Dr Nicola Brunswick

Associate Professor in Psychology

Nicola Brunswick

  • School Faculty of Science and Technology

  • Department Psychology

  • Location London

Research activities

My research focuses on cognitive, behavioural and neuropsychological aspects of children's reading development, of skilled reading, and developmental dyslexia in children and adults, with a particular focus on academic and emotional outcomes for dyslexic students. I am also interested in the link between reading and musical expertise (in musicians and dancers), and between reading ability and visuo-spatial/drawing ability (in art/non-art students). I have conducted research using EEG, ERPs, fMRI and PET.


Current Teaching

I teach/lead the following modules:

  • Neuropsychology (Module leader)
  • Biological & cognitive psychology
  • Undergraduate dissertation supervision
  • Postgraduate dissertation supervision
  • MSc Applied Psychology (Program Leader)
  • MSc Cognitive & Clinical Neuroscience (Module leader for PSY4060 - Developmental neuroscience)

    • Biography

    I studied for my PhD in the psychophysiology of dyslexia at the University of Warwick. This was followed by post-doctoral positions as an E.U. Research Fellow at the Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience (University College London), as a Research Scientist (external collaborator) at the MRC Cognitive Development Unit in London, and as a Research Psychologist in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health (UCL Medical School).

    I have written/edited five books on reading and dyslexia, and I served for six years as a Trustee of the British Dyslexia Association. I am a member of the British Psychological Society, the British Dyslexia Association, and the International Dyslexia Association; I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. I sit on the editorial boards of Dyslexia, and Learning Disabilities: A Contemporary Journal.

    I am co-chair of the Psychology Research Ethics Committee, and a deputy chair of the University Research Ethics Committee.

    External activities

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    • Publications

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