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Professor Kate Cain is a faculty member at Lancaster University, leading the Language and Literacy Research Group within the Department of Developmental Psychology. She holds affiliations with the Data Science Institute and the ESRC International Centre for Language as a Co-Investigator. Her primary research focuses on cognitive and language-related skills underlying reading/listening comprehension in both typical and atypical populations, emphasizing inference generation, narrative integration, and the impact of digital mediums. Cain has supervised three postgraduate students, all of whom have produced research profiles. She has received the Hollis Scarborough Award and serves as President of the Society of the Scientific Study of Reading. Her work explores preschool predictors of literacy, adolescence reading comprehension structures, and bilingual learning dynamics.
Key grants include leadership roles in NIH-funded projects studying monolingual/bilingual reading comprehension and ESRC initiatives like CASS. She also oversees a US Department of Education project evaluating digital literacy programs. Cain’s external roles include governance on the Society for Text and Discourse board and editorial contributions to Scientific Studies of Reading.
