Europe-Africa-Americas
Pentti Haddington
Pentti Haddington is Professor of English language and interaction at the University of Oulu. He uses conversation analysis and videos as data to study talk and multimodal interaction. His current research interests are multiactivity, interaction in multinational crisis management training (e.g., involving UN military observers) and interaction in digital environments, especially virtual and distributed settings. These interests are studied in three funded projects: iTask (2015-2022), PeaceTalk (2019-2026) and GenZ (2018-2023), respectively. He is one of the principal investigators in the COACT research community. He has published articles and co-edited books, for example, on multiactivity in interaction and interaction and mobility.
Marie Flinkfeldt
Marie Flinkfeldt has a PhD in Sociology and is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Social Work at Uppsala University, Sweden. She studies interaction between professionals and clients in different welfare settings and is currently working with two projects in collaboration with the Swedish Social Insurance Agency: one focuses on membership categorization and discriminatory action in interactions between clients and parental leave case officers, and the other investigates the conditions for disclosing experiences of domestic violence in maintenance support interactions. Marie’s broader interests also include research-based communication training and policy for higher education and research.
Geoffrey Raymond
Geoffrey Raymond is Professor of Sociology and Linguistics at the University of California–Santa Barbara. His research interests include conversation analysis, the role of talk-in-interaction in the organization of institutions, and qualitative research methods. His research has appeared in the American Sociological Review, Research on Language and Social Interaction, Social Psychology Quarterly, and Language in Society, among other places. He is also co-editor of several edited collections including, Talk and Interaction in Social Research Methods, Conversational Repair, and Human Understanding, and Enabling Human Conduct: Studies of talk-in-interaction in honor of Emanuel A. Schegloff.
Asia-Oceania
Guodong Yu
Guodong Yu is a professor of linguistics at Ocean University of China (Qingdao). He attained his Ph.D. in linguistic pragmatics from Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China, and he studied conversation analysis as an academic visitor at the University of York (U.K.), Loughborough University (U.K.), State University of New York at Albany (U.S.A.), and the University of California, Los Angeles (USA); and his research interests are social actions and Mandarin Grammar, and doctor-patient interactions in conversation analysis
Ilana Mushin
Ilana Mushin is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Queensland, and co-editor Interactional Linguistics. Her research interests include the relationship between interaction and grammar in Australian Languages, and epistemics. She is the author of Evidentiality and Epistemological Stance (John Benjamins, 2001) and A Grammar of (Western) Garrwa (Mouton, 2012). She has partnered with Rod Gardner on projects examining the management of knowledge in early childhood classrooms, including Effective Task Instruction in the First Year of School (Routledge, 2022). She currently leads the ‘Knowledge Management’ subproject of the ARC DP ‘Conversational interaction in Aboriginal and Remote Australia’.
Michie Kawashima
Michie Kawashima is an Associate Professor in the Department of International Studies at Kyoto Sangyo University in Japan. She has mainly worked on areas of conversation analysis and health communication. She has published numbers of papers on interpersonal interaction in women’s health, palliative care, child care and emergency medicine. Her recent publication includes ‘Four ways of delivering very bad news in Japanese Emergency Room’ in Research on Language and Social Interaction (2017), 50(3), 307-325, and ‘‘Mitori’; Practices at a Japanese Hospital: Interactional analysis of the processes of death and dying in Japan’ (2018) Discourse Studies, 21(2), 159-179.