As a researcher, I am interested in studying the linguistic and embodied practices locally mobilized by participants for organizing social activity in complex material ecologies within professional and ordinary settings, based on the detailed examination of video recordings within an ethnomethodological and conversation analytical approach.

In 2019 I have obtained my PhD in Linguistics from the University of Basel with a dissertation examining the sequential and multimodal organization of service encounters between social workers and citizens in different social intervention settings in Portugal, with a special concern with how participants make sense of problematic situations and plan institutional intervention. Further to that, I collaborated in a Portuguese multi-disciplinary research project examining how end-of-life care and trajectories are managed through and throughout interactions between palliative care professionals, patients and relatives.

Since February 2026 I am a postdoc researcher in the project “Making Bones Talk: A Multimodal Interactional Perspective on Language, Bodies, Materialities and Knowledge at Work in a Forensic Lab” (PI: Prof. Lorenza Mondada & Prof. Fernanda Miranda da Cruz) examining how teamwork is carried out at the forensics lab.

– Selected Research Outputs –

PUBLICATIONS

Monteiro, D., Brás, O. R., & Binet, M. (2024). Time-oriented decisions in Palliative Care team meetings. Discourse Studies, 26(3):381-401.

Monteiro, D. (2022) Assisting clients’ departure: On the multimodal organization of closings in social work. Qualitative Social Work, 21(6):1211-1228. 

Mondada, L., Monteiro, D. & Tekin, B. (2022) Collaboratively videoing mobile activities. Visual Studies 39(3):1-24. 

Flinkfeldt, M., Iversen, C., Jørgensen, S. E., Monteiro, D., & Wilkins, D. (2022). Conversation analysis in social work research: a scoping review. Qualitative Social Work, 21(6):1011-1042. 

Monteiro, D., Binet, M. & Brás, O. R. (2021) Justificando decisões em cuidados paliativos: uma prática interprofissional. Intervenção Social, 57/58:133-48.

Monteiro, D., 2021. Presenting documents to clients in Social Work encounters. Calidoscópio, 19(2),224-242.

Mondada, L., Monteiro, D. & Tekin, B., (2020). The tactility and visibility of kissing: Intercorporeal configurations of kissing bodies in family photography sessions. In: Cekaite, A. & Mondada, L. (Eds.) Touch in social interaction. Routledge, 54-80.

Monteiro, D. (2019). A Conversation Analytic Approach to Social Work Encounters in Portugal. Doctoral dissertation, University of Basel.

Monteiro, D., 2017. Managing Resistance to Transfer to a Geriatric Residential Care Facility. In: Mondada, L. & S. Keel, S. (Eds.), Participation et asymétries dans l'interaction institutionnelle. Paris: L'Harmattan, 129-159.

Monteiro, D., 2016. Street-level bureaucracy revisited: Formulating address in social work encounters. Journal of Language and Dialogue, 6(1), 54-80.

TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS

V Encontro de Análise da Conversa Etnometodológica (EnACE), Universidade Federal de São Paulo. March 2023. Title: Interações no balanço: contributos para o estudo da sua organização interacional e multimodal.

Conversation Analysis and Social Work. 14/12/2021. Title: Managing childrens’ attempts at obtaining attention in Social Work encounters.

(with O. R. Brás) 15th Congress of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore. 24/6/2021. Title: (Forbidden) visits to patients: rule breaking / exception and palliative justifications during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Conversation Analysis and Social Work. 15/12/2020. Title: Promoting clients’ bureaucratic literacy: evidence from social work encounters in Portugal.

1st European Conference on Conversation Analysis (ECCA 2020). 2/7/2020. Title: Professional-patient interactions in therapeutic aquatic environments.

VALS-ASLA Conference ‘A Video Turn in Linguistics? Methodologie, Analisi, Applications’. 6-8/6/2018, University of Basel. Title: Adjusting mobile camera operation and participation to interactional and material contingencies in doing CA research.

7th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies. 18-22/7/2016, University of Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris. Title: Presenting documents to clients in social work encounters.

International Institute for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis, 4-7/8/2015, University of Southern Denmark. Title: Managing the activities of Reporting and Writing Reports in Social Work Appointment.

5th Conversation Analysis and Clinical Encounters. 4/7/2015, Loughborough University. Title: Mobilizing ‘age’ in a newcomer’s visit to a geriatric residential institution. 

Revisiting Participation: Language and Bodies in Interaction, 24-27/6/2015, University of Basel. Title: The give and take of presenting documents to professionals in social work encounters.

4th International Conference on Conversation Analysis. 26-29/6/2014, University of California Los Angeles. Title: Reporting Talk from Institutional Actors in Social Work Interaction.