Kate Nation

Kate Nation
FBA
OccupationProfessor of Experimental Psychology
Awards
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of York (BS, DPhil)
Academic work
DisciplinePsychologist
Sub-disciplineLanguage development
InstitutionsSt. John's College, Oxford

Kate Nation FBA is an experimental psychologist and expert on language and literacy development in school age children.[1][2] She is Professor of Experimental Psychology and Fellow of St. John's College of the University of Oxford, where she directs the ReadOxford[3] project and the Language and Cognitive Development Research Group.[4]

Nation won the Spearman Medal in 2000, an award given by the British Psychological Society for outstanding published work by an early career psychologist.[5] Nation's Spearman Medal lecture focused on children with poor reading comprehension whose deficits in language processing often go unnoticed.[6]

Nation gave the 2007 Experimental Psychology Society Prize lecture on "Making connections between learning to read and reading to learn."[7] She was awarded the 2018 AJLD Eminent Researcher Award from Learning Difficulties Australia in recognition of her research on "how children learn to read words and comprehend text, and more generally, the relationship between spoken language and written language".[8]

  1. ^ Adams, Richard (2018-04-18). "Teachers in UK report growing 'vocabulary deficiency'". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-05-13.
  2. ^ "BBC Radio 2 - 500 Words - Learning About Writing From 500 Words". BBC. Retrieved 2019-05-13.
  3. ^ "Experimental Psychology research group ReadOxford launch a groundbreaking citizen science project! — PSY". www.psy.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-05-13.
  4. ^ "Kate Nation — PSY". www.psy.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-03-21.
  5. ^ "Spearman Medal | BPS". www.bps.org.uk. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
  6. ^ "Spearman Medal Lecture: Reading & Language in Children:Exposing hidden deficits | The Psychologist". thepsychologist.bps.org.uk. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
  7. ^ "EPS Prize Lectures". Experimental Psychology Society. 2017-11-09. Retrieved 2019-05-13.
  8. ^ "Reading and Comprehension with Dr. Kate Nation". SPELD NSW. Retrieved 2019-03-21.