Research
in Academic Development & Learning Difficulties
Prof. Gaia Scerif
Prof. Dorothy Bishop
Prof. Jane Mellanby
Prof. Roi Cohen Kadosh
Prof. Kate Nation
Dr. Ann Dowker
Prof. Maggie Snowling
Prof. Lucy Bowes
Our Research Themes
Research Topics
- Academic Development & Learning Difficulties
- Anxiety
- Artificial Intelligence
- Attention
- Autism Spectrum
- Brain Damage, Injury & Brain Disorders
- Brain Imaging
- Brain Systems
- Childhood & Adolescence (3-18 years)
- Choice & Decision Making
- Clinical Practice
- Cognition & Information Processing
- Consciousness
- Consumer Psychology
- Depression & Mood Disorders
- Early Life Stress & Trauma
- Group Settings & Interactions
- Individual Differences
- Infant Development (6 months - 3 years)
- Language & Literacy
- Learning
- Mathematics & Numeracy
- Memory
- Motor Function
- Neurophysiology, Neural Mechanisms & Networks
- Neuropsychiatric Disorders
- Organisational Psychology
- Resilience
- Sensory Perception (Vision, taste, hearing, speech)
- Sociality & Social Interaction
- Spatial Processing
- Speech (Processing & Production)
Latest news
NIHR grant supports research into anxiety disorders in young children
21 August 2019
Professor Cathy Creswell of the Departments of Experimental Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Oxford has been awarded a £2.5 million grant from the National Institute for Health Research to develop and evaluate procedures for identifying and treating anxiety disorders in primary school aged children.
Paul Salkovskis joins the department
16 August 2019
Distinguished clinical psychologist, Paul Salkovskis joins the department, bringing his clinical and research expertise, heralding a significant evolution in its clinical psychology teaching and research.
The future of children and young people’s mental health research at the University of Oxford
14 May 2019
In her first interview since joining the University of Oxford, Cathy gives us a taster of what it's like researching psychological therapies for children and young people
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