Professor Maggie Snowling awarded the Leverhulme Medal and Prize 2024

The Leverhulme Medal and Prize is a prestigious award, presented triennially for significant contributions to knowledge and understanding within the humanities or social sciences. This year’s award was made jointly to Professor Maggie Snowling FBA and Professor Charles Hulme FBA for their commitment to understanding children’s learning difficulties, particularly dyslexia and developmental language disorder.

Following decades of critical research into children’s educational development, Professors Snowling and Hulme recently founded OxEd and Assessment, a University of Oxford spinout company that provides practical resources for oral language assessment, intervention, and enrichment in schools.

Commenting on their award, Professors Snowling and Hulme said:

We are proud to receive the Leverhulme Medal and Prize from the British Academy in recognition of our work exploring the nature and causes of, and treatments for, children’s language and reading difficulties. The research leading to this award has involved many large-scale longitudinal studies and randomised trials and we thank our many talented and enthusiastic collaborators who have made this work possible. Research has been, and continues to be, a great source of pleasure to us. We hope we have contributed in some modest ways to improving children’s educational outcomes and wellbeing. We are very grateful to our peers in the British Academy for recognising our contribution.

Learn more about the Leverhulme Medal and Prize and past winners here.