Research
in Language & Literacy
Prof. Dorothy Bishop
Prof. Jane Mellanby
Prof. Kim Plunkett
Prof. Kate Nation
Prof. Maggie Snowling
Dr. Simon Stringer
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
Exciting new open access journal now accepting submissions
28 March 2019
Prof Kate Watkins, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience is the inaugural co-Editor-in-Chief of a new open access journal: the Neurobiology of Language.
Is child abuse on the increase?
7 March 2019
New research from the University of Oxford has found that since the 1900s there has been a large overall decrease in child abuse – but, worryingly, that trend may now be reversing.
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The impact of our work
Impact is central to our mission and our world-leading research is carried out by academics who work at the forefront of their fields, committed to the highest-quality scientific investigation.