Laboratory of Phenomenology, Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis of social Clusivity (Lab-FEACC, in Portuguese), our international team (Portugal, Brazil and France) has innovated and continues to innovate in research and training in Social Work.

The first innovation, at the beginning of the team, consisted of introducing Conversation Analysis into research in Social Work. This was a theoretical and methodological innovation. With its first project, called ACASS (Conversation Analysis Applied to Social Work), in 2007, the first corpus of audio recordings of professional practices in Social Work and Social Intervention was collected, which served as an empirical basis for several doctoral theses, master’s dissertations, chapters in books, and conference papers. This was the first corpus of recordings of professional practices in the history of Social Work research in Portugal.

The team later innovated by collecting a corpus of video recordings, which allowed the development of multimodal conversation analysis.

The adoption of the self-confront interview methodology was a new paradigm shift, which allowed the team to move from classical conversation analysis to conversational co-analysis through self-confront interview, a paradigmatic shift reinforced by interview techniques derived from the psychophenomenological interview.

The Lab-FEACC is, therefore, a laboratory for methodological experimentation and methodological innovation in the field of conversation analysis of the professional practices and knowledge of social workers.

Today, the Lab-FEACC runs Methodography Workshops, which provide innovative training support to master’s and doctoral students in Social Work.

An internationally sought-after training space in conversation analysis, Lab-FEACC is the only team in Portugal, in the field of social sciences, that carries out research based on conversation analysis. It is the only team of conversation analysts specializing in Social Work in the Portuguese-speaking and French-speaking scientific communities. It is the only team of conversation analysts that has transitioned from conversation analysis to conversation co-analysis, using an innovative device that combines the self-confrontation interview and the psychophenomenological interview.

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