Dr Laura Huxford[back]

Dr Laura Huxford is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Education. She currently combines writing with research and consultancy. She has just coauthored the new government guidance for schools on teaching phonics Letters and Sounds and a book published by Routledge with John Stannard, The Literacy Game: the story of the National Literacy Strategy. She is employed as a consultant to the DCSF, QCA, local authorities and universities in England as well as government departments of education in other countries.

Laura Huxford started her career as a primary and special needs teacher before completing her doctorate and working in initial and continuing teacher education and literacy research. In 1998 she was appointed Director of Training for the National Literacy Strategy and for the next eight years was responsible for producing many of the Strategy’s teaching and professional development materials. She led a team of national strategy regional directors working with the primary and KS3 departments and tutors across the teacher training institutions in England and Wales.