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Emily Oxley is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, working on the Nuffield Foundation project 'Love Read', which aims to co-design interventions to motivate and engage child readers. Her research primarily focuses on children learning English as an additional language and those with special educational needs in areas of high social deprivation. Before joining the University of Edinburgh, she worked as a Research Associate at the University of Leeds, contributing to the Dynamic Assessment Reading Test (DART) project. She holds a PhD in Psychology from the University of Leeds, which was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), and has a strong academic background in language acquisition, having completed her MA in Linguistics (Language Acquisition) and a BA (Hons) in Modern Foreign Languages at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne. Emily’s research also intersects the disciplines of psychology, language learning, and education, with a particular emphasis on reading motivation and engagement among children aged 8 to 11. Her findings contribute to the understanding of how to better support young readers in educational settings.
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