Dr Rachael Drewery (RN/HV)

If you work in communication and primary care then please do consider submitting original research to BMC primary Care's “Communication in Primary Care” Collection. I’m delighted to guest edit this collection alongside Prof Russel Rothman, and we’ll be accepting submissions until 30th July 2026 👇

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign? Stop the suspension of Uni of Nottingham Mental Health & Child Nursing + Health Promotion

Given nursing/the NHS is in crisis, and nurses keep the NHS running, it is short-sighted to be cutting high quality nursing courses at Nottingham University. If you want high quality care for you and your children in the future sign this petition. c.org/qzXwSs8XP5

Come across Conversation Analysis and want to know more?

Loughborough University's annual online CA for Beginners workshop is on Jan. 15, 2026.

Talks, group work & data sessions with experts.

Registration (£45 or £90) is now open.

More information here
emcawiki.net/CA_for_Begin...

#EMCA

Interested in retention of nurses in general practice 👀. Summary of our new paper below ⬇️

Incurable Optimism about Getting What We Want: Anticipating Success in Everyday Requests When asking for something significant from another person, speakers not only set the tilt of the question toward the affirmative or negative but also display an optimistic or pessimistic stance tow...

When we ask for something big—time, effort, money—do we hedge against rejection or assume success? With @gio-rossi.bsky.social & Tanya Stivers, we find that people are incurably optimistic, even though big requests often meet resistance. Published open access in @socquarterly.bsky.social. #EMCA

📣 📣📣 EACH Nursing SIG - tomorrow, Oct. 16th, 11am BST) @becca-voicestudy.bsky.social will present on "The VOICE studies: evidence-based training resources for improving healthcare professionals' communication with people living with dementia." Sign-up each.international/organisation...

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A (now-defunct) AI bot makes calls to restaurants etc.

It was apparently pretty successful at call openings, second summonses, uh(m)s that precede a reason for the call, and other-initiated self-repair.

Authors: test actions, not intelligence. #EMCA

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Older Patients' Verbal Communication in Interactions With Primary Care Staff: A Qualitative Systematic Review and Meta‐Ethnography Background Communication between patients and staff is a crucial component of safe and effective healthcare. As people age, they have more consultations and these become more complex. As such, older...

New paper. Really proud of this one - the first publication from my PhD: Older patients' verbal communication in interactions with primary care staff: a qualitative systematic review and meta‐ethnography. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10..... Supervisor and co-author: @speters123.bsky.social

📢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
(Please check your spam folder for the meeting link)

Very excited to announce this faculty search at Rutgers! Looking for a wonderful new colleague to join us in Communication #EMCA #LSI @ica-lsi.bsky.social @lansi2024.bsky.social
jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/258...

A logo for the Conversation Analysis for Communication in Healthcare Special Interest Group in the International Association for Communication in Healthcare.

There's now a special interest group for Conversation Analysis within the International Association for Communication in Healthcare.

“Do You Want to Continue?”—Coordinating the Closing of Conversations and Managing Face Concerns This study investigates how participants manage the decision to end or continue their conversation when directly asked about their preferences. The dataset consists of 19 conversations where the rese...

“Do You Want to Continue?”—Coordinating the Closing of Conversations and Managing Face Concerns - Koskinen - Symbolic Interaction - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A great day of planning with @charlottealbury.bsky.social and the resident dragon.

*So* much research starts with difference-based questions and researchers' categories/assumptions - helping to feed or legitimise communication myths and stereotypes. But the evidence about what people say/do in actual non-lab non-post-hoc accounts of interaction shows something else entirely #EMCA

YouTube video by Sarah White Complexity and objectivity in teaching interprofessional healthcare communication

Last year I gave a plenary talk at the International Conference on Communication in Healthcare #ICCH2024 last year. I've now posted it on YouTube along with the Q&A (edited to anonymise those asking questions). You can find them here: youtu.be/U8O7JO5YnFs and youtu.be/S9sQODEyFAs

Accessing and Using Data without Informed Consent: Guiding Principles from Conversation Analysis We critically reflect on ethical challenges of making, accessing, and using audio/video recordings for social research in which participants have not and/or cannot provide informed consent. We dist...

Ever wanted to access and use data without informed consent but couldn’t find any guiding principles on how to do that ethically?

Look no further… read our new paper out now in @rolsi-journal.bsky.social special section 🙂

doi.org/10.1080/0835...

The title and abstract of Joyce et al "accessing and using data without informed consent: guiding principles from conversation analysis" in Rolsi 2025

A run through of the articles in the Special Section on "The Ethics of Collecting, Curating and Sharing Data in Conversation Analysis", now online (1st of 6 posts)

#EMCA

1. Joyce et al
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A listing of the titles of the articles in the new addition of research on language and social interaction, including six articles on the ethics of collecting curating and sharing data and conversation analysis

The new edition of ROLSI features 6 papers on "The Ethics of Collecting, Curating and Sharing Data in Conversation Analysis", and two 'ordinary' articles, one on managing expectations in dementia, and one on how live streaming is organised..

www.tandfonline.com/toc/hrls20/c...

Are you a UK clinician who manages children & young people with musculoskeletal pain?

The CAM-Pain study @keeleuniversity.bsky.social would love you to take part in our E-Delphi study gathering views on developing resources for children & young people with MSK pain. Link: tinyurl.com/53b2a2jn

An ‘explosion’ in nurse lecturer cuts risks nursing jobs and patient safety | News |Royal College of Nursing | Royal College of Nursing RCN calls for government action to protect nursing courses, after a rapid rise in nurse lecturer redundancies shows the higher education financial crisis is spreading

Nurse lecturer redundancies and severances in higher education will impact the quality of education nursing students receive.

This is an incredibly serious moment risking the quality of nursing education, the future domestic workforce, and patient safety.

We need urgent action. Read more.

Were you inspired by our speakers at our iHV EBP 2025 conference? Next year it could be you!
Our call for abstracts for iHV Evidence-based Practice (EBP) Conference 2026 is now open!
ihv.org.uk/events/ihv-e...
#iHVEBP2026 #HealthVisiting #CallForAbstracts

Image displaying the Royal College of Nursing Students logo with text encouraging support for nursing students and inviting them to sign the support register. The background is blue with white text.

Across the UK, UCAS data shows that applications to study nursing have fallen by 34% since 2021.

We can’t afford to lose the next generation of nursing staff – sign our petition to demand governments across the UK do more to improve financial support for nursing students ➡️ buff.ly/7LmGXKM

Listening to Rest is Politics, Rest is Politics US, and reading respected commentators, it's striking how 'left-wing bias' in universities is now taken for granted. That matters, especially in the US, where academia faces political attack. Thoughts from having worked in US/UK universities. 🧵

This'll be probably the last time I get to teach this course that has given me a lot of joy and has made many people happy (not my words, read the reviews and what people have said about this course on social media 😍!).
We have only a couple of places left to join us. See you next month!

As a member of the #EMCA community @oxprimarycare.bsky.social I would encourage you to give this application a go! Supportive team @charlottealbury, lots of opportunities and fascinating projects. Happy to talk informally about working in Health Behaviours/Clinical Communication Team at Oxford⬇️⬇️

Our new qualitative researcher post is now hiring. I completely understand (& have been there) that Oxford might feel challenging to apply to. But if you think this job could be for you, please do apply. And if you want to talk do get in touch. We are kind, inclusive, supportive team & department.

Our new interactive training tool supports h/c professionals to develop skills to have positive & well received conversations with patients living with obesity.

tinyurl.com/7ubu7nz2
#WorldObesityDay
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@theqni.bsky.social
@drfinney77.bsky.social
@drhelenanderson.bsky.social

This #WorldObesityDay, a new tool to help healthcare professionals talk about weight loss with patients living with obesity is now live 🗣️

Built by @charlottealbury.bsky.social & @rachaeldrewery.bsky.social, the interactive tool was co-designed with HCP & people living with obesity.

This new communication skills training tool is based in our #ConversationAnalysis research, and was co-designed with healthcare professionals & people living with obesity.

Training is brief, CPD accredited, & free.

#WorldObesityDay

@oxprimarycare.bsky.social
@lizstokoe.bsky.social

Image of a the new training tool open on a laptop above university of oxford and CPD logos.

Our new interactive training tool supports healthcare professionals to develop skills to have positive & well received conversations with patients living with obesity.

tinyurl.com/7ubu7nz2

#WorldObesityDay
@oxprimarycare.bsky.social
@designscience.bsky.social
@rachaeldrewery.bsky.social