Email elaine.reese@otago.ac.nz
Tel +64 3 479 8441
Professor Elaine Reese is the co-leader of Kia Tīmata Pai (To Start Well), a national intervention trial with BestStart early childhood centres funded by the Wright Family Foundation. She previously served as the Education Domain Leader on a longitudinal birth cohort study, Growing Up in New Zealand. Elaine has authored over 130 papers and a book for parents, Tell Me a Story: Sharing Stories to Enrich Your Child's World (Oxford University Press). She is a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi and has received grants from the Marsden Fund, the Children's Research Fund of the Ministry of Social Development, and the National Institute of Child Health and Development in the US.
She has served as Editor of the Journal of Cognition and Development, and on the editorial boards of the Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, Cognitive Development, Infant and Child Development, Narrative Inquiry, and Reading Research Quarterly.
Elaine joined the Department in 1993. She has over 30 years of university teaching experience, at both graduate and undergraduate levels.
Teaching
Research interests
- The development of children's and adolescents' autobiographical memory, language, and literacy
- Social influences on children's development, especially the way that parents' and teachers' conversations enrich children's language and socioemotional development
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