Staff profile

Kayo's first degree was in linguistics at Tokyo Woman's Christian University, and she completed her MA and PhD in applied linguistics at University of East Anglia. Having worked as a teaching associate in Japanese at the School of East Asian Studies at University of Sheffield, she joined Durham University in 2021 and currently teaches Japanese language modules in the Japanese Studies degree programme. Her research primarily centres on qualitative research into aspects of patient-/person-centred care and communication in health and social care settings, interactions between patients and professionals, clinical empathy, linguistic ethnography, face and linguistic politeness theory, and Japanese language and linguistics. Currently, she looks at contexts of rehabilitation for adults living with learning disabilities and/or autism spectrum.

• Japanese language and linguistics
• face and politeness theory
• patient-health provider communication
• qualitative design for health communication
• dementia communication

Authored book

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

Chapter in book

• Kondo, K. (2022). Doctors' empathy and compassion in online health consultations during the Covid-19 pandemic in Japan. In Pandemic and Crisis Discourse: Communicating COVID-19 and Public Health Strategy. Musolff, A., Breeze, R., Kondo, K. & Vilar-Lluch, S. Bloomsbury Academic. 411-430.

Edited book

• Musolff, A., Breeze, R., Kondo, K. & Vilar-Lluch, S. (2022). Pandemic and Crisis Discourse: Communicating COVID-19 and Public Health Strategy. Bloomsbury Academic.

Journal Article

• Fujikawa, H., Son, D., Aoki, T., Kondo, K., Takemura, Y., Saito, M., Den, N. & 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: 641.
• 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 21:415.
• Kondo, K. (2019). Clinical empathy in medical consultations in Japan: An exploration of the medical education context. Papers in Language and Communication Studies 2(3): 46–64.

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