Dr. Anji Wilson (nee West) has been a Research Associate with the Centre for Neuroscience in Education since 2011. She is currently working for the Botnar project, having previously worked upon the Rhythmic Perception, Music and Language, Educational Neuroscience and Developmental Dyslexia, and the GraphoGame Rime projects.
Biography
Anji completed her PhD in Experimental Psychology at the University of Cambridge. She was awarded an MSc in Human Biology by the University of Oxford, and a BSc in Pathobiology (with Chemistry) from the University of Reading. Before joining the University of Cambridge she worked with the Cancer Research Campaign Epidemiology Group, Oxford, and also taught at what is now Oxford Brookes University.
When Anji first began working at the University of Cambridge in 1989, it was as a member of the Winnicott Research Unit, Department of Psychiatry. While there Anji was involved in research on the effectiveness of support offered to first-time mothers and the impact of postnatal depression on child development. In conjunction with the Cambridge Mediation Service, Anji has gone on to lead research into the effectiveness of child counselling and training services in local schools. These projects have been funded by organisations including the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Sir Halley Stewart Trust.
In 2000 Anji became a member of the Centre for Family Research, Department of Psychology, where she worked as a research associate on studies of kinship, peer interactions, and predictors of success in the transition to school. She has also worked with The Psychometrics Centre on the third edition of the British Ability Scales (BAS3).
Publications
Goswami, U., Cumming, R., Chait, M., Huss, M., Mead, N., Wilson, A. M., Barnes, L., & Fosker, T. (2016). Perception of Filtered Speech by Children with Developmental Dyslexia and Children with Specific Language Impairments. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 791. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00791
Cumming, R., Wilson, A., & Goswami, U. (2015). Basic auditory processing and sensitivity to prosodic structure in children with specific language impairments: A new look at a perceptual hypothesis. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 972. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00972
Cumming, R., Wilson, A., Leong, V., Colling, L., & Goswami, U. (2015). Awareness of Rhythm Patterns in Speech and Music in Children with Specific Language Impairments. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2015.00672
Wilson, A., (2011). Cambridge Family Mediation Service: Training for teaching and support staff working with children who have experienced family change - Final Report. Halley Stewart Trust.
Hughes, C., Ensor, R., Wilson, A., & Graham, A. (2009). Tracking Executive Function Across the Transition to School: A Latent Variable Approach. Developmental Neuropsychology, 35(1), 20-36. https://doi.org/10.1080/87565640903325691
Wilson, A., Edwards, J., Allen, S., & Dasgupta, C. (2003). Schools and Family Change: School-based Support for Children Experiencing Divorce and Separation. Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
Wilson, A., Edwards, J., Allen, S., & Dasgupta, C. (2003). School-based Support Work for Children Whose Parents Have Separated, Findings Document. Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
Murray, L., Cooper, P., Wilson, A., & Romaniuk, H. (2003). Controlled trial of the short- and long-term effect of psychological treatment of post-partum depression: 1. Impact on maternal mood. British Journal of Psychiatry, 182(5), 412-419. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.182.5.412
Murray, L., Cooper, P., Wilson, A., & Romaniuk, H. (2003). Controlled trial of the short- and long-term effect of psychological treatment of post-partum depression: 2. Impact on the mother-child relationship. British Journal of Psychiatry, 182(5), 420-427. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.182.5.420
Cooper, P.J., Murray, L., Hooper, R., & West, A. M. (1996). The Development and Validation of a Predictive Index for Postpartum Depression. Psychological Medicine, 26, 627-634. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291700035698
West, A. M., Mackintosh, N. J., & Mascie-Taylor, C. G. N. (1992). Cognitive and Educational Attainment in Different Ethnic Groups. Journal of Biosocial Science, 24, 539-555. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021932000020095
Mackintosh, N. J., Mascie-Taylor, C. G. N., & West, A. M. (1988). West Indian and Asian Children’s Educational Attainment, 1970-1985. In Verma, G. K., & Pumfrey, P. (Eds.), Educational Attainments: Issues and Outcomes (pp. 87-99). Falmer Press.
Teaching and Supervisions
While working at what is now Oxford Brookes University (then named Oxford Polytechnic), Anji taught Biological Anthropology to undergaduate students.