Literacies across the life course and within diverse communities

Our work on early literacy development; adult literacy, policy and practice; literacy in diverse settings.

Reading the Way (2023-ongoing)
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Reading the Way (2023-ongoing)

We are delighted to be working with Prison Reading Groups, Novus and Claire Collins Consultancy on the Reading the Way project, developing reading groups for emergent readers in prisons.

Reading Aloud in Britain Today (RABiT) (2017-2019, funder: AHRC)
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Reading Aloud in Britain Today (RABiT) (2017-2019, funder: AHRC)

This two-year study of contemporary adult reading-aloud practices explored diverse forms of oral reading in different communities, languages, cultural contexts and phases of adult life.