Professor Margaret Harris

Head of Department - Psychology - School of Social Sciences and Law

Research interests

  • The development of written and spoken language
  • The dynamics of deaf and hearing mothers' communication with their deaf children, and how health visitors assess these
  • The language development of deaf children
  • Literacy attainment of deaf school children
  • The inclusion of deaf children in mainstream schools
  • Children with cochlear implants

Professor Margaret Harris began her career as a lecturer at Birkbeck College, moving to Royal Holloway University of London in 1989 as a Senior Lecturer and then Reader and Professor. She joined Oxford Brookes in 2006, where as well as being Head of Psychology, she is also the Director of the Institute for Research in Child Development. This dedicated institute opened in January 2007 and brings together child development experts from across the University.

Professor Harris is the author of four books, and is currently completing a book on research methods in developmental psychology.

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