My work explores social interaction and the organisation of communication in everyday life. 

I undertook my PhD at the University of Manchester where I was heavily influenced by the perspectives of Ethnomethodology, Conversation Analysis and Symbolic Interactionism. My PhD thesis looked at how improvised musical interaction in the performance of jazz music could be studied as a communicative practice. 

After completing my PhD, my interest in social action and communication expanded into other areas, particularly in the fields of healthcare and education. The thread running through this work is the detailed empirical exploration of the interactional resources that people use to achieve their actions: how they talk, gesture, look at each other, and how they use objects and physical/digital resources. A key focus here has been with the impact of technologies on communication, particularly in relation to online interaction. This work explores questions such as ‘when teachers and students interact in an online asynchronous forum/synchronous platform, how does the technology impact on their mutual construction of knowledge?’ or ‘How do the structures of conversations change when people use emoji instead of types words?’. A recent strand looks at how people communicate sensorial experiences such as smelling, hearing, seeing, touching - how an embodied experience is made available to others through communication, particularly when interacting through technology.