UKLA Executive Committee

Teresa Cremin

President of UKLA (2007-2009)

Teresa is Professor of Education at The Open University, where she is involved in research relating to the connections between teachers and children as writers and readers.Teresa is also currently researching the nature of possibility thinking and children's writing at home.

David Reedy

President Elect of UKLA (2007-2009)

Alayne Öztürk

Vice President of UKLA (2007-2009)

Alayne is the Primary Programme Director for Initial Teacher Education courses at London Metropolitan University. She is currently involved in research examining the changing nature of literacy educators’ professionalism and autonomy, and how they might reconcile the apparent conflicts and contradictions that inhabit their professional practice. She is Convenor of Publicity and Marketing sub-committee.

Jackie Marsh

Immediate Past President of UKLA (2007-2009)

Jackie is Professor of Education at the University of Sheffield, where she is involved in research relating to the role and nature of popular culture, media and new technologies in young children's literacy learning.

Lyn Overall

Hon. General Secretary, UKLA

The question, 'How do we learn to read?' has interested Lyn throughout her working life and she has been a member of the Association since 1972. She has taught children, young people and adults to read and write in a variety of school and non school settings. Her present literacy interest is in finding ways of including university students, especially those from so called 'non standard entry' by working with them on reading and writing suitable for the academy. Lyn has felt privileged to serve as Secretary through the changes in recent years.

John Paine

Treasurer, UKLA, Convenor of Finances and General Purpose sub-committee.

Lynda Graham

Convenor of Membership and Awards sub-committee

Lynda Graham, Convenor of Membership and Awards sub-committee, is an educational researcher currently involved in research relating to teaching and learning in classrooms of young ‘digikid’ teachers.

Henrietta Dombey

Convenor of International sub-committee

Henrietta Dombey is Convenor of International sub-committee. She is Professor Emeritus of Literacy in Primary Education at the University of Brighton, with particular interests in the teaching of phonics and the interaction between teachers, children and texts in Foundation and Key Stage 1 classrooms.

Eve Bearne

Convenor of the Publications sub-committee.

She is a Past President of the Association and has recently retired from the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education where her interests in research and publication were mostly concerned with multimodal texts.

Guy Merchant

Convenor of Research sub-committee.

Guy Merchant is Convenor of the Research sub-committee. He is co-ordinator of the Language and Literacy Research Group in the Faculty of Development and Society at Sheffield Hallam University. He is widely known for his work on children and young people’s uses of digital literacy

Sue Ellis

Reader in Literacy and Language Education at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

She enjoys working with student teachers and as a consultant to local authorities and schools to help develop policies that promote effective and creative literacy teaching. She is currently involved in research on children's writing, literature circles and literacy policy.

Nikki Gamble

Convenor of the Web Task Group.

Tony Martin

Regional Representatives Co-ordinator.

Prue Goodwin

a freelance lecturer in literacy and children’s books and works part time with trainee teachers at the University of Reading.

She runs courses on language and literacy development, acts as a consultant to publishers of children’s books, researches literacy development in schools and has edited four books on literacy learning. Prue has lectured internationally and is involved in many national initiatives concerning literacy and children’s literature in the UK. She edits Literacy News, the newsletter of UKLA.