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Ian Cunnings serves as an Associate Professor at the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading. His key responsibilities include Module Convenor for Linguistics 2 (PL2LNG2), School Director of Postgraduate Research (PhD) Admissions, and University Academic Lead for the SEDarc Doctoral Training Partnership.
His academic credentials comprise:
- PhD in Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics from the University of Essex
- MA in Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics from the University of Essex
- BA (Hons) in English Language from the University of Sussex
Dr. Cunnings' research centers on cognitive mechanisms in language processing, with emphasis on sentence/discourse comprehension, eye-tracking methodologies, and memory retrieval operations during reading and listening. He investigates first/second language acquisition and multilingual processing across diverse populations, including children and adults, with particular focus on morphological processing and bilingual cognitive architecture. His work employs experimental paradigms to examine real-time language comprehension in monolingual and multilingual contexts.
He actively contributes to the Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (CeLM) and the Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics Lab, where he explores similarity effects in second language sentence processing and cognitive load during bilingual comprehension.
In his administrative roles, Dr. Cunnings oversees PhD admissions for the School and leads the University's involvement in the SEDarc Doctoral Training Partnership, shaping interdisciplinary research training frameworks while mentoring doctoral candidates in psycholinguistic methodology.
