ACS - Cindy Gallois- FNT

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Ellen Wartella

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ICA presents

Ellen Wartella

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Hello, I'm Ellen Wartella and welcome to this episode of the Architects of Communication Scholarship podcast series, a production of the ICA Podcast Network. Today, our architect is Cindy Gallois. Cindy Gallois is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Queensland. She served as Executive Dean of the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, and was Associate Dean from 2003 to 2007. Professor Gallois was Founding Director of the Center for Social Research and Communication after finishing her term as President of the University of Queensland's academic board. Her research focuses on intergroup language and communication, especially in health, organizational and intercultural contexts. She has published more than 200 articles, chapters and books on these topics, as well as supervising more than 40 doctoral students in psychology, health, communication, and related disciplines. Over the past 20 years, she has contributed to the development and extension of Communication Accommodation Theory, the leading theory of intergroup communication. Today our architect is going to be interviewed by Bernadette Watson, a professor of intergroup health communication at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. And here is Bernadette Watson.

Bernadette Watson

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Hello, everyone. My name is Bernadette Watson. I am thrilled to be involved in this ICA initiative called Architects of Communication Scholarship. It is my great pleasure to introduce and interview Emeritus Professor Cindy Gallois, who was my PhD advisor, and has been my mentor for over 20 years. Professor Cindy Gallois has achieved so much during her academic career. She has the gift of bringing language, theory and psychology to life. And this ability has meant she's been very important to so many current scholars. Professor Gallois is a recipient of numerous prestigious awards, including but not limited to, the fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, a fellow of the Society of Experimental Social Psychologists USA, Charter Fellow International Academy of Intercultural Relations USA, Fellow of the International Communication Association ICA, fellow of the International Association of Language and Social Psychology, and a recipient of the John Turner medal from the Society of Australasian Social Psychologists. And most recently, she was the recipient of the Robert C Gardner Award for Outstanding Scholar in Bilingualism for the International Association of Language and Social Psychology. So without any further ado, welcome Professor Cindy Gallois.

Cindy Gallois

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Thank you. And my goodness, what an introduction.

Bernadette Watson

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Well deserved, Cindy. So I'd like you to tell me a little bit about how you became involved in communication and psychology starting from your early college life.

Cindy Gallois

02:58

In my very early days, I was two things at once. On the one hand, I was a language student. I was bilingual in French and English, so I was very interested in the study of language and in the study of linguistics, But I actually wanted to be a doctor as well, like so many people around the place. We all ended up in our fields by falling away from a desire to be a doctor. And I developed much more of an interest in psychology, and in fact, the communication part of psychology, social psychology. So that by the time I finished university, I knew that I wanted to be a psychologist. And by the time I went back to do my PhD, after a few years away in Europe, teaching language, I had decided that I wanted to do social psychology of communication. And it didn't take very long after I met my PhD supervisor, and after I started my PhD at the University of Florida, to figure out that what I really wanted to do was was intergroup communication, look at the way that communication creates rivalry and conflict or alternatively friendship and liking.

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