Find out more about the ‘Ready to Read: Community-led reading initiatives in Whitley’ project that was runner up in this year's Uni of Reading Research Awards External Collaboration and Innovation category. Congratulations to Holly Joseph & Daisy Powell IoE Uni of Reading

Looking for a way to talk about the election with children? If I Were a Prime Minister by Trygve Skaug & @EllaOkstad featured in our latest #GreatBooksGuide and has a really child-friendly approach to politics. And it reminds us of the power of children's voices and ideas, too!

Exciting opportunity at St John's College, in collaboration with The Story Museum, for Post-doctoral Research Assistant to work on project to investigate children's learning through books, audio books and oral storytelling. Pls share! ⏳Closing date: 12pm, 4 July bit.ly/4bitXTC

Coming to #AlicesDay this Saturday? Don't miss our FREE Curious Creatures Trail! Pick up your trail map from The Story Museum, visit our friends The Covered Market Oxford to spot the curious creatures on display and return to claim your prize!🎁💫 Find out more: bit.ly/3vZbFmz

So this happened yesterday. Thrilled and honoured to be elected a fellow of The British Academy Congratulations to all the other fellows, including the wonderful Eve Clark Stanford University and Catherine Snow Harvard University! Oxford ExpPsychology St Hugh's College

New preprint with Kate Nation and Victoria Murphy! We tested a semantic fluency task for author names (an "Author Fluency Task" or AFT) and found it out-performed an Author Recognition Test (ART) as predictor of L2 formulaic language. doi.org/10.31219/osf.i…

⭐️We are #hiring!⭐️ During next semester our Digital Reading lab will open some positions (2 postdoc, 1 PhD) to start in 2025. Ed Psychology or related areas. Valued experience on reading research, eye-tracking, school interventions... DM for informal queries 📍Valencia, Spain.

Exposure to Language in Video and its Impact on Linguistic Development in Children Aged 3–11: A Scoping Review Lovely work led by Anna Gowenlock with @lilacCourt UCL Psych & Lang Sci UCL Experimental Psychology journalofcognition.org/articles/10.53…

Thank you for those who have already participated and given really useful feedback. Just need 2 more #Teachers or #TeachingAssistants who have worked with children with #selectivemutism to share their experience & feedback by the end of August 2024.

Feeling super inspired to hear so many interesting talks and posters at my intellectual home #CogSci2024. Thank you CogSci Society for such wonderful programs!

Interested in literacy, education, and well-being? Join us for #OxfordOpenDoors at St John’s, where former College President, Prof. Maggie Snowling, will be talking about the myths and realities of dyslexia. Register your interest here: eventbrite.com/e/917227109977…

St John's is opening its doors and welcoming visitors on Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 September. The College President, Professor Lady Sue Black, invites you to join us. #OxfordOpenDoors Oxford Preservation Trust

📣New preprint!! Do you know that book language contains a greater diversity of emotion words? Check out this preprint with Kate Nation osf.io/preprints/osf/…

Come join us St John's College! Info below, and feel free to get in touch with me or Laurence Hunt with any questions

In October, we’re celebrating the official reopening of the Old Library at St John’s. Professor William Whyte, Keeper of Historic Buildings, reveals the history of this ‘state-of-the-art’ sixteenth-century library.

Registration is NOW OPEN! 🔓 Would you like to join the Inspire Critical Thinking Programme? This year's theme is 'Why is language so powerful?' If you are in YR 9-12 at a non-selective school in the UK, then register now! 🔗Sign up via the link in our bio

Just published meta-analysis (open access): Morphology instruction is effective for improving reading and spelling outcomes, and spelling effects can transfer to untrained words – but we still need to learn more about why it works and how best to teach it doi.org/10.1007/s10648…

Come shape the study of English language and communication at Oxford!