CANCELLED 12th EMCA Doctoral Network meeting

Hannah joined the Department of Sociological Studies as a University Teacher in October 2018 after working as an MA Dissertation Supervisor within the Digital Media and Society team over the summer months. She completed her PhD in Media and Communication in 2018 at the University of Leicester where she also worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant between 2013-2017.

She completed both her MA and BSc at Loughborough University.

Whilst an undergraduate at Loughborough University, Marc achieved a degree in Social Psychology (BSc, First Class Honours). From this background, he developed a keen interest in the study of human interaction through the approach of discursive psychology (DP) closely informed by the methodological framework of conversation analysis (CA). This led Marc to undertake a Masters degree in Discursive Psychology (MSc) at Loughborough University, from which he attained a Distinction.

Marc went on to study for a PhD after being awarded a Scholarship from Loughborough University. He worked with a substantial corpus of recordings of telephone calls to environmental health, antisocial behaviour and mediation services in the UK, in which members of the public reported neighbourhood problems. By utilising the approach of DP embedded within the analytic framework of CA, Marc developed an understanding of how callers reported neighbourhood issues, the ways in which these calls were responded to by different agencies, and the institutional implications for service provision in these institutional encounters.