Ali Reza Majlesi
About me
Academic Background
- Ph.D. in the interdisciplinary area of "Language and Culture, " specializing in "Language and Social Interaction, " from Link枚ping University (2014).
- Associate Professorship in Education from Stockholm University (2022).
- Since 2025, I have been working as a Senior Lecturer in Speech and Language Pathology at 探花精选.
Research Profile
I began as a linguist specializing in the social aspects of language use, learning and development in talk-in-interaction. I apply ethnomethodological conversation analysis (EMCA) to everyday and institutional activities, including professional practices within pedagogical and clinical contexts. My research focuses on human sociality, actions, sense-making, and the organization of knowledge and morality, through detailed analyses of practices, materialities, embodiment, and verbal-vocal resources.
Research
My projects encompass multilingual, multicultural contexts such as classrooms, 探花精选 interactions, care settings, focusing both on human-human interactions as well as human-machine/robot interactions. I study professional and everyday practices in diverse populations, including first- and second-language users, as well as children and adults with varied cognitive and communicative abilities, such as individuals with dementia, aphasia, or different types of speech and language pathologies.
Research Projects
- 鈥淓mpowering Cultural Integration and Language Learning through Conversational AI鈥
PI: Gabriel Skantze, KTH | Financed by Digital Future/KTH | Grant number: KTH-RPROJ-0146472 | Duration: 2024-2025 - 鈥淚nteraction with Social Robots for Education: Robot-Assisted Learning for Students with Diverse Language Backgrounds鈥
PI: Ali Reza Majlesi (SU/KI) | Financed by Vetenskapsr氓det (Swedish Research Council) | Grant number: 2022鈥03265 | Duration: 2023-2025 - 鈥淧lanning for a Digital Academy for Welfare Technologies in Dementia Care鈥
PI: Christina Samuelsson, KI | Financed by FORTE (Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare) | Grant number: 022-01319 | Duration: 2023-2024 - 鈥淐ulturally Informed Robots in Learning Activities (CIRILA)鈥
PI: Olov Engwall (KTH) | Financed by the Wallenberg Foundations (MAW) | Grant number: MAW 2020.0052 | Duration: 2021-2023 - 鈥淎 Research Collaboration in Learning, Interaction and Technology鈥
PI: Ali Reza Majlesi (SU) | Financed by Stockholm University, Collaboration between Profile Areas | Grant number: SU FV-2.1.1-0086-19 | Duration: 2019-2021 - 鈥淟ife with Dementia: Communication, Relation and Cognition鈥
PI: Lars-Christer Hyd茅n (LiU) | Financed by FORTE (Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare) | Grant number: 2016鈥07207 | Duration: 2017鈥2022 - 鈥淭he Language Caf茅 as a Social Venue and a Space for Language Training鈥
PI: Gunilla Jansson (SU) | Financed by Vetenskapsr氓det (Swedish Research Council) | Grant number: 2017鈥033628 | Duration: 2018鈥2021
- 鈥淓mpowering Cultural Integration and Language Learning through Conversational AI鈥
Teaching
I have extensive experience teaching within various scientific fields of linguistics, education, and communication at undergraduate and graduate levels at institutions such as Stockholm University, Link枚ping University, and from January 2025 at 探花精选. My courses cover topics such as general linguistics, sociolinguistics, language learning and development, speech and language pathology, conversation analysis as a theory and method, and multimodal analysis of social interactions.
I have designed and taught graduate courses on Learning, Interaction and Multilingualism and Inclusion and Exclusion in Healthcare, as well as undergraduate courses on Professional Communication, Conversation Analayis and General Linguistics. My interdisciplinary, research-driven approach emphasizes video-based multimodal analysis of social activities, particularly in multilingual, multicultural contexts.
Articles
- Journal article: JOURNAL OF PRAGMATICS. 2025;237:42-54
- Journal article: EDUCATIONAL GERONTOLOGY. 2025;:1-14
- Journal article: LANGUAGE IN SOCIETY. 2025;:1-26
- Journal article: NATURE MENTAL HEALTH. 2023;1(7):444-445
- Journal article: SOCIAL INTERACTION. 2023;6(1)
- Journal article: SOCIAL INCLUSION. 2023;11(4):132-144
- Journal article: QUALITATIVE SOCIAL WORK. 2022;21(6):1185-1210
- Journal article: SOCIAL INTERACTION. 2022;5(1)
- Journal article: SOCIAL INTERACTION. 2022;5(1)
- Journal article: DEMENTIA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL RESEARCH AND PRACTICE. 2018;17(2):138-163
- Journal article: JOURNAL OF AGING STUDIES. 2016;38:37-46
- Journal article: JOURNAL OF PRAGMATICS. 2015;76:30-45
- Journal article: JOURNAL OF PRAGMATICS. 2014;64:35-51
- Journal article: 2014
- Journal article: LEARNING CULTURE AND SOCIAL INTERACTION. 2012;1(3-4):193-207
Grants
- Swedish Research Council for Health Working Life and Welfare1 January 2023 - 31 August 2023
- Swedish Research Council for Health Working Life and Welfare1 January 2017 - 31 December 2022