Professor Julie Dockrell

• Professor of Psychology and Special Needs UCL, Institute of Education, UK
• Email: j.dockrell@ucl.ac.uk
• Communicative Participation Network member and co-investigator

Julie Dockrell (FRCSLT, FAcSS) is Professor of Psychology and Special Needs at the UCL, Institute of Education and qualified as both a clinical and educational psychologist. Her research interests are in patterns of language development and the ways in which oral language skills impact on children's learning, interaction and attainments. A central theme in this research has been the application of evidence based research to support children’s learning. She has led projects on language development funded by the DfE, ESRC, EPSRC, Nuffield Foundation and Leverhulme trust. She has published in a wide range of journals and written books and book chapters on language development and language difficulties. She was a previous editor of the British Journal of Educational Psychology, associate editor for JSLHR, Learning and Instruction, IJLCD, First language and Child Language Teaching and Therapy. She was a co-director of the Better Communication Research Programme, UK. She is currently PI on a research programme examining universal language support for nursery aged children in areas of social disadvantage and the Key to oral language. She is Co-I on the GCRF Action against stunting hub and the Nuffield funded teaching grammar programme. You can read more about Julie's research here.