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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