DrEmma Tennent

Emma Tennent is a senior lecturer in Communication who examines human communication in everyday social interaction. She holds a PhD in discursive psychology and explores how identities and relationships are negotiated through talk-in-interaction. Her work draws on ethnomethodology and conversation analysis (EMCA) to investigate issues of identity, help-seeking, and prejudice across a range of institutional settings including victim helplines, police emergency calls, and select committee hearings. 

Emma is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and teaches in the Bachelor of Communication and Master of Communication. She teaches research methods at undergraduate and postgraduate level, capstone applied communication projects, and specialist courses on social interaction and identity.

Emma also serves as a Subject Lead for the Australia and New Zealand School of Government's Executive Master of Public Administration. She co-teaches with Zina O'Leary on the Work-Based Project course where students design research projects to meet real-world problems proposed by public sector agencies.