Dr Janet McLean

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Dr Janet McLean

Reader in Learning Science

Faculty Faculty of Social and Applied Sciences

Department Department of Sociological and Psychological Sciences

Contact info

j.mclean@abertay.ac.uk

+44 (0)1382 30 8282

Biography

I am currently a Reader in Psychology. I am interested in language and numeracy with a particular focus on how children learn these skills. I teach Developmental Psychology across the Psychology degree programmes, including a final year module Language, Education and the Early Years where I am the module leader.听 I completed my undergraduate degree in Maths and Psychology (1994) at 听and a听PhD in Psychology (1999) at听.听 Prior to joining Abertay in 2012, I worked as a research fellow at the , working with Professors Martin Pickering and Holly Branigan.

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Teaching
Research

2024/25

Semester 1:

- PSY101 Introductory Psychology

Semester 2:

- PSY302 Developmental Psychology

- PSY405 Language, Education and the Early Years

Interests

I have two areas of research interest: maths learning and language. My research in the field of maths learning is wide-ranging. I am interested in how children develop numerical and arithmetical knowledge and the memory and processing differences in those with the arithmetic learning difficulty, dyscalculia. I have also been investigating maths anxiety. This research explores how maths anxiety develops in children and whether it is related to maths performance, maths teaching, or from attitudes towards maths in both children and adults.

My language research has focused mostly on Language production. More specifically, how speakers choose between alternative syntactic structures, and also how this takes place in dialogue. This research includes investigating how children learn grammatical structures and whether how they process and represent language is different from adults.

More Information

Funding

2020 Cunningham, S., Ross, J., & McLean, J. Self-referencing in the classroom: The influence of self-cues on children's information processing and retention. ESRC (拢476, 817)

2019 Kempe, V., Chouliara, Z., Smith, K., & McLean, J.听Validating non-verbal indicators of emotion and rapport during communication. Ministry of Defense (拢99,753)

2015 Kempe, V., McLean, J., & Scott-Brown, K. (App-lying Science to Learning Pupil-led efficacy testing of educational apps in a Primary School setting. The Royal Society.

I have received small grants totalling 拢15k from the British Academy and Nuffield Foundation.