Lunchtime Lecture - Conversation Analysis, and Why it's of Value in Voice Research
Tuesday 25th April 2023, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (London Time)
- This lunchtime lecture is the first in a series to examine Conversation Analysis, a qualitative method with excellent potential for voice science, pedagogy and coaching.
- Conversation Analysis Research (CA) studies naturally occurring human interaction, with a focus on talk-in-interaction, understanding language to be fundamentally social. The lecture will provide an overview of this rigorously empirical discipline, with roots in ethnomethodology and sociology. Inductive in approach, CA takes real life talk and considers every aspect – from prosody, to language, to gesture, and silence – to develop an understanding of what we do when we talk to each other, and what are the real impacts of our conversational designs.
- We will consider what CA is, why it’s of value in voice research, as well as where and how it might be done. With examples from film excerpts, emergency service calls, classroom conversations, and more, attendees will leave with a sense of wonder at the most powerful tool for social interaction.
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We have plenty of upcoming short courses coming soon. See details of some of them below or look at the full list of short courses.
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5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
(London Time)
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Wednesday 4th March 2026
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
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Wednesday 18th March 2026
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
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1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Wednesday 1st April 2026
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Wednesday 8th April 2026
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
(London Time)
Learn to Coach RP and SSBE – a Certificate in Accent Coaching
Louisa Morgan
This six-week course is an opportunity to learn about both Received Pronunciation and Standard Southern British English. Rather than a course in learning how to speak RP/SSBE (there are many brilliant available courses for this already), this course is about learning how to coach it.
Thursday 5th March 2026
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Thursday 12th March 2026
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
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Acting Emotion: Perspectives from the Masters
Louisa Morgan
Stanislavski said, “our artistic emotions are, at first, as shy as wild animals and they hide in the depths of our souls.” Michael Chekhov said, our bodies should be like a “sensitive membrane, a kind of receiver and conveyor of the subtlest images, feelings, emotions and will impulses.” And Meisner said we should be “living truthfully under imaginary circumstances.” Join Louisa Morgan in this 2-part course as she explores a range of well-known acting practitioners to investigate what they believed (or believe) about emotion and how they approached it in their work. She'll compare their work to see where they align and where they diverge.