Curriculum Vitae Highlights

Education:

• B.A., B.A. (Ed.), M.Ed. - Memorial University of Newfoundland
  
• PhD. - University of Alberta

Recent Honours & Awards:

• Centennial Professor
• Appointed as a member of the International Reading Association's new Literacy Research Panel (For information on this panel and its proposed work, click here)
• Appointed as a member of the Canadian International Development Agency
• Canadian Leader in Literacy Research
• McCalla Research Professorship
• Featured Social Science Researcher, Networks of Centres of Excellence
  
• Ted T. Aoki Award, Canadian Association of Curriculum Studies
  
• Killam Annual Professorship, University of Alberta
  
• Beauchamp Laureate, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta
  
• NeuroImage one of the "top ten cited articles published in 2008". Microstructural maturation of the human brain from childhood to adulthood. Elsevier and NeuroImage.
  
• Science Educatuon one of the nine "top downloaded articles" published in 2008. Learning to read scientific text: Do elementary school commercial reading programs help? Wiley and Science Education.

Current Executive & Editorial Positions:

• Editorial Review Board, Reading Research Quarterly
  
• Senior Editor, Handbook of Language and Literacy Development: A Roadmap from 0 to 60 Months
  
• Member, College of Reviewers, University of Alberta
  
• International Advisor, Norwegian Centre for Science Education / Naturfagsenteret, University of Oslo
  
• Collaborator, Early LIteracy, Aga Khan University Institute for Educational Development, Eastern Africa
  
• Reviewer, Qatar National Research Fund, Qatar Foundation
  

Current Teaching:

• EDEL 404 Developing Literacy: Preschool to Grade 3
• EDEL 514 Early Literacy Development
  
• EDEL 519 Assessment of the Language Arts
  
• EDEL 605 Theories and Models of Language

Current Doctoral Students:

• Karen Vavra

Current Research Grants & Funding:

• SSHRC - Teaching High School Science Using Adapted Primary Literature. Linda M. Phillips (Principal Investigator assumed upon death of Dr. Stephen Norris).
• Killam Cornerstones Grant - Design and Development of a Test of Early Language and Literacy: Alberta Data Collection. Linda M. Phillips (Principal Investigator). Click here for more information on this project.
  
  

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