Caroline Rowland#
| Membership Number: | 7502 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Affiliated section(s): | THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS COMPLEXITY |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.mpi.nl/department/language-development/3 |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-8675-8669 |
| Bluesky: | @carorowland.bsky.social |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/caro-rowland-27874935b/?originalSubdomain=nl |
| Publication Link: | https://www.mpi.nl/people/rowland-caroline/publications |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2025 - present Managing Director, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands
- 2016 - present Director, Language Development Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands & Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society, Germany
- 2017 - present Professor by Special Appointment (Honorary), Donders Centre for Cognition, Radboud University, The Netherlands
- 2019 - present Honorary Senior Research Associate, Department for Psychological Sciences, University of Liverpool, UK
- 2012 - 2019 Professor, Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Liverpool, UK
- 2006 - 2012 Senior Lecturer, University of Liverpool, UK
- 2002 - 2006 Lecturer, University of Liverpool, UK
- 1998 - 2001 Lecturer, University of Derby, UK
- 1997 - 1998 Research Associate, University of Nottingham, UK
- 1993 - 1997 Research Assistant, University of Nottingham, UK
Fields of Scholarship
- Cross-linguistic studies of acquisition
- Language development research
- Diversity, equity and inclusion in academia
- Child language acquisition
- Cognitive and developmental psychology
- Experimental and corpus linguistics
- Language input and environment effects
- Learning mechanisms in children
Honours and Awards
- 2025 - 2029 European Commission (Horizon Europe). Fostering linguistic capital: A roadmap for reversing the diversity crisis and activating societal benefits. Co-Investigator, wth Justyna Olko (PI) and 14 Co-Is. €2,999,810.
- 2019 - present Fellow, Max Planck School of Cognition, Germany
- 2019 - present Honorary Research Fellow, Dept for Psychological Science, University of Liverpool, UK
- 2017 - present Professor by Special Appointment, Donders Centre for Cognition, Radboud University, The Netherlands
- 2016 - present Scientific Member, Max Planck Society, Germany
- 2023 - 2026 European Commission (Horizon Europe). Methodological excellence in data-driven approaches to linguistics. Co-Investigator with Virve Vihman (PI), 4 Co-Is. €1,050,000.
- 2014 - 2019 Economic and Social Research Council large center funding (2014-2019). The ESRC International Centre for Language and Communicative Development (LuCiD Centre). GBP 9,335,115
- 2011 - 2017 Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow, British Psychological Society
