Associate Professor Wyke Stommel
Festival of Failure
Radboud University, Nijmegen
Associate Professor Stommel's 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 she studies how people achieve goals, construct identities and build relationships step by step verbally and non-verbally in their communication. She frequently works in interdisciplinary teams, also in direct collaboration with (medical) professionals. Thus, the research directly contributes to/ provides new insights in their work.
Furthermore, she works on methodological aspects of research, such as the ethics of research on digital data. In 2013, she co-initiated the Microanalysis Of Online Data (MOOD) network. For a review of the boek Analysing Digital Interaction see - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/symb.639
Finally, she is affiliate of Radboud iHub for Digitalisation and Society, member of Radboud interfaculty research platform Diversity in Sex and Gender, and qualified communication trainer (CARM affiliate, www.carmtraining.org).
During their IAS Fellowship, Associate Professor Stommel is collaborating with Dr Michael Shaw from the School of Design and Creative Arts and Dr Jessica Robles from the School of Social Sciences and Humanities.