Rate My Professor Marine Riou

Dr Marine Riou serves as an Adjunct Research Fellow in the Prehospital, Resuscitation and Emergency Care Research Unit (PRECRU) in the Curtin School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences at Curtin University. She earned her PhD in English Linguistics from Sorbonne Nouvelle University and Paris Diderot University in 2015, with a doctoral thesis entitled "The grammar of topic transition in American English conversation: Topic transition design and management in typical and atypical conversations (schizophrenia)." Her academic journey includes a Master 2 in research linguistics (2011), Agrégation externe d’anglais (2010), and earlier degrees from Sorbonne Nouvelle. Following her PhD, Riou held a postdoctoral position at Curtin University from 2016 to 2017 and worked as an ATER in Applied Foreign Languages at Sorbonne Nouvelle from 2014 to 2016. Since 2018, she has been Maîtresse de conférences (Associate Professor) in English Linguistics at Université Lumière Lyon 2, where she is also a junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France (2022-2027) and maintains her associate membership in PRECRU.

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.