Natalie Flint

Pronouns: She/her
  • Research Associate

Natalie Flint is a Research Associate in the Centre for Early Mathematics Learning at Loughborough University. Natalie is working on Challenge 3 which explores the ways in which children experience learning mathematics. Challenge 3 will analyse the interactions children have with others both in the classroom and at home. Natalie’s research interests are in talk and social interaction: namely, Conversation Analysis (CA) and Membership Categorisation Analysis (MCA) of interactions in a variety of contexts.

Previously, Natalie has worked on projects in clinical settings, namely on a project funded by the NIHR entitled 'Person Centred Risk Communication: What works best for People with Epilepsy and their Clinicians'.

Her PhD research was on resistance in family interactions, with a focus on the sequential organisation of resistance, and how members orient to authority and categories in 'resistance sequences' in these family interactions. Ultimately, this research addressed issues of action and interaction, considering how actions are achieved and orientations to the social order in everyday interaction.

More generally, Natalie is interested in the structural organisation of naturally occurring talk across a variety of settings, namely, educational settings, everyday family interactions, initial interactions, clinical encounters, and public encounters.