Beyond Diagnosis: Setting Research Priorities with the Neurodivergent Community - Agata Ostaszewska, Georgia Harper, Rachael Davis, Holly Joseph, 2025 Neurodiversity research remains heavily shaped by diagnostic categories, which increasingly appear inadequate for capturing the complex, lived realities of neur...

Embracing Complexity's priority-setting exercise for research on neurodivergence is now published in Neurodiversity! Huge project led by @agatataga.bsky.social, paper co-written by @drrachaeldavis.bsky.social, @drhollyjoseph.bsky.social, and yours truly: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

UKRI announces first UK-wide birth cohort study in 25 years A ground-breaking UK-wide scientific study will help improve the lives of future generations by studying 30,000 children born in 2026.

Announcing Generation New Era: the first UK-wide birth cohort study in 25 years.

It will study 30,000 children born in 2026 across the four nations of the UK.

Watch out for upcoming opportunities for researchers and other stakeholders to engage with the study team via @clscohorts.bsky.social

Supporting family literacy through community-led initiatives - Connecting Research

Interested in the nitty gritty of how #academics can work with #communities to engage with local #families? Read our @uor-research.bsky.social blogpost on our work with Reading Borough Council and #Libraries to set up storybook reading sessions for toddlers research.reading.ac.uk/research-blo...

What Are the Research Priorities for the Dyslexia Community in the United Kingdom and How Do They Align With Previous Research Funding? Targeting research towards areas that matter to dyslexic people and their families is essential for improving dyslexic people's lives. However, we do not know what the dyslexia community's research p....

New paper: What Are the Research Priorities for the Dyslexia Community in the United Kingdom and How Do They Align With Previous Research Funding? doi.org/10.1002/dys.70004 #dyslexia

Adolescent reading experience, independent choices and curriculum materials Reading comprehension ability is assessed in England within the English language GCSE exam. This is a high stakes exam, taken by all 16-year-olds, and…

Delighted to announce the publication of my new open access paper on adolescent reading experience and vocabulary.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Reading with young children is so important to many long-term outcomes. Read more here about how families were successfully engaged in reading through the use of community researchers and community session leaders in a project led by @drhollyjoseph.bsky.social #Reading #literacy #disadvantage

Thanks so much!

Many families may not feel welcome at library storytimes – here’s how to ensure everyone benefits from them Library reading sessions tend to be attended by families who already engage with books at home

Our article in The Conversation about #library storytimes for young #families might not reach everyone they intend to and what to do about it theconversation.com/many-familie...

Adolescent reading experience, independent choices and curriculum materials Reading comprehension ability is assessed in England within the English language GCSE exam. This is a high stakes exam, taken by all 16-year-olds, and…

New paper from the wonderful @beverleyjj.bsky.social uses corpus linguistics to understand what #adolescents #read in #school and at home - how do they relate and do they prepare students for their #GCSE English Language exam? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @uor-research.bsky.social

Delighted to share this new open access article which presents four amazing case studies showcasing coproduction methods in neurodevelopmental research

Lots of people have published theory and there are some useful toolkits too, but its still rare to actually read what people did...

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It was a pleasure to be part of this - bringing together examples of inclusive practice in neurodevelopmental research into one paper really highlights how much has changed (and how much still needs to change). Thanks everyone but especially @cjcrompton.bsky.social and @suereviews.bsky.social)

Thanks Ollie - chickens and multilingualism are such a great combination and always have been ;)

This Fri 21 Feb, we're celebrating the amazing linguistic #diversity that makes our community unique. Join @drhollyjoseph.bsky.social @celm-uor.bsky.social at our London Road Campus for International Mother Language Day 🌍

Find out more: www.reading.ac.uk/events/Feed/...

This #InternationalMotherLanguageDay event will be great! Do sign up! @drhollyjoseph.bsky.social @celm-uor.bsky.social

Thanks Hamish!

The team at @UniofReading are after your help - if you live in Reading how many languages can you speak?
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Why I have resigned from the Royal Society The Royal Society is a venerable institution founded in 1660, whose original members included such eminent men as Christopher Wren, Robert H...

For those who missed it: Elon Musk, the Royal Society, and me
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Job Vacancy at the University of Greenwich: Research Fellow The School of Human Sciences, University of Greenwich, is seeking a postdoctoral research associate to work on a 31-month UKRI funded project to investigate multilingual primary school children’s unde...

Come work with Alessandra Valentini at the University of Greenwich and me on a @ukri.org project on #multilingual children's understanding of #inferences in spoken and written English. Full time postdoctoral position, 31 months!

Deadline: 10th December.

jobs.gre.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

ESRC postdoctoral fellowships Apply for a postdoctoral fellowship to develop your career by consolidating your PhD through developing publications, your networks and your research and professional skills.

Just finished your PhD and would like a year to write/diseminate and apply for further funding? Then apply here for a one year postdoctoral fellowship at University of Reading: www.ukri.org/opportunity/...

Royal Society fellow Dorothy Bishop (@deevybee.bsky.social) resigns over Elon Musk membership.

Bishop claims Musk has violated RS code of conduct, and is not prepared to treat him "collegially and with courtesy" as that code requires. Free to read.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...

My fusty old office files have been joined by vibrant, colourful children's books ready for our parent and toddler playgroups in #Whitley Wood, Hexham and soon (we hope) Oxford Road areas of #Reading. Can't wait to get started! #readingforpleasure #familyliteracy

#identity
naldic.org.uk/naldic-events/understand... 5th June, 1pm, online - join us!

Not long to go until our event on multilingual children's language development. Excited to be sharing a slot with @HJayoosi on #multilingualism and...