Speaker
Emma Hayiou-Thomas
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at the University of York
Biography
Emma’s research focuses on the sources of developmental difficulties in language and literacy. She completed her undergraduate degree in Psychology and Physiology, and her D.Phil. in Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford. Following a post-doctoral position at the Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre at King’s College London, working with the Twins Early Development Study, she joined the Psychology department at York in 2005. Her work combines experimental methodology with behavioural genetic and family-risk designs in order to examine genetic and cognitive contributions to children’s language and literacy disorders.