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Professor Kate Nation FBA

The psychology of language, especially how children learn to read and process written language
Headshot of Professor Kate Nation FBA (credit John Cairns)
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2023
Sections
Psychology , Education
Website
https://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/people/kate-nation

Current post

University of Oxford Professor of Experimental Psychology

St John’s College, Oxford Fellow

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Charles Nelson III FBA

Development and neural bases of processing social information (eg facial emotion); trajectories to autism, with a particular focus on populations at high risk for developing autism (eg, infants with an older sibling with autism; children with various single gene mutations that appear to confer risk for developing autism); effects of early adversity on brain and behavioral development, including exposure to both psychosocial adversities and biological adversities

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Professor Naomi Ellemers FBA

Social psychology of organisations: group processes and intergroup relations; social identity; stereotyping and discrimination; diversity and innovation; work motivation and career development; work-life balance and gender in organisations

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Professor Andrew Steptoe FBA

Social and psychological factors related to physical health outcomes; epidemiology of ageing, cardiovascular disease, and dementia; health psychology and positive wellbeing

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