Dr Rachel George
Programme Leader, BSc (Hons) Child Psychology
Developmental Psychology
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AE 3.30, Stratford Campus
School of Psychology
The University of East London
Stratford Campus
London
E15 4LZ - r.george@uel.ac.uk +442082234533
After completing a first degree in Social Psychology at the London School of Economics, Dr Rachel George obtained an MSc Child Development and Early Childhood Education and then a PhD in Developmental Psychology at the Institute of Education, University of London. During this time, Rachel worked at the Nuffield Speech and Language Unit and was a visiting lecturer at the University of Westminster, London South Bank University and the LSE. Rachel was then a Research Officer at the IoE followed by a lectureship at the University of Central Lancashire. In addition she taught at the Open University for fifteen years. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her research interests are in cognitive development, particularly numeracy development and language difficulties in early childhood, and modelling developmental difficulties. She has lectured at UEL since 2001. Her teaching is centred on developmental psychology, both at undergraduate and postgraduate level and she leads on work experience opportunities within modules on the undergraduate psychology programmes. She leads the BSc Developmental Psychology and the BSc Child Psychology and the Combined Honours degrees in Psychology.
Overview
Selected publications
Publically available research outputs are available to download from UEL’s Research Open Access Repository (ROAR).
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
Moore, D. G., & George, R. (2011). ACORNS: a tool for the visualisation and modelling of atypical development. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 55(10), 956–972. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2788.2011.01471.x|
Book Chapters
Moore, D. G., & George, R. (2015). ACORNS: A tool for visual modelling of causes and outcomes in neuro-developmental disorders. In D. Riby & J. V. Herwegen (Eds.), Neurodevelopmental disorders: Research challenges and solutions (pp. 93–114). Hove, UK; New York, NY: Psychology Press.|
Publically available research outputs are available to download from UEL’s Research Open Access Repository (ROAR).
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
Moore, D. G., & George, R. (2011). ACORNS: a tool for the visualisation and modelling of atypical development. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 55(10), 956–972. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2788.2011.01471.x|
Book Chapters
Moore, D. G., & George, R. (2015). ACORNS: A tool for visual modelling of causes and outcomes in neuro-developmental disorders. In D. Riby & J. V. Herwegen (Eds.), Neurodevelopmental disorders: Research challenges and solutions (pp. 93–114). Hove, UK; New York, NY: Psychology Press.|
Collaborators
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Research
Publications
Funding
Rachel’s research interests are in cognitive development, particularly numeracy development and language difficulties in early childhood, and modelling developmental difficulties. Her teaching is centred on developmental psychology, both at undergraduate and postgraduate level, and she leads on work experience opportunities within modules on the undergraduate psychology programmes.
Interests
Portfolio
PY4103: Introduction to Cognitive and Developmental Psychology
PY5203: Topics in Cognitive and Developmental Psychology
PY5209: Psychological Perspectives on Work Experience
PY6301: Psychological Research Project
PY6302: Employability & developing your graduate career pathway
PY6309: Applied Child Psychology
PY6310: Applied Child Psychology (with Placement)
PY6322: Developmental Psychological Research Project
PY7152: Social and Developmental Psychology
PY5203: Topics in Cognitive and Developmental Psychology
PY5209: Psychological Perspectives on Work Experience
PY6301: Psychological Research Project
PY6302: Employability & developing your graduate career pathway
PY6309: Applied Child Psychology
PY6310: Applied Child Psychology (with Placement)
PY6322: Developmental Psychological Research Project
PY7152: Social and Developmental Psychology
Undergraduate Psychology programmes
MSc Psychology
Doctoral supervision
MSc Psychology
Doctoral supervision
Member of the British Psychology Society
Member of the Higher Education Academy
Member of the Developmental Psychology Research Group at UEL
External Examiner at the University of Westminster
Member of the Higher Education Academy
Member of the Developmental Psychology Research Group at UEL
External Examiner at the University of Westminster