Dr Amanda Holland

Dr Amanda Holland is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology which involves teaching and research at the School of Social Sciences and Professions

Dr Amanda Holland

Dr Amanda Holland

Dr Amanda Holland completed her PhD in children's word learning at London Metropolitan University in 2015. In 2016, she worked part-time at Goldsmiths University in a post-doctoral research position. This role involved working with NHS patients with prostate cancer, assessing their executive function. Before accepting a full-time post at London Metropolitan University in September 2017, Amanda also worked as a researcher at Essex University on a short contract, collecting data on a study assessing children's learning from touchscreens.

Interests are in the field of word learning, specifically fast mapping. She has published research in fast mapping in children and is looking to do more research in this area in adults. Dr Holland has also published some research in the area of touchscreen learning.
 
She is also interested in reading development and is exploring opportunities to research reading development in Higher Education.
 
She conducts quantitiative research in cognitive development.
 
For the last REF Dr Holland's research centre was HERG.
Dr Holland teaches cognitive development on developmental modules across a variety of Psychology courses (BSc and MSc). These topics include language development, development of theory of mind and how memory develops as we age as well as looking at the funny ways children answer questions that relate to everyday life.
 
Dr Holland also teaches a 3rd year BSc module and an MSc Module on Specific Learning Differences in Children which covers topics such as Autism, ADHD and Dyslexia that are evident from childhood. It looks at the research evidence that supports various aspects of each learning difference, including theories, causes and interventions.
 
Dr Holland also runs research method workshops supporting students using SPSS and interpreting statistical analysis.

Authored

Three successful applications for internal funding at London Met. The first two were adversely impacted by COVID. The most recent grant has been spent and has allowed Dr Holland to develop an online experiment to test fast mapping in adults and children.
 

Dr Amanda Holland
Senior Lecturer in Psychology
a.holland@londonmet.ac.uk