Position/Status

Research Assistant

E-mail Address

cll53@cam.ac.uk

Phone

+ 44 (0)7706189627

Qualifications

• BSc Psychology- Queen’s University Belfast
• MSc Atypical Child Development- Queen’s University Belfast

Membership of Professional Bodies/Associations

• BPS graduate member

Profile

Ciara’s research to date has studied the development of language and literacy in children aged 4-9 years; examining the nature of predictors of these abilities, including auditory processing skills, neural maturation and classroom behaviours. As a member of PEDaL Strand B, she is currently working on a systematic literature review of measures of play in children aged 0-3 years, as well as developing observational coding schemes to measure parental and child playfulness.

Academic Area/Links

• Psychology and Education, University of Cambridge
• Language Learning and Literacy Lab, Queen’s University Belfast

Research Topics

• The social, emotional and cognitive development of infants and young children
• Early childhood education
• Educational policy

Current Research Project(s)

• An investigation of early playfulness, its antecedents and psychological, developmental correlates
• Systematic literature review of early measures of playfulness and self-regulation among children aged 0-3

Further information: www.educ.cam.ac.uk/centres/pedal/research/playdevelop/

Teaching

Principal and Recent Publications

Laverty, C., Schermer, M. and Fosker, T. (submitted). Stand back: Good auditory learners can be found farthest from the teacher. 


Laverty. C, Fosker, T., Miller., S. (2015) Early predictors of reading (decoding) ability: A critical review of recent advances, in prep for British Journal of Educational Psychology.