Staff Profile:Dr Judy Turner

Name:

Dr Judy Turner

Job Title:

Study Adviser

Responsibilities:

Judy leads the Study Advice and Maths Support team. She supports individual students in their academic development and runs workshops on effective study practices. She leads on the assessment of dyslexia and other specific learning difficulties, and helps to ensure that the university provides fair and consistent support for all students in their academic development. She is nominated liaison Study Adviser for the Faculties of Science and Life Sciences. 

Areas of Interest:

Judy gained her PhD at Bristol in experimental psychology in 1982 after extensive research into short-term memory for numbers. She worked as a research fellow in Psychology Departments in York, Durham and Reading and researched memory, aphasia and baby vision before finding the perfect job and becoming a Study Adviser.

Research groups / Centres:

Judy was Project Co-ordinator at Reading for LearnHigher during the CETL's operation from 2005-2010, and responsible for overseeing research into Time Management and Report Writing. She is a member of the committee for the Association of Dyslexia Supporters in Higher Education (ADSHE) and a past member of the steering committee for the Association for Learning Developers in Higher Education (ALDinHE).

Publications:

Turner, J.E. (forthcoming 2010). The case for one-to-one academic advice for students. In P. Hartley, J. Hilsdon, C. Keenan, S. Sinfield & M. Verity (eds.), Learning Development in Higher Education, Palgrave Macmillan.

Smith, P.T., Turner, J.E., Brown, P.A. & Henry, L.A. (2006). The distinct contribution of age of acquisition and word frequency in auditory word perception. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 59, 2121-2134

Turner, J.E., Henry, L.A., Smith, P.T. & Brown, P.A. (2004). Redintegration and lexicality effects in children: Do they depend upon the demands of the memory task? Memory and Cognition, 32, 501-510.

Turner, J.E., Riddell, P.M., Houston, S.M. & Horwood, A.M. (2002).The development of the response AC/A ratio over the first year of life.Vision Research, 42, 2521-2532.

Turner, J. E., Henry, L.A., & Smith, P.T. (2000). The development of the use of long-term knowledge to assist short-term recall. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 53A, 457-478.

Moore, V., Valentine, T. & Turner, J. E. (1999). Age of acquisition and cumulative frequency have independent effects. Cognition, 72, 305-309.

Turner, J. E., Valentine, T.R. & Ellis, A.W. (1998). Contrasting effects of age of acquisition and word frequency on auditory and visual lexical decision. Memory and Cognition, 26, 1282-1291.