About Dr Anastasia Trebacz
I am a Lecturer in Psychology for Medicine. My teaching primarily focuses on Health and Cognitive Psychology and Public Health.
I am also a visiting researcher at Newcastle University in the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences.
I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a member of Fuse and the Health Foundation Q Community. Project webpages:
Teaching and supervision
I am a year one PBL tutor for Medicine. I lecture in psychology and public health.
Interests
- Child language development and disorders
- Intervention evaluation and relevant methodologies
- Health literacy
- Health inequalities
Research
My research interests span psychological and speech and language sciences and include child language development and disorders, early intervention, public health, health inequalities, health literacy, clinical trial methodology, and improving equitable access to provision. Much of my current work takes place in the Middle East and North Africa with Arabic-speaking children.
Areas of expertise
- Child language development and disorders
- Language intervention
- Development and standardisation of language assessment
- Evaluation of language intervention
Further information
I previously worked as a post-doctoral research fellow under PI Professor Ghada Khattab on the 'Language in the Early Years: Tackling the roots of academic and social inequalities in Arabic-speaking children' ESRC GCRF funded project 'Bulbul'.
Prior to this, I completed my PhD at Newcastle University with Professor Cristina McKean, Dr Helen Stringer, Professor James Law, and Dr Lauren Ackerman evaluating the efficacy of Building Early Sentences Therapy (BEST), a novel, usage-based language intervention, through a quasi-experimental pilot study.
I also hold a BSc (Hons) in Psychology and an MSc in Research Methods in Psychology from the University of Liverpool.