Of four free speech cases highlighted here, fully three of them concern self-described "gender critical" academics, while the fourth is a guy opposed to BLM and the concept of strutural racism - if anyone is in doubt about that this is for. www.bbc.com/news/article...
There was something about this one. I’m not sure there was a single step that I was sure of during doing it. Right or wrong was only revealed in the next. I really should’ve Livingston’d it
I wish I’d have recorded it or done a proper Livingston documentation. It was the worst.
The worldliness of EM phenomena is reintroduced to me as I update a lecture on instructed action. My wife calls up from downstairs. She has all the parts of the IKEA cabinet, but their order is elusive. She can’t find the hammer. I muse on instructions in the midst of making the bloody thing.
#EMCA
⏳ Tick tock, tick tock… 2 weeks left to submit to this special issue.
@suewiddicombe.bsky.social and I are looking forward to contributions that engage with the theme and push the conversation forward.
If it’s on your list, now’s the time to get it over the line 👇
Spread the word!
Out today! A great collection of studies of the organisation of the senses in interaction. Our chapter looks at visual and haptic aspect shifts in an orienteering race. Plenty of other settings and sensings to be found within!
#emca #interactionism #sociology
www.routledge.com/Sensing-Life...
Book cover of Walking: A sociological field guide, on a banner outside Manchester University.
First time back at the BSA conference in a long while to speak on a panel launching this lovely collection of walking essays. I’ll be speaking briefly on walking as organised practice of care in the search for missing persons. 1600 in room 4.206.
@britsoci.bsky.social
#sociology
#britsoc26
Applications for the ESRC WGSSS postdoctoral Fellowship are now open. If you have recently completed a PhD in the U.K. and are interested in coming to Cardiff to work with me and the small, but lively and lovely, CEEIT research group, do get in touch.
wgsss.ac.uk/fellowships/
#EMCA
#Ethnography
Me stood at front a full seminar room, talking through an example of gestalt contexture and switch.
Such a good couple of days of talking through different approaches to language and interaction in Macau. Highlights were learning about developments in Chinese social and digital media, and drawing from an abundance of positive energy from a special bunch of local and Hong Kong PhDs.
#EMCA
University of Macau letter sculpture in front of campus. A lake, grass and trees, and somewhat grand modern university buildings in background.
And on to Macau for a workshop on EM/CA, discourse, and ethnography.
#EMCA
Fishing boats in harbour with low rise buildings, sky scrapers and hills of Hong Kong island in the background.
Two days of data sessions and dim sum in Hong Kong.
Many thanks to Andrew Carlin and Marek Czyżewski for inviting me to contribute to the special issue of Przegląd Socjologiczny dedicated to the work of Harvey Sacks.
Special issue - part 1: t.ly/GLUVh
Special issue - part 2: t.ly/ZI7mP
My paper: t.ly/-O1ei
#EMCA #HarveySacks #Sociology
The cracks are where the light gets in, and shines out.
Loreen Chikwira of the Kings Fund & I wrote this protocol paper for using Praxeological Analysis and Critical Praxeological Analysis:
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
I was thinking about this in a mountain rescue context. It’s immediately recognisable as there’s a resistance to (too many) SOPs. Conversely, a good deal of the “golden rules” aren’t - maybe, can’t - live in written protocols.
As you suggest, that can be found in the “rules” of traffic order too.
Hello #EMCA community!
There's been another Bluesky influx - to find #ConversationAnalysis #DiscursivePsychology #MCA #Ethnomethodology use these Starter Packs.
Let me know if you'd like to be added (check you're not there first) and repost this!
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We need a Strava-like app for marking season motivation.
Kudos! You’ve marked five essays!
Elapsed time: 90mins
Grade Adjusted Pace: 3 hours
Calories burned/consumed: +300
Recovery time: 1hr
How the financial problem is described is not neutral. It reflects and reinforces a particular way of understanding what a university is and how it should function. If the financial situation is framed as a classic demand-and-cost problem (i.e., demand is insufficient, prices are constrained, and unit costs are too high), then the university is, implicitly, being treated as a ‘service provider’ operating in a competitive international education market where students are customers. In that frame, the obvious actions are to emphasise tight cost controls and to strengthen output-focused performance metrics, targets and incentives such as promotions based on publications in highly rated journals, income generation or teaching satisfaction scores. If the same financial situation is framed instead as a system-level shock that threatens the conditions under which teaching, research and public service can flourish, then a different picture of the university comes into view: a ‘living knowledge ecosystem’ serving a public mission and facing financial constraints partly beyond its control. Within that frame, the responses appears quite different. Attention turns to protecting core capacities, reducing harm to the most vulnerable parts of the system and working with others to share risks and resources. In both cases, the numbers in the spreadsheets are the same. What differs is the story told about the problem, and the underlying image of the university that story presupposes. At present, the former factory-like framing is the most common. With it, the danger is that, under a narrative of financial constraints, universities take actions that emphasise governance practices that reshape behaviour so deeply that, over time, what remains may still be called a ‘university’, but no longer acts like one.
Three short paragraphs, and you've got the whole mind-bending mess that is #UKHE finance & governance neatly laid out.
This is why it's all so exhausting: our managers declare there's only one static frame, while we know their framing is part of the issue.
💡 www.hepi.ac.uk/2026/01/10/w...
Website and call for papers for the 2026 EUSSSI conference launched.
As reflected in the Symbolic Interaction journal and CfP, welcoming of work in EM/CA related to conference theme.
#symbolicinteraction
#groundedtheory
#emca
www.sv.uio.no/iss/english/...
Looks great, Liz! Happy New Year!
On another level it’s about “seeing ethnographically” as well as some of the trained difficulties with doing “mere description”. There’s a dash of EM and Wittgenstein running through it.
Let me know if you’d like a copy.
Just published. My chapter is based on resolving the three complaints of the novice fieldworker.
“I didn’t know what to write because”:
1) no one was doing anything!
2) people were doing too much!
3) I didn’t know what to call the thing I was seeing!
tinyurl.com/5n7w84hk
#ethnography #emca
Oof. Don’t we know it. It’s the hope that kills you…
I used the United classic “give it to Giggsy till end of season” in this context just yesterday…
A hand holdint the book "bigfooters and scientific inquiry" by Jamie Lewis and Andy Bartlett.
Delighted to receive this in the post - 'Bigfooters and Scientific Inquiry' by @drjamielewis.bsky.social and Andy Bartlett. This book is in the finest STS tradition of showing how an apparently marginal or obscure scientific practice opens up an entire epistemological world.
There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
It’s tough out there.
The future is already populated.
Symbolic Interaction, Vol.48 No4 is out - it's a special issue on "The (Re)Production and Navigation of Social Asymmetries‐in‐Action" co-edited by Catherine L. Tam @cathtam.bsky.social & Robin James Smith @robinjsmith.bsky.social congratulations, both co-editors and authors #sssi #emca #interaction
The future is not determined but is factual. It is already under way…
The foundation of a future oriented relation of ethics, action, and knowledge.