Role
Rebecca is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology, and is the Course Leader for MSc Applied Child Psychology.
Rebecca is a cognitive developmental psychologist, and teaches on several developmental psychology modules at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Rebecca supervises undergraduate and postgraduate project work.
Career overview
Rebecca would be interested in supervising students in the following areas:
- Typical and atypical aspects of language and literacy development
- Development dyslexia
- Specific Language Impairment
Research areas
- Specific Language Impairment (SLI) Research Unit
Rebecca's research interests include:
- Cognitive development psychology
- Typical and atypical language and literacy development
- Specific Language Impairment and Developmental Dyslexia
- Written language development
- Children's spelling strategies
External activity
- Steering group member for the British Dyslexia Association International Conference 2008; 2011 and 2014
- Organising committee for the British Psychological Society Developmental Section Conference, Nottingham 2009
- Review Editorial Board of Frontiers in Cognitive Science
- Guest Editor for Dyslexia
Sponsors and collaborators
- Dr Gareth Williams, Division of Psychology, Nottingham Trent University
- British Academy
- Dr Andrew Dunn, Nottingham Trent University
- Dr Sarah Critten, Coventry University