About my current job
I am a professor at UCL. I teach or have taught undergraduate and graduate courses in Developmental Disorders, and Research Methods. I have supervised numerous PhD students on a variety of projects that have included language and literacy development in autistic children, bilingual language development and the use of gestures in children with language disorder.
For the last 10 years, I have led the Surrey Communication and Language in Education Study (SCALES). This is a longitudinal study that has followed the language development of ~500 children from school entry until Year 8. The cohort includes children with a wide variety of language and cognitive skills, and educational experiences.
Something important I learned during my time at EP
I was 19 years old when I started my first research project, and I had no experience and no skills. After two years of collecting and analysing the data, the upshot of my effort was nothing. Somehow, at the time, I didn't find this outcome discouraging. It seemed like science working the way it is supposed to - the real world falsifies bad hypotheses, pushing the scentists to try again.
