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ProfessorGail Gillon

Director-Child Wellbeing Inst

Child Well Being Institute

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  • Director-Child Wellbeing Inst
    Child Well Being Institute
  • +6433693491 (Work)
  • Manawa, Level 4, 276 Antigua Street

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Structured literacy, dyslexia, early reading and spelling development, children's speech and language development, culturally responsive teaching practices, English Language Learners.

GRANTS

  • GRANT
    Accelerated Learning Research Report
    Ministry of Education11 May 2024 - 9 Aug 2024
  • GRANT
    Evidencing the Causal Mechanisms of Kaupapa Maori Health Transformation
    Health Research Council of New Zealand1 Feb 2024 - 31 Jan 2025
  • GRANT
    NSC A Better Start - E Tipu e Rea
    University of Auckland1 Jan 2024 - 30 Jun 2024
  • GRANT
    Whiriwhiria, kia ora ai te tamaiti: Building health, wellbeing and learning success for tamariki and rangatahi through matauranga Maori and systems science approaches
    Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment1 Sep 2022 - 30 Nov 2025
  • GRANT
    Trialling literacy & communication support packages for Year 2-8 learners in 2022
    Ministry of Education16 May 2022 - 28 Feb 2023
  • GRANT
    Assessing the impact of screen time on childrens language, literacy, and social functioning from infancy to age 8
    Ministry of Social Development31 Jan 2022 - 1 May 2023
  • GRANT
    Early learning oral language and literacy practice and progress tools
    Ministry of Education18 Nov 2021 - 24 Jun 2022
  • GRANT
    Understanding the onset of vernacular reorganisation
    Royal Society of New Zealand1 Mar 2021 - 28 Feb 2025
  • GRANT
    Enabling health and wellbeing through literacy success
    Canterbury Medical Research Foundation24 Jan 2021 - 28 Nov 2021
  • GRANT
    Research Informed integrated professional support system for teaching of literacy using Better Start Literacy Approach (BLSA)
    Ministry of Education18 Oct 2020 - 31 Mar 2026
  • GRANT
    School entry assessment (SEA) literacy and oracy tools
    Ministry of Education1 Sep 2020 - 30 Jun 2022
  • GRANT
    Ready to read series
    Ministry of Education21 Oct 2019 - 30 Nov 2021
  • GRANT
    Supporting children's growth in foundational skills in early childhood education context
    Rata Foundation1 Jul 2019 - 31 Jul 2021
  • GRANT
    Supporting students: Innovative foundational learning
    Ministry of Education1 May 2019 - 18 Apr 2021
  • GRANT
    NSC A Better Start: A Better Start E Tipu e Rea - Successful Learning (Tranche 2 2019-2022)
    University of Auckland1 Jul 2016 - 31 Dec 2022
  • GRANT
    Prospective evaluation of the validity and nature of Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS)
    Royal Society of New Zealand1 Feb 2010 - 31 Oct 2013