Louise Phillips, Ph.D.
Professor of Communication
Department of Communication
Business and Information Technologies
Roskilde University
Postbox 260, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark
Email: louisep@ruc.dk
Phone: +45 4674 3799
Web: http://forskning.ruc.dk/site/person/louisep
Born in Glasgow, Louise moved to Denmark after finishing a Ph.D. in the
Department of Social Psychology, London School of Economics and
Political Science in 1993, and has been employed at Roskilde University
since 1994. Until around 2005, she carried out research projects on
mediatised political communication, environmental communication and the
individualisation of public problems and the development of discourse
analysis as research methodology.
Her research since 2005 has concentrated on dialogic and participatory
approaches to communication theory and practice, including approaches to
collaborative research. In her monograph on the topic (The Promise of
Dialogue: The Dialogic Turn in The Production and Communication of
Knowledge, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2011) she explores the spread of
dialogue-based, collaborative approaches to producing and communicating
knowledge across diverse fields of social practice. Here, she follows a
critical, reflexive approach that, at one and the same time,
interrogates the complexities, tensions and dilemmas inherent in doing
“dialogue”, “collaboration” and “participation” and is oriented towards
further developing dialogic practices from a normatively supportive
position. She presents a theoretical framework for understanding and
analysing the dialogic turn that builds bridges across the research
traditions of dialogic communication theory, action research, and
science and technology studies. The framework has been developed in
interplay with empirical material in three case studies, presented in
the book, in the fields of planned communication and campaigns, public
engagement with science, and collaborative research.
She was the co-ordinator of the NordForsk Network for the Study of the
Dialogic Communication of Research (2008-2011) and is one of the
co-founders, and current Chair, of the Science and Environment
Communication Section of ECREA (European Communication Research and
Education Association).
She is committed to collaboration across theory and practice with a view to mutual learning.
Selected publications:
- Phillips, L., Kristiansen, M., Vehvilainen, M. and Gunnarsson, E. (ed.) (in press). Knowledge and Power in Collaborative Research: A Reflexive Approach. Routledge Advances in Research Methods Series. London and New York: Routledge.
- Phillips, L., Carvalho, A. and Doyle, J. (ed.) (in press). Citizen Voices: Performing Public Participation in Science and Environment Communication, ECREA Book Series. London: Intellect Publications.
- Phillips, L. (2011). The promise of dialogue: The dialogic turn in the production and communication of knowledge. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing.
- Phillips, L. (2011). “Analysing the dialogic turn in the communication of research-based knowledge: an exploration of the tensions in collaborative research”, Public Understanding of Science 21(1): 80-100.
- Jørgensen, M.W. and Phillips, L. (2002). Discourse Analysis as Theory and Method. London: Sage (Russian Translation: D?????? ?????? ?????? ? ??m??. Kharkov, Ukraine: Humanitarian Center, 2004, 2008).
