Elliott M. Hoey

Elliott M. Hoey serves as an Assistant Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam within the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, holding dual appointments in the Language and Communication Group and the Network Institute. His research examines the real-time production of human sociality through Conversation Analysis across diverse institutional settings.

His academic training includes a PhD from Radboud University Nijmegen (2017) conducted jointly with the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, followed by postdoctoral research at the University of Basel (2018-2020) under an NWO Rubicon grant and a Fulbright Scholarship at Loughborough University (2021).

Hoey's research spans palliative care, construction sites, and educational contexts, investigating phenomena like conversational openings, grammatical constructions, and non-verbal behaviors including sighing, drinking, and silence. His influential monograph When Conversation Lapses: The Public Accountability of Silent Copresence (Oxford University Press, 2020) established him as a leading scholar in interactional research. He actively promotes methodological innovation through co-editing The Encyclopedia of Terminology for Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics.

Recent publications reveal a trajectory toward applying Conversation Analysis to critical societal issues including language discrimination, science communication, and end-of-life discussions, while championing open data practices in interactional research.

His scientific recognition includes:

• Best Paper Award from the International Society for Conversation Analysis (2023)
• NWO Open Competition XS Grant for "Recording under scrutiny" project (2023)
• Starters en stimuleringsbeurzen grant (2024)

Hoey actively mentors emerging scholars through supervision of two PhD candidates and coordination of numerous BA/MA theses in Communication and Information Studies. His NWO-funded project "Recording under scrutiny" investigates police-bystander interactions regarding recording devices, demonstrating his commitment to translating Conversation Analysis into institutional practice.

He leads the "Recording under scrutiny" project in collaboration with Uwe-Alexander Küttner at the Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, contributing to the growing field of interactional research on institutional encounters while maintaining active engagement with public discourse through media contributions like "De stilte spreekt ook" (2023).