Embracing Complexity's priority-setting exercise for research on neurodivergence is now published in Neurodiversity! Huge project led by @agatataga.bsky.social, paper co-written by @drrachaeldavis.bsky.social, @drhollyjoseph.bsky.social, and yours truly: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Announcing Generation New Era: the first UK-wide birth cohort study in 25 years. It will study 30,000 children born in 2026 across the four nations of the UK. Watch out for upcoming opportunities for researchers and other stakeholders to engage with the study team via @clscohorts.bsky.social

Interested in the nitty gritty of how #academics can work with #communities to engage with local #families? Read our @uor-research.bsky.social blogpost on our work with Reading Borough Council and #Libraries to set up storybook reading sessions for toddlers research.reading.ac.uk/research-blo...

New paper: What Are the Research Priorities for the Dyslexia Community in the United Kingdom and How Do They Align With Previous Research Funding? doi.org/10.1002/dys.70004 #dyslexia

Delighted to announce the publication of my new open access paper on adolescent reading experience and vocabulary. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I'm thrilled and honoured to have been appointed the new director of the Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism @celm-uor.bsky.social,one of the interdisciplinary reseach centres at the University of Reading, starting in August 2025! I look forward to new exciting projects, events and synergies!

Reading with young children is so important to many long-term outcomes. Read more here about how families were successfully engaged in reading through the use of community researchers and community session leaders in a project led by @drhollyjoseph.bsky.social #Reading #literacy #disadvantage

Our article in The Conversation about #library storytimes for young #families might not reach everyone they intend to and what to do about it theconversation.com/many-familie...

New paper from the wonderful @beverleyjj.bsky.social uses corpus linguistics to understand what #adolescents #read in #school and at home - how do they relate and do they prepare students for their #GCSE English Language exam? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @uor-research.bsky.social

Delighted to share this new open access article which presents four amazing case studies showcasing coproduction methods in neurodevelopmental research Lots of people have published theory and there are some useful toolkits too, but its still rare to actually read what people did... rdcu.be/ebbgu

It was a pleasure to be part of this - bringing together examples of inclusive practice in neurodevelopmental research into one paper really highlights how much has changed (and how much still needs to change). Thanks everyone but especially @cjcrompton.bsky.social and @suereviews.bsky.social)

This Fri 21 Feb, we're celebrating the amazing linguistic #diversity that makes our community unique. Join @drhollyjoseph.bsky.social @celm-uor.bsky.social at our London Road Campus for International Mother Language Day 🌍 Find out more: www.reading.ac.uk/events/Feed/...

This #InternationalMotherLanguageDay event will be great! Do sign up! @drhollyjoseph.bsky.social @celm-uor.bsky.social

The team at @UniofReading are after your help - if you live in Reading how many languages can you speak? forms.office.com/pages/respon...

For those who missed it: Elon Musk, the Royal Society, and me deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-...

Come work with Alessandra Valentini at the University of Greenwich and me on a @ukri.org project on #multilingual children's understanding of #inferences in spoken and written English. Full time postdoctoral position, 31 months! Deadline: 10th December. jobs.gre.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Just finished your PhD and would like a year to write/diseminate and apply for further funding? Then apply here for a one year postdoctoral fellowship at University of Reading: www.ukri.org/opportunity/...

Royal Society fellow Dorothy Bishop (@deevybee.bsky.social) resigns over Elon Musk membership. Bishop claims Musk has violated RS code of conduct, and is not prepared to treat him "collegially and with courtesy" as that code requires. Free to read. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...

My fusty old office files have been joined by vibrant, colourful children's books ready for our parent and toddler playgroups in #Whitley Wood, Hexham and soon (we hope) Oxford Road areas of #Reading. Can't wait to get started! #readingforpleasure #familyliteracy

Not long to go until our event on multilingual children's language development. Excited to be sharing a slot with @HJayoosi on #multilingualism and...

Great job opportunity at the @TheSwanSchoolOx in #Oxford for someone who is finishing a Masters/doctorate in developmental psychology or similar and wants to use their expertise to support secondary students: https://mynewterm.com/jobs/147203/EDV-2024-SS-59688

Happy to see that lots of people are downloading our article on whether a specialist #typeface helps readers with #dyslexia (TLDR- no, or read more here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/dys.1727#typeface#dyslexia@DaisyAPowell

Thank you to everyone who saw the coverage of the possible closure of our Whitley Wood storybook reading sessions and said they would like to donate. We've now set up this crowdfunding page. Please RT https://reading.hubbub.net/p/WhitleyWoodPlaygroup/

On #WorldBookDay2024 yesterday we ran one of our storybook reading sessions in #WhitleyWood and had celebrity guest @RealKirstOBrien read a story! Below is a video showing why we run these sessions and the benefit they can have: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnCK6Kn94Zg

Excited our #storybook reading sessions in Whitley Wood are getting some media attention. Funding runs out soon and we really want to keep them going - if anyone has any bright ideas do let us know! https://shorturl.at/kBSZ5

#Primary #teachers, do you have 5 mins to complete a survey for my student on using #books to teach children about #gender and #empathy? Link below, thank you so much!...

Today's panel with @LizDayTQY @steve_mccabe @JimRokos @briefsnotpants @MattHancock @JulianElliott11 and @JohnFStein was a lot of fun - completely different perspectives on #dyslexia and what we need to do but agreement that we're not where we need to be...

Looking forward to chairing this panel discusson on #Dyslexia in #Schools on Thursday with @MattHancock @JulianElliott11 @JohnFStein amongst others. Not too late to sign up (not free sadly): https://www.publicpolicyexchange.co.uk/event.php?eventUID=NJ05-PPE

A reminder to #Whitley parents that we are running shared #storybook reading sessions for parents and toddlers - Tuesday mornings at 9.30 @Whitley_CDA library. Come along, have fun and take the book home with you for free! @alice_mp @Aspire2whitley

Are you an adult with a #dyslexia? Or a #parent/caregiver/other family member of a person with dyslexia ? If so, please tell us what you would like dyslexia research to focus on! 5 min survey here: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/YVRT3C9#dyslexia#parentlease RT

Excellent three minute thesis from ⁦@bjm_teacher⁩ on why the #GCSE English language curriculum needs fewer, not more, dead White mean 👏🏽👏🏼👏🏾

We're running a study on literacy development and need parents of children in Year 1 or Year 5 who: 1) speak a language at home other than English; and/or 2) are eligible for free school meals. If this is you, please use the QR code below to register. We're paying £20 per family

Brilliant talk from @Whitney_Iles connecting the disproportionate numbers of racialised and neurodivergent young people in the criminal justice system #ITAKOM

Loving listening to @commaficionado - if taking a neurodiversity approach to education is the right one then almost everything about our education system has to change #ITAKOM

Less rainy walk to #ITAKOM23 this morning. Lots on #education and #Neurodiversity today

Beautiful from @HolSmale on masking and unmasking "I am learning to love my autistic self" #ITAKOM23

Loving #ITAKOM so far - they even have proper slebs here - current listening to @rorybremner talking about #ADHD and doing an excellent Billy Connelly impression (there are two seasons in Scotland: Winter and July)

A nice write up of our #multilingual storytime project funded by @J_S_Foundation and @UniofReading community fund with @naomiflynn61 @UniRdg_Hub @UniRdg_SiS and @UniRdg_CeLM...

One week left to apply for this fully funded #PhD studentship on #multilingualism and socioeconomic disadvantage - using existing government data to answer new questions. Please do pass on to anyone who might be interested. https://senss-dtp.ac.uk/administrative-data-studentship

Are you a #PhD student with your viva coming up? In his excellent @UniRdg_CeLM talk yesterday, @MichalKorenar gave some tips on preparing for, and performing well in, your viva (first half of the talk is about the bilingual brain, second half on the viva): https://youtu.be/ZwGpxBpVRq8

New #openaccess paper from me and @DaisyAPowell: “Does a specialist typeface affect how fluently children with and without dyslexia process letters, words, and passages?” https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/dys.1727#openaccess1/12

Last chance to register for our FREE summer school for 4-year-olds in #Whitley: Mon, Thurs and Fri mornings next week. Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSewgeoViutiAcwFbBRx4qB1Zynh0N3GVjz_bQfIV8tgiIKHFg/viewform#WhitleyPls RT @AliceMpofuColes @Aspire2whitley...

Our FREE summer school for 4-year-olds in #Whitley now has its own Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Summer-School-Reading-2022-105446285548228#WhitleyStarts next Monday at #Hexham Community Centre. Sign up here:...

One of my favourite parts of being an academic is meeting past students and remembering how wonderful they are. Happy graduation Dr @Roopa_Leonard (and lovely to see you too @helencnorris!)