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Holly Joseph

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  • Research Division Lead (Education, Language and Learning)
  • Director of the Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism

Areas of interest

  • Reading development and difficulties.
  • Eye movements during reading.
  • New word learning and vocabulary acquisition.
  • Multiingual literacy development.
  • Secondary data analysis (administrative datasets) of education data.

Postgraduate supervision

Masters/Doctoral Level Supervision offered in these areas:

See areas of interest above.

Current PhD Students, with Topics/Titles of their Research:

  • Yu Cui (from 2023): Does being multilingual protect children from the effects of social disadvantage? (funded by ADR UK)
  • Beyza Erdinc (from 2023): Early Risk Factors Influencing Educational Attainment for Children with Special Educational Needs: findings from Millennium Cohort Study
  • Ingrid Nanne Lippmann (from 2023): Barriers and opportunities in bilingual language education policy in Mayan languages in Guatemala
  • Favita Dias (from 2023): Understanding everyday caste-based discrimination faced by Goan indigenous communities in higher education

Teaching

  • Child Development in Education (MA in Education)
  • BA, MA and PhD dissertation supervision

 

Research centres and groups

  • Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism.
  • Language and Literacy in Education research group.

Selected publications

Recent Conference Presentations and Invited Talks:

  • Salvesen Annual Prize Lecture, “Taking a wider view on literacy difficulties” University of Edinburgh, November 2023
  • It Takes All Kinds Of Minds (ITAKOM), Edinburgh, March 2023 Identifying research priorities in the dyslexia community (Joseph, H & Manning, C)
  • Diverse Trajectories to Good Developmental Outcomes, University of Cambridge, December 2022 Barriers to learning to read: Taking a broader view (H Joseph)
  • Conference of Multilingualism (COM2020), June 2020 Incidental word learning during reading in children who speak English as an additional language: Evidence from eye movements. 
    (Joseph, H. & Treffers-Daller, J.)
  • Society of Scientific Studies of Reading, Toronto, July, 2019 (Invited symposium) Reading and reading-related skills in Arabic-English bilingual speakers in the UK and Saudi Arabia (H. Joseph, D. Powell & S. Alhelfawi)
  • Society of Scientific Studies of Reading, Brighton, July, 2018 (Invited symposium) Beyond vocabulary - Oral language and communication skills in children learning English as an additional language: Discussant
  • Child Language Symposium, June 2018 Incidental word learning during reading in children who speak English as an additional language: Evidence from eye movements (H. Joseph)

Enterprise Activity, External Roles and Consultancy:

  • Member: Experimental Psychology Society.
  • Voting member: Society for the Scientific Study of Reading.
  • Member: Forum for Research in Literacy and Language.
  • Member of ESRC Peer Review College.
  • Editorial board for Journal of Research in Reading, Neurodiversity and Scientific Studies of Reading.

Publications

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