Staff Profile:Professor Rhona Stainthorp
- Name:
- Professor Rhona Stainthorp
- Job Title:
- Emeritus Professor
- Responsibilities:
University responsibilities:
- Member of the Advisory board for Library Services
- Member of the Faculty Personal Titles committee
- Member of the Honorary Degrees committee
Main responsibilities at the Institute of Education:
- Director of Postgraduate Professional Development
- Programme Director of the MA in Education
- Member of the Institute Research Committee
Teaching:
- Module Leader: MA in Education Enhancing Pupil Learning
- Module Leader: MA in Education The development of Reading and Writing
- Module Leader: MA in Education Child Development and Primary Education
- MA dissertation supervision
- Contributions to: MA in Education and PGCE modules on Learners with Special Educational Needs PGCE GTP and BAEd on Teaching Phonics and Teaching Handwriting
- Areas of Interest:
Expertise and research interest [able to supervise at PhD and Masters level]:
- The development of reading and writing including spelling and handwriting
- Effective teaching of reading and writing
- Individual differences in reading and writing including precocious ability and children with learning difficulties
Current and recent Research Students:
- Anna Tzakalaki
- Elizabeth Blackman
- Naomi Flynn
- Selma Babaygit
- Sophia Cholidou
- Hiromi Tsuji
- Maria Constantinidou
Current and recent Research Projects:
- Young Early Readers - a long term follow-up study
- The impact of handwriting skills on writing performance in Key Stage 2
- A longitudinal investigation of Rapid Automatized Naming performance and its relationship to reading: the role of orthographic processing. (ESRC funded: Powell, D., Stainthorp, R., & Stuart, M. )
- Investigating orthographic processes and their relation to reading in children with rapid automatized naming deficits (ESRC funded: Stainthorp, R., Stuart, M. & Quinlan, P.)
- Research groups / Centres:
First language research group
- Publications:
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Recent publications
Babayigit, S., & Stainthorp R. (2011). Modeling the relationships between cognitive-linguistic skills and literacy skills: new insights from a transparent orthography. Journal of Educational Psychology. 103(1), 169-189.
Stainthorp, R., Powell, D., Stuart, M., Quinlan, P., & Garwood, H. (2010). Visual processing deficits in children with slow RAN performance. Scientific Studies of Reading, 14, 266-292.
Babayigit, S., & Stainthorp, R. (2010). Component processes of early reading, spelling and narrative writing skills in Turkish: a longitudinal study, Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 23, 539-568.
Stainthorp, R., & Rauf, N. (2009). An investigation of the influence of the transcription skills of handwriting and spelling on the quality of text writing by girls and boys in Key Stage 2. Handwriting Today, 8, 9-13.
Constantinidou, M., & Stainthorp, R. (2009). Reading speed and phonological deficits found in Greek children with reading problems. Educational Psychology, 29, 171-186.
Stuart, M., Stainthorp, R., & Snowling, M. (2008). Literacy as a complex activity: deconstructing the simple view of reading. Literacy, 42, 59-66.
See here for a full list of publications.
Recent conference papers
Stories of success: precocious readers as young adults.(Stainthorp and Hughes) XVIIIth Annual Conference of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, St Petersberg, Florida (2011)
Does RAN performance contribute to word spelling? (Stainthorp, Powell, and Stuart). XVIIth Annual Conference of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Berlin, Germany (2010)
The impact of transcription skills on text writing in children age 9-11 years (2009) (Stainthorp). XIIIth Biennial Conference, European Association for Learning and Instruction, Free University, Amsterdam.
The relationship between rapid automatized naming and word spelling (Stainthorp, Powell & Stuart). BPS Psychology of Education conference, Preston (2009)
The relationship between phonological awareness, phonological memory, rapid automatised naming (RAN) and reading in monolingual and bilingual English children. (Stainthorp, Powell, Stuart, Quinlan and Garwood). XXIXth International Congress of Psychology, Berlin (2008)
Student teachers explicit levels of phonological awareness (Stainthorp). BPS Psychology of Education conference, Milton Keynes (2008)
Enterprise activity; external roles and consultancy:
- Chair of the Forum for Research in Literacy and Language
- Language consultant for Alphablocks (CBeebies)
- Member of the ERSC Grant Awarding Panel
- Member of the editorial board Journal of Research in Reading
- Member of the editorial board Educational Psychology
- Member of the editorial board Reading Research Quarterly
- Advisor to HM Government on the teaching of early reading
- Member of the Welsh Assembly Government National Literacy Plan Task and Finish Group
- Consultant to the Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training on the teaching of English (2010) (funded by the British Council, Hanoi)
- Consultant to the Malaysian Ministry of Education on the teaching of reading (2009-10) (funded by the British Council, Kuala Lumpur)
