Professor Elizabeth Stokoe

Elizabeth Stokoe is Professor of Social Interaction in the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University, UK. She analyses the science of talk using conversation analysis, in settings including first dates, police interrogations, sales calls, and initial inquiries to services including mediation and doctors’ surgeries. She teaches on the BSc Social Psychology programme at Loughborough. Outside the university, she runs workshops with mediators, doctors, police and other professionals using her research-based communication training method called the “Conversation Analytic Role-play Method”. She has lectured at the Royal Institution and at TEDx, and her research and biography was the subject of BBC Radio 4’s The Life Scientific.