Dr Charlotte Field
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Charlotte teaches across a wide range of psychology modules, and has particular research expertise in developmental disorders such as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). In addition to her research expertise, Charlotte is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a member of the University of Central Lancashire's Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience (DCN) research group.
Charlotte is module leader for the first year 'Introduction to Developmental and Social Psychology' and MSc level 'placement' modules. She has published within the field of ASD and language development. For example, exploring whether children with ASD are delayed acquiring word learning heuristics / biases.
Charlotte began working at the University of Central Lancashire in March 2016, as a Lecturer in Developmental Disorders. Charlotte teaches on various psychology modules across both undergraduate and masters level study and has experience of PhD supervision. Before joining the University of Central Lancashire, Charlotte graduated from the University of Hertfordshire with a BSc (Hons) degree in Psychology, before studying for her MSc in Developmental Psychology and PhD in Psychology at Lancaster University. Her PhD investigated word learning for novel objects in three groups of participants; ‘typically developing’ children, children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and children with other developmental disorders (DD). Her current research is also based in a similar field, investigating gesture processing and understanding of prosody, linguistic cues, sibling aggression and victimisation in ASD.
- PhD Psychology, The University of Lancaster, 2016
- MSc Developmental Psychology, The University of Lancaster, 2011
- BSc Psychology, The University of Hertfordshire, 2009
- Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
- Child Development
- Gesturing
- Sibling Relationships
- Language Acquisition
- Prosody
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- Member of the British Psychological Society - Developmental Section
Charlotte has particular research expertise within the area of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). This includes word learning and 'fast mapping' (the ability to 'map' a novel word to a novel object), social cues (e.g. gaze and pointing in ASD), understanding of prosody / semantics in ASD and sibling relationships in ASD.
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- Perception, Cognition and Neuroscience (PCN)
- Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience (DCN) Lab
- Understanding of prosody / semantic cues in ASD
- Gesture Processing in ASD
- Sibling Aggression and Victimisation in individuals with differing levels of ASD traits
- International Meeting for Autism Researchers (IMFAR), 2017 (poster)
- Society for Research in Child Development 2015 (poster) icog 2, 2014
- BPS Developmental Section Conference 2014
- Neurodevelopmental Disorders Seminar Series, 2014
- CogDev 2013
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