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Dr Tim Fosker was a Research Associate on the MRC study Auditory Processing in Dyslexic Children: Behavioural and Neural Investigations, where his research interests were in ERP correlates of auditory processing in developmentally dyslexic children and the importance of attention to performance on phonological awareness tasks. Prior to joining the centre, Tim completed his PhD at the University of Wales, Bangor examining Event-related Potential (ERP) correlates of developmental dyslexia in adults. In September 2009 Tim took up the post of lecturer in developmental psychology at the School of Psychology, Queen's University Belfast.
Dr Jarmo Hamalainen was awarded a Finnish Academy post-doctoral Fellowship to carry out brain imaging studies connected to developmental dyslexia in collaboration with Professor Usha Goswami at the Centre for Neuroscience in Education, 2008-2009. Jarmo has developed both EEG and MEG paradigms and has been studying syllable-level processing in Cambridge undergraduates with a diagnosis of developmental dyslexia.
Luisa Astruc worked as a Research Assistant on the ESRC study Rhythmic Timing and Dyslexia: A Causal Connection? Prior to this she worked as a Research Assistant on a project on motivation to learn modern languages (The Open University), and as a Spanish Language Expert and a Linguistics Expert on speech technology for Toshiba Research Europe. She is an affiliated lecturer at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Cambridge and a lecturer of Spanish Linguistics at the Open University.
Danielle Gerson was a Research Assistant on the ESRC study Rhythmic Timing and Dyslexia: A Causal Connection? Prior to joining the centre she worked as an Assistant Psychologist with adults with learning disabilities in Dudley. She received her BSc in Psychology from the University of Birmingham in July 2005. Her previous (unpublished) research related to adults with learning disabilities: facial emotion recognition and perceptions of anger, including a comparison between informant-reported and self-reported anger levels. Danielle is currently studying for a doctorate in clinical psychology at the University of Liverpool.
Jennifer Thomson was a Research Associate on the ESRC study Rhythmic Timing and Dyslexia: A Causal Connection? and a Research Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge. She received her PhD from University College London in 2004, her topic was phonological representations in dyslexia. She is a trained Speech and Language Therapist and practised in Conwy and Denbighshire prior to returning to academic study. Her first degree was from the University of Sheffield. Her current research interests are auditory processing skills in children with developmental language disorders, the neural signatures for basic auditory processing (ERP - the N100 and MMN), and phonological representation in typical and atypical development. Dr Thomson is now an Assistant Professor of Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Carol Johnson was the Research Associate on the PPP Healthcare Trust study Phonological Skills, Vocabulary Development and Reading Development in Deaf Children with Cochlear Implants. Prior to taking up this research position, Carol was a Speech and Language Therapist in the Cambridge area for many years. She has a Masters Degree in Human Communication from University College London. Her current research interests are the role of vocabulary and language in deaf children's reading, the development of phonological processing skills in deaf children, and the ways in which reading development can be supported in deaf children via linguistic and phonological games and activities. Carol now works at the Emmeline Centre at Addenbrookes Hospital working with children with cochlear implants.
Louise Miller Guron was a Intra-European Fellowship Holder, funded by the EU Framework 6 (Marie Curie Foundation). Her project looked at auditory processing skills, phonological awareness and literacy development in monolingual and bilingual Swedish children. She gained her Ph.D. from the University of Goteburg, Sweden, her topic was dyslexia assessment in multilinguals. Louise has also developed a novel test of reading, the Wordchains test, which has been published and standardised in English and Swedish. Her research interest are in the role of auditory processing skills in Swedish monolingual and bilingual reading, the interactions between auditory processing skills and phonological skills, and the development of rapid automatised naming skills in monolinguals and multi-linguals.