Meet the organisers

We would like to take this space to introduce the organizers of YorCCA 2024

Rosario Neyra

Rosario is a third-year PhD student studying recruitment in crafting classrooms. She is interested in insititutionality, embodiment, and mediated interactions.

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Mathew Butler

Mathew's research uses conversation analysis to study broadcast talk and news interviews. He is particularly interested in non-serious answers to questions and question prefaces in the form of disclaimers.


Levi Tyson Farrington

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 Kang Sun

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 Kendrick 

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

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