Professor Charles Hulme

MA DPhil FAcSS FBA

Professor of Psychology

Department of Psychology, Health and Professional Development

chulme@brookes.ac.uk

Role

Professor of Psychology

Research

Charles has broad research interests in reading, language and memory processes and their development and is an expert on randomized controlled trials in Education. His work on reading development has made important contributions to understanding the role of phonological skills in learning to read. He has also explored the role of wider language skills (particularly vocabulary knowledge and grammatical skills) as influences on the development of reading comprehension. His work led to the development of the Nuffield Early Language Intervention (NELI) programme. This programme, now delivered by a spin-out company (https://oxedandassessment.com/), has been made available to over 10,000 schools in England and helped hundreds of thousands of children.

Projects as Principal Investigator, or Lead Academic if project is led by another Institution

Neurocognitive dynamics of word learning in developmental language disorder (led by the Univ of Oslo) (15/11/2022 - 15/05/2027), funded by: Research Council of Norway (Forskingsrådet), funding amount received by Brookes: £0

Publications

Other

Other publications

, 'Teacher Choices Round (led by Coventry University)',

Abbondanza, F., Dale, P S., Wang, C A., Hayiou-Thomas, M E., Toseeb, U., Koomar, T S., Wigg, K G., Feng, Y., Price, K M., Kerr, E N., Guger, S L., Lovett, M W., Strug, L J., van Bergen, E., Dolan, C V., Tomblin, J B., Moll, K., Schulte-Körne, G., Neuhoff, N. … Paracchini, S. (2023). Language and reading impairments are associated with increased prevalence of non-right-handedness. Child Development, 94, 970–984. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13914
Snowling, M. J., West, G., Fricke, S., Bowyer-Crane, C., Dilnot, J., Cripps, D., Nash, M., and Hulme, C. (2022) Delivering language intervention at scale: promises and pitfalls. Journal of Research in Reading, 45: 342–366. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9817.12391.
DF Newbury, C Mesa, M. Puglisi, M Nash, S Nag, C. Hulme, MJ Snowling (2022). Challenges for Implementation in Diverse Settings: reflections on two randomised controlled trials of educational interventions in South American communities. Research Papers in Education, 38, 966-986. https://doi.org/10.1080/02671522.2022.2065526.
Ramacciottia M., Sousaa , H., Silveiraa, H. , Hulme, C. , Snowling, M., Newbury, D. Puglisi, M. (2022). Scaling up early language intervention in educational settings: First steps matter. Oxford Review of Education, 49, 29-47, DOI: 10.1080/03054985.2022.2088488
Hulme, C., McGrane, J., Duta, M., West, G., Cripps, D., Dasguta, A., Hearne, S., Gardner, R & Snowling, M. (in press). LanguageScreen: The development and standardization of an automated language assessment App. Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools
Hulme, C. Donato, E. & Melby-Lervag, M. (in press) Educational interventions for children’s learning difficulties. In Rutter’s Textbook of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 7th Edition. Wiley Blackwell.
Snowling, M. & Hulme, C. (in press) Specific learning disorders. In Rutter’s Textbook of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 7th Edition. Wiley Blackwell