• Forensic Conversations in Criminal Justice Settings

    Forensic Conversations in Criminal Justice Settings: One-day Symposium + half-day extension for data sessions Loughborough University/Online Join us for a friendly and informal day of networking, discussions and presentations with researchers using EMCA methods (ethnomethodology and conversation analysis) to explore conversations in policing and criminal justice contexts. This year we are introducing a bonus half […]

  • Data Session: 1st October, Saul Albert & Hetty Sargent: Living with Language Models: everyday talk involving an LLM-based virtual assistant

    Schofield Building, Room SCH1:21, and online

    DARG will run at 13:00-14:15 UK time as a hybrid data session: Room SCH1:21 (Schofield Building Building, Loughborough) Zoom registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpcOqgrjgiHtTW1buxXxCdo2SK5iFfK3iV (NB: we are now collecting some basic information on who comes to DARG) Session details: Large Language Models (LLMs) are an increasingly ubiquitous aspect of daily interaction. In this session we will look at video data […]

  • Data Session: 8th October, Sanaa Hyder: Storytelling in primary care consultations between General Practitioners and ethnic minority patients

    Schofield Building, Room SCH1:21, and online

    DARG will run at 13:00-14:15 UK time as a hybrid data session: Room SCH1:21 (Schofield Building Building, Loughborough) Zoom registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpcOqgrjgiHtTW1buxXxCdo2SK5iFfK3iV (NB: we are now collecting some basic information on who comes to DARG) Session details: The patient (P) is a 47-year-old woman, who has a GP appointment to discuss her recent allergy flare-up (including itching, skin […]

  • Data Session: 15th October, Anca-Cristina Sterie: Offering to say a prayer in discussions between hospitalised patients and spiritual counsellors

    Schofield Building, Room SCH1:21, and online

    DARG will run at 13:00-14:15 UK time as a hybrid data session: Room SCH1:21 (Schofield Building Building, Loughborough) Zoom registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpcOqgrjgiHtTW1buxXxCdo2SK5iFfK3iV (NB: we are now collecting some basic information on who comes to DARG) Session details: In hospitals, spiritual counsellors address spiritual needs that arise from illness, injury, end-of-life, and hospitalisation, offering support regardless of religious background. Their […]

  • Data session: 22nd October, Sofie Tomova-Olsen: Discussions on initiating GLP1-RA for weight loss in a weight management programme

    Schofield Building, Room SCH1:21, and online

    DARG will run at 13:00-14:15 UK time as a hybrid data session: Room SCH1:21 (Schofield Building Building, Loughborough) Zoom registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpcOqgrjgiHtTW1buxXxCdo2SK5iFfK3iV (NB: we are now collecting some basic information on who comes to DARG) Session details: GLP-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs) for weight loss have received much public and clinical attention in the last couple of years. In […]

  • Data session: 29th October, Andrea Bruun: Conversation between patient with a learning disability and staff in a UK hospice

    Schofield Building, Room SCH1:21, and online

    DARG will run at 13:00-14:15 UK time as a hybrid data session: Room SCH1:21 (Schofield Building Building, Loughborough) Zoom registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpcOqgrjgiHtTW1buxXxCdo2SK5iFfK3iV (NB: we are now collecting some basic information on who comes to DARG) Session details: In this session, we will focus on the topic of pain and how that is being assessed and discussed between a […]

  • Data session: 5th November, Hetty Sargent & Saul Albert: Mealtime data

    Schofield Building, Room SCH1:21, and online

    DARG will run at 13:00-14:15 UK time as a hybrid data session: Room SCH1:21 (Schofield Building Building, Loughborough) Zoom registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpcOqgrjgiHtTW1buxXxCdo2SK5iFfK3iV (NB: we are now collecting some basic information on who comes to DARG) Session details: The data in this session are from the Open Repository for Conversation Analysis (ORCA) that is being developed by DARG as […]

  • Data session: 12th November, Jo Sims: Upset in hospice consultations

    Schofield Building, Room SCH1:21, and online

    DARG will run at 13:00-14:15 UK time as a hybrid data session: Room SCH1:21 (Schofield Building Building, Loughborough) Zoom registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpcOqgrjgiHtTW1buxXxCdo2SK5iFfK3iV (NB: we are now collecting some basic information on who comes to DARG) Session details: Transcript on request.

  • Data session: 19th November, Magnus Hamann: ‘Unmotivated looking’ data session

    Schofield Building, Room SCH0.13, and online

    DARG will run at 13:00-14:15 UK time as a hybrid data session: Room SCH0.13 (Schofield Building Building, Loughborough) Zoom registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpcOqgrjgiHtTW1buxXxCdo2SK5iFfK3iV (NB: we are now collecting some basic information on who comes to DARG) Session details: In this session, we will bring data from a DARG project and engage in unmotivated looking. We will draw from a […]

  • Data session: 26th November, Marco Pino: Discussion of preferences about place of dying

    Schofield Building, Room SCH0.13, and online

    DARG will run at 13:00-14:15 UK time as a hybrid data session: Room SCH0.13 (Schofield Building Building, Loughborough) Zoom registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpcOqgrjgiHtTW1buxXxCdo2SK5iFfK3iV (NB: we are now collecting some basic information on who comes to DARG) Session details: We will bring to the session a fragment of a medical consultation recorded in palliative care setting in the UK. The […]

  • Data session: 3rd December, Liz Peel: Negotiating outdoor spaces with canine companions 

    Schofield Building, Room SCH1:21, and online

    DARG will run at 13:00-14:15 UK time as a hybrid data session: Room SCH1:21 (Schofield Building Building, Loughborough) Zoom registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpcOqgrjgiHtTW1buxXxCdo2SK5iFfK3iV (NB: we are now collecting some basic information on who comes to DARG) Session details: This data session focuses on human’s navigating outdoor spaces with their canine companions, specifically whilst dog walking and during the popular […]

  • CA Day 2025, Monday 15th December (hybrid)

    Brockington Building, U.0.05 Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire, United Kingdom

      Register here! | Programme and Abstracts Loughborough University's Discourse and Rhetoric Group (DARG) hosts its 18th Conversation Analysis Day on Monday the 15th December 2025, 9:30am-5:30 (followed by an evening reception with food and wine), supported by the Centre for Research in Communication and Culture. Join us for a (hybrid) meeting comprising a series of […]

    £25