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Research partners

The following people are current research partners:

  • Kim Bard External link icon, Reader in Comparative Developmental Psychology and Director of the Centre for the Study of Emotion, Department of Psychology, University of Portsmouth, UK.
  • Kim Cornish External link icon, Canada Research Chair, School of Applied Child Psychology, Director, McGill Child Laboratory for Research and Education in Developmental Disorders, McGill University, Canada.
  • Deborah Fidler External link icon, Associate Professor, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Colorado State University, USA.
  • Peter Howell External link icon, Professor of Experimental Psychology, Department of Psychology, University College London, UK.
  • Charles Hulme External link icon, Professor of Psychology, Centre for Reading and Language, Department of Psychology, University of York, UK.
  • Annette Karmiloff-Smith External link icon, Professorial Research Fellow Developmental Neurocognition Laboratory, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.
  • Gerald Mahoney External link icon, Director, Center on Intervention for Children and Families and Verna Houck Motto Professor, George Peabody College of Vanderbilt University, USA.
  • John Oates External link icon, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Childhood, Development and Learning, Faculty of Education and Language Studies, The Open University, UK.
  • Jonathan Rix External link icon, Lecturer in Inclusion, Curriculum and Learning, Centre for Curriculum and Teaching Studies, Faculty of Education and Language Studies, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.
  • Gaia Scerif External link icon, Lecturer and Fellow of St. Catherine's College, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

  • Patrick Sheehan External link icon, Consultant Paediatric ENT Surgeon, Department of Paediatric Otolaryngology, Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, Salford and Booth Hall Children's Hospital, Manchester, UK.
  • Maggie Snowling External link icon, Professor of Psychology, Centre for Reading and Language, Department of Psychology, University of York, UK.
  • Dale Ulrich External link icon, Professor, Movement Science and Physical Education, The Division of Kinesiology and Director of the Center for Motor Behavior and Pediatric Disabilities, University of Michigan, USA.
  • Louise Wood External link icon, Senior Lecturer in Biomechanics, Sport and Exercise Science, University of Portsmouth, UK.
  • Margaret Woodhouse External link icon, Senior Lecturer, Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences, Cardiff University, UK.