Elizabeth Stokoe is Professor of Social Interaction in the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University. She has published extensively on communication in the workplace and other settings. Her work has been recognised by the British Psychological Society (with an inaugural mid-career prize for her contribution to social psychology) and she won a social enterprise award for the development of CARM. She has spoken at the Royal Institution, delivered a TEDx lecture and her research and biography was the subject of BBC Radio 4's 'The Life Scientific'.