BSc, PhD

Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology

Contact details for Dr Ruth Ford

Research Expertise

• The cognitive development of young children, including the development of executive functions, theory of mind, and episodic memory.
• Applying the findings of basic research into cognitive development to the design and implementation of early intervention programmes for disadvantaged children.

Current teaching areas

• 2005PSY Personality and Individual Differences (convenor)
• 3011PSY Lifespan Development (convenor)
• 1002PSY Introductory Individual and Social Psychology
• 2006PSY Cognition, Memory and Learning
• 3010PSY Cognitive Neuroscience

Publications

• Ford, R. M. (in press). Children's thinking and cognitive development. In T. Maynard and N. Thomas (Eds.), An Introduction to Early Childhood Studies (2nd ed). Sage Publications.
• Ford, R. M., and Lord-Rees, E. (in press). Representational drawing and the transition from intellectual to visual realism in children with autism. British Journal of Developmental Psychology.
• Macaulay, C. E., and Ford, R. M. (2006). Language and theory-of-mind development in pre-lingually deafened children with cochlear implants. Cochlear Implants International, 7, 1-14.
• Ford, R. M. (2006). Early intervention and the growth of children's fluid intelligence: A cognitive developmental perspective. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29, 129-130.
• Ford, R. M., Keating, S., and Patel, R. (2004). Retrieval-induced forgetting: A developmental study. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 22, 585-603.