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Dr Deborah Swinglehurst

Deborah Swinglehurst

Plenary

Deborah Swinglehurst is a Clinical Reader and NIHR Clinician Scientist in the Complex Intervention and Social Practice in Health Care unit within the Centre for Primary Care and Public Health. She combines her academic work with clinical work as a General Practitioner. She is an experienced qualitative researcher and educator in professional and higher education settings.

Deborah’s research explores interfaces between medicine, social science and linguistics with a focus on the importance of language and social interaction in shaping health care practices, organisational routines and health policy.

Research interests include polypharmacy, multimorbidity and medicines optimisation in primary care; meanings of ‘quality’ in health care; the role of electronic patient records in shaping clinical consultations and organisational routines in primary care; exploring ‘hidden’ work in the delivery of primary care; interdisciplinary working in life sciences. 

 

 

Jürgen Jaspers

Dr Jürgen Jaspers

Plenary

Jürgen Jaspers studied Germanic linguistics (MA 1997) and obtained his PhD from the University of Antwerp in 2004. Since 2012 he joined the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) where he is associate professor of Dutch linguistics from 2016.

He publishes widely on the interconnections between classroom interaction, urban multilingualism, language policy, and language standardisation. In a current project he explores what teachers say and do to reconcile monolingual policies with de facto multilingual schools.

Recent work of his can be found in Language & Communication, Annual Review of Anthropology, Applied Linguistics Review, and various edited volumes.

 

 

Professor Rodney Jones

Workshop on Digital Ethnography

Rodney Jones

Professor of Sociolinguistics, University of Reading

Rodney's main areas of interest are discourse analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, and language and digital media. He is particularly interested in how digital media affect the way people conduct social interactions and manage social identities. For the past two decades he has been involved with the late Professor Ron Scollon and other colleagues in developing an approach to discourse called mediated discourse analysis, the principles of which are laid out in his 2005 book with Sigrid Norris Discourse in Action: Introducing mediated discourse analysis. He has applied this approach to a range of contexts including health and risk communication, classroom discourse, professional communication, computer mediated communication, and language and creativity. Rodney has authored/edited twelve books and over fifty journal articles and book chapters. 

Before joining the University of Reading, Rodney worked in the Department of English at City University of Hong Kong, where he acted as Head of Department from 2012 to 2014. While in Hong Kong he conducted a number of large scale funded research projects having to do with the digital literacies of secondary school students, HIV prevention and education, food labelling, collaborative writing in the creative industries, and laypeople's communication of scientific and medical information. He is interested in supervising projects on language and (new) media), mediated discourse analysis/nexus analysis, language and gender/sexuality, language and creativity, and health and risk communication.

 

 

Dr Jeff Bezemer

Jeff Bezemer

Workshop on Multimodal Interaction

Reader in Learning and Communication and Co-Director of the Centre for Multimodal Research at UCL Knowledge Lab (part of UCL Institute of Education)

My research is focused on clinical communication and medical education. Recent projects include ethnographic studies funded by the ESRC on inter-professional communication, surgical education and clinical decision making in the operating theatre. The overall aim of these projects is to develop a social semiotic theory of multimodality, learning and communication; and to apply these theories to improve our understanding of health care. Central to my methodology is in-depth analysis of video recordings of professional activity and artifacts of semiotic work. I am also interested in and have led research in applied linguistics, linguistic ethnography, and language and education.