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Tessa van Charldorp is an Associate Professor at Utrecht University in the Department of Languages, Literature, and Communication. She coordinates the interdisciplinary minor in Medical Humanities within the Faculty of Humanities and has previously served as the program coordinator for the master's program in Medical Humanities at the Faculty of Medicine. As chair of the Dutch Association for Applied Linguistics (Anéla) and the research group on Language & Communication, her research primarily focuses on talk interaction within various institutional contexts, particularly in health care, police, and educational settings. Her notable projects include analyses of triage telephone conversations in out-of-hours GP offices, consults at internal medicine clinics, vaccination discussions at health centers, and interactions during police interrogations. She has published research in language and communication medical journals and is especially interested in teaching projects related to health issues, polarization, and argumentation in conversations. Currently, she is exploring visual thinking strategies as a method to aid in science communication.
Utrecht University • Utrecht, Netherlands
Associate Professor in the Department of Languages, Literature, and Communication, focusing on talk interaction in institutional contexts.
Department of Psychology