Kate Nation FBA is an experimental psychologist and expert on language and literacy development in school age children.
[1][2] She is Professor of Experimental Psychology and Fellow of St. John's College of the University of Oxford, where she directs the ReadOxford[3] project and the Language and Cognitive Development Research Group.
[4] Nation won the Spearman Medal in 2000, an award given by the British Psychological Society for outstanding published work by an early career psychologist.
[5] Nation's Spearman Medal lecture focused on children with poor reading comprehension whose deficits in language processing often go unnoticed.
[4] Nation is an affiliated researcher at the ARC Center of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders at Macquarie University,[13][14] where she has collaborated with Anne Castles on studies of orthographic processes in reading.