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Keynote Speakers
Professor Maggie Snowling
President of St. John College
Professor of Psychology
Department of Experimental Psychology
University of Oxford
Professor Maggie Snowling took up the role of President of St. John College in September 2012. Before that she held a personal Chair in the Department of Psychology at the University of York where she was the Co-Director of the Centre for Reading and Language.
She completed her first degree at Bristol and her doctorate at University College London. She is also professionally qualified as a clinical psychologist. She was a Past-President of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading and one of the Joint Editors of the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. She served as a member of Sir Jim Rose’s Expert Advisory Group on provision for Dyslexia in 2009 and as an expert member of the Education for All: Fast Track Initiative group in Washington DC in 2011. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. She was appointed CBE for services to science and the understanding of dyslexia in 2016. Her research focuses on children’s language and learning and she is specifically interested in the nature and causes of children’s reading difficulties and how best to ameliorate them.
Professor Charles Hulme
Professor of Psychology and Education
Department of Education
University of Oxford
Charles Hulme is a Professor of Psychology and Education at the University of Oxford. Charles has broad research interests in reading, language and memory processes and their development and is an expert on randomized controlled trials in Education. His work on reading development has made important contributions to understand the role of phonological skills in learning to read. He has also explored the role of wider language skills (particularly vocabulary knowledge and grammatical skills) as influences on the development of reading comprehension.
His publications include a number of assessment materials including the Phonological Abilities Test (1997), the York Assessment of Reading for Comprehension (YARC, 2009) , Sound Linkage (2014) and The Test of Basic Arithmetic and Numeracy Skills (2015) as well as several books dealing with various aspects of reading development. He is a former Editor of the journal ‘Scientific Studies of Reading’ (2007-2009) and is currently a Senior Editor of the Association of Psychological Science’s flagship journal, Psychological Science. In 2009 he published “Developmental disorders of language, learning and cognition” (Wiley-Blackwell; co-authored with Maggie Snowling). He holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Oslo (2014) and is a member of Academia Europea and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He received the Feitelson Research Award from the International Reading Association (1998) and the Marion Welchman International Award for Contributions to the study of Dyslexia from the British Dyslexia Association (2016).
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