Hannah L Witherstone

Dr Hannah L Witherstone is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Sheffield Hallam University's College of Social Sciences and Arts. She specializes in Developmental, Cognitive, and Educational Psychology, teaching undergraduate and postgraduate modules while leading collaborative courses at partner colleges.

• BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD in Psychology (University of York)
• Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA) with Postgraduate Certificate

Research Interests: Focus on cognitive deficits in developmental language disorders, literacy acquisition, educational interventions, and psycholinguistic mechanisms. Key areas include real-time grammatical processing in DLD, nonword encoding dynamics, and cross-linguistic sentence construction studies.

Publications Trends: Recent work (2024) explores speed of processing in DLD, building on earlier investigations (2011) into lexical-sublexical interactions in memory. Ongoing research extends to Spanish language acquisition paradigms, reflecting interdisciplinary interests in bilingual development and educational psychology.

Academic Activities: Serves as External Examiner for Brunel University and participates in periodic review panels. Supervises postgraduate projects and PhD students in developmental psychology domains.