Dr Hannah L Witherstone BSc (Hons), Msc, Phd, FHEA (PGCert)
Senior lecturer in Psychology
Summary
I am a permanent, full-time Senior Lecturer in Developmental Psychology at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ.
I teach and lead on various Developmental, Cognitive and Educational Psychology modules at both Ï㽶ÊÓƵ and Postgraduate level. I am also Collaborative Course Leader for our courses that run at partner colleges.
About
I joined Ï㽶ÊÓƵ in 2016 as a permanent Lecturer in Psychology. Prior to this, I held teaching roles at the University of Sheffield and the University of York. I also completed my Masters Degree (Reading, Language and Cognition) and PhD (Exploring the Cognitive Deficits in Specific Language Impairment) at the University of York.
I teach on various Psychology modules at both Ï㽶ÊÓƵ and Postgraduate level, with particular expertise in Developmental Disorders, Educational Psychology, Literacy Development and Language Development. I supervise Ï㽶ÊÓƵ and Postgraduate projects in these areas, usually with an experimental methodology. I also have interests in general Cognitive Psychology and Psycholinguistics.
Teaching
Sheffield Institute of Social Sciences
College of Social Sciences and Arts
Subject area
Psychology - Developmental, Cognitive, Educational
Courses taught
BSc Psychology
BA Education with Psychology and Counselling
Modules taught
Various modules in Developmental, Cognitive and Educational Psychology
Publications
Journal articles
Witherstone, H. (2024). . International journal of language and communication disorders.
Jones, G., & Witherstone, H.L. (2011). Lexical and sublexical knowledge influences the encoding, storage, and articulation of nonwords. Memory & cognition, 39 (4), 588-599.
Aguado-Orea, J., Witherstone, H., Bourgeois, L., & Baselga, A. (n.d.). Learning to construct sentences in Spanish: a replication of the Weird Word Order technique. Journal of Child Language.
Other activities
I am an External Examiner for Brunel University, and I regularly take part in other external examining and periodic review panels.
Postgraduate supervision
I supervise several postgraduate projects, as well as two PhD students.