granadacongresos.com/fomaplay The ⌛️deadline to submit your abstracts is 21 March!!!

On the Wrong Side was featured in Nature! We chatted about how sexual violence became an infuriatingly predictable and ordinary part of women's college experiences, as well as how the tenets of victim advocacy can inform high quality, rigorous research on trauma. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🚨 #CallForPapers 🚨 Linguistics Vanguard Special Issue on Recycling and Reshaping Previous Turns in Multimodal #Interactions ⏳ One-page abstract due by February 24, 2025 emailed to @biagioursi.bsky.social 🔍Keywords: #EMCA, #ConversationAnalysis, #Pragmatics, #Multimodality, #Gesture, #Repetition

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...

Fully funded 4-year PhD with me at VU Amsterdam #emca workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/ph...

1. Breaking News: Donald Trump has signed an executive order targeting trans youth and teachers in schools who teach for them. It goes after "social transition" and threatens arrests. I will go through line by line, as I have the last 3 nights. Find the EO here: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Our project has a PhD position available investigating understanding problems in Norwegian police interviews with a focus on L2 speakers - ideally someone with experience with conversation analysis (note: requires knowledge of a Scandinavian language) - DL March 16🐦🐦 www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still...

"This is a live page of all the redundancies, restructures, reorganisations, and closures taking place across the sector at the moment." qmucu.org/qmul-transfo... @qmucu.bsky.social

Our project "Police investigative interviews in Norwegian as a Second Language" just had its description put online! Read about the background and us researchers 🐦🐦 #linguistics www.uia.no/english/abou...

Decades of confirmation hearings where women testify to abuse and sexual violence, only for the men in question to rise to higher positions of power, is a perfect encapsulation of why more victims don’t come forward.

I opened, and then immediately deactivated, my X account and it feels divine. So oddly specific, but coming back over here felt exactly like this? youtu.be/iIkufYoOOSg?...

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

Funded Phd! Terrific opportunity to work applying CA in a challenging but very gratifying setting – end of life care - with @darg-sessions.bsky.social colleagues at @lborocrcc.bsky.social warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...

Phew! Knackered after another intense CA for Beginners workshop with the @darg-sessions.bsky.social crew. As ever, it was highly enjoyable and gratifying working with students beginning to find their feet in CA. They put us through our paces with tough queries & arguments - great stuff.

New CARM workshop for #EMCA researchers wanting to develop their own training - inc development, design, delivery, and evaluating #impact and #benefit 📍📅 Friday 3rd March 2025, 10.30-16.30 GMT, online - to register: eshop.lse.ac.uk/product-cata... (fee covers 1-2-1 support for CARM Affiliates) 💬

It’s a frosty good morning from me and my #Vizsla. Pepper is sporting the latest in Vizsla fashion, the stick necklace #fashion

One week left to submit an abstract for this Palgrave edited collection of DP research in educational settings. Contact Katarina Eriksson Barajas (see details in link) or via me if you're interested. liu.se/en/article/d...

My out of office is on and I have deleted the mail app. Excited to spend my days leafing through neglected materials, dog walking and bird watching 👀