Aleksandr Shirokov

Aleksandr Shirokov uses conversation analysis to examine doctor-patient communication and works with video recordings of medical consultations. He is interested in examining how doctors and patients manage asymmetry in interaction and how patients exercise agency in actions that step into the doctor’s territory of expertise, such as diagnostic assertions and treatment requests.

Shirokov has published papers in various journals, such as Patient Education and Counseling and Research on Language and Social Interaction. He also contributed to the "Routledge Handbook of Conversation Analysis" (in press). He is currently working on a project analyzing longitudinal ADHD medication titration consultations. In particular, he explores how clinicians balance fostering family participation in the decision-making process and following medication titration protocols.

M.A., Sociology, Joint Master’s Program of Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences and University of Manchester
B.A., Sociology, Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod

Rutgers University Conversation Analysis Lab (RUCAL)