Psychology and Neuroscience in Education

Research Interests and Projects

Auditory Processing in Dyslexic Children: Behavioural and Neural Investigations Professor Usha Goswami (PI), Dr Martina Huss, Dr Tim Fosker and Natasha Fegan - Funded by MRC
Children Articulating Thinking (ChAT) Project: Developing a pedagogy for metacognition and self-regulation in English Year 1 classrooms
Dr David Whitebread (PI), Professor Neil Mercer, Penny Coltman, Jane Warwick, Professor Christine Howe, Professor Usha Goswami - Funded by the Faculty's TPRP research fund
CIndLe: Independent Learning in the Foundation Stage (completed)
Dr David Whitebread, Holly Anderson & Penny Coltman - Funded by Cambs Early Years Partnership
Dialogic Teaching in Science Classrooms (completed)
Professor Neil Mercer, Professor Philip Scott, Dr Jaume Amettler, Dr Judith Kleine Staarmann - Funded by the ESRC
Dyscalculia & Number Processing in Children
Dr Dénes Szücs
"Graphogame": Training grapheme-phoneme correlations with a child-friendly computer game in preschool children with familial risk of dyslexia
Fiona Kyle - Funded by European Commission Marie Curie Excellence Grants (hosted by Agora Centre, University Jyväskylä, Finland with Excellence Team Leader, Dr Ulla Richardson)
Humans as Analogy-Makers
Professor Usha Goswami, Victoria Cheah and Fruzsina Soltesz - Funded by EU STREP
Interactive Whiteboards & Collaborative Pupil Learning in Primary Science
Professor Neil Mercer, Dr Judith Kleine Staarman, Ruth Kershner and Paul Warwick - Funded by the ESRC
Primary Review - The Condition & Future of Primary Education in England (completed)
Professor Robin Alexander - specific areas from the report include:
Children's cognitive development and learning (Usha Goswami & Peter Bryant)
Children's social development, peer interaction & classroom learning (Christine Howe & Neil Mercer)
Primary school children's tacit and explicit knowledge of object motion
Professor Christine Howe
Rhythmic Timing in Dyslexia (completed)
Professor Usha Goswami, Dr Jennifer Thomson, Danielle Gerson and Luisa Astruc - Funded by ESRC
Synaesthesia in Children
Professor Usha Goswami and Jennifer Green, Research student
Thinking Together - A dialogue-based approach to the development of children's thinking and learning
Professor Neil Mercer, Paul Warwick, et al