• 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
  • Data Session: 21st January, Charles Antaki: Unmotivated looking 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: This week's session is an unmotivated look at the opening 1:20 of a phone call between British friends. No special analytic […]