Laura Jenkins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3581384 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Jenkins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Jenkins |
| SIGNATURE | JENKINS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loughborough University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5594-4477 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 142 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
King and Queen, Mummy and Daddy
Children are socialised to understand themselves and others through gender categories. However, there are few observational studies of how this happens in social interaction. Based on video-recorded interactions at a UK preschool nursery setting, this study uses ethnomethodology and conversation analysis to examine the extent and ways cis-heteronormativity is reproduced through gendered descriptions in interactions involving children and adults i…
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Rape myths, jury deliberations, and conversation analysis
How "Vulnerability" Manifests as an Interactional Asymmetry in Police Interviews with Adolescent Suspects and Intellectually Impaired Witnesses
Vulnerable suspects and witnesses who interact with the criminal justice system in England and Wales are entitled to legal affordances designed to protect them. We present novel evidence of how categorizations of vulnerability are (re)produced and negotiated to manage institutionally relevant matters during police interviews. We use conversation analysis to examine 30 police interviews with vulnerable suspects ( n = 10) and witnesses ( n = 20). O…
Communication in Pediatric Healthcare
Communication is central to pediatric care.Conversation analytic (CA) studies of recorded naturally occurring pediatric interactions contribute distinctive understandings; however, to date there has been no detailed review of CA's unique contributions.We searched Medline, PsychINFO, Sciencedirect, Google Scholar, and the EM/CA Wiki database, identifying 74 empirical articles across diverse areas of pediatrics.Our state-of-the-art review highlight…
Inviting the Patient to Talk About a Conversation They Had with Another Healthcare Practitioner
Discussing disease progression is a core task in palliative care. This is especially important when there are indications that a patient considers their death as less imminent than the clinical team does. This article examines a communicative action that palliative medicine doctors use to address such discrepancies in knowledge and understanding of the patient's prognosis: inviting the patient to talk about the contents of a conversation they had…
Providing Opportunities for Patients to Say More about Their Pain without Overtly Asking
As the main symptom in palliative care, pain requires careful assessment. Repeating patient answers is one recommended communication technique for helping convey to patients that they have been heard, and to encourage them to say more. We examined 23 episodes where experienced doctors repeat patients' answers with mirrored rhythm and downward-final intonation, captured in pain assessments video-recorded in 37 consultations in a large UK hospice. …
How and why children instigate talk in pediatric allergy consultations
Involving children in their healthcare encounter is a national and international priority. While existing research has examined the ways in which children are recruited to participate in the consultation, no work has examined whether and how children instigate talk, and the extent to which their contributions are successful. This paper presents a conversation analysis of a selection of 10 out of 30 video recordings in which children aged 4-10 yea…
Why do all our feelings about politics matter
This article examines disenchantment with democracy and the role of emotions in politics. Its contribution is to develop our understanding of emotions in situations of political disenchantment. It is argued that (1) there are a wide variety of emotions involved in political disaffection which need explication, (2) it is important to consider the dynamic of political motivation and demotivation and (3) we should be concerned about political disenc…
Children’s Sensations as Interactional Phenomena
Psychological research has typically studied pain by using participant indirect reports. The current study starts to build an alternative and complementary approach by directly studying pain expressions and displays, and the way they operate in interaction. It will focus on children’s pain expressions in a corpus of 71 video recordings of British English speaking family mealtimes. We distinguish four relevant components of pain expressions: (a) l…
Negotiating pain
Traditional theories of socialisation, in which the child was viewed as a passive subject of external influences, are increasingly being rejected in favour of a new sociology of childhood which frames the child as a social actor. This article demonstrates the way in which conversation analysis can reveal children's agency in the micro-detail of naturally occurring episodes in which children express bodily sensations and pain in everyday life. Bas…
A Conversation Analytic Intervention to Help Neurologists Identify Diagnostically Relevant Linguistic Features in Seizure Patients’ Talk
Recent conversation analytic work has revealed that there are systematic differences between the ways in which patients with epilepsy and patients with “psychogenic” nonepileptic seizures describe their seizure experiences. But these differences may not become apparent if patients are exposed to traditional fact-oriented questioning. This article describes a one-day intervention workshop, informed by conversation analysis, which was designed to h…
(De)politicisation and the Father’s Clause parliamentary debates
Studies making use of (de)politicisation have flourished as governments have embraced technocratic and delegated forms of governance. Yet this increase in use is not always matched by conceptual or analytical refinement. Nor has scholarship generally travelled into empirical terrain beyond economic and monetary policy, nor assessed whether politicising and depoliticising processes could occur simultaneously. It is within this intellectual context…
Discourse and Cognition
Cognition has been dealt with in discourse research in two distinct ways.
Women in the Profession
This article outlines the composition by sex of political scientists in the UK. The data show that there are fewer women working in the profession than men and that there is a ‘seniority sex gap’. The data are then broken down in terms of university membership groupings and individual departments in order to produce snapshot rankings. These rankings are then combined to produce an overall ranking of female presence within UK political science dep…
The Difference Genealogy Makes
Processes of politicisation and depoliticisation have become the empirical and theoretical focus for a growing body of political studies. However, the disparate literatures on these processes conceptualise and explore them in quite different ways. This article seeks to make some inroads into these debates by re-evaluating the concept of (de)politicisation and considering how academics can themselves participate in such processes. It suggests that…
In Defence of Pluralism in the Teaching of Ontology and Epistemology
Teaching and Learning Ontology and Epistemology in Political Science
The teaching and learning of ontology and epistemology is an important element of political science, as it helps students to appraise, differentiate and choose between competing philosophies, theories and analytical traditions. Thus, it encourages reflexive learning through the strategies of inquiry, role taking and benign disruption. However, we argue that there are aspects within the most prominent introductory material on these meta-theoretica…
Corporeal Ontology
The definition and boundaries of the political have received considerable attention in recent times in political science, perhaps as a result of the wavering confidence in the scientific status of the knowledge that the discipline creates. However, a conspicuous absence continues to haunt mainstream political science, one that if rectified threatens, in some ways, to broaden both the nature of the political still further and to challenge the very…
The Difference Genealogy Makes
Processes of politicisation and depoliticisation have become the empirical and theoretical focus for a growing body of political studies. However, the disparate literatures on these processes conceptualise and explore them in quite different ways. This article seeks to make some inroads into these debates by re-evaluating the concept of (de)politicisation and considering how academics can themselves participate in such processes. It suggests that…
(De)politicisation and the Father’s Clause parliamentary debates
Studies making use of (de)politicisation have flourished as governments have embraced technocratic and delegated forms of governance. Yet this increase in use is not always matched by conceptual or analytical refinement. Nor has scholarship generally travelled into empirical terrain beyond economic and monetary policy, nor assessed whether politicising and depoliticising processes could occur simultaneously. It is within this intellectual context…
Teaching and Learning Ontology and Epistemology in Political Science
The teaching and learning of ontology and epistemology is an important element of political science, as it helps students to appraise, differentiate and choose between competing philosophies, theories and analytical traditions. Thus, it encourages reflexive learning through the strategies of inquiry, role taking and benign disruption. However, we argue that there are aspects within the most prominent introductory material on these meta-theoretica…
Negotiating pain
Traditional theories of socialisation, in which the child was viewed as a passive subject of external influences, are increasingly being rejected in favour of a new sociology of childhood which frames the child as a social actor. This article demonstrates the way in which conversation analysis can reveal children's agency in the micro-detail of naturally occurring episodes in which children express bodily sensations and pain in everyday life. Bas…
Why do all our feelings about politics matter
This article examines disenchantment with democracy and the role of emotions in politics. Its contribution is to develop our understanding of emotions in situations of political disenchantment. It is argued that (1) there are a wide variety of emotions involved in political disaffection which need explication, (2) it is important to consider the dynamic of political motivation and demotivation and (3) we should be concerned about political disenc…
Corporeal Ontology
The definition and boundaries of the political have received considerable attention in recent times in political science, perhaps as a result of the wavering confidence in the scientific status of the knowledge that the discipline creates. However, a conspicuous absence continues to haunt mainstream political science, one that if rectified threatens, in some ways, to broaden both the nature of the political still further and to challenge the very…
Women in the Profession
This article outlines the composition by sex of political scientists in the UK. The data show that there are fewer women working in the profession than men and that there is a ‘seniority sex gap’. The data are then broken down in terms of university membership groupings and individual departments in order to produce snapshot rankings. These rankings are then combined to produce an overall ranking of female presence within UK political science dep…
Rape myths, jury deliberations, and conversation analysis
How and why children instigate talk in pediatric allergy consultations
Involving children in their healthcare encounter is a national and international priority. While existing research has examined the ways in which children are recruited to participate in the consultation, no work has examined whether and how children instigate talk, and the extent to which their contributions are successful. This paper presents a conversation analysis of a selection of 10 out of 30 video recordings in which children aged 4-10 yea…
Children’s Sensations as Interactional Phenomena
Psychological research has typically studied pain by using participant indirect reports. The current study starts to build an alternative and complementary approach by directly studying pain expressions and displays, and the way they operate in interaction. It will focus on children’s pain expressions in a corpus of 71 video recordings of British English speaking family mealtimes. We distinguish four relevant components of pain expressions: (a) l…
A Conversation Analytic Intervention to Help Neurologists Identify Diagnostically Relevant Linguistic Features in Seizure Patients’ Talk
Recent conversation analytic work has revealed that there are systematic differences between the ways in which patients with epilepsy and patients with “psychogenic” nonepileptic seizures describe their seizure experiences. But these differences may not become apparent if patients are exposed to traditional fact-oriented questioning. This article describes a one-day intervention workshop, informed by conversation analysis, which was designed to h…
In Defence of Pluralism in the Teaching of Ontology and Epistemology
Corporeal Ontology
The definition and boundaries of the political have received considerable attention in recent times in political science, perhaps as a result of the wavering confidence in the scientific status of the knowledge that the discipline creates. However, a conspicuous absence continues to haunt mainstream political science, one that if rectified threatens, in some ways, to broaden both the nature of the political still further and to challenge the very…
In Defence of Pluralism in the Teaching of Ontology and Epistemology
Teaching and Learning Ontology and Epistemology in Political Science
The teaching and learning of ontology and epistemology is an important element of political science, as it helps students to appraise, differentiate and choose between competing philosophies, theories and analytical traditions. Thus, it encourages reflexive learning through the strategies of inquiry, role taking and benign disruption. However, we argue that there are aspects within the most prominent introductory material on these meta-theoretica…
The Difference Genealogy Makes
Processes of politicisation and depoliticisation have become the empirical and theoretical focus for a growing body of political studies. However, the disparate literatures on these processes conceptualise and explore them in quite different ways. This article seeks to make some inroads into these debates by re-evaluating the concept of (de)politicisation and considering how academics can themselves participate in such processes. It suggests that…
Discourse and Cognition
Cognition has been dealt with in discourse research in two distinct ways.
Women in the Profession
This article outlines the composition by sex of political scientists in the UK. The data show that there are fewer women working in the profession than men and that there is a ‘seniority sex gap’. The data are then broken down in terms of university membership groupings and individual departments in order to produce snapshot rankings. These rankings are then combined to produce an overall ranking of female presence within UK political science dep…
A Conversation Analytic Intervention to Help Neurologists Identify Diagnostically Relevant Linguistic Features in Seizure Patients’ Talk
Recent conversation analytic work has revealed that there are systematic differences between the ways in which patients with epilepsy and patients with “psychogenic” nonepileptic seizures describe their seizure experiences. But these differences may not become apparent if patients are exposed to traditional fact-oriented questioning. This article describes a one-day intervention workshop, informed by conversation analysis, which was designed to h…
(De)politicisation and the Father’s Clause parliamentary debates
Studies making use of (de)politicisation have flourished as governments have embraced technocratic and delegated forms of governance. Yet this increase in use is not always matched by conceptual or analytical refinement. Nor has scholarship generally travelled into empirical terrain beyond economic and monetary policy, nor assessed whether politicising and depoliticising processes could occur simultaneously. It is within this intellectual context…
Children’s Sensations as Interactional Phenomena
Psychological research has typically studied pain by using participant indirect reports. The current study starts to build an alternative and complementary approach by directly studying pain expressions and displays, and the way they operate in interaction. It will focus on children’s pain expressions in a corpus of 71 video recordings of British English speaking family mealtimes. We distinguish four relevant components of pain expressions: (a) l…
Negotiating pain
Traditional theories of socialisation, in which the child was viewed as a passive subject of external influences, are increasingly being rejected in favour of a new sociology of childhood which frames the child as a social actor. This article demonstrates the way in which conversation analysis can reveal children's agency in the micro-detail of naturally occurring episodes in which children express bodily sensations and pain in everyday life. Bas…
Why do all our feelings about politics matter
This article examines disenchantment with democracy and the role of emotions in politics. Its contribution is to develop our understanding of emotions in situations of political disenchantment. It is argued that (1) there are a wide variety of emotions involved in political disaffection which need explication, (2) it is important to consider the dynamic of political motivation and demotivation and (3) we should be concerned about political disenc…
How and why children instigate talk in pediatric allergy consultations
Involving children in their healthcare encounter is a national and international priority. While existing research has examined the ways in which children are recruited to participate in the consultation, no work has examined whether and how children instigate talk, and the extent to which their contributions are successful. This paper presents a conversation analysis of a selection of 10 out of 30 video recordings in which children aged 4-10 yea…
Providing Opportunities for Patients to Say More about Their Pain without Overtly Asking
As the main symptom in palliative care, pain requires careful assessment. Repeating patient answers is one recommended communication technique for helping convey to patients that they have been heard, and to encourage them to say more. We examined 23 episodes where experienced doctors repeat patients' answers with mirrored rhythm and downward-final intonation, captured in pain assessments video-recorded in 37 consultations in a large UK hospice. …
Communication in Pediatric Healthcare
Communication is central to pediatric care.Conversation analytic (CA) studies of recorded naturally occurring pediatric interactions contribute distinctive understandings; however, to date there has been no detailed review of CA's unique contributions.We searched Medline, PsychINFO, Sciencedirect, Google Scholar, and the EM/CA Wiki database, identifying 74 empirical articles across diverse areas of pediatrics.Our state-of-the-art review highlight…
Inviting the Patient to Talk About a Conversation They Had with Another Healthcare Practitioner
Discussing disease progression is a core task in palliative care. This is especially important when there are indications that a patient considers their death as less imminent than the clinical team does. This article examines a communicative action that palliative medicine doctors use to address such discrepancies in knowledge and understanding of the patient's prognosis: inviting the patient to talk about the contents of a conversation they had…
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Rape myths, jury deliberations, and conversation analysis
How "Vulnerability" Manifests as an Interactional Asymmetry in Police Interviews with Adolescent Suspects and Intellectually Impaired Witnesses
Vulnerable suspects and witnesses who interact with the criminal justice system in England and Wales are entitled to legal affordances designed to protect them. We present novel evidence of how categorizations of vulnerability are (re)produced and negotiated to manage institutionally relevant matters during police interviews. We use conversation analysis to examine 30 police interviews with vulnerable suspects ( n = 10) and witnesses ( n = 20). O…
King and Queen, Mummy and Daddy
Children are socialised to understand themselves and others through gender categories. However, there are few observational studies of how this happens in social interaction. Based on video-recorded interactions at a UK preschool nursery setting, this study uses ethnomethodology and conversation analysis to examine the extent and ways cis-heteronormativity is reproduced through gendered descriptions in interactions involving children and adults i…
Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (11 works) · Conversation (10 works) · Conversation analysis (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Communication (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (6 works)