I am interested in what people do, how they do it and why they do it. I have a background in linguistics and I work within the field(s) of Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis. My research concerns how social action is accomplished by embodied resources in and through social interaction.

I am currently involved in the research project From multimodality to mulsitensoriality: Language, Body and Sensoriality in Social Interaction (P.I. Prof. Lorenza Mondada), where we explore new grounds regarding the social organizational aspects of our senses. While sensorial experiences tend to be taken for granted as physical and subjective phenomena, there is an increasing body of evidence, demonstrating that people engage in a lot of work to make their own and others’ access to sensorial aspects publicly available. I am especially interested in the projectability of sensorial experiences including touch and heat but also sound.

Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, I have also been occupied with the project HumSoC19, in which we take an interest in (social) change from an interactional perspective, and how it relates to the pandemic.

Besides that, I am working on game play, which as a fruitful setting for understanding how recreational and essentially social activities embody issues of rules and morality as situated accomplishments.

During my doctoral studies I worked within the project Speaking in Public: Social interactions within large groups (P.I. Prof. Lorenza Mondada), which addressed issues of political public interaction, and more specifically the normative and organizational aspects of public speech. I was particularly interested in how the participants raised and solved (claimed) problems of hearing and understanding during public meetings as a practice for managing the distribution of and access to (non)shared knowledge. It resulted in the monography Establishing Shared Knowledge in Political Meetings. Repairing and Correcting in Public (Routledge, 2020), and my interest in political aspects of interaction continues.

Methodologically, I engage in videographic fieldwork of naturally occurring social interaction. This enables the development of multimodal transcriptions, which facilitates the reconstruction of the participants’ displayed understanding of what is going on.