2021/22研资局高级研究学者计划得奖者 心理学系
Catherine McBRIDE教授
心理学系
香港中文大学
Biography (只提供英文版)
- Choh-Ming Li Professor of Psychology at The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- A developmental psychologist whose research focuses primarily on literacy development and impairment across cultures, with current interests centering on identifying optimal predictors of dyslexia by incorporating behavioral, neuroscience, and genetics approaches
- Has authored two books — Children’s Literacy Development (2016); Coping with Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, and ADHD: A Global Perspective (2019); has authored approximately 250 journal articles, with over 20,000 citations in google scholar
- SRFS project — to test newly identified correlates of Chinese and English literacy longitudinally, for optimizing early identification of risk for reading impairment in both Chinese and English across Chinese-speaking societies, and further test the neural signatures and genetics of the targeted, specific behavioral correlates as well as basic, potentially universal processes in both Chinese and English
- Awards and Honours:
- RGC Senior Research Fellow (2021)
- Founding President of the Association for Reading and Writing in Asia
- Senior Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study in Europe (EURIAS) (2017 – 2018)
- President, Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (2012)
Project Title (只提供英文版)
- Optimizing Predictions of Dyslexia Cross-Culturally: Chinese and English Compared
赞词
Catherine McBride 是一位主要研究跨文化读写能力发展与障碍的发展心理学家。她目前的研究兴趣是透过结合行为、神经科学和遗传学方法识别读写障碍的最佳预测因素。McBride是香港中文大学心理学系卓敏心理学讲座教授。她曾担任国际阅读科学研究协会主席和亚洲读写协会创始主席。目前她是国际阅读障碍协会科学顾问委员会，和儿童发展研究学会出版委员会的成员。
McBride 曾撰写Children’ s Literacy Development（2016）和Coping with Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, and ADHD: A Global Perspective（2019）两本书，并编辑了四本与读写学习相关的书。她撰写了大约 250篇期刊文章，被引用超过20,000次，也曾担任四份不同学术期刊的副主编。
McBride的研究带来一些实际影响。例如，她与World Learning组织合作创建名为Teaching Struggling Readers around the World 的开放在线课程，在 100 个国家有10,000人次观看。她的研究还为《香港读写障碍及早识别量表》奠定基础。她还与Arcanys 基金会开展教导菲律宾父母如何提升孩子早期读写和数学技能的项目。她与同事创办公司（开彦教育设计有限公司），致力于测试和培训读写技能。
McBride 于 2019 年荣获中大社会科学学院颁发的研究指导奖。她曾指导来自世界各地的16 名博士生和若干硕士生。她的学生们都在研究事业上取得成功。
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