Hanna Svensson
Eu-postdoc (Marie Curiestip)
Institutionen för tillämpad IT, avd KLIKOm Hanna Svensson
I am interested in what people do, how they are doing it and why in that way. While I have a background in linguistics, my research activities are mainly situated within the field(s) of Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis and concern how social actions are accomplished by embodied resources in and through social interaction.
I am currently pursuing the research project Feedback in Practice within the framework of a Marie-Sklodowska Curie postdoctoral fellowship, in which I am particularly interested in the relevance of sensoriality and various aspects of perception for feedback and assessable features of embodied training. While sensorial experiences tend to be taken for granted as physical and subjective phenomena, people engage in a lot of work to make their own and others’ access to sensorial aspects publicly available.
Prior to this project, I worked in the project From Multimodality to Multisensoriality, in which we pushed forward our understanding for how sensorial aspects are made relevant in and for social interaction. I have also been working on game play, which is a fruitful setting for understanding how recreational and essentially social activities embody fundamental issues of rules and morality as situated accomplishments. Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, I am also involved in the project HumSoC19, in which we take an interest in (social) change from an interactional perspective, and how it relates to the pandemic. During my doctoral studies I worked within a project 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. 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.
I have been teaching in Linguistics, French linguistics, Research methodology and Ethnomethodology/Conversation Analysis.