Carly W. Butler

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Biography

(from http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/socialsciences/staff/academicandresearch/butler-carly.html)

Profile

Carly completed her PhD at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand in 2007, with a study of children’s interaction in the school playground. Her postdoctoral work in Brisbane, Australia involved researching interactions on Kids Helpline and Child Health Line (with Susan Danby, Michael Emmison and others), and work on methodology, family interaction and broadcast talk (with Richard Fitzgerald) before joining the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough in 2010. Carly is a member of Loughborough’s Helpline Research Unit and Discourse and Rhetoric Group and founding director of the Loughborough-Sheffield Children’s Interaction Research Network (CIRN). She is on the editorial board of Social Psychology Quarterly (as of January 2013).

Research

Carly’s research examines social interaction in everyday life using conversation analysis, ethnomethodology and membership categorisation analysis. Her research focuses primarily on children’s play and interaction, family interaction, and helpline interactions. She has a particular interest in methodological issues in the study of social interaction.

Teaching

Carly teaches Psychological Statistics 1A in the first year and Developmental Psychology in the second year. She runs two optional modules in the third year - Social Psychology of Everyday Life and Children’s Interactions and supervises final year projects. Carly will also be teaching on the new Masters Programmes in Communication and Interaction: Conversation Analysis and Discursive Psychology.

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