{"id":792,"date":"2021-08-30T19:55:03","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T19:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/nickellis-new\/?page_id=792"},"modified":"2025-10-31T20:31:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T20:31:30","slug":"bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/nickellis\/bio\/","title":{"rendered":"Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Education<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

University of Oxford<\/a>
1974  B.A.  P.P.P. (Psychology & Physiology) Corpus Christi College<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

University College of North Wales<\/a>
1978  Ph.D.  Cognitive Psychology<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professional Employment<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
1976-1991<\/td>Tutor (Part-time), Open University<\/td><\/tr>
1978-1990<\/td>Lecturer in Psychology<\/a>, University College of North Wales<\/td><\/tr>
1990-1994 <\/td>Senior Lecturer in Psychology<\/a>, U.C.N.W<\/td><\/tr>
1992<\/td>Visiting Professor, Temple University Japan<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
1994-1998<\/td>University Reader in Psychology<\/a>, U.C.N.W.<\/td><\/tr>
1998-2004<\/td>Professor of Psychology<\/a>, University of Wales Bangor<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
1998-2002<\/td>Editor, Language Learning<\/em><\/a><\/td><\/tr>
2003<\/td>Visiting Professor, Applied Language Studies and Linguistics,  University of Auckland<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
2004- <\/td>Professor of Psychology<\/a>, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor<\/td><\/tr>
2004- <\/td>Research Scientist English Language Institute<\/a>, University of Michigan<\/td><\/tr>
2004- <\/td>Honorary Research Fellow, School of Psychology University of Wales Bangor<\/td><\/tr>
2006-2020<\/td>General Editor, Language Learning<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
2008- <\/td>Associate Faculty, Center for the Study of Complex Systems<\/a>, University of Michigan<\/td><\/tr>
2009-<\/td>Professor of Linguistics<\/a>, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor<\/td><\/tr>
2011<\/td>Visiting Researcher, ESRC Centre for Research on Bilingualism<\/a>, Bangor University [Feb-Mar]<\/td><\/tr>
2014<\/td>Distinguished Visiting Lecturer, Temple University Japan<\/a> [Jun]<\/td><\/tr>
2019<\/td>Distinguished Visiting Lecturer, Temple University Japan<\/a> [Jul]<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Distinctions, Awards and Honors<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
1989-2019<\/td>Chartered Psychologist<\/td><\/tr>
1989-2019<\/td>Associate Fellow, British Psychological Society<\/td><\/tr>
2004 <\/td>Honorary Research Fellow, University of Wales Bangor<\/td><\/tr>
2011<\/td>External Senior Fellowship, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies<\/td><\/tr>
2012 <\/td>Ian Gordon Fellowship, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand<\/td><\/tr>
2012 <\/td>Fellowship of the Association for Psychological Science<\/td><\/tr>
2013, 2025<\/td>Faculty, Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute<\/td><\/tr>
2016 <\/td>International Chair, Labex \u00e0 Paris: Empirical Foundations of Linguistics<\/td><\/tr>
2019 <\/td>Distinguished Scholarship and Service Award<\/em>, American Association of Applied Linguistics<\/td><\/tr>
2023, 2024, 2025<\/td>Research.com – Social Sciences and Humanities in United States Leader Award<\/a><\/em><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Bio collations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Encyclopedia entry (2013)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

TopSciNet Profile (World’s Top 2% Scientists Network)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

AD Scientific Index<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Google Scholar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professional Affiliations<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Association for Psychological Science<\/td><\/tr>
American Association for Applied Linguistics<\/td><\/tr>
British Psychological Society<\/td><\/tr>
The Experimental Psychology Society<\/td><\/tr>
International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA)<\/td><\/tr>
Cognitive Science Society<\/td><\/tr>
International Society for the Linguistics of English<\/td><\/tr>
The Psychonomic Society<\/td><\/tr>
British Association of Applied Linguistics<\/td><\/tr>
The European Second Language Association (EuroSLA)<\/td><\/tr>
Society for the Scientific Study of Reading<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Coauthors and Collaborators<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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I’m grateful to my collaborators and coauthors,
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Key Influences<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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and to these scholars, and many more, for their ideas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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And these tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And such as it is to be of these more or less I am,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And of these one and all I weave the song of myself.<\/p>\nWalt Whitman Section 15, Song of Myself<\/em>
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Education University of Oxford1974  B.A.  P.P.P. (Psychology & Physiology) Corpus Christi College University College of North Wales1978  Ph.D.  Cognitive Psychology Professional Employment 1976-1991 Tutor (Part-time), Open University 1978-1990 Lecturer in Psychology, University College of North Wales 1990-1994  Senior Lecturer in Psychology, U.C.N.W 1992 Visiting Professor, Temple University Japan 1994-1998 University Reader in Psychology, U.C.N.W. 1998-2004 Professor of Psychology, University… Continue reading Bio<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1367,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-792","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/nickellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/nickellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/nickellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/nickellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/nickellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/nickellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1442,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/nickellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/792\/revisions\/1442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/nickellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}