Centre for Human Interactivity

CHI Week. With guests, talks, coffee and cognition.

The Centre for Human Interactivity is always welcoming new talents to work with us at Syddansk Universitet – University of Southern Denmark! Therefore, we are currently hiring Ph.D. students.

First, we have a fully funded scholarship in the area of "Embodied cognition in language and social interaction" (to be supervised by Ed Baggs and Sune Vork Steffensen).
Application deadline: 7 March 2024. Find it here: https://fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/da/sites/CX_1001/job/1404?lastSelectedFacet=CATEGORIES&selectedCategoriesFacet=300000002425892

Second, we also welcome young talents interested in applying for the "Carlsberg Foundation Humanities PhD Fellowships" at SDU. To apply for this, you must have a master's degree from a Danish university.
Application deadline: 4 March 2024. Find it in ENGLISH here: https://fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1001/job/1360 - and in DANISH here: https://fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/da/sites/CX_1001/job/1360

Carlsberg Foundation Humanities PhD Fellowships at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Southern Denmark The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) hereby announces three 3-year Carlsberg PhD Fellowships starting September 1, 2024 or as soon as possible thereafter. The fellowships are available in all subject areas covered by the Department of Culture and Language or the Depa...

Yesterday, CHI hosted a seminar on "Language, Landscape, and Behaviour." Our two invited speakers were Magnus Pharao Hansen (Copenhagen University, Denmark) and Laurits Stapput Knudsen (University of Newcastle, Australia).

A huge thanks to the two speakers, and to all the participants in the event!

CHI member Daria Schwalbe joined us in January 2020 on an exciting two years cognitive ethnographic study on communication dynamics in clinical practice. In the spring, Daria got a position as postdoc at Copenhagen University, but next year she will return to SDU as part a trans-disciplinary team that has received six million Kroner from the Novo Nordisk Foundation for a four year project on “Non-attendant or not invited? A cross-disciplinary study about why healthcare appointments fail and how this can be prevented.”

The project addresses structural, relational, and pragmatic dimensions of failed appointments in Danish hospitals through 4 sub-projects: (1) Analysis of non-attendance patterns based on a regional patient population. (2) Patient knowledge, attitudes, and behaviour. (3) Decision-making and management of hospital appointments. (4) (Mis)Communication.

The project goal is to provide more comprehensive picture of problems and intervention opportunities that (1) can partly be used to make predictions about non-attendances, (2) can identify interventions grounded in specific causes that trigger failures at hospital appointments, and (3) can identify patient perspectives and strategies that can lead to interventions in healthcare interaction with vulnerable patients where the risk of misunderstandings and failed appointments is high.

The project is part of a recent Research Portfolio on Human Factors and Patient Safety, established as a collaboration between CHI and the Center for Research in Patient Communication (CFPK) at the Odense University Hospital. The portfolio is led by Professor Sune Vork Steffensen (CHI) and Professor Jette Ammentorp (CFPK).

Congratulations to the project team and to the portfolio members on getting the funding for this important project!