Olga Abreu Fernandes

Short presentation

Olga Fernandes, PhD, is a Lecturer in Education and affiliated with the group Studies in Childhood, Learning and Identities as Interactive Practices (CLIP). Her research concerns social interaction and communication, with a special focus on coaching and learning, storytelling, multilingual practices, language socialization, well-being literacy, and relational and affective aspects of everyday life and professional encounters. Methods: linguistic (video)ethnography and conversation analysis.

Keywords

• workplace communication
• coaching
• well-being
• transformative learning
• storytelling
• language awareness
• multilingual families
• social interaction
• linguistic anthropology
• ethnography
• conversation analysis
• multimodal interaction analysis
• language socialisation

Research

• Linguistic ethnographic studies of communication and well-being of children and in the workplace, with a focus on language awareness and well-being literacy
• Children's multilingual language socialisation
• Coaching process research