Dirk vom Lehn

Dirk vom Lehn is Reader in Organisational Sociology and a member of Public Services Management & Organisation (PSMO). His research is primarily concerned with people’s experience of exhibits and exhibitions in museums and with occupational practice of optometrists. It draws on ethnomethodology and conversation analysis (EMCA) as well as on recent developments in the analysis of video-recordings.

Dirk currently works on a project titled “Citizen Heritage” funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC) and directed by Professor Hannah Lewi at the University of Melbourne. He also pursues an interest in the development of ethnomethodology and its relationship to phenomenology.

Dirk has published in international journals in sociology and marketing, including Sociology, Research on Language and Social Interaction, the International Journal of Research in Marketing, and the Journal of Marketing Management. He has recently published a book on Harold Garfinkel (Routledge) and a Special Issue on Phenomenology-based Ethnography in the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography.

Publications

• Verstehen 09 September 2019
• The Routledge International Handbook of New Digital Practices in Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums and Heritage Sites 18 November 2019
• Making Space for Art: A Spatial Perspective of Disruptive and Defensive Institutional Work in Venezuela's Art World 01 January 2019
• Seeing as accountable action: The interactional accomplishment of sensorial work 01 January 2020
• From Garfinkel's 'Experiments in Miniature' to the Ethnomethodological Analysis of Interaction 01 September 2019
• Kleines Al(e)phabet des Kommunikativen Konstruktivismus: Fundus Omnium Communicativum - Hubert Knoblauch zum 60. Geburtstag 01 March 2019
• Museum drama and interaction order "sui generis": Works of art as hubs for co-orientation 23 March 2016
• Probing the art/science binary: Notes on the experimental achievement of shared perception 11 July 2018
• Review of: Thomas S. Eberle (Hrsg.) (2017). Fotografie und Gesellschaft. Phänomenologische und wissenssoziologische Perspektiven. Bielefeld: transcript 01 September 2018
• Ethnomethodologische Interaktionsanalyse: Videodaten analysieren und die Organisation von Handlungen darstellen 15 August 2018