{"id":1736,"date":"2026-02-18T10:35:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/crcc\/?p=1736"},"modified":"2026-02-18T10:35:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:35:37","slug":"18th-ca-day-15th-december-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/crcc\/events\/18th-ca-day-15th-december-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"CA Day: Conversation, community &amp; cake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"755\" height=\"566\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/crcc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/CA-DAY-755x566.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1737\" style=\"width:758px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/crcc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/CA-DAY-755x566.gif 755w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/crcc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/CA-DAY-300x225.gif 300w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/crcc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/CA-DAY-768x576.gif 768w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/crcc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/CA-DAY-1536x1152.gif 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 755px) 100vw, 755px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">CA Day 15th December 2025<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Celebrating its 18th year, CA (Conversation Analysis) Day was\u2013\u2013as ever\u2013\u2013a celebration of the global appeal of conversation analytic research. With a full programme of talks, including keynotes by Chase Wesley Raymond and Deborah Chinn, and the ever popular CAkeOff competition \u2013 delegates were certainly provided with plenty of sustenance for the body and mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Morning presentations<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>After a warm welcome from Saul Albert, the presentation programme began with Gilian Noord, Alison Pilnick, Elizabeth Stokoe and Tony Avery presenting their research on silence in GP telephone consultations. This was followed by a presentation by Virginia Calabria, Joe Webb and Brett Smith on their research about shared decision making between people with learning disabilities and social workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before the first break Chase Wesley Raymond presented the first keynote, engaging the audience with a talk on institutional \u2018lingualism\u2019 as interactional practice and what bilingualism looks like in certain settings. The programme continued with Alexa Hepburn and Jonathan Potter looking at the institutional aspect of family mealtimes, before Nat\u00e0lia Server Benet\u00f3 presented data exploring the three-partedness of lists in Spanish and Catalan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Afternoon presentations<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The afternoon presentations began with Luyang Zhou presenting their research on how children contribute to interaction in paediatric consultations in China. Ole P\u00fctz followed with a presentation exploring whether AI chatbots could understand a third-position repair.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a short break, delegates heard from Sanaa Hyder about their research on story telling in consultations between GPs and ethnic minority patients. 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