Dr Maurice Nevile

Lecturer PhD              2002, Australian National University, Canberra MA               1990, Macquarie University, Sydney BA Honours  1989, Macquarie University, Sydney Contact +61  2  6125 3199 Maurice.Nevile@anu.edu.au

Research and professional interests

Maurice joined CEDAM in May 2008 from the University of Canberra, where he was a Research Fellow (2004-2008). He has a scholarly background in linguistics, applied linguistics, and sociology(specifically in conversation analysis and ethnomethodology).

Maurice is convenor of the course EDUC8002, Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, in the Graduate Certificate in Higher Education, and also teaches in the induction course Foundations of University Teaching and Learning. He works with staff to develop applications for teaching awards and educational development grants from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council. Maurice also supports staff with occasional projects to develop teaching, learning and academic practice. For example, he completed an internal project on staff experiences of applying for Linkage Project research grants from the Australian Research Council, and he has worked with language teaching staff to examine retention and attrition in language and culture programs.

Maurice has nearly 20 years experience in teaching and research. He was for six years an advisor at the Academic Skills and Learning Centre at ANU (1992-1998), supporting both undergraduate and graduate students in learning and meeting the demands for academic writing and assessment. He worked one-to-one with students, and taught courses in essay writing, exam preparation, doing honours, and on settling into university life. He prepared guides on plagiarism and citation practices, and is co-author of the book Making the Most of your Arts Degree (Longman 1994). He has also published research on students' learning and on the nature and development of academic literacy.

He is currently an international inner network member of the new Center for Cultural and Linguistic Practices in the International University (CALPIU), at Roskilde University in Denmark. His project with the center involves collaboration with Prof Johannes Wagner (Southern Denmark University) to examine how staff and students manage multiple languages in situations of teaching, learning, and assessment. In 2008, with Prof Wagner he was a keynote speaker at the international conference organised by the centre, speaking on the topic 'Talking the international university into being' (see abstract). Maurice also presented on this research in Hong Kong at the conference Language Issues in English Medium Universities: A Global Concern (see handout). Some initial findings have been published as: Nevile, M. & Wagner, J. (2008) 'Managing languages and participation in a multilingual group examination', in Haberland et al. (eds), Higher Education in the global village: cultural and linguistic practices in the international university, published by Roskilde University, Denmark. 
 

Research methodology and experience

As a conversation analyst and ethnomethodologist, Maurice's primary data are audio and video recordings of naturally occurring interaction and conduct (see for example Charles Antaki's online introduction, or Paul ten Have's site EMCA News). He is interested in the language and practices for accomplishing social action, especially in institutional situations. In higher education these situations can include tutorial classes, group work and problem solving, research supervision and supervisory panel meetings, lectures and seminar presentations, laboratory work, or student advising sessions. He examines how people do whatever it is they do in ways that are meaningful, relevant, ordered, and recognisable to others. Maurice has completed short courses, summer schools and workshops with leading scholars in conversation analysis, including at the Conversation Analysis Advanced Study Institute at UCLA (2006) with John Heritage, Gene Lerner and Emanuel Schegloff, and with Gail Jefferson in two summer schools and a masterclass.

Maurice has recently researched extensively on the language and practices of collaboration for professional work, focusing on the high technology airline cockpit. He has also investigated how human error emerges in situ as people interact to coordinate their activities. In consultancy and research work for the Australian Transport Safety Bureau he has transcribed and analysed recorded voice data from aviation incidents and accidents, and he has undertaken independent study of a military friendly fire incident (recently published). Within his broad interest in naturally occurring language and embodied practices, Maurice has also conducted funded research on the behaviours of gamblers in the gambling venue, and on in-car distractions and their impact on driving activities.

Maurice has around 50 publications, including papers in: Discourse Studies, Language in Society, Research on Language and Social Interaction, Text and Talk, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, and Human Factors and Aerospace Safety. He has also published in key Australian journals: Australian Journal of Linguistics, Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, and Australian Journal for Adult Literacy Research and Practice.

Maurice is author of a research book (Beyond the black box: Talk-in-interaction in the airline cockpit, Ashgate: UK/USA, 2004), co-author of a student guide book (Making the most of your Arts degree. Longman, 1994), and is co-editor of a special Issue of the Australian Review of Applied Linguistics (2007, Language as action: Australian studies in conversation analysis). Two other co-edited volumes are in preparation. He is also author or co-author of six reports to government, and a policy document.

In 2007 Maurice spent a month in Finland as a funded Visiting Scholar in the Research Institute for Social Sciences at the University of Tampere. He has also been a visitor at the University of Southern Denmark (Odense), and at Loughborough University in England. He travels regularly to Denmark and Finland for research collaboration. 

Maurice's full CV is available here.

Major funding

Maurice's recently funded research include as principal researcher for two nationally competitive research projects funded by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, one in road safety ($29,000, 2008-2009; In-car distractions and their impact on driving), and one in air safety ($20,000, 2006; Representing and interpreting recorded voice data for air accident investigation). He was a Chief Investigator for the project Identifying problem gamblers at the gaming venue funded by Gambling Research Australia ($167,000, 2006-2007), and conducted with ANU and Univ. Adelaide colleagues. Maurice was recipient of a $60,000 research support fund to accompany his three year Research Fellowship at the the University of Canberra. 

Writing and scholarly publications

In preparation and submitted

Nevile, M. (submitted) 'Seeing on the move: making and being visible on the battlefield'. Book chapter.

Nevile, M. & P. Haddington (in prep.) In-car distractions and their impact on driving activities. Report for a 2008 Road Safety Research Grant, written for the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, Australian Government Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government, Canberra.

Nevile, M. (submitted) 'Interaction as distraction in driving: A body of evidence'. Journal article.

Nevile, M. (submitted) 'Looking for action: talk and gaze home position in the airline cockpit'. Journal article.

2009

Nevile, M. & Rendle-Short, J. (2009) A conversation analysis view of communication as jointly accomplished social interaction: An unsuccessful proposal for a social visit. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 29,1:75-89. Special Issue, Conceptualising Communication, edited by M.Haugh & A.J. Liddicoat. Just published online  The submitted preprint version (before peer review) is available here.

Nevile, M. (2009) “You are well clear of friendlies”: Diagnostic error and cooperative work in an Iraq War friendly fire incident. Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Special Issue on Diagnostic Work, edited by M. Büscher, J. O’Neill, and J. Rooksby. Just published online

2008

Nevile, M. & Wagner, J. (2008) Managing languages and participation in a multilingual group examination. In Haberland, H., Mortensen, J., Fabricius, A., Preisler, B., Risager, K., & Kjærbeck, S. (eds), Higher Education in the global village: cultural and linguistic practices in the international university, pp.149-173. Department of Culture and Identity, Roskilde University, Denmark.

Nevile, M. (2008) Being out of order: overlapping talk as evidence of trouble in airline pilots' work. In Bhatia, V., Flowerdew, J. & Jones, R. (Eds.) Advances in discourse studies, 36-50. London and New York: Routledge.

Experiences and perceptions of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Projects Research Grant Scheme. Report written for the Australian National University Research Office.

2007

Rendle-Short, J. and Nevile, M. (eds) (2007) Language as action: Australian studies in conversation analysis. Special Issue of the Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 29,1. Melbourne: Monash University ePress and the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia.

Nevile, M. (2007) Action in time: ensuring timeliness for collaborative work in the airline cockpit. Language in Society, 36(2):233-257.

Nevile, M. (2007) Talking without overlap in the airline cockpit: precision timing at work. Text and Talk 27(2): 225-249.

Nevile, M. & J.Rendle-Short (2007) Language as action. In Rendle-Short, J. & Nevile, M. (eds) Language as action: Australian studies in conversation analysis. Special thematic issue, Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 30(3):30.1-30.13.

Nevile, M. (2007) Book review. Ilkka Arminen Institutional interaction: studies of talk at work. Ashgate, Aldershot, 2005. xv +269 pp. Discourse and Society, 18(6):822-824.

Nevile, M. (2007) Seeing the point: attention and participation in the airline cockpit. In L. Mondada & V. Markaki (eds). Interacting Bodies. Online Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies. Lyon: ENS LSH & ICAR Research Lab, http://gesture-lyon2005.ens-lsh.fr/article.php3?id_article=245

Delfabbro, P., Osborn, A. Nevile, M., Skelt, L. & McMillen, J. (2007) Identifying problem gamblers in gambling venues. Commissioned Research Report. Gambling Research Australia, Office of Gaming and Racing, Department of Justice, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. pp.320+ ISBN 978-1-921028-57-1.

2006

Nevile, M. (2006) Making sequentiality salient: and-prefacing in the talk of airline pilots. Discourse Studies 8(2):279-302.

Nevile, M. (2006) A conversation analysis model for examining aviation communication in context: part II - processes for analysing data. Human Factors and Aerospace Safety. 6(2):155-173.

Nevile, M. (2006) A conversation analysis model for examining aviation communication in context: part I: processes for representing data. Human Factors and Aerospace Safety, 6(1):35-50.

Nevile, M. (2006) Communication in context: A conversation analysis tool for examining recorded voice data in investigations of aviation occurrences. Report B2005/0118, for the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, Commonwealth Department of Transport and Regional Services, Canberra. ISBN 1-921092-79-3     Available via atsb.gov.au

Nevile, M. (2006) You happy? Conversation analysis transcriptions and analyses of recorded voice data for five aviation occurrences. Report for the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, Commonwealth Department of Transport and Regional Services, Canberra. pp.45+ [[Confidential: restricted access]]

2005

Nevile, M. & Walker, M.B. (2005) A context for error: Using conversation analysis to represent and analyse recorded voice data. Human Factors and Aerospace Safety, 5(2):109-135. Part A, Part B

Nevile, M. (2005) 'Checklist complete.' Or is it? Closing a task in the airline cockpit. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 28(2): 60-76.

Nevile, M. (2005) You always have to land: accomplishing the sequential organization of actions to land an airliner. In S.Norris & R.Jones (Eds.), Discourse in action: introducing mediated discourse analysis (pp.32-44). London and New York: Routledge.

Nevile, M. & Walker, M.B. (2005) A context for error: Using conversation analysis to represent and analyse recorded voice data. Aviation Research Report, B2005/0108. Australian Transport Safety Bureau, Commonwealth Department of Transport and Regional Services, Canberra. ISBN 1-921092-017     Available via atsb.gov.au

Nevile, M. & Walker, M.B. (2005) Analysis of crew conversations provides insights for accident investigation. Flight Safety Digest, 24 (10):1-17. October. Flight Safety Foundation, Alexandria, VA, USA.

2004

Nevile, M. (2004) Beyond the black box: talk-in-interaction in the airline cockpit. (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate) In series: Directions in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis.

((A description of this book is available here, and details and sample pages are also available at Amazon here. The book has been reviewed in Language in Society, and Sociology , and by an airline pilot here.))

Nevile, M. (2004) Integrity in the airline cockpit: embodying claims about progress for the conduct of an approach briefing. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 37(4):447-480.

2002

Nevile, M. (2002) Coordinating talk and non-talk activity in the airline cockpit. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 25(1):131-146.

Nevile, M. (2002) Analysis of radio transmissions from VH-MZK Whyalla Airlines. Report for the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, Commonwealth Department of Transport and Regional Services, Canberra. [[Confidential: restricted access]]

2001

Nevile, M. (2001) Understanding who’s who in the airline cockpit: pilots’ pronominal choices and cockpit roles. In A. McHoul and M. Rapley (eds.), How to analyse talk in institutional settings: a casebook of methods. London and New York: Continuum. Pp:57-71.

Nevile, M. & A.J. Liddicoat (2001) Cockpit voice recorder data from VH-AJS: a conversation analysis perspective. Report for the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, Commonwealth Department of Transport and Regional Services, Canberra. [[Confidential: restricted access]] 45pp

Nevile, M. (2001) Talk-in-interaction and the work of airline pilots. Australian Language Matters, Vol.9, No.4, Oct/Nov/Dec.

Nevile, M. (2001) Institutional talk-in-interaction: studies of teams in sociotechnical settings. Australian Language Matters, Vol.9, No.3, July/Aug/Sept.

Nevile, M. (2001) Book notice. Approaching dialogue: talk, interaction and contexts in dialogical perspectives. By Per Linell. (Impact: Studies in Language and Society 3.) Amsterdam Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1998. Pp. xvii, 331. In Language, Journal of the Linguistic Society of America, Vol. 77, No. 3

Nevile, M. (2001) Book notice. Talk, work and institutional order: discourse in medical, mediation and management settings. Ed. by Srikant Sarangi and Celia Roberts. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1999. Pp. 529. In Language, Journal of the Linguistic Society of America Vol. 77, No. 3.

2000

Nevile, M. (2000) Cockpit talk and what it means for flight safety. Campus Review, 10, 38:11.

1999

Nevile, M. (1999) Communication and socially shared cognition in the airline cockpit. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Cognitive Science, and The 16th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society Joint Conference, Waseda University, Tokyo

 

Earlier writing on learning and academic literacy

Buckingham, J. & Nevile, M. (1997) A model of citation options. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 20(2):19-34.

Nevile, M. & Buckingham, J. (1997) Comparing the citation choices of experienced academic writers and first year students. In Z. Golebiowski (ed.) Policy and practice of tertiary literacy. Volume 1, 96-107. Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne.

Nevile, M. (1996) Literacy culture shock: developing academic literacy at university. Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 19(1):38-51.

Nevile, M. & Buckingham, J. (1996) Towards a model of citation options. Proceedings of the Knowledge and Discourse Conference, Hong Kong University. Available at http://ec.hku.hk/kd96proc/authors/papers/nevile.htm

Nevile, M. (1994) Teaching a diverse student population: a case study of the literacy development of a student with a learning disability. Research and Development in Higher Education, 17:338-344. Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia.

Nevile, M. (1993) The first three years of the Australian National University Countrywide scheme: the students, their performance and the role of academic support. In G. White (ed.) A fair chance for all in access to higher education: consolidation and advancement into the 21st century. The University of Newcastle (NSW).

Clanchy, J., Ballard, B., Buckingham, J.,Craswell, G., Mitchell, A., Nevile, M., Tolmie, J. (1994) Making the most of your Arts degree. Melbourne: Longman.

 Nevile, M. (1990) Translating texts into Plain English: the cost of increased readability. Australian Journal for Adult Literacy Research and Practice, 1(2):27-38.