Wes Sharrock

Plenary Address: Thursday, July 13 – 11:00am

Professor W. Wesley (Wes) Sharrock of The University of Manchester has supervised 54 Ph.D. students, authored 16 books (at last count), and co-produced by force of his scholarship and presence a major site of ethnomethodological and natural language studies at The University of Manchester over the last 50 years. He received a lifetime achievement award from the American Sociological Association in 2011, and has written critically on moral philosophy, cognitive science, computational science, workplace studies, research methodology, interactionism, pragmatics, and social psychology. His latest book (2016), with Richard Harper and Dave Randall, is Choice: The sciences of reason in the 21st Century.