Developing Skills in Conversation Analysis: A free 5-day intensive course for students working with conversation analysis 15-19/06/2015
Developing Skills in Conversation Analysis: A free 5-day intensive course for students working with conversation analysis
Teaching staff : Celia Kitzinger (University of York) & Ray Wilkinson (University of Sheffield), with Sue Wilkinson (Loughborough University), Merran Toerien (University of York) & Richard Ogden (University of York)
Date of course: 15 June – 19 June 2015
Venue: Research Centre for the Social Sciences, University of York
Description of course: This intensive 5 day course, organized through the White Rose Doctoral Training College, is intended to develop the analytic skills of PhD and early career researchers and practitioners using conversation analysis (CA) in their own research. The focus of the course is on ‘pure’ (rather than ‘applied’) conversation analysis, and we will cover topics related to turn-taking, sequence organisation, repair, and action formation as well as working together on a collection. Most of the teaching will come from Celia Kitzinger and Ray Wilkinson, with additional sessions on particular specialisms from other staff.
Target audience & any previous experience required: Participants should have already have taken some courses in CA and have experience of collecting their own naturally-occurring data (not interviews or focus groups) and using CA methodology.
Students will be expected already to have a basic grasp of turn-taking, sequence organization, repair, word-selection and overall structural organization of talk-in-interaction, and to have collected their own data.
Teaching will draw on archived conversation analysis data.
Number of places available : Places are limited to 20 students (with 5 places reserved for people from outside the White Rose Doctoral Training College). Participants must attend the whole course.
Cost: Free
(But NB you will need to pay for your own accommodation, food, transport etc)
To register (first come first served) please book your place via the White Rose Doctoral Training College website:
http://www.wrdtc.ac.uk/events/advanced-conversation-analysis/
Any queries: please contact ray.wilkinson@sheffield.ac.uk
Information about teaching staff:
Celia Kitzinger is Professor in the Sociology Department of the University of York with a long-standing interest in how gender and sexuality are produced in talk-in-interaction. She has published widely as a feminist conversation analyst and, jointly with Gene Lerner, on technical issues relating to repair practices and repair prefacing
Ray Wilkinson is Professor in the Department of Human Communication Sciences at the University of Sheffield. Much of his research focuses on atypical interaction, in particular where one participant has an acquired communication disorder. Recent work also includes publications on language assessment interactions and (with Carly Butler) adult-child interaction.
Sue Wilkinson is Professor in the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University. She has published widely in both pure and applied conversation analysis, including work on insertion repair, reaction tokens, gender in interaction, and interaction on helplines. She is currently working on collaborative completions in helpline interaction.
Merran Toerien is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of York. Her primary research interest is the application of conversation analysis to the study of talk in institutional settings. This has included nurse-patient interaction during recruitment appointments for a cancer trial; adviser-claimant interaction during ‘work-focused interviews’ in the UK’s Jobcentre Plus; and beauty therapist-client interaction during salon hair removal sessions.
Richard Ogden is a phonetician with a wide range of other interests, including Finnish, British Sign Language, phonology (especially Firthian phonology), and Conversation Analysis. His recent work combines phonetic detail (that is, the way the sounds of speech are organised) with conversation analytic methodology, as a way of working out how people use aspects of speech to perform social actions, such as turn-taking, agreeing, complaining, and telling stories.
