Elizabeth Stokoe Ph.D., CPsychol, HonFBPsS

Elizabeth Stokoe, Ph.D., CPsychol, HonFBPsS, is a professor in the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Sciences at the London School of Economics and Political Science, U.K. She joined LSE in January 2023, after being a professor of social interaction at Loughborough University, U.K. (2002-2022).

She is a psychologist and conversation analyst, and her research focuses on how talk works—from first dates to medical communication; from police interviews to sales encounters, and from mediation to suicide crisis negotiation. She has been an associate editor of the British Journal of Social Psychology and co-editor of Gender and Language. In addition to more than 150 scientific papers and chapters, her book, Talk: The Science of Conversation, was published by Little, Brown (in 2018), and her co-authored book, Crisis Talk: Negotiating with Individuals in Crisis was published in 2022. She has worked as an industry fellow at Typeformand at Deployed.

In addition to academic publishing, she is passionate about science communication, and has given talks at TED, New Scientist, Google, Microsoft, and The Royal Institution, and performed at Latitude and Cheltenham Science Festivals. Her research and biography were featured on BBC Radio 4’s The Life Scientific. During the Covid-19 pandemic she has participated in a behavioural science sub-group of the UK Government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) and is a member of Independent SAGE behaviour group. She is a Wired Innovation Fellow and in 2021 was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the British Psychological Society.