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Dr. Sally Candlin, Senior Advisor (2015 - 2025)

Sally Candlin was a highly respected scholar in professional and healthcare communication, with an international reputation for her work on nurse–patient interaction, professional identity, and discourse in institutional settings. She held honorary and adjunct positions at universities in Australia and Asia and taught extensively at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Sally published widely, and her books, chapters, and journal articles have had a lasting influence in applied linguistics, nursing, and health studies, forming the basis of curricula in many institutions worldwide. She served as an editor and reviewer for numerous scholarly publications. Sally Candlin died on 9 December 2025.

Books

Book chapters

  • O’Grady, C., Patel, B., Candlin, S., Candlin, C. N., Peiris, D., & Usherwood, T. (2016). 'It's just statistics ... I'm kind of a glass half-full sort of guy': The challenge of differing doctor-patient perspectives in the context of electronically-mediated cardiovascular risk management. In J, Crichton, C. Candlin, & A. S. Firkins (Eds.). Communicating risk. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Candlin, S. (2014) The identities of nurses and patients: Spatial and temporal effects. In C. N. Candlin & S. Sarangi, (Eds.), A handbook of communication in professions and organizations (pp. 551-570). Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter Mouton. (Invited chapter)
  • Candlin, S., & Candlin, C. (2014). Presencing in the context of enhancing patient well-being in nursing care. In H. Hamilton & W-Y. S. Chou (Eds), The Routledge handbook of language and health communication (pp. 259-278). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
  • Candlin, S. (2010). 'We're just going to be talking about you...': Identifying deficits and achieving quality in nurse patient discourse. In C. N. Candlin & J. Crichton (Eds.), Discourses of deficit (pp. 119-136). Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Candlin, S., & Candlin, C.N. (2007). Nursing through time and space: Some challenges to the construct of community of practice. In R. Iedema (Ed.), The discourse of hospital communication: Tracing complexities in contemporary health care organizations (pp. 244-267). Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Candlin, S. (2006). Constructing knowledge, understanding, and meaning between patients and nurses. In M. Gotti & F. Salager-Meyer (Eds.), Advances in Medical Discourse analysis (pp. 65-86). Peter Lang. (invited chapter)
  • Candlin, C. N., and S. Candlin (2003). Health care communication: A problematic site for applied linguistics research. In M. McGroarty et al. (Eds.), Annual Review of Applied Linguistics: Vol. 23. Language Contact and Change (pp. 134–154). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. (Invited chapter)
  • Candlin, S. (2000). New dynamics in the nurse-patient relationship? In M. Coulthard and S. Sarangi (Eds.), Discourse and Social Life (pp 230-245). Harlow, UK: Longman/Pearson education. (Invited chapter)
  • Candlin, S (2002). A triple jeopardy: What can discourse analysts offer health professionals? In C. N. Candlin (Ed), Research and practice in professional discourse (pp. 293-308). City University of Hong Kong Press.

Journal articles

  • Candlin, C. N., & Candlin, S. (2002). Discourse, expertise, and the management of risk in health care settings. (Guest Editors) Research on Language and Social Interaction, 35(2), 115 -138. [Special Issue: Expert talk and risk in health care]
  • Candlin, S. (2002). Taking risks. An indicator of expertise?. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 35(2), 173 -194.
  • Candlin, S. (2003), Issues arising when the professional workplace is the site of applied linguistic research. In S. Sarangi and C. N. Candlin (Eds.) Researching and reporting the discourses of workplace practices: Reflexivity in action. Applied Linguistics, special issue, 24(3), 386-394.​