Dr Nicholas Glasson

Dr Nicholas Glasson

Senior Research Manager

Nick is currently a Senior Research Manager at Cambridge University Press & Assessment. He has an M.Ed. in Applied Linguistics from the Open University and a PhD in Language Assessment with the Centre for Research in English Language Learning and Assessment, University of Bedfordshire. His thesis, focused on interactional competence, was the winner of the 2025 Jacqueline Ross TOEFL Dissertation Award. This award recognises doctoral dissertation research that makes a significant and original contribution to knowledge about assessment. His first published paper entitled Is the devil you know better? Testwiseness and eliciting evidence of interactional competence in familiar versus unfamiliar triadic speaking tasks was also one of the four finalists for the SiLA Best Paper Award 2022-2023. This award aims to recognise language testing and assessment articles that make a significant contribution to the professional field.

Nick’s work has been published in Classroom Discourse, Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, Language Assessment Quarterly and Assessing Writing and he is a peer reviewer for several journals including Applied Linguistics, Language Assessment Quarterly, Language Learning and Language and Education. He has presented at several conferences including the Language Testing Research Colloquium (LTRC), Language Testing Forum (LTF) and the British Association of Applied Linguists Testing, Evaluation and Assessment conferences.