Professor Julia Carroll

School of Education
Professor of Psychology in Education

Contact details

Email
j.m.carroll@bham.ac.uk
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Address
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Professor Julia Carroll has a psychology background, and is interested in how psychological knowledge can support effective education, particularly for individuals with special educational needs. Her research focuses on improving literacy outcomes for children and young people.

Qualifications

  • Chartered Member of the British Psychological Society
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
  • PGCert in Post-compulsory education, University of Warwick, 2006
  • DPhil in Developmental Psychology, University of York, 2001
  • BA (Hons) in Psychology and Philosophy, University of Oxford, 1998

Biography

Julia Carroll completed her PhD in psychology at the University of York in 2001. She then completed an ESRC postdoctoral fellowship at York. She took up a lectureship at the Psychology department at the University of Warwick in 2004. In 2014 she joined a research centre at Coventry University, working at the interface of psychology and education, where she was promoted to Professor in 2016. Julia joined the University of Birmingham School of Education in 2024.

Postgraduate supervision

Julia Carroll is willing to consider supervising PhD students in the field of dyslexia or literacy development. She is particularly interested in:

  • Longitudinal research (including secondary data analysis) focusing on the experiences of young people with literacy difficulties and dyslexia
  • Improving outcomes for children and young people with literacy difficulties, particularly with a focus on morphological approaches

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Tramontano, C, Barbarelli, C, Carroll, J, Deluca, M, Enderby, J, Groce, N & Mont, D 2025, 'New approaches to categorising childhood disability: an international comparative analysis of the UNICEF/Washington Group Child Functioning Module', Disability and Health Journal. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dhjo.2025.101855

Thompson, A, Wood, C, Thompson, I & Carroll, J 2025, 'Seeing, being seen, and being able to see dyslexia in English schools: parent and teacher perspectives', Dyslexia, vol. 31, no. 2, e70003. https://doi.org/10.1002/dys.70003

the Dyslexia Delphi Panel, Carroll, JM, Holden, C, Kirby, P, Thompson, PA & Snowling, MJ 2025, 'Toward a consensus on dyslexia: findings from a Delphi study', Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.14123

Holden, C, Kirby, P, Snowling, MJ, Thompson, PA & Carroll, JM 2025, 'Towards a Consensus for Dyslexia Practice: Findings of a Delphi Study on Assessment and Identification', Dyslexia, vol. 31, no. 1, e1800. https://doi.org/10.1002/dys.1800

Breadmore, HL, Halliday, LF & Carroll, J 2024, 'Variability in auditory processing performance is associated with reading difficulties rather than with history of otitis media', Dyslexia, vol. 30, no. 1, e1760. https://doi.org/10.1002/dys.1760

Enderby, J, Carroll, J, Tarczynski-Bowles, L & Breadmore, H 2021, 'The roles of morphology, phonology and prosody in reading and spelling multisyllabic words', Applied Psycholinguistics, vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 865-885. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716421000096

Carroll, JM, Holliman, AJ, Weir, F & Baroody, AE 2019, 'Literacy interest, home literacy environment and emergent literacy skills in preschoolers', Journal of Research in Reading, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 150-161. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9817.12255

Abstract

Hyllam, M, Rodrigues Amorim Adegboye, A, Jones, U, Rehling, T & Carroll, J 2025, 'Addressing Leadership Diversity Barriers for Ethnic Minority Staff in WMAS', European Journal of Public Health, vol. 35, no. Supplement_4, ckaf161.1415. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckaf161.1415

Commissioned report

Breadmore, H & Carroll, J 2021, A systematic review of standardised measures of attainment in literacy, mathematics, and science: Evidence Review. Education Endowment Foundation. <https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/public/files/Review_of_Attainment_Measures_final.pdf>

Carroll, J & Breadmore, H 2021, Literacy and assessment. <https://theeducationhub.org.nz/literacy-and-assessment/>

Carroll, J & Breadmore, H 2021, Theories of early literacy development. <https://theeducationhub.org.nz/theories-of-early-literacy-development/>

Carroll, J & Breadmore, H 2021, The pedagogy of reading. The Education Hub. <https://theeducationhub.org.nz/the-pedagogy-of-reading/>

Breadmore, H & Carroll, J 2020, Protocol for a systematic review of measures of attainment in literacy, mathematics and science. <https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/public/files/Attainment_Review_Protocol.pdf>

Breadmore, H, Vardy, E, Cunningham, AJ, Kwok, R & Carroll, J 2019, Literacy Development: Evidence Review. Education Endowment Foundation. <https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/public/files/Literacy_Development_Evidence_Review.pdf>

Preprint

Carroll, J, Holden, C, Kirby, P, Thompson, P & Snowling, MJ 2024 'Towards a consensus on dyslexia: Findings from a Delphi study' OSFPREPRINTS. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/tb8mp

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