Meet the organisers

A master’s student in Applied Linguistics, Nathan investigates doctor-patient interaction in the context of Traditional Chinese Medicine, with a focus on interactional patterns and the sequential organization of naturally occurring clinical consultations.

Levi's research focuses on conflict in English and American podcast interactions. He is interested in the multimodal resources deployed to navigate sequences of conflict, as well as how interactants do being controversial, facetious, and sceptical.

Constance's research focuses on disaffiliation and discord in Mandarin Chinese ordinary conversations. She is interested in the dynamics and resolutions of discord, and disaffiliative implicative actions, such as tendentious inquiries and warnings.

Kobin's research uses multimodal conversation analysis to study how people use language and embodied action in every day, face-to-face social interaction. 

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A linguistic PHD student; Alison investigates response pursuit practices used within investigative interviews. 

A PhD student in Translation and Interpreting. Xiancan studies and investigates Chinese to English interpreted consultations within medical settings

A master’s student in Applied Linguistics, Jack's research employs conversation analysis to investigate repair mechanisms, particularly word searching techniques, and overlap patterns in conversational recollective storytelling. 

Luyang's research uses multimodal conversation analysis to examine interactions in pediatric consultations. She's interested in multi-party interactions in healthcare.

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