LUCID - Key Persons


Alissa Ferry

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer

Amira Saouri

Job Titles:
  • Researcher ( Alumni )

Amit Kulkarni

Job Titles:
  • Research Manager, Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists

Amy Bidgood

Job Titles:
  • Researcher ( Alumni )
Lee, C., Jessop, A., Bidgood, A., Peter, M., Pine, J., Rowland, C. & Durrant, S. (2023). How executive functioning, sentence processing, and vocabulary are related at 3 years of age Journal of Experimental Child Psychology Bidgood, A., McLaughlin, P., Durrant, S., Peter, M., Pine, J., & Rowland, C. (2018). The relationship between oral-motor skills and 2 years, vocabulary production and later articulation skills. Paper presented at the Child Language Symposium, Reading, UK. Bidgood, A., Cameron-Faulkner, T., Durrant, S., Peter, M. & Rowland, C.F. (2016). The role of gestures and babble in the vocabulary growth of children aged 8-18 months. Paper presented at the 1st Lancaster Conference on Infant and Child Development, Lancaster, UK.

Andrew Jessop

Job Titles:
  • Researcher

Andrew Roxburgh

Job Titles:
  • Researcher ( Alumni )
Roxburgh, A., Grasso, F., & Payne, T. (2017). Predicting word learning to boost child language acquisition. Poster presented at the 7th International Conference on Digital Health, DH '17. London, United Kingdom - July 02 - 05, 2017

Anna Theakston

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Professor
de Ruiter, L., Lieven, E., Brandt, S., Hargreaves, S., & Theakston, A. (2018). Improving 5-year-olds' comprehension of adverbial sentences: a classroom based training study. Poster presented at the Child Language Symposium, Reading, UK de Ruiter, L., Theakston, A., Brandt, S., Lieven, E. (2017). Iconicity affects children's comprehension of complex sentences: the role of semantics, clause order, input and individual differences. Cognition, 143, 61-76. Kirjavainen, M., Lieven, E. V. M. and Theakston, A. L. (2016). Can Infinitival to Omissions and Provisions Be Primed? An Experimental Investigation Into the Role of Constructional Competition in Infinitival to Omission Errors Cognitive Science. doi:10.1111/cogs.12407

Arielle Borovsky

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Bashar Rajoub

Job Titles:
  • Researcher ( Alumni )

Ben Ambridge

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Birsu Kandemirci

Job Titles:
  • Researcher ( Alumni )

Caroline Rowland

Job Titles:
  • Professor
Frost, R., Rowland, C., Durrant, S., Peter, M., Bidgood, A., Monaghan, P. (2018). Statistical learning in infants, and its relationship with language development: A study of nonadjacent dependency learning. Paper presented at 26th Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP), Berlin, Germany.

Cathy Hamer

Job Titles:
  • Early Years Education Consultant and NW SEND Regional Network Co - Ordinator

Cerys Griffiths

Job Titles:
  • Head of Content Production

Charleen List

Job Titles:
  • Student ( Alumni )

Chen Zhao

Job Titles:
  • Researcher

Christian Kliesch

Job Titles:
  • Student ( Alumni )
Kliesch, C. (2019). Parent-child interactions scaffold action segmentation in infancy and early childhood. The 7th Conference of the Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition, School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark. Kliesch, C., Reid, V., Theakston, A., Parise, E. (2018). Ostensive-referential communication modulates action interpretation at 9 months. Poster presented at the 21st biennial meeting of the International Congress of Infant Studies, Philadelphia, USA.

Circle Steele

Job Titles:
  • Researcher ( Alumni )

Colin Bannard

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer

Daniel Freudenthal

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer ( Alumni )
Bidgood, A., Pine, J., Rowland, C., Sala, G., Freudenthal, D. & Ambridge, B. (2021). Verb argument structure overgeneralisations for the English intransitive and transitive constructions: Grammaticality judgments and production priming. Language and Cognition Language and Cognition 13, 397-437.

Ditte Boeg Thomsen

Job Titles:
  • Researcher ( Alumni )

Eleanor Rathbone

Job Titles:
  • Department of Psychological Sciences

Elena Lieven

Job Titles:
  • Emeritus Professor ( Alumni )
Quick, A., Lieven, E., Carpenter, M., Tomasello, M. (2017). Identifying partially schematic units in the code-mixing of an English and German speaking child. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 8(4), 477-501. List, C., Lieven, E., Ambridge, B. & Pine, J. M., (2017). Testing two different models of verb-marking error in children with Developmental Language Disorder and language-matched controls. (1) Poster presented at the Many Paths to Language (MPaL) workshop, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Lieven, E. (2014). First language development: a usage-based perspective on past and current research. Journal of Child Language, 41(1), 48-63. Ambridge, B., Noble, C., Lieven, E. (2014). The semantics of the transitive causative construction: Evidence from a forced-choice pointing study with adults and children. Cognitive Linguistics 25(2) p.293-311. Lieven, Elena (2016). The science behind how children learn to talk and why it matters. Invited talk presented at the Faculty of Education, Leipzig University Schmerse, D., Lieven, E. and Tomasello, M. (2015). Young children use shared experience to interpret definite reference. Journal of Child Language, 42(5), pp. 1146-1157. Koymen, B., Lieven, E., Brandt, S. (2015). Syntactic and semantic coordination in finite complement-clause constructions: a diary-based case study Journal of Child Language 43, 1, 22-42 Brandt, S., Buttelmann, D., Lieven, E., & Tomasello, M. (2016). Children's understanding of first- and third-person perspectives in complement clauses and false-belief tasks. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. Noble, C., Lieven, E., Iqbal, F. & Theakston, A (2015). Converging and competing cues in the acquisition of syntactic structures: the conjoined agent intransitive. Journal of Child Language. doi: 10.1017/S0305000915000288

Eugenio Parise

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer ( Alumni )
Bazhydai, M., Westermann, G., Parise, E. (2019). 12-month-old infants actively seek information from a knowledgeable social partner. Poster presented at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCCD19), Budapest, Hungary. Kliesch, C., Reid, V., Theakston, A., Parise, E. (2018). Ostensive-referential communication modulates action interpretation at 9 months. Poster presented at the 21st biennial meeting of the International Congress of Infant Studies, Philadelphia, USA. Parise, E., Csibra, G., Reid, V. (2014). Lables and pictures co-refer to object categories in adults and 9-month-old infants. Paper presented at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Budapest, Hungary. Marno, H., Westermann, G., & Parise, E. (2016). Verbal labeling overrides visual similarity during object categorization in 9-month-old infants Poster presented at the BCCCD - Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Budapest, Hungary. Kliesch, C., Reid, V.M., Theakston, A.L., Parise, E. (2017). Anticipation of familiar, unexpected and novel actions in ostensive and non- ostensive contexts in 7-month-old infants. Poster presented at the Lancaster Conference on Infant and Child Development, August 22- 25, 2017, Lancaster, UK.

Evan Kidd

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Felix Engelmann

Job Titles:
  • Researcher ( Alumni )
Granlund, S., Kolak, J., Vihman, V., Engelmann, F., Lieven, E., Pine, J., Theakston, A., & Ambridge, B. (2019). Language-general and language-specific phenomena in the acquisition of inflectional noun morphology: A cross-linguistic elicited-production study of Polish, Finnish and Estonian. Journal of Memory and Language, 107, 169-194. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2019.04.004

Fernand Gobet

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Fiona Evans

Job Titles:
  • Head of School Programmes, National Literacy Trust

Floriana Grasso

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer ( Alumni )
Roxburgh, A., Grasso, F., & Payne, T. (2017). Predicting word learning to boost child language acquisition. Poster presented at the 7th International Conference on Digital Health, DH '17. London, United Kingdom - July 02 - 05, 2017

Franklin Chang

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer ( Alumni )
Abbot-Smith, K., Chang, F., Rowland, C., Ferguson, H. & Pine, J. (2017). Do two and three year old children use an incremental first-NP-as-agent bias to process active transitive and passive sentences? A permutation analysis. PLoS ONE 12 (10): e0186129

Gemma Taylor

Job Titles:
  • Researcher ( Alumni )
Taylor, G., Kolak, J., Bent, E. M., & Monaghan, P. (2022). Selecting educational apps for preschool children: How useful are website app rating systems? British Journal of Educational Technology, 1-24 Taylor, G., Monaghan, P., & Westermann, G. (2018). Investigating the association between children's screen media exposure and vocabulary size in the UK. Journal of Children and Media., 12, 51-65. Taylor, G. & Herbert, J.S. (2015). The role of language cues on flexible memory retrieval at 12-months of age. Poster to be presented at the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology , San Sebastian, Spain.

Gert Westermann

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Professor

Grégoire Vergotte

Job Titles:
  • Researcher ( Alumni )

Hannah Chalk

Job Titles:
  • Learning Manager, Manchester Museums & Galleries

Heather Lemen

Job Titles:
  • Student ( Alumni )

Heather Turnbull

Job Titles:
  • Researcher ( Alumni )

Iain Jackson

Job Titles:
  • Researcher ( Alumni )

Jacky Chan

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor ( Alumni )

Jean Gross - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman

Joanna Kolak

Job Titles:
  • Researcher ( Alumni )

Julian Pine

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Professor

Kate Cain

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Katharina Kaduk

Job Titles:
  • Centre Engagement Officer / View Profile

Katherine (Katie) Twomey

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer

Katie Alcock

Job Titles:
  • Senior Lecturer

Kimberley Bell

Job Titles:
  • Student ( Alumni )

Kirsty Dunn

Job Titles:
  • Researcher ( Alumni )

Lana Jago

Job Titles:
  • Researcher ( Alumni )

Laura de Ruiter

Job Titles:
  • Researcher ( Alumni )

Laura Mitchell

Job Titles:
  • Centre Manager

Liam Blything

Job Titles:
  • Researcher

Louah Sirri

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer ( Alumni )

Ludovica Serratrice

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Marta Szreder

Job Titles:
  • Researcher ( Alumni )

Megan Dixon

Job Titles:
  • Director of Research for Holy Catholic Family Multi - Academy Trust and CPD Lead for Inspire Learning Teaching School Hub

Michelle Peter

Job Titles:
  • Researcher ( Alumni )

Morten H. Christiansen

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Nikki Botting

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Developmental Disorders, City University

Nivedita Malik

Job Titles:
  • Researcher ( Alumni )

Padraic Monaghan

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Panagiotis Boutris

Job Titles:
  • Researcher

Paula McLaughlin

Job Titles:
  • Researcher ( Alumni )

Perrine Brusini

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer

Phoebe Harding-Walker

Job Titles:
  • Student

Rebecca Frost

Job Titles:
  • Researcher ( Alumni )

Ross Macdonald

Job Titles:
  • Researcher ( Alumni )

Sam Jones

Job Titles:
  • Researcher ( Alumni )

Samantha Durrant

Job Titles:
  • Researcher
Durrant, S., Peter, M., Bidgood, A., Monaghan, P., Frost, R., Bannard, C., Kidd, E., & Rowland, C. (2017). Does variation in infants statistical learning ability predict variation in later vocabulary growth? Lessons learned from the Language 0-5 Project. Paper presented at the European Conference on Developmental Psychology, Utrecht, Holland.

Sharon Freeman

Job Titles:
  • Researcher ( Alumni )

Shijie Zhang

Job Titles:
  • Researcher

Silke Brandt

Job Titles:
  • Senior Lecturer

Sonia Granlund

Job Titles:
  • Researcher ( Alumni )

Soumitra Samanta

Job Titles:
  • Researcher ( Alumni )

Stephanie Hargreaves

Job Titles:
  • Researcher ( Alumni )

Szilvia Linnert

Job Titles:
  • Researcher ( Alumni )

Thea Cameron-Faulkner

Job Titles:
  • Senior Lecturer

Theresa Redmond

Job Titles:
  • Speech and Language Consultant

Tony Trotter

Job Titles:
  • Student ( Alumni )

Vincent Reid

Job Titles:
  • Professor ( Alumni )

Wendy Lee

Job Titles:
  • Speech and Language Consultant

Xiaoyun Chen

Job Titles:
  • Researcher ( Alumni )