I am a lecturer in the Department of English, University of Turku. My research aims to discover how human social conduct is organized, coherent and meaningful. I use the methods of conversation analysis to examine video recorded naturally occurring interactions between people coming together to do work in educational settings, focusing on how they create and maintain social and professional relationships in those contexts. My research spans various datasets, including English-medium instruction classrooms, ESL tutoring sessions, and robot-assisted language learning settings. I am currently investigating how social robots, as language learning companions for children might transform educational practices in Swedish-speaking primary schools in Finland.