Position: Expert
Department: Language Studies
Education:
| Year | Degree earned | Institution |
| 2007 | TEFL Certificate | Chiang Mai University |
| 2005 | Independent studies in English & Swedish | Lund University |
| 1997 | Postgraduate Honours in Education (1st class) | University of Queensland |
| 1992 | Bachelor of Educational Studies | University of Queensland |
| 1987 | Diploma of Teaching (Primary/Special) | Brisbane College of Advanced Education |
Research interests:
Conversation analysis; culture and communication; disability and achievement; gender and sexuality; language and learning; philosophy of language and meaning; politics and news production
Publications:
1998-2003 Numerous articles for Scandinavian Cargotimes, the international customer magazine of SAS Air Cargo
1997 ‘Just Talking about it’: Intimacy, Ambiguity and Difference in the Conversational Practices of Family Life. (Unpublished honours thesis held at the Fryer Thesis Library, University of Queensland.)
1996 Don’t Ask: A qualitative investigation of the Mental Health Needs of Young Men in Rockhampton. Youth and Community Combined Action: Rockhampton, Qld.
1995 Newspaper Reportage of Crime: A case study. In L. Rowan & J. Mc-Namee (eds) Voices of a Margin: Speaking for Yourself. Central Queensland University Press: Rockhampton, Qld.
1995 Researching the Mental Health Needs of Young Men: Asking Impossible Questions? In C. Richards (ed) Promoting the Cause: Proceedings of Men’s Health Conference, September 1995. Queensland Department of Health: Toowoomba, Qld.
Conference presentations:
- Hoch, J., If They Speak For Themselves: Let The Data Do The Talking, The international conference on Doing Research in Applied Linguistics, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, 21 – 22 April 2011, p. 33.
- Voices of a Margin: Speaking for Yourself at Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Australia, December 1993. A three-day multi-disciplinary event hosted by the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Humanities at CQU – Presentation of independent study “Newspaper Reportage of Crime: A case study”.
- Men’s Health Conference: Promoting the Cause at University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia, September 1995. Three-day conference sponsored by the Queensland Government’s Department of Health – Presentation of findings from research project “Don’t Ask: A qualitative investigation of the Mental Health Needs of Young Men in Rockhampton” (conducted on contract for a publicly-funded welfare action group).
- Interaction Analysis: Talk in Multiple Contexts at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia, September 1996. A one-day symposium sponsored by the faculties of sociology and education at Griffith University, the University of Queensland, and the Queensland University of Technology – Presentation of research-in-progress “Intimacy and ambiguity in family life” during data collection phase of Honours Thesis project.