Margaret Snowling#
Membership Number: | 6376 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS COMPLEXITY |
Elected: | 2023 |
Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Homepage(s): | https://www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/people/professor-maggie-snowling/ |
ORCID: | 0000-0003-0836-3861 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2022 Emeritus Professor of Psychology, University of Oxford and Research Fellow St. John’s College
- 2022 Professorial Research Fellow, Australian Catholic University.
- 2012 - 2022 President St. John’s College, Oxford
- 2012 - 2022 Honorary Professor of Psychology, University of Oxford
- 1994 - 2012 Professor of Psychology, University of York and Co-Director of the Centre for Reading and Language
- 1992 - 1994 Professor of Psychology and Head of Department at Newcastle University
- 1979 - 1992 Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Principal, National Hospitals College of Speech Sciences
- 1988 Qualified as a clinical psychologist
- 1979 PhD from University College London
Fields of Scholarship
- Psychology of Education
- Literacy skills
- Oral language
- Language development
- Dyslexia
Honours and Awards
- 2009 Fellow of the British Academy
- 2008 Elected to the Academy of Medical Sciences
- 2003 Elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences
- 2010 Society for the Scientific Study of Reading Distinguished Scientific contributions Award
- 2013 Lady Radnor Prize of Dyslexia Action
- 2005 Samuel T. Orton award of the International Dyslexia Association
- 2003 British Psychological Society Presidents' Award
- 1997 Marion Welchman Award of the British Dyslexia Association
- 2016 Appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to science and the understanding of dyslexia
- 2015 - 2017 Honorary Professor at the Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring, Durham University
- Professorial Research Fellow, Australian Catholic University
- Honorary doctorates:
- 2019 University of Bristol
- 2016 University of Warwick
- 2014 University College London
- 2007 Goldsmiths, University of London