CARM Affiliates
Academic conversation analysts who are using CARM to apply their research findings across different settings and training environments. Below is a current list of CARM Affiliates, along with their area of expertise, underpinning research and contact details.
Dr Helena Tegler
Helena Tegler did her PhD at Uppsala University. The focus of her thesis was speech-generating device mediated interaction including non-speaking children with severe physical impairment and intellectual disability. Following her PhD, Helena collaborated with Marie Flinkfeldt and Stina Fernqvist on a project on Maintenance support case officer’s strategies to assess, identify and report on possible intimate partner violence. Based on the paper “challenges in recognizing and facilitating disclosures of intimate partner violence in customer service calls about maintenance support” they delivered CARM-like workshops. Currently, Helena is a senior associate professor in special education at Mälardalen University. She runs a project in collaboration with researchers at Uppsala University, University of South-Eastern Norway and Norwegian University of Science and Technology on speech-generating device mediated contributions in teacher-fronted classroom talk.
Tegler, H. & Pilesjö, M.S. (2023). A comparison between the use of two speech-generating devices: A non-speaking student’s displayed communicative competence and agency in morning meetings in a compulsory school for children with severe learning disabilities. Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 1-20.
Tegler, H. and H. Melander Bowden (2024). Aided-speaking students’ unsolicited questions inteacher-fronted classroom talk: the use of speech-generating devices to ask questions. Classroom Discourse, 1-24.
Dr Frans Hiddink
Frans Hiddink is a senior researcher in multilingualism and literacy at the NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands. In 2019, he received his Ph.D. by conducting applied conversation analytic research on young children’s reasoning and problem-solving during peer interaction in inquiry learning in either absence or presence of the teacher. Currently, Frans is investigating how to enhance emergent writing practices in peer play situations, by using joint reflections of video-recordings as part of an Educational Design Research. He has a particular interest in using conversation analysis in ways that help01 both (early childhood) educators and teacher training students to improve their own classroom practices. Among other things, he works as a teacher educator in the primary teacher training programme at the Academy for Primary Education of the same University, where he teaches courses that focus on classroom interaction and early childhood education.
Hiddink, F. (2019). Probleembesprekingen met samenwerkende kleuters. Tijdschrift voor taalbeheersing, 41(1), 89-103. https://doi.org/10.5117/TVT2019.1.007.HIDD
Hiddink, F. C. (2019). Early childhood problem-solving interaction: young children’s discourse during small-group work in primary school. [Thesis fully internal (DIV), University of Groningen]. University of Groningen. https://doi.org/10.33612/diss.101127371.
Dr Elin Nilsson
Elin Nilsson is a senior lecturer in Social Work at Linköping University, Sweden. She teaches at the Social Work program, where she is responsible for courses at base and advanced level focusing on institutional interaction and communication for social workers. Elin is a member of the Conversation Analysis and Social Work (CASW) group. By using multimodal conversation analysis, her research focuses on interaction among couples living with dementia as well as needs assessments for elder care services, drawing both on video-recorded interviews and naturally occurring data. Elin is currently leading a longitudinal research project in which she, together with Associate Professor Anna Ekström and Professor Lars-Christer Hydén, examines how couples living with dementia manages changes. Elin has recently finished a postdoctoral project at Uppsala University, Sweden, which focused on how needs assessments between care managers and older couples are carried out, with a specific interest in selfdetermination, alliances, and management of resistance from clients with dementia. Elin is also working in a research project led by Associate Professor Anna Olaison at Linköping University, in which they have conducted focus group interviews with care managers regarding needs assessments with couples. The research findings from these three projects provide a basis for CARM workshops with care managers and potentially other professionals who meet and provide services for persons living with dementia.
Nilsson, E., & Olaison, A. (2023). “I See What You Mean”—A Case Study of the Interactional Foundation of Building a Working Alliance in Care Decisions Involving an Older Couple Living with Cognitive Decline, Healthcare, 11(15), 2124.
Nilsson, E., & Olaison, A. (2022). Persuasion in practice: Managing diverging stances in needs assessment meetings with older couples living with dementia, Qualitative Social Work, 21(6),
1123–1146.
Nilsson, E., & Olaison, A. (2022). Att balansera äldres och anhörigas behov – utredande samtal med par som lever med demenssjukdom. I Samtal i socialt arbete: ett samtalsanalytiskt perspektiv (Red.) C. Iversen & M. Flinkfeldt. Gleerups. Malmö.
Dr Christopher J. Koenig
Christopher J. Koenig is Professor of Communication Studies at San Francisco State University. Trained at the intersection of linguistics, communication studies, health policy & health services research, his research examines the links between communication and social aspects of health and well-being. His published research applies Conversation Analysis and Discourse Analysis to investigate primary care and a range of specialty care including oncology, rheumatology, hepatology, mental health, and complementary/integrative health. His current research centers on (linguistic) reference in conversations to improve medication literacy to promote health equity and health justice.
Koenig, C.J. (2023). Discourse analysis & conversation analysis. In Ho EY, Bylund C, van Weert J (Eds). The International Encyclopedia of Health Communication. Wiley.
Wingard, L.M., & Koenig, C.J. (2023). Interactional sensitivity. In Ho EY, Bylund C, van Weert J (Eds). The International Encyclopedia of Health Communication. Wiley.
Koenig, C.J. (2023). Voice of medicine, voice of the lifeworld. In Ho EY, Bylund C, van Weert J (Eds). The International Encyclopedia of Health Communication. Wiley.
Koenig, C.J. (2014). (Re-)Formulating treatment: A physician’s practice that enables and constrains patient decision-making about treatments for urgent medical problems in primary care visits. International Conference for Conversation Analysis, Los Angeles, CA. (Oral presentation)
cjkoenig@sfsu.edu
Dr Magnus Hamann
Magnus GT Hamann works at Loughborough University teaching social interaction and social psychology. Magnus’ research is relates to the interaction in healthcare health rehabilitation and motivation; policing and authority and use of force; assistive technologies, interdependence and autonomy.
Hamann, M., & Nielsen, J. F. (2021). Social and moral relevance of memory: Knowing and remembering in conversations with a person with traumatic brain injury. Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders, 12(1), 54-76.
Dr Natacha Niemants
Natacha Niemants is Associate professor at the Department of Interpreting and Translation of the University of Bologna (Italy), where she teaches French-Italian conference and dialogue interpreting. Her research interests include interpreting in healthcare and asylum-seeking contexts, interpreter training, transcription, and conversation analysis. She has published papers in books (John Benjamins, Lambert-Lucas, L’Harmattan, Peter Lang) and international journals (ELA, Interpreting, InTRAlinea, Langage et Société, Meta), is author of L’interprétation de dialogue en milieu médical: Du jeu de rôle à l’exercice d’une responsabilité (Aracne, 2015), and in collaboration with Letizia Cirillo she has edited Teaching Dialogue Interpreting. Research-based proposals for higher education (John Benjamins, 2017). She has also collaborated to the Routledge Encyclopaedia of Interpreting Studies (Pöchhacker ed. 2015) with an entry on transcription and has recently joined the Editorial Board of The Interpreters’ Newsletter, after guest-editing two issues on dialogue interpreting in 2015 and 2021. She has been using CARM in interpreter training for about ten years and has co-authored two chapters on the method.
Niemants N., Pedersen Belisle Hansen J. & E. Stokoe (2023) “The Conversation Analytic Role-Play Method: How authentic data meet simulations for interpreter training”. In L. Gavioli e C. Wadensjö (eds.), Routledge Handbook on Public Service Interpreting. London/New York: Routledge. 342-361.
Dr Marc Alexander
Marc Alexander is an Assistant Professor in Social Research Methods at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. His research uses conversation analysis and discursive psychology to examine interactions in institutional settings. He completed his PhD in 2019 at Loughborough University under the supervision of Elizabeth Stokoe and Rein Sikveland. His thesis examined calls from members of the public to three UK organisations (mediation, environmental health, and antisocial behaviour services), in which neighbour problems were reported and managed. The applied outcome of his thesis is communication training for call-takers to help manage the requirements of the role.
Following his PhD, Marc collaborated with the Shelter housing charity, and examined calls from people in housing/homelessness crisis. Marc developed his findings into a CARM workshop for call-centre staff, which was delivered in 2020. Marc is currently collaborating on projects examining domestic violence calls to the police, as well as developing research papers from his Shelter data.
Alexander, M., & Stokoe, E. (2019). Problems in the neighbourhood: Formulating noise complaints across dispute resolution services. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 29(5), 355-370.
Dr Wyke Stommel
Wyke Stommel holds an MA in Dutch Language and Culture and a PhD in Sociology. Since 2012, she has worked as an Assistant Professor in Language and Communication at Radboud University (Netherlands). Her main research interest lies in the analysis of institutional interactions (medical consultations, shared decision making, telephone counseling, police interviews) and the application of Conversation Analysis to mediated forms of interaction (videomediated consultations, chat and e-mail counseling, online forum interaction). Her research is published in journals such as Research on Language and Social Interaction, Journal of Pragmatics and Discourse Studies. In 2013, she co-founded the international network of MOOD (Microanalysis Of Online Data). Wyke developed a CARM-workshop for the Dutch national institute for mental health Trimbos Institute, based on the following article:
Stommel, Wyke (2018). Asking for information about alcohol or drugs: A conversation analysis of telephone calls to a Dutch information service [Informatie vragen over alcohol of drugs: een conversatieanalyse van telefoongesprekken met een Nederlandse informatiedienst]. Tijdschrift voor Taalbeheersing 40 (3): 303–325, doi: 10.5117/TVT2018.3.002.STOM.
Dr Emily Hofstetter
Emily Hofstetter is a conversation analyst, with expertise in examining institutional settings. She develops communication training out of her research using the CARM approach. She is also examining health and safety professionals in the UK and how better communication of safety protocol can improve workplace safety and ease interactions where staff may have to alter their behaviour to be safety compliant. She is currently a research fellow at Linköping University.
Emily completed her PhD in 2016, under the supervision of Prof. Elizabeth Stokoe. Her doctoral research examined the day-to-day work of an ‘MP surgery’, where Members of Parliament and their caseworkers meet individual citizens to help them with local or personal difficulties. The applied outcome of her thesis is communication training for constituency caseworkers to help manage the demands of the role.
Dr Bogdana Huma
Bogdana is a lecturer in Social Psychology at York St John University. Her research uses conversation analysis and discursive psychology to examine persuasion and resistance ‘in the wild’. She completed her PhD in 2018 at Loughborough University under the supervision of Professor Elizabeth Stokoe. Her thesis examined business-to-business ‘cold’ calls between salespeople and prospective customers. It focused on how salespeople pursue and achieve prospecting goals such as getting to speak to the ‘relevant’ person, making an appointment to visit a prospective client, and overcoming sales resistance. So far, her research has informed CARM workshops delivered to salespeople doing business-to-business telesales.
Huma, B., Stokoe, E. H., & Sikveland, R. O. (2019). Persuasive conduct. Alignment and resistance in prospecting “cold” calls. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 38(1), 33–60.
B.Huma@yorksj.ac.uk
Dr Elliott Hoey
Elliott Hoey has collaborated with Prof. Elizabeth Stokoe on a project aimed at improving telephone calls between prospective university students and university representatives. This resulted in a set of recommendations that were delivered to the university, and an analysis of how call-takers produced or avoided overt rejections.
In his current post-doctoral research at the University of Basel, he is investigating how workers on construction sites transition between autonomous activity and closely coordinated activity. Other recent work has addressed the placement of sighing and drinking in interaction, participant’s conduct during lapses in conversation, and imitation in children’s locomotor play.
Stokoe, E., & Hoey, E. (2017). Going through university clearing? Then make sure you do these four things. The Conversation, August 2017.
Professor Hansun Zhang Waring
Hansun Zhang Waring is Professor of Linguistics and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University and founder of The Language and Social Interaction Working Group (LANSI). She is the author (with Jean Wong) of Conversation Analysis and Second Language Pedagogy (Routledge, 2010), Theorizing Pedagogical Interaction: Insights from Conversation Analysis (Routledge, 2016), Discourse Analysis: The Questions Discourse Analysts Ask and How they Answer them (Routledge, 2018), and (with Sarah Creider) Micro-reflection on Classroom Communication: A FAB Framework (Equinox, 2021). She is also editor (with Elizabeth Reddington) of Communicating with the Public: Conversation Analytic Studies (Bloomsbury, 2020) and (with Jean Wong) Story-telling in Multilingual Settings: A conversation Analytic Perspective (Routledge, 2021). Her recent projects include how socialization may be located in parent-child interaction and how conversation analysis may be engaged to address critical issues.
Waring, H. Z., & Tadic, N. (Eds.) (forthcoming). Critical conversation analysis. Multilingual Matters.
Dr Jon Symonds
Jon Symonds is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Bristol. He has used conversation analysis to investigate settings in health and social care, including the recruitment of fathers to parenting services, social work assessments with adults with needs for care and support, and the ways that supervisors in children’s social work attempt to elicit third party perspectives from social workers to reflect on their practice. He is a member of the Conversation Analysis and Social Work (CASW) group and has used the CARM approach to train child welfare workers in methods to recruit fathers to services.
Symonds, J.; Jorgensen, S.; Webb, J.; Mullins, E. and Wilkins, D. (2022) Eliciting third person perspectives in social work case discussions: A device for reflective supervision? Qualitative Social Work, 21, 1274-1289.
Dr William A. Tuccio
Bill Tuccio was a regional airline pilot and has diverse experience in engineering, aviation, flight instruction, software engineering, accident investigation (specializing in ‘black box’ voice and video recordings), and conversation analysis. His PhD in Aviation dissertation explored interventionist conversation analysis for pilot training.
Working with over 100 hours of small plane flight instruction cockpit video and audio, Bill and Maurice Nevile investigated how CARM may be applied to improve the efficacy of flight instructors. In addition to published research, Bill delivered FAA-sponsored continuing education seminars for flight instructors (via www.faasafety.gov).
Tuccio, W. A., & Nevile, M. (2017). Using Conversation Analysis in Data-Driven Aviation Training with Large-Scale Qualitative Datasets. Journal of Aviation/Aerospace Education & Research, 26(1). https://doi.org/10.15394/jaaer.2017.1706
Dr Laura Jenkins
Laura’s conversation analytic work began examining matters of health in everyday family life, looking particularly at what happens when children say that they are in pain. Since then her work has focused on medical encounters. At the University of Sheffield she looked at how doctors ask adult patients about their seizures. Laura used the CARM approach to show neurology doctors how to design their questions in a way that gives patients more chance to talk, because the way in which patients describe their seizures can give clues as to what is causing them.
Laura is now a research fellow at Loughborough University. She’s part of the VERDIS research project focusing on healthcare communication in end of life care. The aim of the project is to identify communication practices that support collaborative decision-making through analysis of video-recordings of hospice consultations, and to use these findings to develop training materials. Laura is examining the ways in which doctors assess a patient’s pain.
Jenkins, L., Cosgrove, J., Chappell, P., Kheder, A., Sokhi, D., & Reuber, R. (2016) Neurologists can identify diagnostic linguistic features during routine seizure clinic interactions: results of a one-day teaching intervention. Epilepsy and Behavior, 64(A), 257–261
Dr Steve Kirkwood
Dr Steve Kirkwood is a senior lecturer in Social Work and his research focuses on justice and identity, particularly on criminal justice social work and the integration of asylum seekers and refugees. He has applied discourse analysis and conversation analysis to the study of criminal justice practices for addressing offending behaviour and has used the CARM approach in knowledge exchange settings with social workers.
Kirkwood, S., Mullins, E., McCulloch, T. & Cree, V. E. (2022). Ideological Dilemmas in Social Work: Justice Social Workers in Scotland Talk about Gender in Practice. British Journal of Social Work. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcac221
Dr Heidi Feldman
Dr. Heidi K. Feldman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northeastern University. Dr. Feldman applies the method of conversation analysis to provide accounts for where and how miscommunication occurs during different types of service calls (e.g. customer service; 911 dispatch, etc.). Recent areas of investigation include how 911 dispatchers handle ‘active’ silent calls, where it unsafe for callers to verbally communicate their emergency, and how dispatchers ‘retrieve’ a fleeing caller in domestic disturbance calls. Dr. Feldman has conducted extensive research in customer service management, with a particular focus on how customers work to get additional service beyond what an organization is willing to provide. Her work has practical implications for training, and she offers best practices based on research grounded in the actual interaction between organizational members and their callers.
Dr Mario Veen
Mario Veen is a philosopher and educational researcher who has been doing conversation analytic work for since 2005. His PhD explored how discourse analysis can be used to assess emergent medical technologies from patients’ perspective. He is currently examining the way GP residents collaboratively reflect on experiences from practice, and evidence of critical thinking in group discussions. His work and interests focus on medical education, interactions addressing medical, psychological or philosophical topics, group interaction, and discursive approaches to reflection and critical thinking.
Veen, M., & De la Croix, A. (2016). Collaborative reflection under the microscope: Using conversation analysis to study the transition from case presentation to discussion in GP residents’ experience sharing sessions. Teaching and Learning in Medicine. 28(1): 3-14.
Dr Marco Pino
Marco’s expertise is in conversation analysis and healthcare communication. His PhD focused on how support workers talk to clients within addiction rehabilitation programs that use the Therapeutic Community approach. He has recently been awarded a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellowship by the European Commission to continue his line of research on Therapeutic Communities (TC). Marco is currently focusing on communication practices involved in challenging clients’ behaviours and perspectives that are seen as dysfunctional or unhelpful for the therapeutic process. He is also examining how TC members initiate and resolve episodes of conflictual communication.
Marco’s research explores some of the building blocks of healthcare communication: sharing experiences and problems, addressing client complaints and requests, and managing delicate topics such as terminal illness and dying. Marco is using his research findings in the design of CARM workshops to improve professional-client communication in the addiction rehabilitation sector. Marco is also collaborating with Ruth Parry on a study on communication in end of life care.
Pino, M. (2016). Delivering criticism through anecdotes in interaction. Discourse Studies, 18(6), 1-21.
Dr Elina Weiste
Elina Weiste is a qualitative health care researcher and conversation analyst. She has a PhD in sociology, a clinical degree in occupational therapy, and a title of docent in clinical interaction and psychotherapy research. The settings of her research include, for instance, psychotherapy, psychiatric consultations, rehabilitation, group counselling, occupational healthcare, and development of healthcare services. Elina is using her research findings in the design of CARM workshops to improve clinician-client interaction in the field of healthcare.
Weiste, E., Niska, M., Valkeapää, T., & Stevanovic, M. (2022). Goal setting in mental
health rehabilitation: References to competence and interest as resources for negotiating goals. Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health, 9(4), 409-424. DOI:10.1007/s40737-022-00280-w
Dr Sarah White
Sarah J White is a conversation analyst and qualitative health researcher with a particular interest in researching communication in clinical practice, particularly consultations between doctors and patients. Sarah was awarded her PhD from the University of Otago in 2011 and has professional and academic experience in clinical communication, quality and safety in health care, and medical education.
White, S. J., Stubbe, M. H., Macdonald, L. M., Dowell, A. C., Dew, K. P., & Gardner, R. (2014). Framing the Consultation: The Role of the Referral in Surgeon–Patient Consultations. Health Communication, 29(1), 74-80.
Professor Ann Weatherall
Professor Ann Weatherall is a university academic that leads, supervises and collaborates in studies of social interaction. The settings of her research include telephone-mediated helplines, courtroom interaction, medical interactions and psychotheraputic interviews; see http://www.victoria.ac.nz/psyc/about/staff/ann-weatherall
Weatherall, A. (2016). ‘I need to get some details first’ Record keeping as a potential barrier to effective complaint-call management. Mediation Theory and Practice, 1, 35-57.
