Edward J. B. Holmes

Profile

Biography

• PhD in Sociology – Ongoing – University of York.
• MA in Social Research – Distinction – University of York.
• BA Sociology Hons – First Class Honours (With Distinction) – University of York.

I first graduated from the University of York as an undergraduate on the BA Sociology Hons programme (2011-2014). Before completing my final year, I was awarded the Bridge Scholarship (2015) for the MA in Social Research in the Department of Sociology. While completing this programme I secured Economic and Social Research Council (+3) funding for a PhD in Sociology (2015-2018) supervised by Dr Merran Toerien and Dr Steph Lawler. In my thesis I use Conversation Analysis (CA) to investigate how social class is occasioned in naturally-occurring forms of talk-in-interaction. Alongside my PhD, I am involved in both basic and applied forms CA research.

Publications

Selected publications

• Holmes, E. J. B., Toerien, M., & Jackson, C. (2017). The Interactional Bind of “Just [do X]”. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 50(4), 419-434.
• Jackson, C., Land, V., & Holmes, E. J. B. (2017). Healthcare professionals’ assertions and women’s responses during labour: A conversation analytic study of data from One born every minute. Patient Education and Counseling, 100(3), 465-472.
• Albert, S., Albury, C., Alexander, M., Harris, T., Hofstetter, E., Holmes, E. J. B., & Stokoe, E. (2018). The conversational rollercoaster: Conversation analysis and the public science of talk. Discourse Studies, 20(3), 397-424.

Selected conference papers

• Holmes, E. J. B. (2014, December). Minimising the Recipient: Managing Advice-Resistance in Ordinary Talk. Paper presented at the “8^th Loughborough CA Day”, Loughborough University, Loughborough.
• Holmes, E. J. B. (2016, May). Interaction, Identity & Social Class: An Investigation of the Usability of Conversation Analysis for Studying “Social Class”. Paper presented at the “Fifth EMCA Doctoral Network Meeting”, University of Sheffield, Sheffield.
• Holmes, E. J. B. (2018, July). “Re-Enter the Ghost”: Conversation Analysis and Social Class. Paper presented at the “5th International Conference of Conversation Analysis” (ICCA), Loughborough University, Loughborough.

Research

Overview

Social Interaction, Conversation Analysis, Ethnomethodology, and Social Class.