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Dr Tim Fosker

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Dr Tim Fosker

Dr Tim Fosker

School Of Psychology

Tim’s research focuses broadly on the development of speech, language and literacy. His recent work has focused on the auditory precursors to speech processing and the impact that these have on later literacy development and vocabulary learning. He works with both typically and atypically developing populations of children, using classroom observation, cognitive, psychometric, psychoacoustic, and cognitive neuroscience (predominantly EEG) methods.

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  • t.fosker@qub.ac.uk
  • +44 (0) 28 9097 5576

Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in developmental psychology, educational psychology, psycholinguistics and developmental cognitive neuroscience with a special interest in:

• The measurement of auditory perception in young children
• Early precursors to the development of language or literacy
• Trajectories of neural development for speech and language processing in infancy and early childhood
• Methods for investigating classroom communication

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Public outreach & key achievements

  • "I'm a scientist get me out of here!" participant and finalist (2011, Welcome Trust Funded)
  • Engaged with school children through social media to promote their interest in scientific topics aligned to the Key Stage 3 science curriculum.
  • News articles of research published by Science Daily (June 2011), The Wall Street Journal Online (July 2011) and the Association for Psychological Science Blog (Nov 2011).
  • British Educational Research Association: 1 of 40 landmark studies in the last 40 years
  • British Psychological Society (Chartered Psychologist, CPsychol, and Associate Fellow AFBPsS)
  • Member of British Association of Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Member of European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)

Research students

PhD area Examining the Relationship between Reading, Speechreading and Audio-Visual Integration in Individuals with Developmental Dyslexia
Name Tugay Duyar
Years of study 2021-
Country Turkey
   
PhD area Examining the Impact of Parents on Group Intervention Outcomes for Parents of Children with a Neurodevelopmental Disorder
Name Maria McAleese
Years of study 2020-
Country Northern Ireland

Alumni: Where are they now

DClinPsy area An Investigation into the Nature and Impact of Language and Communication Needs of Looked After and Adopted Children
Name Darren Maguire
Years of study 2018-21
Country Northern Ireland
   
PhD area Estimating Auditory Discrimination Thresholds in Preschool Children
Name Nicola Gillen
Years of study 2014-19
Country Northern Ireland
Current Position Post-doctoral Research Associate, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford
   
PhD area Investigating the Nature of Auditory Predictors of Reading Development: Learning, Maturation and Behaviour
Name Ciara Laverty
Years of study 2012-2018
Country Northern Ireland
Current Position Research Specialist, The Lego Foundation
   
   

 


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