Congratulations Dr Wray!
In February PhD student Charlotte Wray passed her viva. Congratulations Dr Charlotte! With thanks to her examiners Sotaro Kita and Chloe Marshall for a thought provoking viva.
News & Blog
Katie submitted her PhD thesis today!
Katie Whiteside has now completed writing her PhD thesis “Language and Cognitive Development Over the Early School Years in Children Learning English as an Additional Language”. Well done Katie, we’re all very proud of you!
Charlotte submitted her PhD thesis today. Congratulations Charlotte!
After 3 years of hard work, Charlotte has now finished writing her thesis “Using gesture to support language”. Well done Charlotte!
LiLaC lab Christmas celebrations
The LiLaC lab celebrating in style! Grateful for such a fantastic team.
House of Commons
Professor Courtenay Norbury was invited to talk about SCALES at the House of Commons as part of the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Speech and Language Difficulties. Pictured is Courtenay discussing the SCALES project with Lord Ramsbotham in House of Commons. Great discussions! For more information click here.
How many children start school with a language disorder?
Six years ago now I got a generous grant from the Wellcome Trust to start the SCALES project. I have been guided and supported by a dream team of collaborators: Gillian Baird, Tony Charman, Andrew Pickles and Emily Simonoff who have ensured I didn’t make too many stupid mistakes and from whom I’ve learned an […]
Mind the gap!
This photo was taken on my daughter’s first day of school. She is bursting with pride and excitement– she just couldn’t wait to get to big school! She has also just turned four. She looks so small to me now- her book bag is almost as big as she is! Although I’d heard that summer […]
Work Hard Play Hard
Earlier in the academic year I was asked to give a seminar to our graduate students and early career staff on the topic of ‘work-life balance.’ When I told my lab this, they all laughed, confirming my own mystification as to why I was chosen to do this. Having been asked to speak on this […]
Decisions, decisions
Stage 2 is now well under way, in the first month of testing we’ve got complete datasets on about 50 children (or 10% of our target sample). Once again, schools in Surrey are demonstrating just how fabulous they are. They are doing a stellar job of getting consent forms returned from families and have welcomed […]
Stage 2 is ready to roll!
Every Friday I collapse in an exhausted heap and think ‘that was surely the busiest week of SCALES yet.’ And then the following week seems even more insanely hectic. Which is part of the reason there has been such a hiatus in the blog – we’ve had an eventful few weeks! The screening phase of […]