Journal Articles: 

Au-Yeung. T.S.H. and Smith, R.J., (Expected 2025). “Someone had a gun. The officer pulled the trigger: (Re)Constructing a Good Police Shooting Through Video.” Discourse, Context, and Media. 

Figure showing keyframes of the body worn video shown in the police’s video account.
Figure showing a horizontal transcript of the transition between the bodyworn angle and the CCTV angle.

Smith, R. J. (2025). Categorizational Asymmetries in Context: Producing and Resisting Policeable Scenes. Symbolic Interaction, Online First, https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.1246

Book Chapters: 

Au-Yeung, T.S.H. (Expected 2026). “Video Reflexive Ethnography”. In B.R. Hama, J. Lester, and F. Williamson (Eds.), The Handbook of Qualitative Research Methods in Psychology. (Eds.) Edward Elgar.

Au-Yeung, T.S.H., Smith, R.J., (Expected 2026). “‘The video does look concerning, but it is only a snapshot’: Temporal orders in public accusations and counteraccusations of [racist] police conduct.” In E. Richardson and L. Jenkins (Eds.), Analysing Conversations in Forensic Settings. Palgrave Macmillan.

Smith, R.J. (Forthcoming) “Going non-categorial: the work of technically-accurate-category-neutral descriptions in responding to accusations” in Fitzgerald, R., Housley, W., Smith, R.J. Au-Yeung, T. (eds.) NewDirections in Membership Categorisation Analysis. Brill Publishers.

Au-Yeung, T.S.H., & Fitzgerald, R. (Forthcoming). “Speaking to the crowd, Speaking on Behalf of the Crowd, or something else?” In W. Housley, R. Fitzgerald, R.J. Smith, and T.S.H. Au-Yeung (Eds.), New Directions in Membership Categorisation Analysis. Brill. 

Conference presentations

Smith, R. J., & Au-Yeung, T. S. (2023). Membership Categorisation Practices and Gestalt Contexture: Describing the Practical Assembly of Context and Collectivity. ASA EMCA Section 2023 Fall Webinar, Online.