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Nicola Currie is a Lecturer in Psychology at Edge Hill University since March 2024. Previously, she held postdoctoral roles at Lancaster University (2015-2022) and the Moray House School of Education and Sport at the University of Edinburgh (2022-2024). Her research focuses on cognitive and affective aspects of reading, particularly inference generation in children and the role of reading in promoting wellbeing across all life stages. She collaborates with literacy charities and libraries to translate research into practical initiatives.
Education: PhD in Psychology (Children's Inference Generation) from Lancaster University. Postdoctoral work emphasized language and literacy development in children and adolescents.
Research emphasizes how cognitive skills like inference generation underpin reading comprehension and their lifelong impact on wellbeing. Recent work explores fiction reading's effects on empathy and positive affect in adolescents and older adults. Collaborations with external partners include studies on reader and text characteristics influencing inference making in schoolchildren.
Publications span 2015-2025, with 11 peer-reviewed outputs including articles in Reading Psychology and Journal of Research in Reading. Notable studies include qualitative analyses of fiction's wellbeing benefits and quantitative investigations into inference generation mechanisms.
Awards: None explicitly listed. Grants/funding details not provided in text.
Labs/teams: No specific lab affiliations mentioned, but collaborative work with interdisciplinary teams in education and psychology departments.
