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Senior’s Name: Sarah White
Availability: 3/3
Attending ICCH 2024: In person

Pairing - Junior

Title: Senior Lecturer
Institution: University of New South Wales
Discipline: Sociolinguistics / Conversation analysis
Years of experience: 18

Teacher/Training

Learners I work with:

  • Undergraduate
  • Postgraduate
  • Continuous Professional Development

Interests/expertise:

  • Experiential teaching methods (eg role play)
  • Educational research
  • Train the trainers (faculty development)

Years I have worked in communication skills learning: 12

Research

Areas of work:

  • Patient–provider relationship

Research methods:

  • Microanalysis of face-to-face dialogue
  • Mixed methods
  • Observational studies

Policy/practice

Type of setting I work in:

  • Academic institution
  • Private business

Interests/expertise:

  • Knowledge translation
  • Health policy
  • Health service research

Keywords describing expertise and interest:

  1. conversation analysis

Field of expertise, major interests, and consultation topics:

I have experience in (and am happy to talk about):
– conversation analysis and other observational research methods
– integrating research findings into teaching approaches
– working to influence policy

Biography/CV:

My goal is to support people to improve how they provide and access healthcare, developing and utilising evidence from research on actual practice. I achieve this through using experiential teaching methods, researching conversation, and communicating more broadly about the science of conversation, particularly as it relates to healthcare. This includes research on surgeon-patient consultations, telehealth, and pain talk. Findings from this and other research, as well as editorial and opinion articles, have been published and presented to a range of communication, clinical, and policy audiences.