Professor Ray Wilkinson

BSc, MA, PhD, MRCSLT

School of Allied Health, Pharmacy, Nursing and Midwifery

Professor of Human Communication

ray.wilkinson@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 2449
Room 127, 362 Mushroom Lane

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Professor Ray Wilkinson
School of Allied Health, Pharmacy, Nursing and Midwifery
Room 127
362 Mushroom Lane
Sheffield
S10 2TS
Profile

Ray Wilkinson is Professor of Human Communication in the Department of Human Communication Sciences at the ±¬ÁÏTV. Previously he worked at University College London and the University of Manchester, and as a speech and language therapist in the NHS. He was an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Research Fellow between 2008 and 2011, and a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2004 and 2011.

Research interests

Ray Wilkinson’s research focuses on human communication within everyday social interaction, and in particular how participants manage communication when one or more of them do not have the full set of linguistic or cognitive resources available to a neurotypical adult native language speaker. Much of his work investigates the nature of atypical interaction, in particular social interactions involving people with acquired brain damage such as aphasia and the communicative impairments secondary to dementia or traumatic brain injury.

He has also published on the development of interactional competence in normally-developing children, and on the communicative conduct of non-human primates. He is a co-author of SPPARC (Supporting Partners of People with Aphasia in Relationships and Conversation), a clinical assessment and intervention resource for speech and language therapists, and has published a number of papers on how interaction-focused intervention can improve everyday communication for people with aphasia and their significant others.

Publications

Books

  • (2020) . Springer International Publishing.

Journal articles

  • van Boekholt B, Wilkinson R & Pika S (2024) . Frontiers in Psychology, 14.
  • Wilkinson R (2020) . Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 34(10-11), 1045-1054.
  • Jones D, Drew P, Jackson C & Wilkinson R (2020) . Qualitative Health Research, 30(3), 458-470.
  • Kindell J, Wilkinson R & Keady J (2019) . Ageing & Society, 39(10), 2322-2345.
  • Emerson K, Williamson V & Wilkinson R (2019) . Musicae Scientiae, 23(3), 362-382.
  • Wilkinson R (2019) . Research on Language and Social Interaction, 52(3), 281-299.
  • Pika S, Wilkinson R, Kendrick KH & Vernes SC (2018) . Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: Biological Sciences, 285(1880).
  • Kindell J, Keady J, Sage K & Wilkinson R (2017) . International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 52(4), 392-406.
  • Griffiths S, Barnes R, Britten N & Wilkinson R (2015) . International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 50(6), 814-829.
  • (2015) . The Gerontologist, 55(Suppl_2), 382-382.
  • Wilkinson R (2015) . Aphasiology, 29(3), 257-268.
  • Penn C, Frankel T & Wilkinson R (2015) . Aphasiology, 29(3), 291-314.
  • Saldert C, Johansson C & Wilkinson R (2015) . Aphasiology , 29(3), 378-399.
  • Kindell J, Burrow S, Wilkinson R & David Keady J (2014) . Quality in Ageing and Older Adults, 15(3), 151-161.
  • Wilkinson R (2014) . Research on Language and Social Interaction, 47(3), 219-238.
  • Kindell J, Sage K, Wilkinson R & Keady J (2014) . Qual Health Res, 24(3), 401-411.
  • Wilkinson R (2013) . Clin Linguist Phon, 27(10-11), 805-822.
  • Kindell J, Sage K, Keady J & Wilkinson R (2013) . International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 48(5), 497-507.
  • Bloch S & Wilkinson R (2013) . Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders, 4(1), 45-70.
  • Wilkinson R (2013) . Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders, 4(1), 1-26.
  • Armstrong E, Fox S & Wilkinson R (2013) . Am J Speech Lang Pathol, 22(2), S268-S278.
  • Butler CW & Wilkinson R (2013) . Journal of Pragmatics, 50(1), 37-51.
  • Clarke M, Bloch S & Wilkinson R (2013) . Augment Altern Commun, 29(1), 37-53.
  • Wilkinson R (2013) . Augment Altern Commun, 29(1), 68-82.
  • Antaki C & Wilkinson R (2012) , 533-550.
  • Carragher M, Conroy P, Sage K & Wilkinson R (2012) . Aphasiology, 26(7), 895-916.
  • Griffiths S, Barnes R, Britten N & Wilkinson R (2012) . Seminars in Speech and Language, 33(01), 27-43.
  • Wilkinson R & Wielaert S (2012) . Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Supplement 1(93), 70-76.
  • Denman A & Wilkinson R (2011) . Disability and Rehabilitation, 33(3), 243-252.
  • Bloch S & Wilkinson R (2011) . International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 46(5), 510-523.
  • Griffiths S, Barnes R, Britten N & Wilkinson R (2011) . International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 46(5), 497-509.
  • Wilkinson R, Lock S, Bryan K & Sage K (2011) . International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 13(1), 74-87.
  • Wilkinson R (2010) . Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders, 1(1), 45-68.
  • Wilkinson R, Bryan K, Lock S & Sage K (2010) . Aphasiology, 6(24), 869-886.
  • Wilkinson R, Beeke S & Maxim J (2010) . Research on Language and Social Interaction, 1(43), 57-84.
  • Bloch S & Wilkinson R (2009) . International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 44(5), 769-783.
  • Clarke M & Wilkinson R (2009) . Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 23(8), 583-597.
  • Beeke S, Wilkinson R & Maxim J (2009) . Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 23(2), 133-155.
  • Wilkinson R (2009) . Discourse Processes, 2-3(46), 206-225.
  • Yang X, Ma W & Wilkinson R () . Aphasiology, 1-23.
  • Kindell J, Wilkinson R, Sage K & Keady J () . Arts and Health, 1-16.

Book chapters

  • Pika S & Wilkinson R (2025) Evolutionary roots of human cooperative communication Using the CA-assisted comparative approach for quantitative and qualitative analyses, Oxford Handbook of Approaches to Language Evolution (pp. 487-502).
  • Wagner J & Wilkinson R (2024) , Studies in Language and Social Interaction (pp. 360-383). John Benjamins Publishing Company
  • Wilkinson R (2024) Using Conversation Analytic Research Methods in the Study of Atypical Populations, CAMBRIDGE HANDBOOK OF METHODS IN CONVERSATION ANALYSIS (pp. 861-892).
  • Wilkinson R (2024) Conversation Analysis and Communication Disorders, HANDBOOK OF CLINICAL LINGUISTICS, 2 EDITION (pp. 69-80).
  • Wilkinson R, Bouchard J, Temer VG, Kamunen A, Katila J, Xavier CCM & Sterie A (2023) , New Perspectives on Goffman in Language and Interaction (pp. 195-216). Routledge
  • Greenhalgh E & Wilkinson R (2021) Storytelling in a Meaning-and-Fluency Task in the Second Language Classroom In Wong J & Waring H (Ed.), Storytelling in Multilingual Interaction: A Conversation Analysis Perspective
  • Kindell J, Wilkinson R & Keady J (2021) Living at home with semantic dementia Creating a life storybook with Ruby and Brian to support personal identity and well-being, PARTICIPATORY CASE STUDY WORK (pp. 33-50).
  • Wilkinson R & Morris S (2020) , Atypical Interaction (pp. 319-344). Springer International Publishing
  • Wilkinson R, Rae JP & Rasmussen G (2020) , Atypical Interaction (pp. 1-36). Springer International Publishing
  • Kindell J & Wilkinson R (2018) Video data and biographical music as a method to record and explore interaction in semantic dementia, SOCIAL RESEARCH METHODS IN DEMENTIA STUDIES: INCLUSION AND INNOVATION (pp. 77-95).
  • Wilkinson R (2017) Transcribing atypical interaction In Hepburn A & Bolden G (Ed.), Transcribing for Social Research SAGE
  • Wilkinson R (2016) Dialogtraining für Menschen mit schwerer Aphasie und deren Partner: SPPARC in der klinischen Praxis In Steiner J (Ed.), Aphasie im Kontext. Einführung in die Praxis des alltagsorientierten Empowerments (pp. 159-169). Bern: Edition SZH/CSPS.
  • Rendle-Short J, Wilkinson R & Danby S (2015) , The Palgrave Handbook of Child Mental Health (pp. 350-366). Palgrave Macmillan UK
  • Wilkinson R (2014) Conversation analysis, Handbook of Qualitative Research in Communication Disorders (pp. 79-92).
  • Wilkinson R, Leudar I & Pika S (2012) , Gesture Studies (pp. 199-222). John Benjamins Publishing Company
  • Wilkinson R, Leudar I & Pika S (2012) Requesting behaviors within episodes of active sharing A new look on chimpanzee signaling, DEVELOPMENTS IN PRIMATE GESTURE RESEARCH (pp. 199-221).
  • Pika S & Wilkinson R () , The Oxford Handbook of Approaches to Language Evolution (pp. 487-502). Oxford University Press
  • Wilkinson R, Bouchard J, Temer VG, Kamunen A, Katila J, Xavier CCM & Sterie A () , New Perspectives on Goffman in Language and Interaction (pp. 195-216). Taylor & Francis
  • Wilkinson R () Conversation analysis In Damico J & Ball M (Ed.), The Sage Encyclopedia of Human Communication Sciences and Disorders Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
  • Wilkinson R, Bloch S & Clarke M () On the use of graphic resources in interaction by people with communication disorders In Streek J, Goodwin C & LeBaron C (Ed.), Embodied Interaction: Language and Body In The Material World (pp. 152-168). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Conference proceedings

  • Emerson K, Williamson V & Wilkinson R (2017) Seeing the music in their hands: How conductors’ depictions shape the music. European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music 2017 Conference Proceedings (pp 59-66)
  • Carragher M, Wilkinson R, Sage K & Conroy P (2012) . Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 61 (pp 150-151)