Research Focus:

• What are the characteristics of effective teamwork in real-life maternity emergencies?
• How do senior and junior professionals enact their role discursively in the spatiomaterial context of the emergency room?

Methodology:

We combine linguistic analysis with a holistic view of medical and spatiomaterial performance. The analysis take a combined Conversation Analytic and Interactional Sociolinguistics approach, integrating multimodal information and the exploitation of material space.

Key Findings:

• Effective teamwork is embodied; positioning and moving in the material space is part of enacting professional roles.
• Senior doctors enact leadership multimodally: they position self in a central material zone and use multimodally achieved directives and questions which build on each other.
• Seniority in this context is claimed, projected and resisted discursively, confirming the situated nature of leadership.

To find out more:

Mesinioti, P., J. Angouri, T. Draycott, S. O'Brien, C. Bristowe, & D. Siassakos, (Under review). 'Get me the airway there': negotiating leadership in obstetric emergencies.