Since completing my PhD on reading and spelling by analogy in 1987, my research has encompassed a number of areas including the relations between phonology and reading, rhyme and analogy in reading acquisition across languages, and rhyme processing in dyslexic and deaf children's reading. A major focus of my research has been in cross-linguistic, with projects on normative development and also cross-language studies of developmental dyslexia. These studies led to the development of Psycholinguistic Grain Size theory (2005) with Jo Ziegler, the main cross-language framework now applied to reading and reading difficulties in psychological research. I have also carried out cross-language studies on the impact of deficits in auditory temporal processing on reading. I have shown that the same acoustic deficits (related to rhythmic processing) are found in children with dyslexia across languages, highlighting the potential utility of music- and rhythm-based behavioural interventions. I also studied the brain basis of these rhythmic deficits. I founded the world’s first Centre for Neuroscience in Education at Cambridge in 2005, and have since made progress in understanding the neural mechanisms underpinning language encoding. My “Temporal Sampling” theory of phonological difficulties in dyslexia (2011) is now the dominant neural theory. I was awarded the Yidan Prize for Education Research in 2019 for my research on the neuroscience of reading. I was elected as Fellow of the British Academy in 2013, Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 2021, and made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) by Queen Elizabeth of England in 2021, for services to education research.