Alexa Hepburn
@alexahepburn.bsky.social
Researcher affiliated with Rutgers and Loughborough Universities, interested in use & development of conversation analysis and discursive psychology. Views: coherence-based; responsive to new ideas. #EMCA #FBPE #FBR #AcademicSky
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NCRM resource | Decoding Human Interaction: Transcription Conventions for Conversation Analysis by A...
NCRM delivers research methods training, produces learning resources, conducts research and supports methodological innovation
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Jeffersonian transcription illustrated in sound and video. NCRM wanted 20 minutes; I gave them 57 and I still missed loads of things!
The page contains some short accompanying exercises too. Hopefully it will be a helpful resource for all.
The page contains some short accompanying exercises too. Hopefully it will be a helpful resource for all.
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If you would like to explore some of Jeff's work, having read this short piece by Bo & me in The Psychologist, you could start with some of the items on this thread I put together in May this year: bsky.app/hashtag/Jeff...
#EMCA #EM/CA
#EMCA #EM/CA
November 27, 2025 at 10:04 AM
If you would like to explore some of Jeff's work, having read this short piece by Bo & me in The Psychologist, you could start with some of the items on this thread I put together in May this year: bsky.app/hashtag/Jeff...
#EMCA #EM/CA
#EMCA #EM/CA
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Democracy under threat via the "empirically observable breakdown in the interactional practices that constitute democratic accountability between media and state power."
Wayne Martin Mellinger on Steve Clayman's decades of #EMCA research 👇
doingmodernity.blogspot.com/2025/11/demo...
Wayne Martin Mellinger on Steve Clayman's decades of #EMCA research 👇
doingmodernity.blogspot.com/2025/11/demo...
Democracy Under Threat: Steven Clayman's Interactional Analysis and the Crisis We Can No Longer Ignore"
Democracy Under Threat: Steven Clayman’s Interactional Analysis and the Crisis We Can No Longer Ignore Wayne Martin Mellinger, Ph.D. Abstr...
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November 18, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Democracy under threat via the "empirically observable breakdown in the interactional practices that constitute democratic accountability between media and state power."
Wayne Martin Mellinger on Steve Clayman's decades of #EMCA research 👇
doingmodernity.blogspot.com/2025/11/demo...
Wayne Martin Mellinger on Steve Clayman's decades of #EMCA research 👇
doingmodernity.blogspot.com/2025/11/demo...
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Today I successfully defended my PhD dissertation!
Thank you very much to the committee members, @galinabolden.bsky.social @alexahepburn.bsky.social Lisa Mikesell, Jeff Robinson, and other @rucalteam.bsky.social members, for years of support and guidance.
Thank you very much to the committee members, @galinabolden.bsky.social @alexahepburn.bsky.social Lisa Mikesell, Jeff Robinson, and other @rucalteam.bsky.social members, for years of support and guidance.
November 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Today I successfully defended my PhD dissertation!
Thank you very much to the committee members, @galinabolden.bsky.social @alexahepburn.bsky.social Lisa Mikesell, Jeff Robinson, and other @rucalteam.bsky.social members, for years of support and guidance.
Thank you very much to the committee members, @galinabolden.bsky.social @alexahepburn.bsky.social Lisa Mikesell, Jeff Robinson, and other @rucalteam.bsky.social members, for years of support and guidance.
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Call for papers very relevant to #EMCA
📢 Call for Papers
@suewiddicombe.bsky.social and I are inviting papers on how third parties - e.g., social media users, news reporters, spokespersons - dispute, judge, or excuse others’ misconduct.
🗓️ Submit by 23 Jan 2026
🔗 More info onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
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@suewiddicombe.bsky.social and I are inviting papers on how third parties - e.g., social media users, news reporters, spokespersons - dispute, judge, or excuse others’ misconduct.
🗓️ Submit by 23 Jan 2026
🔗 More info onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
Please share and repost!
Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology
The Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology publishes papers that cover the full spectrum of community and social psychology.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Call for papers very relevant to #EMCA
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Do you agree no religious clerics should get automatic seats in our legislature? Write to your MP and tell them it's time to abolish the bishops' bench 👇 www.secularism.org.uk/scrap-bishop...
Scrap the bishops’ bench
End the archaic, unfair and undemocratic bishops’ bench in the House of Lords.
www.secularism.org.uk
November 11, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Do you agree no religious clerics should get automatic seats in our legislature? Write to your MP and tell them it's time to abolish the bishops' bench 👇 www.secularism.org.uk/scrap-bishop...
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Loughborough CA Day started out wa::y back in 2007 as a local, friendly get-together of like-minded interaction analysts.
It's now a global, friendly get-together of like-minded interaction analysts.
People fly or dial in from all over the world.
Still great fun.
#EMCA
It's now a global, friendly get-together of like-minded interaction analysts.
People fly or dial in from all over the world.
Still great fun.
#EMCA
It's nearly time for CA day!
I'm so:::::: looking forward to the **18th** year of #EMCA @darg-sessions.bsky.social @lborouniversity.bsky.social having made a tragic diary error last year and missing it.
Here's the registration link and terrific programme:
darg.lboro.ac.uk/event/ca-day...
I'm so:::::: looking forward to the **18th** year of #EMCA @darg-sessions.bsky.social @lborouniversity.bsky.social having made a tragic diary error last year and missing it.
Here's the registration link and terrific programme:
darg.lboro.ac.uk/event/ca-day...
November 10, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Loughborough CA Day started out wa::y back in 2007 as a local, friendly get-together of like-minded interaction analysts.
It's now a global, friendly get-together of like-minded interaction analysts.
People fly or dial in from all over the world.
Still great fun.
#EMCA
It's now a global, friendly get-together of like-minded interaction analysts.
People fly or dial in from all over the world.
Still great fun.
#EMCA
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The cover has arrived! Emotionography!
Emotions studied as they’re done in interaction - displayed, taken up, used.
@alexahepburn.bsky.social
Emotions studied as they’re done in interaction - displayed, taken up, used.
@alexahepburn.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The cover has arrived! Emotionography!
Emotions studied as they’re done in interaction - displayed, taken up, used.
@alexahepburn.bsky.social
Emotions studied as they’re done in interaction - displayed, taken up, used.
@alexahepburn.bsky.social
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Oulu, Finland is a welcoming place to work, with a large, friendly and highly expert group of #EMCA researchers
A postdoctoral researcher position (languages and conversation analysis) open in Oulu! #EMCA oulunyliopisto.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Postdoctoral Researcher in languages and conversation analysis, Faculty of Humanities
We are now looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join us in the Research unit for Languages and Literature (English unit) at the Faculty of Humanities. The position is located in the research proje
oulunyliopisto.varbi.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Oulu, Finland is a welcoming place to work, with a large, friendly and highly expert group of #EMCA researchers
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Interdisciplinary symposium on human-AI interaction taking place at University of Warwick next month:
warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...
This will be relevant for the #EMCA and #conversationalAI communities. Attendance is online or in person. And free!
warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...
This will be relevant for the #EMCA and #conversationalAI communities. Attendance is online or in person. And free!
Building Bridges
Building Bridges: A Symposium on Human-AI Interaction
warwick.ac.uk
October 24, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Interdisciplinary symposium on human-AI interaction taking place at University of Warwick next month:
warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...
This will be relevant for the #EMCA and #conversationalAI communities. Attendance is online or in person. And free!
warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...
This will be relevant for the #EMCA and #conversationalAI communities. Attendance is online or in person. And free!
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Off to Sweden (again!) with @alexahepburn.bsky.social to join Katerina Eriksson Barajas and colleagues in Linköping for two days teaching Discursive Psychology: data sessions, analysis, and lively discussion. Excited to reconnect with old friends and new ideas.
#discursivepsychology #EMCA
#discursivepsychology #EMCA
October 24, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Off to Sweden (again!) with @alexahepburn.bsky.social to join Katerina Eriksson Barajas and colleagues in Linköping for two days teaching Discursive Psychology: data sessions, analysis, and lively discussion. Excited to reconnect with old friends and new ideas.
#discursivepsychology #EMCA
#discursivepsychology #EMCA
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Come across Conversation Analysis and want to know more?
Loughborough University's annual online CA for Beginners workshop is on Jan. 15, 2026.
Talks, group work & data sessions with experts.
Registration (£45 or £90) is now open.
More information here
emcawiki.net/CA_for_Begin...
#EMCA
Loughborough University's annual online CA for Beginners workshop is on Jan. 15, 2026.
Talks, group work & data sessions with experts.
Registration (£45 or £90) is now open.
More information here
emcawiki.net/CA_for_Begin...
#EMCA
CA for Beginners January 2026 - emcawiki
emcawiki.net
October 22, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Come across Conversation Analysis and want to know more?
Loughborough University's annual online CA for Beginners workshop is on Jan. 15, 2026.
Talks, group work & data sessions with experts.
Registration (£45 or £90) is now open.
More information here
emcawiki.net/CA_for_Begin...
#EMCA
Loughborough University's annual online CA for Beginners workshop is on Jan. 15, 2026.
Talks, group work & data sessions with experts.
Registration (£45 or £90) is now open.
More information here
emcawiki.net/CA_for_Begin...
#EMCA
How did a high-stakes meeting between Trump, Vance& Zelenskyy turn from diplomacy to open confrontation?
Lotte van Burgsteden, @christelvaneck.bsky.social &I unpack conversational polarisation as it unfolded live in the Oval Office. @polcommjournal.bsky.social contains link to transcript #openaccess
Lotte van Burgsteden, @christelvaneck.bsky.social &I unpack conversational polarisation as it unfolded live in the Oval Office. @polcommjournal.bsky.social contains link to transcript #openaccess
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October 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
How did a high-stakes meeting between Trump, Vance& Zelenskyy turn from diplomacy to open confrontation?
Lotte van Burgsteden, @christelvaneck.bsky.social &I unpack conversational polarisation as it unfolded live in the Oval Office. @polcommjournal.bsky.social contains link to transcript #openaccess
Lotte van Burgsteden, @christelvaneck.bsky.social &I unpack conversational polarisation as it unfolded live in the Oval Office. @polcommjournal.bsky.social contains link to transcript #openaccess
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🚨NEW SPECIAL SECTION
Clinical risk discussions: an interactional perspective
- 7 novel papers (6 medical specialties)
- 1 report on CA training for high-stakes risk communication
- 1 expert clinical discussant
doi.org/10.1016/j.pe... #emca @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social @alexahepburn.bsky.social
Clinical risk discussions: an interactional perspective
- 7 novel papers (6 medical specialties)
- 1 report on CA training for high-stakes risk communication
- 1 expert clinical discussant
doi.org/10.1016/j.pe... #emca @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social @alexahepburn.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
🚨NEW SPECIAL SECTION
Clinical risk discussions: an interactional perspective
- 7 novel papers (6 medical specialties)
- 1 report on CA training for high-stakes risk communication
- 1 expert clinical discussant
doi.org/10.1016/j.pe... #emca @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social @alexahepburn.bsky.social
Clinical risk discussions: an interactional perspective
- 7 novel papers (6 medical specialties)
- 1 report on CA training for high-stakes risk communication
- 1 expert clinical discussant
doi.org/10.1016/j.pe... #emca @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social @alexahepburn.bsky.social
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⚠️NEW "Communicating anaphylaxis risk in pediatric allergy consultations"
Adrenaline prescription decisions are complex. Making reasoning explicit opens up decision-making to caregivers.
doi.org/10.1016/j.pe... @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social @alexahepburn.bsky.social @colinmacdougall.bsky.social
Adrenaline prescription decisions are complex. Making reasoning explicit opens up decision-making to caregivers.
doi.org/10.1016/j.pe... @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social @alexahepburn.bsky.social @colinmacdougall.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
⚠️NEW "Communicating anaphylaxis risk in pediatric allergy consultations"
Adrenaline prescription decisions are complex. Making reasoning explicit opens up decision-making to caregivers.
doi.org/10.1016/j.pe... @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social @alexahepburn.bsky.social @colinmacdougall.bsky.social
Adrenaline prescription decisions are complex. Making reasoning explicit opens up decision-making to caregivers.
doi.org/10.1016/j.pe... @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social @alexahepburn.bsky.social @colinmacdougall.bsky.social
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📣 Our #19 newsletter is out: this season marks a fresh chapter for many in our community it is the beginning of a new academic year in the Northern Hemisphere or the start of a new term in the South, this season marks a fresh chapter for many in our #ILEMCA community.✨ 🧵1/7
September 29, 2025 at 10:00 AM
📣 Our #19 newsletter is out: this season marks a fresh chapter for many in our community it is the beginning of a new academic year in the Northern Hemisphere or the start of a new term in the South, this season marks a fresh chapter for many in our #ILEMCA community.✨ 🧵1/7
Whatever their faults, universities need to be defended in the current anti-intellectual environment. @thetimes.com
timeshighered.bsky.social
timeshighered.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Whatever their faults, universities need to be defended in the current anti-intellectual environment. @thetimes.com
timeshighered.bsky.social
timeshighered.bsky.social
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Following on from my earlier thread about claims of “bias” in universities (link below 👇), I was struck by James Marriott’s column in today’s Times. It’s full of anecdote & caricature. The real story of UK universities is structural, financial, and political. 🧵
👉 bsky.app/profile/prof...
Following on from my earlier thread about claims of “bias” in universities (link below 👇), I was struck by James Marriott’s column in today’s Times. It’s full of anecdote & caricature. The real story of UK universities is structural, financial, and political. 🧵
👉 bsky.app/profile/prof...
Listening to Rest is Politics, Rest is Politics US, and reading respected commentators, it's striking how 'left-wing bias' in universities is now taken for granted. That matters, especially in the US, where academia faces political attack. Thoughts from having worked in US/UK universities. 🧵
September 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
#1
Following on from my earlier thread about claims of “bias” in universities (link below 👇), I was struck by James Marriott’s column in today’s Times. It’s full of anecdote & caricature. The real story of UK universities is structural, financial, and political. 🧵
👉 bsky.app/profile/prof...
Following on from my earlier thread about claims of “bias” in universities (link below 👇), I was struck by James Marriott’s column in today’s Times. It’s full of anecdote & caricature. The real story of UK universities is structural, financial, and political. 🧵
👉 bsky.app/profile/prof...
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Reposting: Please join us at Rutgers Communication dept - open rank position in Language, Interaction, and Interpersonal Comm! Apply by Sept 25; contact me with any Qs #emca jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/258...
Tenure-Track/Tenured Faculty Position in Language, Interaction, and Interpersonal Communication (Open Rank)
The Department of Communication at Rutgers University’s School of Communication and Information seeks a full-time faculty member in language, interaction, and interpersonal communication. The search i...
jobs.rutgers.edu
September 16, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Reposting: Please join us at Rutgers Communication dept - open rank position in Language, Interaction, and Interpersonal Comm! Apply by Sept 25; contact me with any Qs #emca jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/258...
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Pre-registration ends in just 2 weeks!
🥳#lansi2025 program is now live 👏tc.columbia.edu/lansi/conferen…
pre-register now and see you in 🍁in the Big Apple 🍎 tc.columbia.edu/lansi/conferen… @iscaupdates.bsky.social @teacherscollege.bsky.social @linguistlist.bsky.social @ica-lsi.bsky.social
pre-register now and see you in 🍁in the Big Apple 🍎 tc.columbia.edu/lansi/conferen… @iscaupdates.bsky.social @teacherscollege.bsky.social @linguistlist.bsky.social @ica-lsi.bsky.social
September 12, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Pre-registration ends in just 2 weeks!
Congratulations Dr Hee Chung Chun for brilliantly defending her dissertation on how teachers scaffold talk for adult novice learners in Korean language classes! A careful, insightful CA study. With co-chair @galinabolden.bsky.social & committee @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social & Hansun Waring🥂 #emca
September 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Congratulations Dr Hee Chung Chun for brilliantly defending her dissertation on how teachers scaffold talk for adult novice learners in Korean language classes! A careful, insightful CA study. With co-chair @galinabolden.bsky.social & committee @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social & Hansun Waring🥂 #emca
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new paper on because-prefaced utterances (BPUs) in child interaction: utppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3... @teacherscollege.bsky.social @iscaupdates.bsky.social #lansibunch #emca
September 1, 2025 at 11:56 AM
new paper on because-prefaced utterances (BPUs) in child interaction: utppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3... @teacherscollege.bsky.social @iscaupdates.bsky.social #lansibunch #emca
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This olde exchange concerning the place of ‘social-structural’ considerations in descriptions of the organizations of talk-in-interaction was recently brought to mind. (Perhaps the ‘obscurity’ involved was there to shield the suggestion from promiscuous application!) #EMCA
September 4, 2025 at 12:11 AM
This olde exchange concerning the place of ‘social-structural’ considerations in descriptions of the organizations of talk-in-interaction was recently brought to mind. (Perhaps the ‘obscurity’ involved was there to shield the suggestion from promiscuous application!) #EMCA
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Identifying, communicating, and de-escalating risk in high-stakes settings: How conversation analysis research can underpin communication training
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Identifying, communicating, and de-escalating risk in high-stakes settings: How conversation analysis research can underpin communication training
Communicating risk in high-stakes settings can prevent avoidable deaths. Communicating, assessing and managing risk is a critical part of many healthc…
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August 21, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Identifying, communicating, and de-escalating risk in high-stakes settings: How conversation analysis research can underpin communication training
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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🚨 new #emca paper klaxon 🚨
on-duty police regularly have to deal with recording bystanders. if they decide to open interaction, how do they do so? Uwe and I investigate 🕵🏻 in Language in Society
🔓 OA: www.cambridge.org/core/service...
on-duty police regularly have to deal with recording bystanders. if they decide to open interaction, how do they do so? Uwe and I investigate 🕵🏻 in Language in Society
🔓 OA: www.cambridge.org/core/service...
August 21, 2025 at 5:06 PM
🚨 new #emca paper klaxon 🚨
on-duty police regularly have to deal with recording bystanders. if they decide to open interaction, how do they do so? Uwe and I investigate 🕵🏻 in Language in Society
🔓 OA: www.cambridge.org/core/service...
on-duty police regularly have to deal with recording bystanders. if they decide to open interaction, how do they do so? Uwe and I investigate 🕵🏻 in Language in Society
🔓 OA: www.cambridge.org/core/service...
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A reminder from @marinanc.bsky.social that there is an #EMCA group on LinkedIn as well that would be nice to reactivate: www.linkedin.com/groups/2276942
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August 26, 2025 at 11:11 AM
A reminder from @marinanc.bsky.social that there is an #EMCA group on LinkedIn as well that would be nice to reactivate: www.linkedin.com/groups/2276942