Rate My Professor Marine Riou

Riou's research focuses on spontaneous and institutional spoken interactions, employing conversation analysis, interactional linguistics, corpus linguistics, pragmatics, and prosody, particularly at the interface of linguistics and medicine. At PRECRU, she worked on the NHMRC-funded project "Improving ambulance dispatch to time-critical emergencies," examining the content and structure of emergency calls to identify interactional factors enhancing dispatch for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients. Notable publications from this research include: “ ‘Tell me exactly what’s happened’: When linguistic choices affect the efficiency of emergency calls for cardiac arrest” (Resuscitation, 2017); “ ‘She’s sort of breathing’: What linguistic factors determine call-taker recognition of agonal breathing in emergency calls for cardiac arrest?” (Resuscitation, 2018); “Hijacking the dispatch protocol: When callers pre-empt their reason-for-the-call in emergency calls about cardiac arrest” (Discourse Studies, 2018); “ ‘We’re going to do CPR’: A linguistic study of the words used to initiate dispatcher-assisted CPR...” (Resuscitation, 2018); “ ‘I think he’s dead’: A cohort study...” (Resuscitation, 2021); “Caller resistance to perform cardio-pulmonary resuscitation...” (Social Science & Medicine, 2020); and recent contributions like “Language barriers in emergency ambulance calls for cardiac arrest...” (Social Science & Medicine, 2025). She won the best poster award at the European Emergency Medical Congress in Copenhagen (2017) alongside PRECRU colleagues.