Ian Hutchby
Honorary Professor

Profile

Biography

Ian Hutchby is Honorary Professor of Sociology at the University of York, and a visiting researcher in the Greenwood Institute for Child Health, University of Leicester.

Having gained a DPhil in Sociology at York in 1993, Ian began his career as a Research Fellow at the University of Surrey, moving on to become lecturer and later Professor of Sociology at Brunel University, and then Professor of Sociology at the University of Leicester.

He was Head of the Department of Sociology at Leicester (2011-2014) and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Ian conducts research in conversation analysis, focusing on child counselling and family psychotherapy, media talk and political communication, conflict talk, communication and technology.

His books include Confrontation Talk (1996), Children and Social Competence (1998) and Children, Technology and Culture (2001; both with Jo Moran-Ellis), Conversation Analysis (1998, 2008; with Robin Wooffitt), Conversation and Technology (2001), Media Talk (2006), The Discourse of Child Counselling (2007) and a four-volume edited collection, Methods in Language and Social Interaction (2008).

Ian's most recent book is The Political Interview: Broadcast Talk in the Interactional Combat Zone (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022).

Publications

Selected publications

• Hutchby, I. (2020) ‘“So my position is”: So-prefaced answers and epistemic authority in British news interviews.’ Journal of Language and Politics, 19.
• O'Reilly, M., Kiyimba, N. and Hutchby, I. (2020) ‘Testing children’s degrees and domains of competence in child mental health assessments.’ In J. Lamerichs, S. Danby, A. Bateman and S. Ekberg (eds.), Children and Mental Health Talk: Perspectives on Social Competence. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Hutchby, I. (2019) ‘Performed retelling: Self-enactments and the dramatisation of narrative on a television talk show.’ Journal of Pragmatics, 149: 1-13.
• Hutchby, I. and Dart, A. (2019) ‘The interactional workings of laughter in group supervision for psychotherapeutic counsellors.’ Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 19: 167-175
• Hutchby, I. and Dart, A. (2018) ‘“Let’s check in with our tummies”: Orienting to feelings-talk in group supervision for psychotherapy counsellors.’ Discourse Studies, 20: 598-612.
• Hutchby, I. (2017) ‘Hybridisation, personalisation and tribuneship in the broadcast political interview.’ Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, 18: 101-118.
• Hutchby, I. (2016) ‘Infelicitous talk: Politicians’ words and the media ecology in three British political gaffes.’ Journal of Language and Politics, 15: 667-687.
• Hutchby, I. (2015) ‘Therapeutic vision: Eliciting talk about feelings in child counselling for family separation.’ In M. O’Reilly and J. Lester (eds.), Handbook of Child Mental Health. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
• O’Reilly, M., Karim, K., Stafford, V. and Hutchby, I. (2015) ‘Identifying the interactional processes in first assessments in child mental health.’ Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 20: 195-201.
• Hutchby, I. (2014) ‘“I mean is that right?” Frame ambiguity and troublesome advice-seeking on a radio helpline.’ In E.-M. Graf, M. Sator and T. Spranz-Fogasy (eds.), Discourses of Helping Professions. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
• Stafford, V., Hutchby, I., Karim, K. and O’Reilly, M. (2014) ‘“Why are you here?” Seeking children’s accounts of their presentation to child and adolescent mental health services.’ Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 19: 489-505.
• Hutchby, I. (2013) ‘Obama in the No Spin Zone.’ In M. Ekstrom and A. Tolson (eds.), Media Talk and Political Elections in Europe and the USA. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Hutchby, I., O’Reilly, M. and Parker, N. (2012) ‘Ethics in praxis: Negotiating the role and functions of a video camera in family therapy.’ Discourse Studies, 14: 675-690.
• Hutchby, I. (2012) ‘Participation and the institutional agenda in child counselling: Proffering as a means of topic management.’ In C. Baraldi and V. Iervese (eds.), Participation, Facilitation and Mediation: Children and Young People in Their Social Contexts. New York: Routledge.
• Hutchby, I. (2011) ‘Doing non-neutral: Belligerent interaction in the Hybrid Political Interview.’ In M. Ekstrom and M. Patrona (eds.), Talking Politics in the Broadcast Media. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
• Hutchby, I. (2011) ‘Non-neutrality and argument in the Hybrid Political Interview.’ Discourse Studies, 13: 349-366.
• O’Reilly, M., Parker, N. and Hutchby, I. (2011) ‘Ongoing processes of managing consent: The empirical ethics of using video recording in clinical practice and research.’ Journal of Clinical Ethics, 6: 179-185.
• Hutchby, I. (2010) ‘Feelings-talk and therapeutic vision in child-counsellor interaction.’ In H. Gardner and M. Forrester (eds.), Analysing Interactions in Childhood. London: John Wiley.
• Hutchby, I. and O’Reilly, M. (2010) ‘Children’s participation and the familial moral order in family therapy.’ Discourse Studies, 12: 49-64.
• Hutchby, I. (2008) ‘Participants’ orientations to interruptions, rudeness and other impolite acts in talk-in-interaction.’ Journal of Politeness Research, 4: 221-241.
• Hutchby, I. and Tanna, V. (2008) ‘Aspects of sequential organisation in text message exchange.’ Discourse and Communication, 2: 143-164.
• Seale, C., Butler, C., Hutchby, I., Kinnersley, P. and Rollnick, S. (2007) ‘Negotiating frame ambiguity: A study of simulated encounters in medical education.’ Communication and Medicine, 4: 177-188.
• Hutchby, I. (2006) ‘Conversation.’ In J. Scott (ed.), Sociology: The Key Concepts. London: Routledge.
• Hutchby, I. (2005) ‘News talk: Interaction in the broadcast news interview.’ In S. Allan (ed.) Journalism: Critical Issues. Buckingham, UK: Open University Press.
• Hutchby, I. (2005) ‘Children’s talk and social competence.’ Children and Society, 19: 66-73.
• Hutchby, I. (2005) ‘Active listening: Formulations and the elicitation of feelings-talk in child counselling.’ Research on Language and Social Interaction, 38: 303-329.
• Hutchby, I. (2005) ‘Incommensurable studies of mobile phone conversation: A reply.’ Discourse Studies, 7: 663-670.
• Hutchby, I. and Barnett, S. (2005) ‘Aspects of the sequential organisation of mobile phone conversation.’ Discourse Studies, 7: 147-171.
• Hutchby, I. (2004) ‘Conversation analysis and the study of broadcast talk.’ In R. Sanders and K. Fitch (eds.), Handbook of Language and Social Interaction. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
• Speer, S.A. and Hutchby, I. (2003) ‘From ethics to analytics: Aspects of participants’ orientations to the presence and relevance of recording technologies.’ Sociology, 37: 315-337.
• Speer, S.A. and Hutchby, I. (2003) ‘Methodology needs analytics: A rejoinder.’ Sociology, 37: 353-359.
• Hutchby, I. (2002) ‘Resisting the incitement to talk in child counselling: Aspects of the utterance “I don’t know”.’ Discourse Studies, 4: 147-168.
• Hutchby, I (2001) ‘Oh, irony and sequential ambiguity in arguments.’ Discourse and Society, 12: 147-165.
• Hutchby, I. (2001) ‘Technologies, texts and affordances.’ Sociology, 35: 441-456.
• Hutchby, I. (2001) ‘Witnessing: The use of first-hand knowledge in legitimating lay opinions on talk radio.’ Discourse Studies, 3: 481-497.
• Hutchby, I. (2001) ‘The moral status of technology: Being recorded, being heard, and the construction of concerns in child counselling.’ In I. Hutchby and J. Moran-Ellis (eds.), Children, Technology and Culture. London: Routledge-Falmer.
• Hutchby, I. (2001) ‘Confrontation as a spectacle: The argumentative frame of the Ricki Lake show.’ In A. Tolson (ed.), Television Talk Shows: Discourse, Performance, Spectacle. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
• The Political Interview: Broadcast Talk in the Interactional Combat Zone (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)

A significant number of Professor Hutchby’s papers, from the early 1990s to the present, are available for download from his ResearchGate and Academia sites.