They danced while we mourned alone. They fast-track wealth to cronies while strangling the NHS. They dehumanise the desperate, when the austerity they chose was to blame. Even now, they gaslight us with terms like “supermajority” - stolen, like their propaganda, from America.

Brand new PhD course co-taught by Antonia Krummheuer and myself in Denmark this fall, combining #EMCA #videoAnalysis and #interactionDesign methods.   More info here: phdcourses.dk/Course/112081 #HRI2024 #DIS2024 #CHI2024 #IIEMCA2024

For anyone trying to understand the current crisis in UKHE, this from Cris Shore is today’s #mustread. My conclusion: get the management consultants out of our universities

My answer is yes, my answer is no.

England in 5 syllables

RIP Max Atkinson. He was a fantastic speech writer and coach. He also powerfully demonstrated how conversation analysis can be applied to these very practical concerns. And his influence on EMCA scholarship was considerable. Indeed… 1/2

University buildings are public buildings

Doing a small bit of work with Terry AY Stand with 🇺🇦 🇲🇲 on connected communities. First observation is that it’s 9 miles away from the Uni but takes an hour by bus… Infrastructure isn’t everything but it’s impossible to be ‘connected’ without it.

Des places sont encore disponibles dans le cours "Les méthodes audiovisuelles en sciences sociales" avec Cornelia Hummel, Jenny Maggi, Philippe Sormani et moi. Délai d'inscription: 31.07.2024. Lieu: Crêt-Bérard, Puidoux, Suisse. cuso.ch/activity/?p=88…

Critical praxeological analysis: respecifying critical research,Khadijah Diskin, Phil Hutchinson,2024 dlvr.it/T9VCfv

‘To say an intellectual of her stature is not worthy of keeping her role at the college is to say that Black British literature is not and will not be taken seriously at Goldsmiths.’ theguardian.com/education/arti…

We’re going to be “undisciplining the academic conference” with some gentle, tech-enabled, anarchic ethnomethodological interventions to better understand the work of *networking, *access, and *navigation. Check it out, should be fun! #EMCA

#EMCA Paper alert🚨 My article about police encounters involving less-than-competent subjects was published in The British Journal of #Criminology: doi.org/10.1093/bjc/az… It examines how officers improvise methods to manage troublesome responses to their queries and directives

A great weekend of working hard, which hardly felt like work at all with Richard Fitzgerald Membership Categorisation Analysis Terry AY Stand with 🇺🇦 🇲🇲 #MCA #EMCA

Experimenting with the new stretcher system which reduces the fulcrum effect when going over a sheer edge. MR practice at its best is about reflexive methods of adaptation of core principles, not prescribed ways of doing. #fieldwork #EMCA #uniqueadequacyofmethods

I’ve been promoted to Professor. It’s odd sharing good news ((gestures at the hellscape)) but there are a good few people on here who have been involved in that and I want to say thanks to you all. Let’s keep doing the work, together #EMCA #Sociology #Ethnography

'Communicating and categorising ‘kidnap’ incidents in UK police emergency calls: a conversation analytic study' now published in Policing and Society. We examined why instances of 'kidnap' are difficult to categorise, for callers and call handlers. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Closing day 1 with our second keynote of the symposium, Professor Robin Smith Cardiff University reflects on his ethnography as a methodgraphy of crisis response #ethsym2024 #ethnography Cardiff Business School Ethnography Symposia

Just received directions in Nottingham that included the phrase “jitter way” to refer to a small back street. Hadn’t heard that one before.

We did it Sue Widdicombe Dr Isha Mangurkar Paula Greenlees Terry AY Stand with 🇺🇦 🇲🇲 Rob Smith 🙌🙌 And looking forward to taking our symposium on ‘Making misconduct matter’ forward. #spsconf2024