I am fundamentally interested in how children and adults learn, drawing upon memory, language, and literacy research. My research asks questions such as:

• How do we learn and remember new words?
• How does the way in which we learn words change across development?
• How does poor language knowledge affect reading and educational achievement?
• How do learning difficulties affect broader life outcomes and wellbeing?

I address these questions using behavioural experiments that train and test new words, as well as analyses of real-world data and national cohort datasets.

I completed my undergraduate degree in Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford (2010-2013), and subsequently spent a year as a Research Associate at Lancaster University. I first joined the University of York in 2014, completing a Masters, PhD and Postdoctoral Fellowship as part of the Sleep, Language and Memory Lab. I then spent two years back in Oxford, working as a Postdoctoral Researcher within ReadOxford Group and Stipendiary Lecturer at St Catherine’s College. I rejoined the York Psychology Department as a Lecturer in 2022.