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Jessica La

Jessica La

Research Associate

Research interests

  • Public Services Management & Organisation

Contact details

Biography

Project Title: Prospectivity, anticipation, and the coordination of work

Supervisor: Professor Paul Luff, Professor Christian Heath

Year of Entry: 2019, Full-time

Jessica La was a PhD candidate in management and organisational studies at King's Business School. She specialises in using video-based methods to explore the interactional foundations of work. In particular, she is interested in issues of anticipation, rhythm, and routine. Her research explores interaction and communication in a range of contexts including hospitality, performance, and the health sector.

Jessica has a background in psychology from which her interest in the details of social interaction in everyday life emerged. Her early research focused on how identities and psychological states are produced by talk, the body and discourse. Jessica holds a BSc Hons and MSc in Psychology from Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand.

Research

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust Logo (1)
Talking About My Medicines (TAMM)

The TAMM project explores shared decision making in conversations between specialist learning disability mental health doctors, their patients and carers.

Project status: Ongoing

Research

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust Logo (1)
Talking About My Medicines (TAMM)

The TAMM project explores shared decision making in conversations between specialist learning disability mental health doctors, their patients and carers.

Project status: Ongoing