In this episode you’ll hear an interview with Melisa Stevanovic, assistant professor of social psychology at Tampere university in Finland. Melisa’s research spans an impressive range of topics, notably featuring a series of papers on power and authority in interaction, or deontics as it has come to be known, in studies of things like proposals and joint decision making in a range of contexts. She’s also published on emotion, affiliation, empathy and participation in interaction, along with a number of collaborators. She is one of the editors of the volume Joint Decision Making in Mental Health, and has also edited special issues on epistemics and deontics in in directives, and on CA and sociological theory.
In this interview, we asked Melisa to talk to us about her path into CA, about some of her current research what has inspired her over the years.