Marie Rickert

I am an interdisciplinary qualitative researcher interested in how social interaction is organized in everyday contexts. My work spans a range of domains, including education, digital environments, and healthcare, and highlights how professional practices, from teaching to advice-giving, and social relationships are constructed through interaction.

I like to work with:

• Linguistic Ethnography, because it enables rich, contextually grounded accounts of social practices and because I enjoy ethnographic fieldwork.
• Conversation Analysis, because it provides tools to analyze the fine-grained organization of interaction and because it satisfies me to find order in the details.
• Video-based methods, because they make visible the multimodal and embodied dimensions of social interaction and because I can rewind videos until they start to make sense.

I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at iHub and the Centre for Language Studies, and a lecturer in the Department of Language and Communication at Radboud University. I previously held positions as a visiting researcher at NL Lab/KNAW (2022-2023), a teaching secondee at the University of Münster (2021-2022), and a PhD candidate at Maastricht University (2020-2024).

My PhD thesis, Shaping Participation: Children’s and Teachers’ Language Practices in Linguistically Diverse Early Childhood Education and Care, was a double degree between Maastricht University and the University of Münster and received the distinction summa cum laude in Münster (2024).