Nick Saville

Dr Nick Saville is Director of Research & Thought Leadership at Cambridge Assessment English (University of Cambridge), and is the Secretary-General of the Association of Language Testers in Europe (ALTE). He regularly presents at international conferences and publishes on issues related to language assessment. His research interests include assessment and learning in the digital age; the use of ethical AI; language policy and multilingualism; the CEFR; and Learning Oriented Assessment. Nick was a founding associate editor of the journal, Language Assessment Quarterly. He is joint editor of Studies in Language Testing (SiLT, CUP) and editor of the English Profle Studies series (EPS, CUP). He is a member of the IELTS Research and Development Steering Group, and sits on several University of Cambridge Boards, including: the Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Language Sciences; the Institute for Automated Language Teaching and Assessment (ALTA); and English Language iTutoring (ELiT), providing AI-informed automated systems.