Kathleen Rastle#
| Membership Number: | 4721 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS COMPLEXITY |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2015 - 2019 Head of Department, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London
- 2014 - 2015 Associate Vice Principal for Research, Royal Holloway, University of London
- 2006 - present Professor of Cognitive Psychology , Royal Holloway, University of London (Reader 2004-2006; Senior Lecturer 2002-2004)
- 2002 - present Honorary Associate , Centre for Cognition and its Disorders, Sydney, Australia
- 2000 - 2002 Research Fellow , Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science, Sydney, Australia
- 1998 - 2000 Research Associate, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge
Fields of Scholarship
- Articulation
- Language processing
- Computational modeling of human cognition
- Writing systems
- How meaning is accessed from text over time
- Promoting evidence-based policies for reading education
- Human learning
- Nature of the orthographic (spelling) representations used in reading
- Reading acquisition and skilled reading
Honours and Awards
- Elected 2018 Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences
- 2018 British Psychological Society Cognitive Section Prize
- 2017 Experimental Psychology Society Mid-Career Prize Lecturer
- Elected 2010 Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
- Elected 2011 Fellow of the British Psychological Society
