Catherine Manning
Member since 2024
The Young Academy will allow me to work with experts across fields to achieve the ambitious goal of making society more inclusive.
Bio
Cathy Manning is a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Reading. She studied Experimental Psychology at University of Oxford (2007-2010), before completing an MRes/PhD at the Centre for Research in Autism and Education at the UCL Institute of Education (2010-2014). She then held the Scott Family Junior Research Fellowship at University College, Oxford (2014-2017) followed by a Henry Wellcome Fellowship (2017-2021). She moved to University of Reading to start her independent research group in 2021.
Cathy researches sensory processing across child development, and in autism and dyslexia, with a particular focus on the visual system. She has received numerous early career awards, including the British Psychology Society Developmental Section Neil O’Connor Award, the Applied Vision Association David Marr Medal, the Experimental Psychology Society Prize, Autistica’s Reproducible Autism Science Award, and an Association for Psychological Science Rising Star Award. She is also an Editor at the journal, ‘Autism’.
