Dr Katie Ekberg
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
+61 7 336 58547
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Book Chapters
Ekberg, Stuart, Smoliak, Olga, Ekberg, Katie and LeCouteur, Amanda (2023). Language and emotion in psychotherapeutic interaction. Language and emotion. (pp. 2044-2061) edited by Gesine Lenore Schiewer, Jeanette Altarriba and Bee Chin Ng. Mouton, Germany: De Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9783110795486-036
Ekberg, Katie and LeCouteur, Amanda (2020). Clients’ resistance to therapists’ proposals: managing epistemic and deontic status in cognitive behavioral therapy sessions. Joint decision making in mental health: an interactional approach. (pp. 95-114) edited by Camilla Lindholm, Melisa Stevanovic and Elina Weiste. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-43531-8_4
Ekberg, Katie, Hickson, Louise and Lind, Christopher (2020). Practices of negotiating responsibility for troubles in interaction involving people with hearing impairment. Atypical interaction: the impact of communicative impairments within everyday talk. (pp. 409-433) edited by Ray Wilkinson, John P. Rae and Gitte Rasmussen. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-28799-3_14
Reuber, Markus and Ekberg, Katie (2015). Linguistisch-interaktionale Differentialdiagnose in der Anfallsambulanz. Handbuch Sprache in der Medizin. (pp. 264-281) edited by Albert Busch and Thomas Spranz-Fogasy. Berlin: De Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9783110296174-015
Journal Articles
Timmer, Barbra H. B., Ekberg, Katie, Meyer, Carly, Waite, Monique, Scarinci, Nerina, Nickbakht, Mansoureh and Hickson, Louise (2024). Using Ecological Momentary Analysis to explore stigma experiences in the real world for adults with acquired hearing loss. International Journal of Audiology, ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print), 1-11. doi: 10.1080/14992027.2024.2418970
Scarinci, Nerina, Waite, Monique, Nickbakht, Mansoureh, Ekberg, Katie, Timmer, Barbra, Meyer, Carly and Hickson, Louise (2024). How do adults with hearing loss, family members, and hearing care professionals respond to the stigma of hearing loss and hearing aids?. International Journal of Audiology, 1-8. doi: 10.1080/14992027.2024.2406885
Meyer, Heidi M., Ekberg, Katie, Healy, Genevieve N., Stockbridge, Germaine and Gomersall, Sjaan R. (2024). Dietary Health Communication and Conversation Analysis: A Scoping Review. Health Communication, 1-10. doi: 10.1080/10410236.2024.2414154
Ekberg, Katie, Timmer, Barbra, Meyer, Carly, Waite, Monique, Scarinci, Nerina, Nickbakht, Mansoureh and Hickson, Louise (2024). A laughing matter? Managing hearing difficulties in real life everyday social interactions with adults with hearing loss. International Journal of Audiology, 1-9. doi: 10.1080/14992027.2024.2389189
Dawes, Piers, Nickbakht, Mansoureh, Scarinci, Nerina, Newall, John, Furze, Cailyn, Nisar, Mehwish, Timmer, Barbra, Ching, Teresa Y. C., Harris-Roxas, Benjamin, Scanlan, Emma, Van Buynder, Patricia, Waite, Monique, Orlando, Marc, Kruger, Jan-Louis, Ekberg, Katie, Dib, Mayada, Ginis, Jan, Barr, Margo, Armitage, Christopher J. and Hickson, Louise (2024). Developing strategies to improve accessibility of hearing health services for people from diverse ethnic communities in Australia: Research Protocol. Figshare. doi: 10.6084/m9.figshare.26499952.v1
Nickbakht, Mansoureh, Ekberg, Katie, Waite, Monique, Scarinci, Nerina, Timmer, Barbra, Meyer, Carly and Hickson, Louise (2024). The experience of stigma related to hearing loss and hearing aids: perspectives of adults with hearing loss, their families, and hearing care professionals. International Journal of Audiology, 1-8. doi: 10.1080/14992027.2024.2353862
Watts, Janet, Ekberg, Stuart, Bluebond-Langner, Myra, Langner, Richard, Fleming, Sara, Danby, Susan, Ekberg, Katie, Yates, Patsy, Bradford, Natalie, Delaney, Angela and Herbert, Anthony (2024). Questions directed to children with diverse communicative competencies in paediatric healthcare consultations. Patient Education and Counseling, 121 108103, 1-9. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2023.108103
Ekberg, Katie, Beach, Wayne A. and Jones, Danielle (2024). Communication in outpatient secondary care: a state-of-the-art literature review of conversation-analytic research. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 57 (1), 38-54. doi: 10.1080/08351813.2024.2305042
Ekberg, Katie and Hickson, Louise (2023). To tell or not to tell? Exploring the social process of stigma for adults with hearing loss and their families: introduction to the special issue. International Journal of Audiology, 1-11. doi: 10.1080/14992027.2023.2293651
Scarinci, Nerina, Tulloch, Kristen, Meyer, Carly, Ekberg, Katie and Lind, Christopher (2022). Using an Online Tool to Apply a Person-Centred Approach in Audiological Rehabilitation: A Pilot Study. Audiology Research, 12 (6), 620-634. doi: 10.3390/audiolres12060060
Scarinci, Nerina, Nickbakht, Mansoureh, Timmer, Barbra H., Ekberg, Katie, Cheng, Bonnie and Hickson, Louise (2022). A qualitative investigation of clients, significant others, and clinicians’ experiences of using wireless microphone systems to manage hearing impairment. Audiology Research, 12 (6), 596-619. doi: 10.3390/audiolres12060059
Ekberg, Katie, Timmer, Barbra H., Francis, Anna and Hickson, Louise (2022). Improving the implementation of family-centred care in adult audiology appointments: a feasibility intervention study. International Journal of Audiology, 62 (9), 1-13. doi: 10.1080/14992027.2022.2095536
Ng, Zheng Yen, Waite, Monique, Ekberg, Katie and Hickson, Louise (2022). Clinicians' and managers' views and experiences of audiology and speech-language pathology service provision for culturally and linguistically diverse families of young children with hearing loss. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 65 (7), 1-18. doi: 10.1044/2022_jslhr-21-00378
Meyer, Carly, Waite, Monique, Atkins, Jenny, Ekberg, Katie, Scarinci, Nerina, Barr, Caitlin, Cowan, Robert and Hickson, Louise (2022). How can eHealth meet the hearing and communication needs of adults with hearing impairment and their significant others? A group concept mapping study. Ear and Hearing, 43 (2), 335-346. doi: 10.1097/aud.0000000000001097
Ekberg, Katie, Ekberg, Stuart, Weinglass, Lara, Herbert, Anthony, Rendle‐Short, Johanna, Bluebond‐Langner, Myra, Yates, Patsy, Bradford, Natalie and Danby, Susan (2022). Attending to child agency in paediatric palliative care consultations: adults’ use of tag questions directed to the child. Sociology of Health and Illness, 44 (3), 566-585. doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.13437
Ekberg, Stuart, Bowers, Alison, Bradford, Natalie, Ekberg, Katie, Rolfe, Melanie, Elvidge, Norah, Cook, Rebecca, Roberts, Sara‐Jane, Howard, Christine, Agar, Meera, Deleuil, Renee, Fleming, Sara, Hynson, Jenny, Jolly, Ashka, Heywood, Melissa, Waring, Simon, Rice, Toni and Vickery, Annette (2021). Enhancing paediatric palliative care: a rapid review to inform continued development of care for children with life‐limiting conditions. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 58 (2), 232-237. doi: 10.1111/jpc.15851
Ekberg, Stuart, Parry, Ruth, Land, Victoria, Ekberg, Katie, Pino, Marco, Antaki, Charles, Jenkins, Laura and Whittaker, Becky (2021). Communicating with patients and families about illness progression and end of life: a review of studies using direct observation of clinical practice. BMC Palliative Care, 20 (1) 186, 186. doi: 10.1186/s12904-021-00876-2
Ekberg, Katie, Ekberg, Stuart, Weinglass, Lara and Danby, Susan (2021). Pandemic morality-in-action: accounting for social action during the COVID-19 pandemic. Discourse and Society, 32 (6) 09579265211023232, 666-688. doi: 10.1177/09579265211023232
Ng, Zheng Yen, Waite, Monique, Hickson, Louise and Ekberg, Katie (2021). Language accessibility in allied healthcare for culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) families of young children with chronic health conditions: a qualitative systematic review. Speech, Language and Hearing, 24 (2), 50-66. doi: 10.1080/2050571x.2021.1879611
Ekberg, Katie, Timmer, Barbra, Schuetz, Simone and Hickson, Louise (2020). Use of the behaviour change wheel to design an intervention to improve the implementation of family-centred care in adult audiology services. International Journal of Audiology, 60 (sup2), 1-10. doi: 10.1080/14992027.2020.1844321
Ekberg, Katie, Weinglass, Lara, Ekberg, Stuart, Danby, Susan and Herbert, Anthony (2020). The pervasive relevance of COVID-19 within routine paediatric palliative care consultations during the pandemic: A conversation analytic study. Palliative Medicine, 34 (9), 269216320950089-1219. doi: 10.1177/0269216320950089
Turton, Laura, Souza, Pamela, Thibodeau, Linda, Hickson, Louise, Gifford, René, Bird, Judith, Stropahl, Maren, Gailey, Lorraine, Fulton, Bernadette, Scarinci, Nerina, Ekberg, Katie and Timmer, Barbra (2020). Guidelines for best practice in the audiological management of adults with severe and profound hearing loss. Seminars in Hearing, 41 (03), 141-246. doi: 10.1055/s-0040-1714744
Ekberg, Katie and Barr, Caitlin (2020). Identifying clients’ readiness for hearing rehabilitation within initial audiology appointments: a pilot intervention study. International Journal of Audiology, 59 (8), 1-9. doi: 10.1080/14992027.2020.1737885
Ekberg, Katie, Schuetz, Simone, Timmer, Barbra and Hickson, Louise (2020). Identifying barriers and facilitators to implementing family-centred care in adult audiology practices: a COM-B interview study exploring staff perspectives. International Journal of Audiology, 59 (6), 1-11. doi: 10.1080/14992027.2020.1745305
Ekberg, Katie, Meyer, Carly, Hickson, Louise and Scarinci, Nerina (2019). Parents’ questions to clinicians within paediatric hearing habilitation appointments for children with hearing impairment. Patient Education and Counseling, 103 (3), 491-499. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2019.09.015
Leydon, Geraldine M., Halls, Amy, Ekberg, Katie, Latter, Sue, Stuart, Beth, Moynihan, Clare, Salmon, Peter, Danquah, Lisa, Brindle, Lucy, Howe, Sonia, Woods, Catherine J. and Little, Paul (2019). Specialist call handlers’ perspectives on providing help on a cancer helpline: a qualitative interview study. European Journal of Cancer Care, 28 (5) e13081, e13081. doi: 10.1111/ecc.13081
Lopriore, Stefanie, LeCouteur, Amanda, Ekberg, Katie and Ekberg, Stuart (2019). “You'll have to be my eyes and ears”: a conversation analytic study of physical examination on a health helpline. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 28 (1-2), 330-339. doi: 10.1111/jocn.14638
Ekberg, Katie, Scarinci, Nerina, Hickson, Louise and Meyer, Carly (2018). Parent-directed commentaries during children's hearing habilitation appointments: a practice in family-centred care. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 53 (5), 929-946. doi: 10.1111/1460-6984.12403
Lopriore, Stefanie, LeCouteur, Amanda, Ekberg, Stuart and Ekberg, Katie (2017). Delivering healthcare at a distance: exploring the organisation of calls to a health helpline. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 104, 45-55. doi: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2017.05.001
Ekberg, Katie, Barr, Caitlin and Hickson, Louise (2017). Difficult conversations: talking about cost in audiology consultations with older adults. International Journal of Audiology, 56 (11), 854-861. doi: 10.1080/14992027.2017.1339128
Sciacca, Anna, Meyer, Carly, Ekberg, Katie, Barr, Caitlin and Hickson, Louise (2017). Exploring audiologists’ language and hearing aid uptake in initial rehabilitation appointments. American Journal of Audiology, 26 (2), 110-118. doi: 10.1044/2017_AJA-16-0061
Ekberg, Katie and Ekberg, Stuart (2017). Gendering occupations: persistence and resistance of gender presumptions about members of particular healthcare professions. Gender and Language, 11 (1), 100-120. doi: 10.1558/genl.24082
Leydon, Geraldine M., Stuart, Beth, Danquah, Lisa, Ekberg, Katie, Brindle, Lucy, Latter, Sue, Moynihan, Clare, Salmon, Peter, Howe, Sonia, Stokoe, Elizabeth and Little, Paul (2016). A descriptive survey of cancer helplines in the UK: who they are, the services offered and accessibility of those services. Psycho-Oncology, 26 (8), 1140-1146. doi: 10.1002/pon.4293
Ekberg, Katie, Hickson, Louise and Grenness, Caitlin (2016). Conversation breakdowns in the audiology clinic: the importance of mutual gaze. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 52 (3), 346-355. doi: 10.1111/1460-6984.12277
Ekberg, Katie and Reuber, Markus (2016). Can conversation analytic findings help with differential diagnosis in routine seizure clinic interactions?. Communication and Medicine, 12 (1), 13-24. doi: 10.1558/cam.v12i1.26851
Ekberg, Katie, Grenness, Caitlin and Hickson, Louise (2016). Application of the transtheoretical model of behaviour change for identifying older clients’ readiness for hearing rehabilitation during history-taking in audiology appointments. International Journal of Audiology, 55 (Supp 3), S42-S51. doi: 10.3109/14992027.2015.1136080
Grenness, Caitlin, Meyer, Carly, Scarinci, Nerina, Ekberg, Katie and Hickson, Louise (2016). The international classification of functioning, disability and health as a framework for providing patient- and family-centered audiological care for older adults and their significant others. Seminars in Hearing, 37 (3), 187-199. doi: 10.1055/s-0036-1584411.
Ekberg, Katie and LeCouteur, Amanda (2015). Clients’ resistance to therapists’ proposals: managing epistemic and deontic status. Journal of Pragmatics, 90, 12-25. doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2015.10.004
Jenkins, Laura, Cosgrove, Jeremy, Ekberg, Katie, Kheder, Ammar, Sokhi, Dilraj and Reuber, Markus (2015). A brief conversation analytic communication intervention can change history-taking in the seizure clinic. Epilepsy and Behavior, 52 (Part A), 62-67. doi: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2015.08.022
Ekberg, Katie, Meyer, Carly, Scarinci, Nerina, Grenness, Caitlin and Hickson, Louise (2015). Family member involvement in audiology appointments with older people with hearing impairment. International Journal of Audiology, 54 (2), 70-76. doi: 10.3109/14992027.2014.948218
Ekberg, Katie, Grenness, Caitlin and Hickson, Louise (2014). Addressing patients’ psychosocial concerns regarding hearing aids within audiology appointments for older adults.. American Journal of Audiology, 23 (3), 337-350. doi: 10.1044/2014_AJA-14-0011
Ekberg, Katie and LeCouteur, Amanda (2014). Co-implicating and re-shaping clients' suggestions for behavioural change in cognitive behavioural therapy practice. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 11 (1), 60-77. doi: 10.1080/14780887.2012.709917
Ekberg, Katie, Meyer, Carly, Scarinci, Nerina, Grenness, Caitlin and Hickson, Louise (2014). Disagreements between clients and family members regarding clients' hearing and rehabilitation within audiology appointments for older adults. Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders, 5 (2), 217-244. doi: 10.1558/jircd.v5i2.217
Ekberg, Katie, McDermott, Joanne, Moynihan, Clare, Brindle, Lucy, Little, Paul and Leydon, Geraldine M. (2014). The role of helplines in cancer care: intertwining emotional support with information or advice-seeking needs. Journal of Psychosocial Oncology, 32 (3), 359-381. doi: 10.1080/07347332.2014.897294
Scarinci, Nerina, Meyer, Carly, Ekberg, Katie and Hickson, Louise (2013). Using a family-centred care approach in audiologic rehabilitation for adults with hearing impairment. Perspectives on Aural Rehabilitation and its Instrumentation, 20 (3), 83-90. doi: 10.1044/arri20.3.83
Leydon, Geraldine Marie, Ekberg, Katie and Drew, Paul (2013). 'How can I help?’ Nurse call openings on a cancer helpline and implications for call progressivity.. Patient Education and Counseling, 92 (1), 23-30. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2013.02.007
Leydon, Geraldine M., Ekberg, Katie, Kelly, Moira and Drew, Paul (2013). Improving ethnic monitoring for telephone-based healthcare: a conversation analytic study. BMJ Open, 3 (6) 002676, 1-7. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2013-002676
Ekberg, Katie and Le Couteur, Amanda (2012). Negotiating behavioural change: therapists' proposal turns in cognitive behavioural therapy. Communication and Medicine, 9 (3), 229-239. doi: 10.1558/cam.v9i3.229
Simmons, Katie and LeCouteur, Amanda (2011). 'Hypothetical active-voicing': therapists 'modelling' of clients' future conversations in CBT interactions. Journal of Pragmatics, 43 (13), 3177-3192. doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2011.06.002
Simmons, Katie and Lecouteur, Amanda (2008). Modern racism in the media: constructions of 'the possibility of change' in accounts of two Australian 'riots'. Discourse and Society, 19 (5), 667-687. doi: 10.1177/0957926508092248
Conference Papers
Hickson, Louise, Scarinci, Nerina, Meyer, Carly, Ekberg, Katie and Grenness, Caitlin (2015). How to Implement Patient- and Family-Centered Care in your Audiologic Rehabilitation Practice. American Academy of Audiology, San Antonio, TX, United States, 25-28 March 2015.
Meyer, Carly, Sciacca, Anna, Grenness, Caitlin, Ekberg, Katie and Hickson, Louise (2015). Does Audiologists’ Language Influence the Decision to Obtain Hearing Aids?. American Academy of Audiology, San Antonio, TX, United States, 25-28 March 2015.
Ekberg, Katie and Ekberg, Stuart (2014). Gendering occupations: persistence and resistance of gender presumptions about members of healthcare professions. Australasian Institute of Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis (AIEMCA), Hamilton, New Zealand, 20-21 November 2014.