Dr Will Gibson

  • Qualifications and position:
    • BSc, MSc, PhD
    • Senior Lecturer in Research Education
    • Course Leader Online MRes
  • Faculty:
    • Faculty of Children and Learning
    • Corporate Services
  • Department:
    • Culture, Communications and Media
    • Doctoral School
  • Summary:
    • I am a Sociologist with a particular interest in 'interactionist' traditions, including Symbolic Interactionism, Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis. My research focuses on the uses of discourse and embodied knowledge/skills in social praxis. Empirical contexts that I am particularly interested in researching include medical work, musical performance and online discourse.
  • Teaching:
  • Research Projects:
    • • Assessing Eye Sight and Ocular Health: The Practical Work of Optometrists (ESRC). with Christian Heath, Bruce Evance, David Thomson and Dirk vom Lehn
      • Inter-professional practice and training in a hospital trauma team (WLE) with David Scott, Andrew Brown and Natasha Whiteman
      • The Ethics Guidebook (ESRC) with Janet Boddy, Sean Jennings, Virginia Morrow and Tim Neumann
  • Postgraduate Research:
    • Particular areas of interest include:
      • Medical work
      • The social organisation of music knowledge and skills
      • Online Discourse

      Current PhD Students:
      • Mabel Encinas (A sociocultural treatise on emotionality and cognition as features of teachers' knowledge practice)
      • Samuel Haihuie (Distance learning and indigenous culture in Papua New Guinea)
  • Professional Activities:
    • Member Scholar of the International Institute of Qualitative Methodology, University of Alberta
      Fellow of the HIgher Education Academy
  • Conferences/presentations:
    • • Gibson, W. 'Transcription as Problem Solving in Video Analysis' 1th Annual Advances in Qualitative Methods Conference, 8-10 October, 2009. Vancouver, Canada.
      • Vom Lehn, D. & Gibson, W. 'Distance Vision Testing as Interactional Accomplishment', 4 September, 2009. Medical Sociology Group Annual Conference, University of Manchester, UK.
  • Personal Country Knowledge:
    • Mexico (interactional sociology)
  • Languages Spoken:
    • Spanish
  • Languages Written:
    • Spanish
Dr Will Gibson

Contact details

Contact details

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  • Address:
  • Culture, Communications and Media
    Institute of Education
    University of London
    20 Bedford Way
    London WC1H 0AL

  • Office Location:
  • Room 640
    20 Bedford Way, WC1H 0AL

Publications

  • Gibson, W. and Brown, A. (2009) Working with Qualitative Data. London: Sage.
  • Gibson, W. (2009) 'Negotiating Textual Talk: Conversation Analysis, Pedagogy, and the Organisation of Online Asynchronous Discourse', British Educational Research Journal
  • Gibson, W. (2006) 'Material Culture and Embodied Action: sociological notes on the examination of musical instruments', Sociological Review 54(1), 171-187.
  • Gibson, W., Hall, A. and Callery, P. (2006) 'Topicality and the Structure of Interactive Talk in Face-to-face Seminar Discussions - Implications for Research in Distributed Learning Media', British Journal of Educational Research 32(1), 77-94.
  • Gibson, W., Campbell, M., Hall, A., Richards, D. and Callery, P. (2005) 'The Digital Revolution in Qualitative Research: Working with Digital Audio Data through Atlas.ti', Sociological Research Online 10(1),