2023 NCRM Annual Lecture: Professor Elizabeth Stokoe

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NCRM 2023
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Dates 2023/04/25 - 2023/04/25
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Notification date 2023/04/25
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2023 NCRM Annual Lecture: Professor Elizabeth Stokoe:


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NCRM Annual Lecture 2023

The NCRM Annual Lecture 2023 will be held on Tuesday, 25 April. This prestigious event will bring together researchers from across the UK to discuss some of the latest innovations in research methods and network with colleagues from different sectors and disciplines.

Our keynote speaker for the evening will be Professor Elizabeth Stokoe of the London School of Economics and Political Science. She will be joined by our discussant, Dr Jon Sutton, editor of The Psychologist magazine.

The event will take place in the magnificent surroundings of the Royal Society in central London. It will also be streamed online.


The lecture

In her presentation, Professor Stokoe will discuss the power of conversation analysis to reveal both effective and problematic communication practices in a variety of contexts.

Her talk, A Method in Search of a Problem: The Power of Conversation Analysis, will show how conversation analysis can be used to identify, describe and share effective communication practices, as well as challenge common communication myths and expose inequalities.

Professor Stokoe will use research findings and examples from real conversations to illustrate issues in settings including healthcare, dating, sales encounters, crisis negotiation and AI interaction.

She will argue that conversation analytic research exposes the workings of real-life inequalities and exclusion, and the otherwise hidden reality of the good – as well as the damage – that turns at talking can do. The full abstract for the lecture and more details about Professor Stokoe are available below.


Registration

The lecture is free to attend, but registration is required for both in-person and online attendance.


Further information

Below you can find details on the programme, venue, lecture content and our speaker, as well as contact information.


Programme

18:00 - Reception, with light refreshments

18:35 - Welcome from Professor Gabriele Durrant, Director of NCRM

18:45 - Lecture: Professor Elizabeth Stokoe

19:25 - Discussant: Dr Jon Sutton, Editor, The Psychologist

19:30 - Questions

20:00 - Close


Venue

The venue for the NCRM Annual Lecture 2023 is:

Kohn Centre

The Royal Society

6-9 Carlton House Terrace

London

SW1Y 5AG


Please note: the event will be available to watch via a live video stream. Those attending online will be able to join the conversation via Twitter, using our hashtag #NCRM23, and pose questions for our speaker. A recording of the lecture will be published at a later date on the NCRM website.


Lecture abstract: A Method in Search of a Problem: The Power of Conversation Analysis

In this lecture, I will explore the power of conversation analysis to reveal ethical, moral, and otherwise problematic communication practices that have personal, legal and societal consequences for those involved. Such practices would otherwise be unknown, imagined incorrectly, unevidenced, disattended or remain obscured, since the world of social interaction is largely investigated using simulation, experimental methods, post-hoc surveys or interviews.

While conversation analysis is sometimes regarded as the soggiest of ‘soft’ qualitative research methods, I will show that its research findings not only challenge common communication myths but can reveal fundamental problems with both ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ research data themselves. Using real conversations from settings such as dating, healthcare, sales encounters, crisis negotiation and conversational AI, I will explore all these issues and more.

I will argue that conversation analytic research exposes the workings of real-life inequalities and exclusion, and the otherwise hidden reality of the good – as well as the damage – that turns at talking can do.


About the speaker

Elizabeth Stokoe is a Professor in the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), having joined in January 2023 after 20 years at Loughborough University. She conducts conversation analytic research to understand how talk works – from first dates to medical communication, and from sales encounters to crisis negotiation.

She has worked as an industry fellow at SaaS companies Typeform and Deployed. In addition to academic publishing, she is passionate about science communication, and has given talks at TED, Google, Microsoft and The Royal Institution, and performed at Latitude Festival and Cheltenham Science Festival.

Her books include Talk: The Science of Conversation (Little, Brown, 2018) and Crisis Talk (Routledge, 2022, co-authored with Rein Ove Sikveland and Heidi Kevoe-Feldman). Her research and biography were featured on BBC Radio 4’s The Life Scientific.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, she participated in a behavioural science sub-group of the UK Government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) and is a member of the Independent SAGE behaviour group. She is a Wired Innovation Fellow and in 2021 was awarded Honorary Fellowship of the British Psychological Society. Read more on the LSE website. Professor Stokoe is also a member of NCRM’s independent advisory board.


Contact us

For more information about the NCRM Annual Lecture 2023, please email: info@ncrm.ac.uk