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Communication peeps. As you and your students are making your NCA travel plans, I wanted to let you know that Marco Dehnert and I are offering a #qualitative short course on Thursday 2:30 p.m. Please share. xcdsystem.com/nca/program/sS…

1 of 2/ An early copy of “Policing Patients” by Liz Chiarello.com hit my doorstep this week. I just began reading it. Dr. Chiarello, a sociologist, uses over 300 interviews to ask how and why ...so many of us in health care took on the tools of law enforcement as part of our

Margaret R. Roller Yes! I made a video about the problem of "why" interview questions several years ago -- showing the unintended effects. Shout-out to my very adorable niece here. youtube.com/watch?v=8J4hsj…

The #NIDCR encourages innovative research on #interpersonal #communication as a #fundamental element to #dental, #oral, and #craniofacial #health and #wellbeing. Learn more about this opportunity, contact a program official, and #apply - grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/n…

The Interpersonal Communication Division is seeking nominations for Vice Chair and Student/Early Career Representative. Contact Jeff Hall ([email protected]) or Kai Kuang ([email protected]) to nominate yourself or a colleague. See The Link for details. #ICA_IPC

Excited about and proud of this paper, and thrilled to read all the others in this special issue! psycnet.apa.org/PsycARTICLES/j…

My copy of Lauren Olsen’s “Curricular Injustice” (Columbia Univ Press) is here! Can’t wait to assign it this fall semester. Have you ordered yours? Do it!

The theme for ICA's next year (Denver, June 12-16, 2025) conference is "ICA@75: Disrupting and Consolidating Communication Research". Please check out the theme call, consider submitting and forward to relevant scholars: cdn.ymaws.com/.../conf.../20…

The academic job market in the good ol' days vs the academic job market today.

To my comm folks left here — If you know of interpersonal, org, or group comm folks who might be interested, my department is seeking applicants for a tenure-track assistant professor of communication science! jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assistant…

Powerful new piece by Sara Babu Charee Thompson et al., check it out - “(Re)making Scales: Communicative enfranchisement in Women’s Narrative Discourses About Health Dismissal: Health Communication” - #HealthCommunication 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾Get Access tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

New OPEN ACCESS pub Journal of Health Communication w/ Wolfe, Gunning, Boateng, myself, and Cardwell, "Disenfranchising Talk Mediates the Relationship Between Social Determinants of Health and Wellbeing Outcomes for Women of Color Patients with Autoimmune Disease" Read it: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Amanda Cooper & Segrin #OnlineFirst used a qualitative approach to examine how resilience processes unfold within dementia caregivers’ relationships with their family member, and dementia caregivers’ experiences of resilience. doi.org/10.1177/026540…

It's the week before my 5th year at TEXAS Moody starts, so I thought I'd drop some resources that may be helpful if you're in various transitional stages in academia. Today, I'm sharing a 🧵of the readings I send my grad students at different stages.

Using videotaped oncology data to show with Alex Tate, PhD how, incredibly enough, a doctor can condition the interaction that makes a patient appear resistant to treatment. Challenging victim-blaming paradigms of compliance 👏👏

Last week I had a brilliant meeting of the minds with Nahla Bendefaa | نهلة, Chelsea Reynolds, and 𝕕𝕣. 𝕜𝕣𝕪𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕟 𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕚𝕟 (𝕤𝕙𝕖/𝕙𝕖𝕣) about the rising popularity of the "descriptive research" critique. Her are some resources I use to defend my work & show the arbitrary distinction between descriptive/empirical

This Journal of Communication in Healthcare (JCIH) opinion suggests that studying #interpersonal #communication as an #interactive #symbolic #behavioral #process can illuminate how #patients and #providers establish and develop #trust over time - pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37846861/

There is still time to get your copy! All the cool kids are doing it.