Hi, I’m Jamie and I am a Lecturer at Liverpool Hope University. I’m broadly interested in how parent-child interactions influence language development. I am an alumini member of the Leeds Child Development Unit and I have recently finished working on an ESRC project with Dr. Cat Davies in which we investigated how children experience, understand, and use adjectives across the socioeconomic spectrum. Using eyetracking experiments, corpus analyses, and a feasibility study, the project aimed to reveal how children’s socioeconomic background might affect their descriptive language abilities. Prior to this, I worked at the Liverpool Language Lab at the University of Liverpool on another ESRC project in which I explored how shared book reading fosters language development.
PhD in Developmental Psychology, 2015
University of Sheffield
MSc in Psychology, 2011
University of Leicester
BSc in Psychology, 2010
University of Sheffield
Designing, running, and analysing eye tracking experiments with children and adults using Eyelink.
Testing, scoring, and analysing language assessments such as the CELF Preschool 2; BPVS3; Bayley and PLS.
Designing, running, and analysing a shared book reading intervention with a reading charity.