Upcoming public lecture – please register online:

The Power and Pleasures of Reading: How Books Can Engage, Empower, and Enrich Us

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inaugural-lecture-by-professor-sarah-mcgeown-tickets-1104315279729

Previous talks by Literacy Lab members, from the last year, can be found here:

Invited and conference talks (slides only):

BookTrust Early Years Conference, March 2025

Sarah McGeown: BookTrust Wales

Scottish Book Trust, Reading for Pleasure: Exploring the Evidence Base, March 2025

Sarah McGeown: SBT reading schools presentation

School Libraries Association, Reading and Empathy, March 2025

Elena Santi and Sarah McGeown: SLA Empathy March 2025

Literacy Lab Seminar Series (recorded talks):

Literacy Lab Research Seminar: Representing diverse experiences in young adult fiction, November 2024

Charlotte Webber:  Representing diverse experiences in young adult fiction

Literacy Lab Research Seminar: Increasing children’s motivation to read and reading engagement, October 2024

Sarah McGeown: Increasing children’s motivation to read and reading engagement

Literacy Lab Research Seminar: Supporting teenagers’ reading enjoyment and engagement, October 2024

Charlotte Webber: Supporting teenagers’ reading enjoyment and engagement

Invited and conference talks (slides only):

School Libraries Association, October 2024

Sarah McGeown and Charlotte Webber, Supporting teenage reading: SLA Oct 2024

Moray House School of Education and Sport 175th Anniversary, September 2024

Sarah McGeown, Education: Making a Difference in the World: 175 Anniversary

British Psychological Society Developmental Section, September 2024

Sarah McGeown, Research-practice partnerships in education: BPS Dev Section 01

United Kingdom Literacy Association, July 2024

Sarah McGeown, Love to Read: A codesigned programme to support reading motivation and engagement: Love to Read UKLA 2024

Sarah McGeown: Reading and Wellbeing: Insights from children: Reading and Wellbeing UKLA

Nicola Currie: Reading and Wellbeing: Insights from older adults

School Libraries Association, July 2024

Nicola Currie: Reading and Wellbeing

Federation of European Literacy Associations, June 2024

Elena Santi, The Reading and Narrative Fiction Project: Santi FELA 2024

Sarah McGeown, Reading and Wellbeing: Children and Older adults: Reading and Wellbeing FELA 2024

Sarah McGeown, Love to Read: Love to Read FELA 2024

British Dyslexia Association, June 2024

Sarah McGeown,  Fostering reading motivation and engagement: Love to Read: Reading Motivation and Engagement BDA 2024

Libraries Connected/ASCEL, June 2024

Sarah McGeown: Supporting children and young people’s reading enjoyment and engagement: Libraries Connected and ASCEL

Nicola Currie: Support reading and wellbeing among children and young people:

School Libraries Association, May 2024:

Charlotte Webber: Neurodivergent Respresentation within Fiction Books

SUII An Ethical Framework for Scottish Educational Research, March, 2024

Sarah McGeown, Better together: Research-practice partnerships in education: SUII research-practice partnerships

UKLA Participatory Approaches to Literacy Research SIG, February 2024

Charlotte, Webber, Convening a young people’s advisory panel: UKLA SIG guest lecture

School Libraries Association, January 2024

Charlotte Webber, The Young People’s Reading Project: SLA-Jan 24-Young Peoples Reading Project