Beth Law
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+44 (0) 118 378 8526
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Associate Professor
- Lecturer
- School Director of Teaching & Learning
Areas of interest
Developmental psychology, specifically early language and social development and developmental disorders including autism spectrum conditions. Teaching and learning pedagogy, particularly the development and teaching of critical thinking skills and research methods in higher education.
Teaching
PY1DV, PY1SK, PY2TA, PY3P Project supervision.
Academic qualifications
- BSc (Hons)
- PGCert
- PhD (Reading)
- Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA)
- CPsychol
Publications
- Houston-Price, C. and Law, B. (2013) How experiences with words supply all the tools in the toddler’s word-learning toolbox. In: Gogate, L. and Hollich, G. , (eds.) Theoretical and Computational Models of Word Learning: Trends in Psychology and Artificial Intelligence. Information Science Reference (an imprint of IGI Global) , Hershey, PA. pp. 81-108. ISBN: 9781466629738 | doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2973-8.ch004
- Law, B. , Houston-Price, C. , Loucas, T. (2012) Using gaze direction to learn words at 18 months: relationships with later vocabulary. Language Studies Working Papers , 4 pp. 3-14. ISSN: 2040-3461