Dr Emily Oxley
- Lecturer in Language and Literacy Education, Affiliate (School of Social & Environmental Sustainability)
email:
Emily.Oxley@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns:
She/her/hers
Biography
Dr Emily Oxley is a Lecturer in the School of Social and Environmental Sustainability, University of Glasgow. She completed an ESRC funded PhD for the White Rose Doctoral Training Centre – ‘Understanding and enhancing reading and language skills in children learning English as an additional language’ at the University of Leeds.
Since then, Emily has worked at the Universities of Leeds, Edinburgh and Glasgow as a post-doctoral researcher. Most recently, she worked as a Fellow in Evidence Synthesis at the National Institute of Teaching.
Research interests
Language acquisition
Literacy development
Special Educational Needs
Language pedagogies
Second language acquisition
Reading motivation and engagement
Publications
Prior publications
ORCiD
Hannah Nash, Chris Dixon, Paula Clarke, Emily Oxley, Anna Steenberg Gellert, Anna Weighall, (2024) Dynamic assessment of word learning as a predictor of vocabulary, reading comprehension and risk status for the poor comprehender reading profile Reading and Writing (doi: 10.1007/s11145-024-10603-x); source: Crossref
Emily Oxley, Miriam McBreen, Laura Shapiro, Jessie Ricketts, Sarah Patricia McGeown, (2023) An evaluation of the XXX programme: Examining implementation and effectiveness (doi: 10.31219/osf.io/agb6w); source: Crossref
Sophie R Harding, Maya Chauhan-Sims, Emily Oxley, Hannah Nash, (2022) A Delphi Study exploring the barriers to Dyslexia diagnosis and support: A parent’s perspective (doi: 10.31219/osf.io/6rq3f); source: Crossref
Teaching
PGDE Literacy
Additional Support Needs
Professional activities & recognition
Editorial boards
- 2024: Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching
- 2025: Research Synthesis in Applied Linguistics
Selected international presentations
- 2024: Annual Meeting of the British Educational Research Association (Manchester, UK)
- 2023: Annual Meeting of the British Educational Research Association (Birmingham, UK)
- 2022: Annual Meeting of the United Kingdom Literacy Association (Birmingham, UK)
- 2019: Child Language Symposium (Sheffield, UK)
- 2019: Experimental Psychology Association (Manchester, UK)
- 2018: The Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (St John's, Canada)
- 2017: Many Paths to Languages, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (Nijmegen, Netherlands)
- 2017: European Society of Cognitive Psychology, (Potsdam, Germany)
- 2016: Conference for Lesser Educated Second Language and Literacy Acquisition (St Augustine, Florida)