Prof. W.J.P. Stommel (Wyke)
Professor - Centre for Language Studies
Professor - Department of Language and Communication
Erasmusplein 1
6525 HT NIJMEGEN
Postbus 9103
6500 HD NIJMEGEN
My research concerns spoken and digital communication in institutional environments. Varying from video consultations in the medical domain to instant messaging for counseling and interaction with robots: on the basis of the methods of conversation analysis I study how people achieve goals, construct identities and build relationships step by step verbally and non-verbally in their communication. I frequently work in interdisciplinary teams, also in direct collaboration with (medical) professionals. Thus, the research directly contributes to/ provides new insights in their work.
Currently, I supervise:
- Marie Rickert (postdoc, digitalisation in adult L2 learning for professional purposes)
- Maartje Roodzant (phd, confirmation in online and offline psychotherapy)
- Evi Dalmaijer (phd, digitalisation of (para)medical interaction and practice)
- Mieke Breukelman (phd, uncertainty in trans and intersex care)
- Lynn de Rijk (phd, non verbal communication with robots)
- Eline Wagelaar (research assistant, oral exams Dutch Literature in secondary school)
Furthermore, I work on methodological aspects of research, such as the ethics of research on digital data. In 2013, I co-initiated the Microanalysis Of Online Data (MOOD) network. For a review of our boek Analysing Digital Interaction see: : https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/symb.639
My inaugural lecture "The rules of (digital) conversation" from March 21, 2025, can be viewed (in Dutch!) here: https://youtu.be/I95fhj-zipo.