Dr Florence Oxley
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Profile
Biography
I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Hungry Mind Lab at the Department of Education at the University of York.
I recently completed my PhD in Linguistics (2023), for which I was awarded an ESRC +3 Studentship and an HRC Doctoral Fellowship. My doctoral research investigated cerebral specialisation for vocalisation and facial expression of emotion in pre-linguistic infants. I worked as a Research Assistant at the School of Education at the University of Leeds alongside my PhD (2019-2022), and held other research posts on projects concerning phonological, linguistic, and psychological development at the University of York and Leeds Beckett University prior to this.
My research interests centre around how experience interacts with biology during the early years, resulting in individual differences in socio-emotional, cognitive and motor development. In my current role, I am working on a project examining the use of DNA to predict individual differences in intelligence.
I am committed to working to improve developmental outcomes and am keen to foster interdisciplinary collaborations with colleagues with similar research interests and aims.
Research
Overview
I am interested in how our everyday environmental experiences interact with our genetics and our physiological development, and how these interactions shape our socio-emotional and cognitive development and the neural changes that underlie it.
Recent publications include:
Deignan, A., Candarli, C., & Oxley, F. (2022). The Linguistic Challenge of the Transition to Secondary School: A Corpus Study of Academic Language (1st ed.). Routledge.
Keren-Portnoy, T., Daffern, H., DePaolis, R. A., Cox, C. M. M., Brown, K. I., Oxley, F. A. R., Kanaan, M. (2021). ‘Did I just do that?’: Six-month-olds learn the contingency between their vocalisations and a visual reward in 5 minutes. Infancy, 26(6), pp. 1057-75.
Projects
- Studying the gene-environment interplay: how genetics and the environment shape early life cognitive development
Research group(s)
External activities
Invited talks and conferences
2023 - International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Prague Congress Centre, Czech Republic, 7-11 Aug
2023 - Character and Virtues in Professional Practice. Oriel College, University of Oxford, 5-7 Jan
2022 - International Congress of Infant Studies, Ottawa, 7-10 Jul
2022 - Building Linguistic Systems, University of York, York, 14-16 Jun
2019 - Humanities Research Centre Doctoral Fellowship Finals, University of York, York, 25 Jun
2018 - International Child Phonology Conference, Chania, Crete, 18-20 Jun
2018 - Lancaster Conference on Infant & Early Child Development, University of Lancaster, Lancaster, 5-7 Sept
