Staff profile

My first degree was in Linguistics at Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, and I completed MA and PhD in Applied Linguistics at University of East Anglia. Having worked as teaching associate in Japanese at the School of East Asian Studies at the University of Sheffield, I joined Durham University in 2021 and currently teach Japanese modules in the BA Japanese Studies programme. I convene Japanese Language 1A/2B (JPNS1062/2012). I also hold Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy.

My research explores the interconnection between linguistics and health communication, with an emphasis on Japanese public health and clinical discourses. My research interests include the analysis of discourses on patient narratives, health inclusivity and accessibility, clinical empathy, person-centred communication in health and social care, neurodiversity, and public health messaging. My approach is grounded in sociolinguistics, ethnography, pragmatic functions, and qualitative methodologies. My work has been published as a monograph, Patient-centred Communication: Discourse of In-home Medical Consultations for Older Adults (Multilingual Matters) in the Language at Work series. I am also co-editor of Pandemic and Crisis Discourse: Communicating COVID-19 and Public Health Strategy (Bloomsbury).

I am currently working on a new book project and co-editing volumes, Healthcare, Language and Inclusivity (Routledge). My research examines media discourses of health with a particular focus on autism and autistic voices in the UK and Japan. Additionally, I am also working on a research project on goal setting in Japanese language teaching in the UK higher education context.

• Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Health discourses
• Japanese Language and Linguistics
• Learning Disabilities
• Medical Humanities
• Neurodiversity
• Patient narratives
• Person-centred communication

Authored book

• Kondo, K. (2022). Patient-centred Communication: Discourse of In-home Medical Consultations for Older Adults. Multilingual Matters. https://doi.org/10.21832/kondo5881

Chapter in book

• Kondo, K. (2022). Doctors' empathy and compassion in online health consultations during the Covid-19 pandemic in Japan. In A. Musolff, R. Breeze, K. Kondo, & S. Vilar-Lluch (Eds.), Pandemic and Crisis Discourse: Communicating COVID-19 and Public Health Strategy (411-430). Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350232730.ch-023
• Musolff, A., Breeze, R., Kondo, K., & Vilar-Lluch, S. (2022). Introduction: From declarations of war to denial to explanations: How global publics have coped with the Covid-19 pandemic. In A. Musolff, R. Breeze, K. Kondo, & S. Vilar-Lluch (Eds.), Pandemic and Crisis Discourse (1-10). Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350232730.ch-00i

Edited book

• Musolff, A., Breeze, R., Kondo, K., & Vilar-Lluch, S. (Eds.). (2022). Pandemic and Crisis Discourse: Communicating COVID-19 and Public Health Strategy. Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350232730

Journal Article

• Fujikawa, H., Hayashi, M., Son, D., Kondo, K., & Eto, M. (2024). Translating, adapting, and validating the medical student version of the patient care ownership scale for use in Japan. BMC Medical Education, 24(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-024-05704-8
• Fujikawa, H., Son, D., Hayashi, M., Kondo, K., & Eto, M. (2023). Translation, adaptation, and validation of the Tolerance of Ambiguity in Medical Students and Doctors (TAMSAD) scale for use in Japan. BMC Medical Education, 23, Article 405. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-023-04391-1
• Fujikawa, H., Son, D., Aoki, T., Kondo, K., Takemura, Y., Saito, M., …Eto, M. (2022). Translating and validating a Japanese version of the instrument for patient assessment of medical professionalism (J-IPAMP): a cross-sectional survey. BMC Medical Education, 22, Article 641. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-022-03699-8
• Fujikawa, H., Son, D., Kondo, K., Djulbegovic, M., Takemura, Y., & Eto, M. (2021). Translating and validating a Japanese version of the Patient Care Ownership Scale: a multicenter cross-sectional study. BMC Medical Education, 21, Article 415. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-021-02853-y
• Kondo, K. (2019). Clinical empathy in medical consultations in Japan: An exploration of the medical education context

Other (Digital/Visual Media)

• Kondo, K. (2022). The 'Face' Notion and Patient-centred Communication. [Channel View Publications and Multilingual Matters' Blog, 1 September 2022]

Presentation

• Kondo, K. (2020, December). A discourse-pragmatic analysis of shared decision-making in physician consultations with older patients. Paper presented at The 18th Communication, Medicine and Ethics Conference (COMET), Aalborg University, Denmark
• Kondo, K. (2019, December). Communicating with older patients in Japan: The role of physician and family in medical decision-making. Paper presented at The 16th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA), Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR
• Kondo, K. (2018, December). Exploring Older Patient-Physician Interaction and Patient-Centredness in Japan. Paper presented at The 8th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice (ALAPP), Cardiff University, Wales, UK