Professor Ray Wilkinson

BSc, MA, PhD, MRCSLT

Human Communication Sciences, School of Allied Health Professions, Nursing and Midwifery

Professor of Human Communication

ray.wilkinson@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 2449

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Professor Ray Wilkinson
Human Communication Sciences, School of Allied Health Professions, Nursing and Midwifery
362 Mushroom Lane
Sheffield
S10 2TS
Profile

Ray Wilkinson is Professor of Human Communication in the Department of Human Communication Sciences at the University of Sheffield. Previously he worked at University College London and the University of Manchester, and as a speech and language therapist in the NHS. He was an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Research Fellow between 2008 and 2011, and a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2004 and 2011.

Research interests

Ray Wilkinson’s research focuses on human communication within everyday social interaction, and in particular how participants manage communication when one or more of them do not have the full set of linguistic or cognitive resources available to a neurotypical adult native language speaker. Much of his work investigates the nature of atypical interaction, in particular social interactions involving people with acquired brain damage such as aphasia and the communicative impairments secondary to dementia or traumatic brain injury.

He has also published on the development of interactional competence in normally-developing children, and on the communicative conduct of non-human primates. He is a co-author of SPPARC (Supporting Partners of People with Aphasia in Relationships and Conversation), a clinical assessment and intervention resource for speech and language therapists, and has published a number of papers on how interaction-focused intervention can improve everyday communication for people with aphasia and their significant others.

Publications

Books

Journal articles

Chapters

  • Wilkinson R, Bouchard J, Temer VG, Kamunen A, Katila J, Xavier CCM & Sterie A (2023) Participation within multiparty conversation, New Perspectives on Goffman in Language and Interaction (pp. 195-216). Routledge RIS download Bibtex download
  • Greenhalgh E & Wilkinson R (2021) Storytelling in a Meaning-and-Fluency Task in the Second Language Classroom In Wong J & Waring H (Ed.), Storytelling in Multilingual Interaction: A Conversation Analysis Perspective RIS download Bibtex download
  • Kindell J, Wilkinson R & Keady J (2021) Living at home with semantic dementia Creating a life storybook with Ruby and Brian to support personal identity and well-being, PARTICIPATORY CASE STUDY WORK (pp. 33-50). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wilkinson R & Morris S (2020) ‘My Own Space in This World’: Stammering, Telephone Calls, and the Progressivity and Permeability of Turns-at-Talk, Atypical Interaction (pp. 319-344). Springer International Publishing RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wilkinson R, Rae JP & Rasmussen G (2020) Atypical Interaction: An Introduction, Atypical Interaction (pp. 1-36). Springer International Publishing RIS download Bibtex download
  • Kindell J & Wilkinson R (2018) Video data and biographical music as a method to record and explore interaction in semantic dementia In Keady J, Hyden LC, Johnson A & Swarbrick C (Ed.), Social Research Methods in Dementia Studies: Inclusion and Innovation (pp. 77-95). London: Routledge. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wilkinson R (2017) Transcribing atypical interaction In Hepburn A & Bolden G (Ed.), Transcribing for Social Research SAGE RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wilkinson R (2016) Dialogtraining für Menschen mit schwerer Aphasie und deren Partner: SPPARC in der klinischen Praxis In Steiner J (Ed.), Aphasie im Kontext. Einführung in die Praxis des alltagsorientierten Empowerments (pp. 159-169). Bern: SZH. View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Rendle-Short J, Wilkinson R & Danby S (2015) Name-Calling by a Child with Asperger’s Syndrome, The Palgrave Handbook of Child Mental Health (pp. 350-366). Palgrave Macmillan UK RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wilkinson R (2014) Conversation analysis, Handbook of Qualitative Research in Communication Disorders (pp. 79-92). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wilkinson R, Leudar I & Pika S (2012) Requesting behaviours within episodes of active sharing, Gesture Studies (pp. 199-222). John Benjamins Publishing Company RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wilkinson R, Leudar I & Pika S (2012) Requesting behaviors within episodes of active sharing A new look on chimpanzee signaling, DEVELOPMENTS IN PRIMATE GESTURE RESEARCH (pp. 199-221). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wilkinson R, Bouchard J, Temer VG, Kamunen A, Katila J, Xavier CCM & Sterie A () Participation within multiparty conversation, New Perspectives on Goffman in Language and Interaction (pp. 195-216). Taylor & Francis RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wilkinson R () Conversation analysis In Damico J & Ball M (Ed.), The Sage Encyclopedia of Human Communication Sciences and Disorders Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wilkinson R, Bloch S & Clarke M () On the use of graphic resources in interaction by people with communication disorders In Streek J, Goodwin C & LeBaron C (Ed.), Embodied Interaction: Language and Body In The Material World (pp. 152-168). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. RIS download Bibtex download

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