Internships
The LuCiD Internship Scheme provides early career researchers with the opportunity to oversee and fund a student project and gives undergraduate students from one of our north-west universities the opportunity to gain experience and insight into scientific research. The awards last for 6 weeks during the summer holiday.
Award Recipients
2024
Intern: Amelia Simmonds
Supervisor: Dr Hannah Stewart
Project: Language development assessments and undiagnosed hearing loss
Intern: Faheema Ali
Supervisor: Prof Padraic Monaghan
Project: How do pre-schoolers use educational touchscreen applications targeting literacy skills?
Intern: Simya Aravamuthan
Supervisor: Dr Kirsty Dunn
Project: A multi-methods approach to investigating the development of social communication in fetal and infant samples
Intern: Hannah Millhouse
Supervisor: Dr Perrine Brusini
Project: Perception of “visual” transitional probabilities in users of the British Sign Language
2023
Intern: Ciara Dutton
Supervisors: Dr Jacky Chan and Dr Shijie Zhang
Project: 1) Putting lexical cues into context: An eye-tracking study of young children’s processing of relative clauses (WP2.2) and 2) The effect of information structure on children’s and adults’ production of adverbial clauses (WP2.3)
Intern: Jada Mattis
Supervisors: Dr Jill Lany
Project: Statistical Word Segmentation in British-English Learning 8-Month-Olds
Intern: Jessica Knight
Supervisors: Dr Samantha Durrant and Dr Jenny Freed
Project: Assessing reception children’s inference-making: the effect of story test format in listening comprehension
Intern: Maha Sweetha Shanmugam
Supervisors: Prof Padraic Monaghan
Project: Investigating quality of language in children’s YouTube videos
Intern: Isabelle Bourgois
Supervisors: Dr Perrine Brusini
Project: Testing the limit of syllabic prediction
2022
Intern: Orlaith Kelly
Supervisors: Dr Kelly Burgoyne and Dr Laura Boundy
Project: An investigation into the effects of retrieval practice on word learning in children with Down syndrome
Intern: Amie Suthers
Supervisors: Dr Marina Bazhydai and Dr Didar Karadag
Project: 1) with primary school children using online interactive paradigm; 2) with preverbal infants at the Lancaster Babylab
Intern: Phoebe Shaw
Supervisors: Dr Jacky Chan
Project: Putting lexical cues into context: An eye-tracking study of young children’s processing of relative clauses
2021
Intern: Michelle Matheson
Supervisors: Dr Katie Twomey and Dr Samantha Durrant
Project: Linking curiosity-driven learning with language outcomes across development
Intern: Charely Walker
Supervisors: Dr Alexandra Sturrock
Project: Investigating the subtle language and communication difficulties experienced in autistic females without learning disability
Intern: Marinka Lomax
Supervisors: Dr Kelly Burgoyne
Project: Involved in a broad range of projects including data handling for PACT and drafing a storybook that targets the improvement of children’s speech sound production
Intern: Charlotte Burgar
Supervisors: Dr Andrew Jessop and Dr Samantha Durrant
Project: A meta-analysis of infant speed of processing and vocabulary development
Intern: Victoria Simpson
Supervisors: Dr Katharina Kaduk and Dr Kirsty Dunn
Project: Developing a UK language network and researching newborn responses to infant and adult directed speech
Intern: Johannes Reilly
Supervisors: Dr Jacky Chan
Project: Coding corpus data he worked on has contributed to a research paper which is currently in preparation.
2019
Intern: Lisa Veldt, BSc English Linguistics, University of Amsterdam
Supervisors: Prof Padraic Monaghan, Lancaster University
Project: How do phonological skills of children with hearing impairment relate to their literacy development?
Intern: Meghan Pennington, BSc hons Psychology, University of Manchester
Supervisors: Prof Anna Theakston
Project: The impact of parental mind-mindedness and contingent responding on children’s later vocabulary
Intern: George Skingsley, BSc hons Speech and Language Therapy, University of Manchester
Supervisors: Dr Katie Twomey and Alexandra Sturrock
Project: Investigating the link between category structure and Autism
2018
Intern: Lydia Ainsworth, BSc hons Psychology, University of Manchester
Supervisors: Prof Anna Theakston, Katy Finch, Heather Lemen and Kimberley Bell
Project: Complex sentences, modal verbs, and EAL pupils’ experiences of learning Modern Foreign Languages
Intern: Lizzie Green, BSc hons Speech and Language Therapy, University of Manchester
Supervisors: Dr Katie Twomey and Dr Alissa Ferry
Project: The influence of child-directed speech on children’s acquisition of category labels
Intern: Delyth Piper, BSc hons Psychology, Lancaster University
Supervisors: Prof Padraic Monaghan
Project: The role of gesture in learning novel words
2017
Intern: Hannah Cunningham, BSc hons Psychology, University of Manchester
Supervisors: Prof Anna Theakston
Project: Complex sentences in early child language
Intern: Anna Brown, BSc hons Psychology, University of Liverpool
Supervisors: Dr Claire Noble
Project: The ManyBabies Project at the University of Liverpool
Intern: Charlotte Rothwell, BSc hons Psychology, Lancaster University
Supervisors: Dr Rebecca Frost, Dr Katie Twomey and Dr Katie Alcock
Project: The ManyBabies Project at Lancaster University
2016
Intern: Joanna Melville, BSc hons Psychology, University of Manchester
Supervisors: Dr Laura de Ruiter
Project: The acquisition of complex syntax
Intern: Helen Ronayne, BSc hons Psychology, University of Liverpool
Supervisors: Dr Amy Bidgood
Project: Validity testing a new babble checklist
Intern: Kascha Visagie, BSc hons Psychology, Lancaster University
Supervisors: Dr Rebecca Frost
Project: How do 8 and 12 month old infants use high frequency words during language acquisition?
2015
Intern: Elizabeth Driscoll, BSc hons Psychology, University of Manchester
Supervisors: Dr Claire Noble and Dr Thea Cameron-Faulkner
Project: A good book? The grammatical properties of shared book reading
Intern: Chris Jordan, BSc hons Psychology, University of Liverpool
Supervisors: Dr Colin Bannard and Prof Julian Pine
Project: Testing statistical models of morphological learning using ‘real’ languages
Intern: Ben Malem, BSc hons Psychology, Lancaster University
Supervisors: Dr Katie Twomey
Project: Curiosity-based word learning