QSIG Midday Talk: Conversation Analysis and the making and unmaking of disability

Presentation summary:

In this presentation I will outline how I came to Conversation Analysis as a qualitative researcher working within a social constructionist understanding of intellectual disability, and how this approach resonated with my practitioner role as an NHS psychologist. I will provide a brief outline of Conversation Analysis (CA) and present findings from a recent review of CA research with people with intellectual disabilities. I will also show some data from my own research which includes real life video recorded interactions between NHS clinicians and people with learning disabilities. Finally I will explore the potential for CA research to inform communication training interventions that have the potential to 'unmake' competency-inhibiting interactions with disabled people.

Speaker biography:

I am a Senior Lecturer in the KCL Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care (NMCP) and also work as an NHS clinical psychologist in a community learning disability team. My research is mainly with people with intellectual disabilities and on how they are supported by services, using qualitative methods such as discourse analysis, Conversation Analysis and creative methods. Recent research includes Feeling at Home (www.feelingathome.org.uk) a photovoice project about creating homely environments within residential care for people with intellectual disabilities, and the TAMM (Talking About My Medicines project https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/talking-about-my-medicines) which uses CA to see how mental health doctors are using Shared Decision Making to talk about medication with their patients with learning disabilities.

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