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

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UK academics! Reminder to vote in the UCU NEC elections. @calvirgi.bsky.social and I just remembered to send ours off today 😁

Then… Stay tuned to see what shapes the tools we are making to engage disabled people in (shared) decision making in conversations with social care staff and careers about moving more take! 11/11

I want to do more “in practice” and I will advocate to include people’s voice in any activity I will conduct in my future professional (and personal!) life. Do I hope the research and resources we are making will be useuful and impactful? More than anything else… 10/11

But is this rewarding? Absolutely yes! Has this been eye-opening? Incredibly. Producing conversational and communication resources FOR people and WITH people has changed for good my view of and relationship with research in practice. 9/11

Is this easy? No! Is it scary? Yes! I’m often afraid of misrepresenting people’s lived experience, misusing academic concepts, detracting rigour from the research & evidence-based approach; not being strength-based enough, perpetuating normativity I’m trying to debunk in interaction studies. 8/11

finally I am co-producing all content with the wonderful MSW co-production group with the help and support of Disability Rights UK. 7/11

I am exploring decision-making process in gaming theory; I have established a wonderful collaboration with the fantastic Mary Robson, creative facilitator at the Institute for Medical Humanities (Durham University) to design the resources and explore the ORID model of decision-making; 6/11

To produce these resources, make them accessible & usable in real practice, I’m using #conversationanalysis to look for real life, practice-based evidence & examples in a corpus I collected last year; I’m looking into the social model of disability & drawing on intersectionality theory; 5/11

We believe each conversation is an opportunity to open that choice up, to explore together the pleasure of choice & of movement. Each interaction drives change in the world. Someone might call it a naive effort, but surely it is a hopeful & relentless (& evidenced in research!) one! 4/11

One of the reasons why I’m truly enjoying working in MSW is that we genuinely work to enable people to decide and express their own choice and preference when it comes to their lifestyle. All the team wants people to be able to move and be more active at people’s own need and pace. 3/11

Disability underrepresentation & underserved communities concerning access to physical activity (sadly not only!), lack of digital & health literacy which lead to access exclusion; finally, communication barriers, access & real practice, especially when having the above factors in background. 2/11

While working on co-producing 2 resources for Moving Social Work, I’m forced to be thinking of the complex and layered intersection of Social Care constraints (time, money, budget cuts, under resourced geographical areas), 1/11

✨ I feel truly honoured to be a monograph author in #emca and #interactionallinguistics!!!

🙏 Thanks to my PhD supervisors, Prof. Elwys De Stefani and Prof. Simona Pekarek Doehler, as well as Prof. Kristin Davidse and Prof. Margret Selting for believing in this book!

💕 Thanks always to my family for supporting my many ideas and projects, no matter how big or small, how bratty or demure!

🪴Three years ago I defended her. After 3 years, she is strong enough to defend herself!!!

💯Thanks to the entire team at De Gruyter Mouton for an incredibly smooth collaboration and a genuine supportive attitude!

The Grammar of Collaborative Turns The book covers a research gap in Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics about co-production and the emerge of syntactical structures in multiperson talk-in-interaction. The findings have...

📣 Great news: On 30/03, my monograph “The Grammar of Collaborative Turns. Temporality, Projection, Emergence and Clause Combination in Italian Talk-in-Interaction” will be out with a brilliant yellow cover for @dgb-linguistics.bsky.social #TrendsinLinguistics 📒 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...

Read all the pieces and see all our upcoming events here: www.conversationanalysis.org/members-foru...

Contact us if you are interested in writing a piece showcasing your #ILEMCA work, event, news!✨
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📣 Our #20 newsletter is out: The contributions to this special issue show how CA continues to be shaped by advances in technology and how conversation analysts are adapting their investigations to new and emerging technologies. Technology becomes a co-interactant worthy of analytical attention.🧵1/8

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We're closing our fundraising campaign at the end of the month, so this is your last chance to join thousands of eager beavers in a historic moment! All donations made this week will be doubled by a very kind charitable foundation www.gofundme.com/f/btscc2

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Next CARM workshop for #EMCA researchers wanting to develop their own training - inc development, design, delivery, and evaluating #impact and #benefit

📍📅 Friday 5th June 2026, 10.30-16.30 GMT, online, register: eshop.lse.ac.uk/product-cata... - fee covers 1-2-1 support for CARM Affiliates 💬

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🚨🇪🇺 Brexit WOW moment 🇪🇺🚨

The Brexitgraph Telegraph published a full-blown obituary for Brexit:

📉 GDP down 8%
📉 Investment down 18%
📉 Productivity down 4%
📉 Employment down 4%
❌ No trade benefits
❌ No regulatory freedom
❌ No upside whatsoever

Do you agree it’s time to end Brexit?

Finally great conversation led by Maddie Tremblett on AI and/in Qualitative Research. People writing down some thoughts on Menti.
Such a great event, thanks to people’s input and participation!

Next is Lori Wright speaking about Patient and public involvement in qualitative research. One key point about this is: People we involve in research are not participants they are Partners. We do research together.

Kicking off the end-of-year Network event with Maddie Tremblett going over 2 intense year of wonderful network events; and then Keiko Kanno inviting participants to reflect on the relationship between Reflexivity and Positionality in our research.

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I know that not everyone has-sadly-the privilege of peace; or celebrates Christmas or partakes in the celebratory mood. This period can be hard for many. To all of you, especially who is living through a tough period, I wish a warm & cozy time with yourselves & your families (in flesh and in fur)!🫂

Well said!!!! It changed my life literally.