Cognitive and developmental psychology; reading, language and memory processes; developmental cognitive disorders; children's reading and language difficulties; randomised controlled trials in education
Elected 2017
Developmental disorders of language, learning and cognition including basic research on dyslexia and language impairment and the development and evaluation of interventions that ameliorate children’s literacy difficulties
The comparative history and morphosyntax of the Romance languages; Italian and Romance dialectology; Latin; Italo-Greek; syntactic theory, linguistic change and language contact
Writing and the teaching of writing, particularly linguistic and metalinguistic development; the composing processes involved in writing; the talk-writing relationship; the teaching of grammar; and creative writing