Barbara Schneider

Interim Assistant Dean, Research and Graduate Programs

(403) 220-5745
baschnei@ucalgary.ca
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~baschnei/
http://callhome.ucalgary.ca

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Artist Diploma in Violin Performance, University of Toronto
B.A., University of Wisconsin
M.A., University of Calgary
Ph.D., University of Calgary

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Research Interests:	Ethnomethodology and discourse analysis; Organizational Communication, particularly writing and decision making in organizations; Research methods; Communication theory.
Current Research:	List of Projects A Place to Call Home: A Participatory Study of Housing for People with Severe Mental Illnesses Communication Between People with Schizophrenia and their Medical Professionals Barbara Schneider conducts research and publishes in several different areas: communication of health and illness (particularly the social and cultural aspects of mental illness), communication in organizational settings, and scholarship of teaching and learning. Much of her work is discourse analytic. She has a commitment to understanding the social world as constituted in and through the coordinated activities of individual members of society and studies how people use language to construct and maintain the everyday social world. Projects in this area include studies of communicative practice in organizations and analysis of schizophrenia and identity. She also is interested in other forms of research and representation including participatory research and autoethnography, and has used performance as a way to make research accessible to a wider audience. Currently she has a SHRC grant for a participatory study of housing for people with severe mental illnesses. This project involves people with schizophrenia as co-researchers in investigating the housing experiences of people with severe mental illnesses, particularly those who are or have been homeless.
Teaching Interests:	Organizational Communication Research Methods
Current Courses:	COMS 605: Organizational Communication This course examines traditional approaches and more recent developments in the field of organizational communication. It focuses on the central role of communication in the creation and sustaining of organizational settings and activity. ... Read more. COMS 615: Communication Research Methods This course is an introduction to the major research approaches used in the field of communications studies. ... Read more.

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