Professor Neil Mercer

My research interests include the role of spoken language in the development of children's reasoning and learning, methodologies for the analysis of classroom talk, language genres as cultural and psychological tools and the educational implications of language variation. In 2019 I was given the Oeuvre Award for outstanding contributions to educational research by the European Association for Research into Learning and Instruction. In 2021, I was the recipient of the John Nisbet Award from the British Educational Research Association in recognition of outstanding contributions to educational research.