Dr Katie Alcock
Senior LecturerResearch Interests
- Language development, especially what makes children different from each other: individual differences, culture, and language.
- Cognitive development in typical and neurodiverse children, especially with respect to the understanding of sex-role/gender stereotypes, appearance and reality.
- The cognitive psychology and neuropsychology of language.
- The influence of health and disease on neuropsychological development.
Guidance for schools to support trans young people
01/02/2024 → 15/09/2024
Consultancy
Piloting candidate assessments to investigate links between autism spectrum disorder and gender dysphoria
01/01/2024 → 31/07/2024
Research
Cross-linguistic and cross-cultural analysis of early communication and language
01/06/2023 → 30/11/2025
Research
The ESRC International Centre for Language
01/11/2019 → 31/10/2025
Research
fEC Code: LUCID: The ESRC Centre for Language and Communicative Development
01/10/2014 → …
Research
LUCID: Centre for Language and Communicative Development
01/09/2014 → 31/05/2020
Research
GCRF Global IAA Institutional Award
01/01/1900 → …
Research
Language Assessment in Under-Researched Settings
Invited talk
Campus in the City Psychology
Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition
Hormone Treatments for Children and Young People with Gender Dysphoria
Parliament
Factors shaping gender incongruence and dysphoria, and impact on health services
Parliament
Consultancy on children's understanding of sex/gender
Expert Opinion
Engagement in my career
Oral presentation
Cross-cultural research and teaching and how to do it
Oral presentation
Sex, gender, children and autism
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Expert Witness submission on children's early understanding of sex and gender
Expert Opinion
Young children's understanding of sex and gender
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (Journal)
Editorial activity
Gender Identity: Safeguarding Children and Young People
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Global Challenges to Child Development
Invited talk
Newton Prize 2020 Nomination
Other distinction
Inspirational Women at Lancaster
Prize (including medals and awards)
- Developmental Research Group
- Language and Cognition