Dr Kate Cain
Dr Kate Cain is a Reader in Language and Cognitive Development in the Department of Psychology. She teaches statistics and research methods to undergraduates, and her postgraduate teaching focuses on her research interests in the development of language comprehension in typical and atypical populations of children. She also contributes to Lancaster's MSc programme in Developmental Psychology, covering reading development and disorders.
Kate's current PhD students and research staff are investigating: early narrative development; language comprehension and ADHD; comprehension and memory in developmental dyslexia; and individual differences in text integration. Her Language and Literacy group always welcomes visitors and has hosted visiting students and academics from Canada, Italy, Norway, and Spain in recent years.
Dr Cain co-edited Children's Comprehension Problems in Oral and Written Language: a Cognitive Perspective with Jane Oakhill in 2007 and she is just completing a book entitled Reading Development and Reading Disorders to be published by Wiley-Blackwell. Kate is also an associate editor for two journals: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders and Journal of Research in Reading.
Kate's research on reading development was cited in the Reading Review (2006) conducted by Sir Jim Rose for the DfES and won the UKLA/Wiley-Blackwell Research in Literacy Education Award in 2007.
