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Founder's Lecture 2026
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About this event
Join the St John's community for the insightful Founder's Lecture 2026.
Why you should come
AI-powered• Hear Professor Kate Nation discuss the child’s journey from novice to expert reader.
• Learn how becoming literate shapes children’s thinking and feeling.
Event Highlights
- •Lecture by Professor Kate Nation on the cognitive and linguistic mechanisms that drive literacy.
- •Drinks reception in the Garden Quad Reception Room following the lecture.
- •The lecture will reflect on what it means to be a reader, and why declines in reading need to be taken seriously.
Speaker
Professor Kate Nation
Maggie Snowling Fellow in Psychology
Organized by: St John's College, Oxford
Contact: alumni@sjc.ox.ac.uk
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