Rate My Professor Maria Stubbe

Stubbe, a social scientist and applied sociolinguist, specializes in qualitative and mixed-methods research on interactional sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, pragmatics, and health communication. Her work examines real-life primary health care interactions using conversation analysis, including patient-professional consultations, pain displays, interpreter use, culturally diverse patients, and challenging discussions on topics like obesity, diabetes, mental health, respiratory illness, and immunisation. She contributed to establishing the New Zealand Language in the Workplace Project and the Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English. Notable publications include the book Power and Politeness in the Workplace: A sociolinguistic analysis of talk at work (2nd ed., 2015), 'How to use interpreters in general practice: the development of a New Zealand toolkit' (2012), 'Are research ethics guidelines culturally competent?' (2017), 'The multimodality and temporality of pain displays' (2021), and 'Enhancing effective healthcare communication in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand: Considerations for research, teaching, policy, and practice' (2023). With over 5,700 citations on Google Scholar, her research impacts health services evaluation, intercultural care, and health equity. Stubbe presented her Inaugural Professorial Lecture, 'Talk that Works', in April 2025. Her collaborative efforts on interpreter services earned recognition in the 2021 New Zealand Primary Healthcare Awards.