S:E:D:I:T

During semester we run fortnightly sessions. These are lunchtime meetings usually in the Psychology Building, George Square (though sometimes in the Institute of Geography) which alternate between analysis of transcripts (from political speeches to family meals) and readings of classic texts in discursive psychology, ethnomethodology and conversation analysis. From time to time we run conferences, masterclasses and 1 or 2 day workshops with visiting experts in DP, CA and ethnomethodology.



We are continuing to meet fortnightly, email Eric or Sue to be added to the email list

2021

23rd Feb — Isha on Twitter thread of North/South Indian comments
6th Feb — Reading “On Sacks”

2020

11th Feb — Reading sessions. Harvey Sacks (1992) Lectures on Conversation, Vol 2. - Lectures 1-3, Spring 1970 ‘Doing Being Ordinary’ and more.
28th Jan — Isha Mangurkar - North vs South in Indian stand-up comedy
14th Jan — Yarong Xie - Reporting racism

2019

17th Dec — Yarong Xie - Christmas boots in the corridor
3rd Dec — UCU strike
19th Nov — Eve Mullins — TBA
5th Nov — Paula Greenlees — Jehovah’s witnesses
22nd Oct — Sille Abildgaard (Copenhagen Business School) — Students interactions in studio space
8th Oct — Thomas Toft (University of Copenhagen) — Joining 2 party conversations at the kitchen in office spaces
24th Sep — Sue Widdicombe & Cristina da Silva Marinho
10th Sep — Shawn Bodden — Hungary on activists finding better bricks for building work

SUMMER BREAK

26th Jun — DATA DAY - X-ism
11th Jun — Marianna —
28th May — Bumper session — Lasse Schaeffer & Mari Holmström —
21st May — Ethan Shapiro — interacting with interactive flowers
7th May — reading meeting: Rapley, T. (2015). Questions of context: Qualitative interviews as a source of knowledge. In C. Tileagā & E. H. Stokoe (Eds.), Discursive Psychology (pp. 70-84). London: Routledge.
24th Apr — Yarong Xie — part 2- racist talk in post match football interviews
10th Apr — Yarong Xie — racist talk in post match football interviews
26th Mar — Paula Greenlees - Jehovah’s witnesses on local daytime TV
12th Mar — Sumin Zhao — Children’s interactions around screens
12th Feb — Daniel Muñoz — entering a bus
29th Jan — Mirjam Eiswirth — marking actions with ‘wow’ and ‘really’
15th Jan — Ethan Shapiro — A & E admissions

2018

18th Dec — all Christmas data
4th Dec — Steve Kirkwood - social workers
20th Nov — Jani Vuolteenaho — retirement suburbs
6th Nov — Ethan Shapiro - A & E admissions
9th Oct — Eve Mullins — social work group sessions
25th Sep — Yarong Xie — racism accounts on daytime TV
10th Sep — Mirjam Eiswirth — listener responses
28th Aug — Paula Greenlees — leaving high intensity religions
29th Jun — Yasmeen Hindawi — daytime Eqyptian chat shows on TV
15th Jun — Robert MacQuade — Problem-based learning sessions
31st May — Mikhail Vodopyanov — Tatyana Tolstaya's nonfiction output
17th May — Paula Greenless — leaving a high intensity religion
19th Apr — Daniel Munoz — Bus turnstiles 2
3rd Apr — Daniel Munoz —Passing through bus turnstiles in Santiago
22nd Mar - Reading sessions: Heritage’s rebuttal of the epistemics critique
22nd Feb - Ethan Shapiro - hospital admissions
8th Feb — Paula Greenlees - Australian Royal Commission public inquiry into high demand religions
25th Jan — Judith Horne - Facebook student discussions
11th Jan — Eve Mullins - social work group sessions

2017

We have been meeting fortnightly through Autumn 2017. Info via our email list.

18th May — Eric Laurier & Erik Vinkhuyzen - vehicles negotiating obstacles
4th May — Sue Widdicombe - Election hustings
20th Apr — Reading session: Shaw, C., & Hepburn, A. (2013). Managing the Moral Implications of Advice in Informal Interaction. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 46(4), 344–362.
6th Apr — Eve Mullins - Social work group sessions (cont.)
23rd Mar — Eve Mullins - Social work group sessions
9th Mar — Paula Greenlees - The excerpt from the Watchtower
21st Feb — Eric Laurier - Thankings by drivers-in-traffic
9th Feb — Paula Greenlees - Excerpts from the Watchtower


2016

22nd/24th Nov — Reading session: Kendrick, K. H., & Drew, P. (2016). Recruitment: Offers, Requests, and the Organization of Assistance in Interaction. ROLSI
8th Nov — Eric Laurier — Self-driving cars (TBC)
25th Oct — (clash with viva date)
11th Oct — Bethany Jennings — Sex workers in Dhaka
27th Sep — Eric Laurier — Contactless Payment in service encounters

(apologies - slight gap, not due to absence of meeting but absence of website updating)

12th Apr — READING - Egbert, M., Yufu, M., & Hirataka, F. (2016). An investigation of how 100 articles in the Journal of Pragmatics treat transcripts of English and non-English languages. Journal of Pragmatics, 94, 98–111. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2016.01.010

29th Mar — Spring break

17th Mar — Daniel Mūnoz - Racist conflict on public transport.
1st Mar — READING - Richards, K. (2011). Using Micro-Analysis in Interviewer Training: “Continuers” and Interviewer Positioning. Applied Linguistics, 32(1), 95–112. http://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amq040
2nd Feb — Sally Wiggins - Weaning Sessions
19th Jan — Joanna McPake — Go-along in Gaelic & English


2015

8th Dec — Family Christmas dinners
24th Nov — Eric Laurier — paying the cafe bill
10th Nov — Fiona Morrison - Social Workers & Children
27th Oct — 12-1.3pm — Alexandra Weilenmann — Collaborative Photography (with SICSA screens workshop)
23rd Oct — 10am-12am — Lauren Wagner — Establishing the price at a bazaar
13th Oct — Reading session:

• Sormani, P., & Léger, S. (2015). Kickstarting “The Epistemic Engine?” – An EM* Response, or A Conversational Episode and Its Reenactment;
• Heritage, J. (2012). The Epistemic Engine: Sequence Organization and Territories of Knowledge. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 45(1), 30–52. http://doi.org/10.1080/08351813.2012.646685;
• Sormani, P. (2013). Review of: Tanya Stivers / Lorenza Mondada / Jakob Steensig (eds.): The Morality of Knowledge in Conversation. Cambridge (UK): Cambridge University Press 2011. Gesprachsforschung - Online-Zeitschrift Zur Verbalen Interaktion, 14, 1–18.

29 Sep — Sue Widdicombe — ‘Are you a …. ?’
15 Sep — Tim Smith - Watching TV while snacking
1 Sep — Sue Widdicombe - categories in action

SUMMER BREAK

22nd Jun —Yu-Chi — making lunch: interactions between supporter worker and two people with autism
8th Jun — Steve Kirkwood — Drumming classes in special education
14th Apr — Visiting researchers from Loughborough, DARG
30th Mar — Sally Wiggins — Infant weaning
16th Mar — Bethan Benwell — Formal complains and reponses in healthcare
2nd March — Reading:

• Pomerantz, Anita, and Jenny Mandelbaum. 2005. “Conversation Analytic Approaches to the Relevance and Uses of Relationship Categories in Interaction.” In Kristine L. Fitch and Robert E. Sanders (eds.), Handbook of Language and Social Interaction, 149–171. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

10th Feb — Eric Laurier — Haggling at a US swap meet
27th Jan — Yulia Lukyanova -- Russian political activists

2014

9th Dec — Eric Laurier & Tim Smith — Santa’s moral assessments during home visits
25th Nov — Yulia Lukyanova -- Russian political activists
11th Nov — Phil Nicholson — The Practice of Geographic Information Science and Remote Sensing
28th Oct — Bregje de Kok — Nigerian Maternal Death Review Meetings
14th Oct -- Bethan Benwell, Alice Gritti, May McCreaddie -- NHS Complaints
30th Sep -- Reading: ‘McHugh, Raffel, Foss & Blum (1974) Snubs - chapter from ‘On the Beginnings of Social Inquiry’, London: Routledge Kegan Paul
16th Sep -- Eric Laurier -- Insults, complaints and unhearables produced while driving in traffic.

20th May - Reading:

• “Rapley, M., & Antaki, C. (1998). “What do you think about...?”: Generating views in an interview. Text-Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, 18(4), 587–608.

6th May -- Walking with an iPhone
2nd May (Friday) -- Alexa Hepburn & Jonathan Potter -- Data TBC
22nd Apr -- Sally Wiggins — Food preferences and family mealtimes
08th Apr -- Eric Laurier — Customers haggling over secondhand goods
25th Mar -- Steve Kirkwood - Groupwork with male offenders
11th Mar -- Yulia Lukyanova -- Russian political activists
25th Feb -- Carly Butler -- Children’s games and rule following
11th Feb -- Steve Kirkwood - Groupwork with male offenders
28th Jan -- Gillian Hendry -- TBC
14th Jan -- Tim Smith -- Musical busking
10th Jan -- Alexa Hepburn & Jonathan Potter -- Admonishments at family meals


2013

10th Dec -- Tim Smith and Eric Laurier -- Santa Visits
26th Nov -- Reading:

• Watson, R. (1997). Some general reflections on ‘categorization’and ‘sequence’in the analysis of conversation. In S. Hester & P. Eglin (Eds.), Culture in action (pp. 49–76). London: University Press of America Washington, DC.

12th Nov -- Steve Kirkwood Groupwork with male offenders
29th Oct -- Kaisa Wilson - Security and female aid workers
15th Oct -- Multi-party medical consultations
1st Oct - Accounts of loss in childbearing
17th Sep -- Daniel Lam -- Second language learners
3rd Sep -- Kaisa Wilson -- Safety Guidelines for female aid workers
20th August -- Marion Smith -- Interviewing older members of society
= Summer break =
9th July --
25th Jun -- Eric Laurier -- Pitching in a flower-market
11th Jun -- Daniel Lam -- School-based Assessment in Hong Kong
28th May -- Peiling Zhou - Danwei Feasts
14th May -- Samu Pehkonen - Performing record music live
16th April -- International Aid Workers
19th Mar -- Multi-party talk in doctor <-> patient & family member interaction
5th Mar -- Families in cars -- Chandrika Cycil from Brunel Uni.
19th Feb -- Data - Re-learning to drive - Mirka Rauniomaa. Liz Stokoe also joining us for the session.
5th Feb -- Reading session - Stefanie Schmachtel
22nd Jan -- NHS Complaints - Bethan Benwell

2012

11th Dec -- Street performers
27th Nov -- Aid workers
13th Nov -- Three party medical interactions
30th Oct -- Data from Sally Wiggins on “recycled wigs”
16th Oct -- Reading group on membership categorisation analysis: Stokoe, E. H. (2012). Moving forward with membership categorization analysis: Methods for systematic analysis. Discourse Studies, 14(3), 277–303. doi:10.1177/1461445612441534
2nd Oct -- Doing tasks on a photocopier 2
18th Sept -- Doing tasks on a photocopier (revisiting Lucy Suchman’s Xerox studies)
4th Sept -- Pedestrians using GPS on smartphones

SUMMER BREAK

26th June -- Street performers
12th June -- Parenting classes
29th May -- Reading group John Heritage on epistemics. Heritage, J. (2012). Epistemics in Action: Action Formation and Territories of Knowledge. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 45(1), 1–29. doi:10.1080/08351813.2012.646684, Heritage, J. (2012). The Epistemic Engine: Sequence Organization and Territories of Knowledge. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 45(1), 30–52. doi:10.1080/08351813.2012.646685
8th May -- Humanitarian workers - Alice Gritti - University Milano-Bicocca
24th Apr -- Interviews on sex - Pantea Farvid - Auckland University of Technology
27th Mar -- Keep your wig on - video diary of wig wearer
13th Mar -- Emo forums - ‘bored’ and ‘boring’
28th Feb -- Wimbledon centre court tennis spectators
14th Feb - Speed-dating data courtesy of Liz Stokoe
31st Jan - Language & Social Action
18th/19th -- Workshop on practitioner-client interaction and adherence to ART. Queen Margaret University College
Tues 17th Jan -- HIV carers interview accounts

2011

Tues 6th Dec -- Consultations between a neurologist and patients with epilepsy/non-epileptic seizures
Tues 22nd Nov -- Readings on Doctor-Patient interaction:

• Pilnick, A., & Dingwall, R. (2011). On the remarkable persistence of asymmetry in doctor/patient interaction: A critical review. Social Science & Medicine, 72(8), 1374–1382. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.02.033,
• Stivers, T. (2002). Participating in decisions about treatment: overt parent pressure for antibiotic medication in pediatric encounters. Social Science & Medicine, 54, 1111–1130.

Tues 8th Nov -- Radio 4 debate on obesity
Tues 25th Oct--
Tues 11th Oct -- Football therapy sessions 4
Tues 27th Sept -- Interviewing on multi-lingual concerns
Tues 13th Sept -- Walk-offs on TV interviews
Tues 30th Aug --
Tues 16th Aug -- Football therapy sessions 3
Tues 2nd Aug -- Ken Clarke BBC interview
Tues 21st June -- Book group discussions
Tues 7th June -- Lecturer-Student interaction in supervision meetings
Tues 24th May -- Action replays in sports editing
Tues 10th May -- Mealtimes
Tues 26th Apr -- Asylum seekers 4
Tues 12th Apr -- Easter hols
Tues 29th March -- (Reading) McHoul, A., Rapley, M., & Antaki, C. (2008). You gotta light? On the luxury of context for understanding talk in interaction. Journal of Pragmatics.
Tues 15th March -- Football therapy sessions 2
Tues 1st March --
Tues 15th Feb -- Football therapy sessions
Tues 1st Feb -- Asylum Seekers 3
Fri 21st Jan -- Family Mealtimes (lead by Alexa Hepburn & Jonathan Potter)
Tues 18th Jan -- Sustainability policies


2010

Regular Meetings

Tues 14th Dec -- Opening Christmas presents
Tues 7th Dec -- Police using section 44 (part 2)
Tues 23rd Nov -- Visiting Expert - Gustav Lymer
Tues 16th Nov -- Refugees and asylum seekers (part 2)
Tues 2nd Nov -- Police using section 44
Tues 19th Oct -- (Reading) Harold Garfinkel - Chapter 2 of Studies in Ethnomethodology
Tues 5th Oct -- Disgust expressed through ‘eugh’ and ‘yuck’
Tues 21st Sept -- Refugees and asylum seekers

Tues 22nd June -- 'We could even fade to black': competing proposals in the edit suite
Fri 11th June -- Interactional issues in telephone helplines - An all-day knowledge exchange workshop with guests from Loughborough University (DARG) and a number of helpline organisations
Tues 8th June -- Telephone helplines reading session
Thurs 27th May -- Group interactions at and around an augmented-reality exhibit
Tues 25th May -- (Reading) Billy Lee: PAPER: discussion of Larkin, M. (2006) "Giving voice and making sense in interpretative phenomenological analysis".
Tues 11th May - Family mealtimes - An all day workshop with guests from Loughborough University (DARG) & Roehampton: Alexandra Craven, Laura Jenkins and Israel Beren
Tues 27th Apr -- (Reading) Bregje de Kok: PAPER: discussion of Willig’s paper on ethics, discursive psychology and health.
Tues 13th Apr -- Political speeches
Tues 30th Mar -- Family mealtimes
Tues 16th Mar -- ‘Are you religious’ questions and their answers
Tues 2nd Mar -- Political debates in Bahrain
Thurs 18th Feb -- Rock climbing (V) - All day workshop with guests from the University of Newcastle: Neil Jenkings and Tim Rapley
Tues 2nd Feb -- The Family Lost in London 2
Tues 26th Jan -- Marion’s data TBA
Wed 20th Jan -- Family meals
Tues 12th Jan -- Planning potential network/seminar funding


2009

Regular Meetings
Tues 8th Dec -- (reading meeting) Potter, J. & Hepburn, A. (2005). Qualitative interviews in psychology – Problems and possibilities, Qualitative research in Psychology, 2, 38-5
Tues 24th Nov -- Political interviews - Invasion of Iraq
Tues 10th Nov -- Political interviews - Protestors in Lebanon
Wed 14th Oct -- Editing sports highlights
Wed 30th Sept -- Sports highlights editing (V)

SUMMER BREAK

Wed 24th June -- (Reading meeting) Eric Livingston ‘Ethnographies of Reason’, Ch14-18 (V)
Tues 16th June -- Technical problems reported on forums on Amazon (CD)
Wed 10th June -- (Reading meeting) Eric Livingston ‘Ethnographies of Reason’ Ch 4-7 (V)
Wed 3rd Jun -- Accounting for sick leave, Marie Flinkfeldt, University of Uppsala, Liz Stokoe also visiting (CD)
Tuesday 26th May -- (Reading meeting) Eric Livingston ‘Ethnographies of Reason’ Ch 1-3 (V)
Wed 20th May -- SEDIT analyses a SEDIT meeting (V)
Tues 12th May -- Research project planning meeting (CD)
Tues 21st April -- European Neighbours Policy (CD)
Wed 1st April -- Beyonce’s ‘Put a ring on it’ (V)
Tues 24th Mar -- Counselling (CD)
Tues 17th Mar -- (Reading meeting) Levinon’s (2005) ‘Living with Manny’s Dangerous Idea’ & Schegloff’s (2002) ‘Between Micro & Macro’ (CD)
Wed 4th Mar -- A family getting lost in London (V)
Tues 24th Feb -- Newspaper reports - controversies (CD)
Tues 10th Feb -- Newspaper reports - ‘ordinary people’ (CD)
Wed 4th Feb -- Tim Dant will be visiting with video data of car mechanics at work (V)
Tues 27th Jan -- Uses of ‘ordinary people’ in newspaper articles (CD)
Wed 21st Jan -- Climbing rock faces (V)


2008

Masterclasses
MATHIAS BROTH
Tues 9th Dec, Room G.10, CECS, Drummond Street Annex, High School Yards, University of Edinburgh
2.30-3.30 Seeing through screens, hearing through speakers: Managing distant studio space in television control room interaction
& 4.00-5.30 Data session

Regular Meetings
Wed 26th Nov -- Video editors and institutional talk (V)
Tues 18th Nov -- Characterising interviewer identity in cross-cultural interviews (CD)
Wed 12th Nov -- Software engineers Dojo (V)
Wed 5th Nov -- Perakyla A. Conversation Analysis and the Professional Stocks of Interactional Knowledge. Discourse & Society (2003) vol. 14 (6) pp. 727-750
Wed 29th Oct -- Concierges 1 - rhythms of walking & talking (V)
Tues 21st Oct -- Obesity groups 2 - (CD)
Wed 9th Oct -- Watching football on TV 2 (V)
Tues 7th Oct -- Obesity groups (CD)
Tues 23rd Sept -- Reading Schegloff and Billig’s debate (CD)
Thurs 18th Sept -- Watching football on TV (V)
Tues 9th Sept -- Political & religious speeches (CD)

Workshops
Suggestions welcome.

Contact either Claire, Sue or Eric.