Professor Elizabeth Stokoe

biography : publications : workshops & talks : links

Professor of Social Interaction

Room U3:02
Brockington Building
Department of Social Sciences 
Loughborough University 
Loughborough 
Leicestershire LE11 3TU 
England

Telephone:+44 (0)1509 223360

Internal:ext.223360

Fax:+44 (0)1509 223944

Email: e.h.stokoe@lboro.ac.uk

Research interests:

I study social interaction across a variety of everyday and institutional settings, using conversation analysis and membership categorization analysis. These settings include simulated interaction, neighbour mediation, telephone calls to mediation helplines, classroom education (in higher education), police interrogations, dating, and friendship groups. Amongst other things, I am interested in how categorial formulations are organized within sequences of action and, more generally, pushing for the systematic analysis of categories to develop membership categorization studies. Most recently, I am studying role-play and simulation in two ways: 1) an applied project developing a ‘conversation analytic role-play method’ (CARM) for mediation and communication skills training and 2) an empirical study (the first?) of simulated interaction versus ‘the real thing’, to ask and hopefully answer the question of authenticity in role-play.