Elliott Hoey

Elliott Hoey is an Assistant Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Language and Communication Group within the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities. He holds a PhD from Radboud University Nijmegen (2017) and conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Basel and Loughborough University. His research focuses on Conversation Analysis to study human sociality, covering settings like palliative care, construction work, and children's education. Key areas include conversational openings, grammatical constructions, and phenomena like sighing and silence.

Hoey has authored a monograph on conversation lapses (When Conversation Lapses, 2020) and co-edited an encyclopedic work on Conversation Analysis terminology. In 2023, he received the Best Paper Award from the International Society for Conversation Analysis for his work on sniffing in conversation. He leads an NWO-funded project on recording disputes between police and bystanders, and currently supervises two PhD students.

His research outputs span articles and book chapters, emphasizing open data practices and critical analyses of inequality in talk. Hoey teaches courses in communication studies and coordinates thesis supervision for undergraduate and graduate students.