Editor’s introduction

Authors

social interaction, child language, young people

Introduction to the inaugural issue.

Carly Butler, Loughborough University

Carly completed her PhD at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand in 2007, with a study of children’s interaction in the school playground. Her postdoctoral work in Brisbane, Australia involved researching interactions on Kids Helpline and Child Health Line (with Susan Danby, Michael Emmison and others), and work on methodology, family interaction and broadcast talk (with Richard Fitzgerald) before joining the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough in 2010. Carly is founding editor of the journal Research on Children and Social Interaction (Equinox, first issue Summer 2016), and member of Loughborough’s Discourse and Rhetoric Group and the Helpline Research Unit.

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