Rhona Stainthorp
Rhona Stainthorp OBE is a British academic. She is an Emerita Professor at the Institute of Education, University of Reading. She specializes in reading development and challenges, with her research focusing on the role of phonics in literacy.{{cite web |title=Emerita Professor Rhona Stainthorp - Education |url=https://www.reading.ac.uk/education/staff/emerita-rhona-stainthorp |website=University of Reading}}
In 2024, she has been recognized with an Order of the British Empire in the King's Birthday Honours for her contributions to education.{{cite web |title=University of Reading's Professor Rhona Stainthorp awarded OBE for services to education |url=https://rdg.today/university-of-readings-professor-rhona-stainthorp-awarded-obe-for-services-to-education/ |publisher=Reading Today}}
Education
Stainthorp completed an undergraduate degree in politics at the University of Nottingham,{{cite web |title=Recognition for University of Nottingham alumni in King's Birthday Honours |url=https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/alumni/kings-birthday-honours-2024 |website=University of Nottingham}} followed by a Bachelor of Science (BSc) in psychology at Birkbeck College, University of London (now Birkbeck, University of London). She later obtained a master's degree in Human Communication from the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, and a PhD under the supervision of Professor Maggie Snowling.
Research
Stainthorp has participated in a number of research projects focused on literacy and reading development. These include studies on the use of e-readers among Key Stage 2 students, transcription skills and literacy at Key Stage 3, and spelling at Key Stage 2.{{cite web |title=Increasing understanding of the importance of phonics in the development of early years' reading |url=https://impact.ref.ac.uk/casestudies/CaseStudy.aspx?Id=39363 |website=REF Case study search |language=en}}{{cite journal |last1=Stainthorp |first1=Rhona |title=A national intervention in teaching phonics: A case study from England |journal=The Educational and Developmental Psychologist |date=December 2020 |volume=37 |issue=2 |pages=114–122 |doi=10.1017/edp.2020.14 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/educational-and-developmental-psychologist/article/abs/national-intervention-in-teaching-phonics-a-case-study-from-england/F484C91C418A05ECFB8502F3FE02DA30 |language=en |issn=2059-0776}} She has also contributed to research on the role of orthographic processing in reading and its connection to rapid automatized naming deficits, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).{{cite journal |title=The relationship between rapid naming and word spelling in English |journal=Journal of Research in Reading |date=November 2013 |volume=36 |issue=4 |pages=371–388 |doi=10.1111/jrir.12002 |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jrir.12002 |language=en |issn=0141-0423 |last1=Stainthorp |first1=Rhona |last2=Powell |first2=Daisy |last3=Stuart |first3=Morag }}
Books
- Learning from children who read at an early age. London: Routledge. (1999). ISBN 978-0415174954.{{cite journal |last1=Fraser |first1=Val |title=Book Review: Learning from Children Who Read at an Early Age |journal=Citizenship, Social and Economics Education |date=March 1998 |volume=3 |issue=1 |pages=50–54 |doi=10.2304/csee.1998.3.1.50 |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.2304/csee.1998.3.1.50 |language=en |issn=1478-8047}}{{Cite journal |last=Nock |first=Lesley |date=2001 |title=Rhona Stainthorp and Diana Hughes (1999) Learning from children who read at an early age. London: Routledge ISBN 0415 174953 £15.99 |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/136548020100400114 |journal=Improving Schools |language=en |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=78–80 |doi=10.1177/136548020100400114 |issn=1365-4802|url-access=subscription }}
- Reading Development and Teaching (Discoveries & Explanations in Child Development). SAGE Publications Ltd;. 21 Dec. 2015. ISBN 978-1446249048.
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