Nick Glasson

Dr Nick Glasson is a Senior Research Manager at Cambridge University Press & Assessment, specialising in language assessment and interactional competence. He completed his PhD at the University of Bedfordshire, where his doctoral research received the 2025 TOEFL Jacqueline Ross Dissertation Award. His work has been published in leading assessment journals, and he is an active conference presenter and reviewer for several international journals in applied linguistics and language assessment.

Glasson, N. (2026). The Challenge of Interaction: Bridging Psycholinguistic Modelling and Interactional Competence in Language Assessment. Language Assessment Quarterly, 23(1), 69–88. https://doi.org/10.1080/15434303.2025.2612621

Nick explores how speaking tests can better reflect the mental processes involved in real-world conversation, particularly the interactive nature of dialogue. He proposes combining insights from psycholinguistics, conversation analysis, and cognitive modelling to better understand how people predict, comprehend, and produce language during turn-taking.