Dr Amanda Holland is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology.
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.
Children's cogntive development, specifically word learning and fast mapping and learning from screens.
Amanda primarily teaches on Developmental Psychology modules, specialising in Cogntive Development.
Authored
- Kostyrka-Allchorne, K., Holland, A., Cooper, N.R., Ahamed, W., Marrow, R.K. and Simpson, A. (2019) What helps children learn difficult tasks: A teacher's presence may be worth more than a screen. Trends in Neuroscience and Education 17, 1-7.
- Holland A.K., Hyde, G., Riggs K. J. and Simpson, A. (2018) Preschoolers fast map and retain artifact functions as efficiently as artifact names, but artifact actions are the most easily learned. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 170, 57–71.
- Holland, A., Mather, E., Simpson, A. & Riggs, K.J. (2016). Get your facts right: preschoolers systematically extend both object names and category-relevant facts. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 1064.
- Holland, A., Simpson, A. & Riggs, K.J. (2015). Young children retain fast mapped object labels better than shape, color, and texture words. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 134, 1–11.
£2,000 awarded in January 2020 from a Research Support Fund (London Met) for data collection and a conference.
Dr Amanda Holland
Senior Lecturer in Psychology
a.holland@londonmet.ac.uk