- 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.
Holly Joseph
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Professor
- 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)