Professor Maggie Snowling CBE

Professor Maggie Snowling is Emeritus Professor of Psychology, University of Oxford, and Research Fellow, St. John’s College. She is also professionally qualified as a clinical psychologist.

She is Fellow of the British Academy, Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. She served on Sir Jim Rose’s Expert Advisory Group on provision for Dyslexia (2009), was advisor to the Reception Baseline Assessment (2019) and a panel member for the Department of Education’s Reading Framework 2 (2023).

She served as President of St. John’s College, Oxford 2012-2022 and during that time was committed to the promotion of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion across the collegiate university as inaugural Chair of the Conference of Colleges Equality Forum (2018-19) and the Oxford Admissions Committee (2019-2021).

She was appointed CBE for services to science and the understanding of dyslexia in 2016.

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