Executive scientific board

Letizia Caronia is professor at the Department of Education (University of Bologna). She is co-editor of the Journal of Theories and Research in Education and member of the executive board of the International Association for Dialogue Analysis. She has been doing theoretical as well as empirical research on the following themes: Epistemology and methods in qualitative research;  Life-worlds and moral horizons as interactional accomplishments in ordinary as well as institutional contexts; Beyond Humanism: Things as communicative agents in ordinary and institutional settings; The management of knowledge in institutional interaction: epistemic statuses, deontic rights and interactional competence in educational and health care settings. She authored, co-authored or edited 15 volumes and academic journals’ special issues, and over 100 articles and book chapters in national and international scientific venues. Her studies are internationally known and quoted by scholars of different disciplines.

Vittoria Colla (PhD) is a fixed-term researcher in General and Social Pedagogy at the Department of Education Studies of the University of Bologna. She is a language and social interaction researcher and takes a conversation analytic approach to examine communicative practices in educational and healthcare contexts. In particular, she investigates parent-child conversations (e.g., during mealtimes, homework, shared readings), classroom interactions, and conversations in medical settings, especially in oncological visits, triadic medical visits with unaccompanied foreign minors, and pediatric encounters.  

Nicola Nasi works as a researcher at the University of Bologna, where he conducts video-ethnographic studies in schools and healthcare settings. He adopts a micro-analytic and multimodal approach to the analysis of social interaction among professionals, children, and their families. He is particularly interested in children’s perspective and everyday social practice, and has written extensively on children’s peer languages, cultures, identities and relationships.