Seongsook Choi

Dr. Seongsook Choi is a Senior Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Studies at the Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh. Their work focuses on interdisciplinary learning, teaching, and discourse analysis. They lead the Interactional Discourse Lab (IDLab), developing tools for mapping spoken interaction patterns in interdisciplinary contexts. Current research includes a forthcoming book, Interdisciplinary Discourse: Communicating across Disciplines (Palgrave Macmillan), and computational analysis of academic collaboration dynamics.

Education & Affiliations: Affiliated with the Institute for Education, Community & Society (IECS) and the Centre for Research in Digital Education. Office SJL4.01 at Holyrood Campus, Edinburgh (EH8 8AQ).

Research Interests: Interdisciplinary pedagogy, spoken discourse analysis, disciplinary identity dynamics, and collaborative knowledge construction. Specializes in analyzing interactional discourse in higher education through tools like the IDLab, which visualizes communication patterns in interdisciplinary teams.

Student Supervision: Currently guiding 5 PhD students exploring topics like hedging devices in language education, interdisciplinary ethics, and automated feedback systems. Past student Ana Isabel Hibert researched automated writing evaluation tools for ESL learners.

Labs & Projects: Founder of the Interactional Discourse Lab (GitHub-hosted), focusing on open-source tools for mapping academic collaboration. Active in developing visualisation frameworks for interdisciplinary dialogue analysis.