Alexa Hepburn
Reader in Conversation Analysis
In the 1990s and early 2000s Alexa
Hepburn was best known for contributions to critical psychology, particularly
her work on school bullying and children’s rights, her engagement with
Derrida’s thought, and her systematization of theory in critical
psychology. In the last few years her
work has focused on close interactional analysis, and she is now established as
an expert on the expression and management of distress. This focus developed out of research on calls
to the NSPCC child protection helpline, and combines a theoretical reworking of
the way language, emotion, and psychology are understood, with detailed
technical analysis of empirical data. Alexa continues to develop work in the
areas of emotion, epistemics and asymmetry, and is currently working closely
with video materials of family mealtimes. She has a particular concern with
child-adult interaction and is also contributing to developments in
conversation analysis.
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