Dr Virginia Calabria (she•her•lei•idda)

Thanksss!🫂

Thanks Anaaaa! ❤️

Thanks, Charles! :)

I’m pleased to announce that I have been awarded the Associate Fellowship by Advance Higher Education UK. 🎉 Pleased teach always focusing of students’ inclusion, fair pedagogical practices & realistic engagement. Always happy to discuss how to improve these practices with colleagues teaching in HE!

Join us for a free workshop, exploring how our words shape conversations about racism.

#ESRCFestival

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@calvirgi.bsky.social @neyrar.bsky.social

✨ With a new academic year start-ing/ed in this part of the world, we want to welcome all new (prospective) early-career researchers using qualitative methods to investigate healthcare. We also want to thank everyone who is already doing amazing work out there!
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📣 Our #19 newsletter is out: this season marks a fresh chapter for many in our community it is the beginning of a new academic year in the Northern Hemisphere or the start of a new term in the South, this season marks a fresh chapter for many in our #ILEMCA community.✨ 🧵1/7

Very pleased that my piece 'Urban history as urgent work, an argument for disciplinary promiscuity' has been published in @urbanhistory.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S096...
Many thanks to @mctom.bsky.social for organising the roundtable that got these thoughts going back in 2023! #UrbanHist #EnvHums

Happy bisexual visibility day to everyone attracted to multiple genders. We think you're amazing, even if you can’t sit on a chair properly.

Bisexuals! Get visible! It’s bisexual visibility day!

Also, I get to do #conversationanalysis on conversations that are vital and make actual difference in people’s everyday choices and lives. I’m a very grateful me today! #emca

What an immense privilege (& responsibility) it is to record people’s words, listen to them and give them, hopefully, a voice in research!
I feel so lucky: doing Moving Social Work research is an incredible honor, meeting the people I meet is enriching beyond any job title one could give to this.

Queering Creative Health Frances Williams of QUEERCIRCLE makes the case for ‘queering’ the ongoing UK public policy agenda of ‘creative health’.

Excited to share the first post of a takeover from @queercircle.bsky.social on the concept of 'queer space' as a site of health creation. Thanks to Research and Health Lead Frances Williams for setting the scene.

thepolyphony.org/2025/09/15/q...

I just passed through Charing X on my way up North and my heart truly broke. I want to send everyone here who might feel unsafe, sad, angry, lonely, etc. a big hug & say that there are places/people that prove that community exist in the face of any flag waving otherwise in our faces! Solidarity!🫂❤️

📢Join us for an online workshop on multimodal transcription with @calvirgi.bsky.social
Mode: Online
Venue: Zoom
Date: Friday 26 September 2025
Time: 10:00 – 13:00 SAST / 09:00-12:00 BST
Registration: forms.office.com/r/0Hj096p3ds
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As of last week I'm no longer a British Academy Postdoc. Pleased to have some interesting teaching this term, but I'm also open to new things and have a few plans of my own in the works. Watch this space

✨Last year it was very fun! I so::::: look forward to it! ✨

[Mode: Online
Venue: Zoom
Date: Friday 26 September 2025
Time: 10:00 – 13:00 SAST / 09:00-12:00 BST]

➡️…But this time with a focus on Multimodality and with **my** data from the Moving Social Work project featuring social care professionals talking about physical activity with people living with learning disabilities. There will be a hands-on exercise too again!

🤩 Very excited to be part again of the series of workshops by the amazing InterAct group in South Africa, organised by Catherine Tam and Daniella Rafaely. Thanks for inviting me again!

I will be discussing again about one my favourite topics: *transcription*…➡️

Wow, this is going to be a foundational piece of work for Italian… and also for the #EMCA community at large! Looking forward to it!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Systems of Social Action: The Case of Requesting in Italian Abstract. This book is about social action as it is carried out in everyday life. To some readers, the phrase social action may evoke the idea of people ta

1/ 📘 Book alert! 🚨 After a long gestation, extensive rewriting, a complex production process, and life getting in the way, it’s finally out* ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/oso/...

don't tell me to develop self-control. do you know how much self-control I expend every day on simply being alive

Image of a leaflet announcing the publication of a new book, Grammar in Action: Building comprehensive grammars of talk-in-interaction, which has just been published by Benjamins

A very substantial new collection just published - will repay study by all interested in the relationship between grammar and the way that language is used in interaction.

#EMCA

The image of the opening paragraphs of the new rolsi.net blog by Sally Wiggins Young and Amy Van der Heijden on the new EatSiN network

Eating together: a family at dinner, a nurse helping a patient swallow, a teacher supervising children, a guest appreciating a high-end tasting menu...

It's all surrounded by, and regulated by, talk.

A marvellous new Guest Blog by
@profsalwiggins.bsky.social
on the new EatSin network.

rolsi.net

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Yes!!! With @lolasciubba.bsky.social

Søren we need to organise a F-ing panel somewhere or a special F-ing issue at some point! 😏😜

My chapter on Collaborative Turns and Collaborative Grammar is in this amazing volume too!

Durham University is a World Top 100 University (QS World University Rankings 2026) - since 2010.

We’ve strengthened our academic reputation, are 64th globally for employability and 22nd for sustainability.

#QSWUR