Rhona Stainthorp

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Rhona Stainthorp OBE is a British academic. She is an Emerita Professor at the Institute of Education, University of Reading. She specialises in reading development and challenges, with her research focusing on the role of phonics in literacy. [1]

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In 2024, she was recognised with an Order of the British Empire in the King's Birthday Honours for her contributions to education. [2]

Education

Stainthorp completed an undergraduate degree in politics at the University of Nottingham, [3] followed by a Bachelor of Science (BSc) in psychology at Birkbeck College, University of London (now Birkbeck, University of London). She later obtained a master's degree in Human Communication from the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, and a PhD under the supervision of Professor Maggie Snowling.

Research

Stainthorp has participated in a number of research projects focused on literacy and reading development. These include studies on the use of e-readers among Key Stage 2 students, transcription skills and literacy at Key Stage 3, and spelling at Key Stage 2. [4] [5] She has also contributed to research on the role of orthographic processing in reading and its connection to rapid automatised naming deficits, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). [6]

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References

  1. ↑ "Emerita Professor Rhona Stainthorp – Education". University of Reading.
  2. ↑ "University of Reading's Professor Rhona Stainthorp awarded OBE for services to education". Reading Today.
  3. ↑ "Recognition for University of Nottingham alumni in King's Birthday Honours". University of Nottingham.
  4. ↑ "Increasing understanding of the importance of phonics in the development of early years' reading". REF Case study search.
  5. ↑ Stainthorp, Rhona (December 2020). "A national intervention in teaching phonics: A case study from England" . The Educational and Developmental Psychologist. 37 (2): 114–122. doi:10.1017/edp.2020.14. ISSN   2059-0776.
  6. ↑ Stainthorp, Rhona; Powell, Daisy; Stuart, Morag (November 2013). "The relationship between rapid naming and word spelling in English". Journal of Research in Reading. 36 (4): 371–388. doi:10.1111/jrir.12002. ISSN   0141-0423.
  7. ↑ Fraser, Val (March 1998). "Book Review: Learning from Children Who Read at an Early Age". Citizenship, Social and Economics Education. 3 (1): 50–54. doi:10.2304/csee.1998.3.1.50. ISSN   1478-8047.
  8. ↑ Nock, Lesley (2001). "Rhona Stainthorp and Diana Hughes (1999) Learning from children who read at an early age. London: Routledge ISBN 0415 174953 £15.99" . Improving Schools. 4 (1): 78–80. doi:10.1177/136548020100400114. ISSN   1365-4802.
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