Michael Lockwood University of Reading, UK

Name: Dr Michael Lockwood Job Title: Senior Lecturer in English and Education/Cp-Director BE Ed Responsibilities: University responsibilities: Organiser of the annual University-wide Raymond Wilson Children's Poetry Competition. Main responsibilities at the Institute of Education: Co-Director of BA(Ed) Programme; Course Leader of the BAEd English Subject Specialism course; Convenor of the First Language and Literacy Research Group. Teaching: Lecturing on undergraduate courses in the four-year BA(Ed) programme. My undergraduate teaching spans subject specialist modules in English Literature and Language at the students' own level and professional modules dealing with the teaching of English in the primary school Supervision of school experiences for BA(Ed) students Lecturing on modules in English in Education for the Institute MA programme Supervision of dissertations for students in the Institute MA programme Supervision of Higher Degree by Research students Areas of Interest: Research interests: Areas of expertise and research interest (able to supervise at Masters level): All areas of primary school English/Literacy Areas of expertise and research interest (able to supervise at PhD level): Children's knowledge about language at KS2 Poetry for children Reading for pleasure in the primary school