Academy Fellow

ANNE CASTLES is an ARC Laureate Fellow based at the Australian Centre for the Advancement of Literacy at Australian Catholic University. Her research is in the cognitive science of reading and language, with a particular focus on reading development and developmental dyslexia. She is currently exploring literacy in adolescence, focussing on Australia's falling literacy rates in this cohort. Key appointments are: ARC Laureate Fellow, Australian Catholic University; Director, Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science, Macquarie University; Deputy Director, ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders; Head, Institute of Human Cognition and Brain Science, Macquarie University; Professor of Cognitive Science, Macquarie University; Associate Professor in Psychology, the University of Melbourne.

Main Teaching, Research or Administrative Posts

• Director, Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science (2009 - 2011)
• Deputy Director, ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders (2011 - 2018)
• Scientific Director, Macquarie University Centre for Reading (2019 - 2023 )
• Professor of Cognitive Science, Macquarie University (2007 - 2023)

Fellowships, Honorary Memberships

• Laureate Fellow at the Australian Centre for the Advancement of Literacy, Australian Catholic University
• Member, Psychonomic Society
• Member, Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR)
• Member, Australasian Experimental Psychology Society
• Fellow, Royal Society of NSW