PERSONAL INFORMATION 2
Education 2
Employment 2
Awards and Distinctions 3
RESEARCH AND SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY 5
RESEARCH AND SCHOLARLY PRODUCTIVITY 10
To date I have 85 peer reviewed publications (including ‘in press’): 10
Journal Articles: 66 Peer Reviewed 10
Papers Accepted / In Press 10
Journal Articles: Peer Reviewed - Papers Published 11
Papers under review 16
Journal Articles: Advanced State of Preparation 17
Book chapters and proceedings: Published and in Press 18
Book chapters: Advanced State of Preparation 19
Book Reviews 19
Research reports (Examples) 23
Presentations and Conferences 25
Professional Workshops given 38
Workshops Taken 40
TEACHING AND GRADUATE SUPERVISION 40
Courses Taught at McGill 40
Graduate Research Supervision 40
Masters and Ph.D Committees (Exemplification prior to 2014) 44
Independent Research Internship Credits 45
SERVICE 46
Administrative Responsibilities – Department Committees 46
Faculty Committees 46
University Service 47
Committees Outside McGill 47
Professional Service 47
Research Review 48
Granting Review 49
Professional and academic Memberships 49
Community 49
2006
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, McGill University, Montreal
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2003
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, McGill University, Montreal.
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2008 – 2012
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Program Director Inclusive Education, Program Director Human Development, Ph. D program, M. Ed Inclusive and General and 5 associated undergraduate and certificate in education programs.
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2001 – 2002
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Consultant Educational Psychologist for Advanced Learning Sciences, Hampstead.
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2001 – 2002
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Associate Lecturer Professional Educational Psychology training course, University of London & Institute of Education, London.
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1999 – 2002
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Professional Educational Psychologist (School Psychologist) for the London Borough of Sutton
Eligible for royal chartered status as professional Educational Psychologist (Cert. Psychol).
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1999 – 2002
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Post-Doctoral researcher with Dr Morag Stuart at the London University Institute of Education
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1995 – 2002
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Associate Lecturer for Open University
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1994 – 1997
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Lecturer in Psychology, East Berkshire College A levels, GCSEs (equivalent to CEGEP)
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1997 – 1998
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Research Officer at the National Foundation for Educational Research.
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1990 – 1991
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Research Assistant Department of Employment project on ‘broad skills’ in the National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs).
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2013
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Petitioned by president elect and SSSR board to stand for role of President of The Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (vice-president, president- president-elect sequence).
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2013
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Article by Kirby and Savage (2008) in top 10 downloaded articles from Literacy, two years in a row.
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2007
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William Dawson Scholar. The William Dawson Scholarship is equivalent to a Canada Research Chair Tier 2.
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2012
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William Dawson Scholar Renewed
Two papers (Savage et al., 2003; Savage & Carless, 2005) selected among 14 included from 6,632 included in latest Cochrane collaboration systematic review on effective early preventative reading intervention: MacArthur et al. Phonics training for English-speaking poor readers http://www.cochrane.org/ (published online, December 2012). My data represents 25% of the total in the review.
Savage et al. (2003) & Savage & Carless (2008) included in ‘What Works Clearing House’ (U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Educational Sciences) review of best practice.
These same papers included in Torgerson Brooks and Hall re-review of RCT research on synthetic versus analytic phonics instruction (review for UK government, Department of Education forthcoming).
SSHRC Insight Grant application ‘Responding to Intervention: Schools where all children learn to read’ ranked 2nd out of 70.
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2011
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Nominated by my graduate team for a distinguished teaching award.
Haigh, Savage, Genesee and Erdos (2011) 4th most coted article in Journal of Research in Reading.
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2009
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Savage et al. (2003) paper on reading intervention placed on Journal of Research in Reading all-time ‘classic’ most highly-cited papers http://www.wiley.com/bw/vi.asp?ref=0141-0423&site=1.
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2008
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Plain language summary of our research on early reading intervention disseminated by UK government to all schools in England and Wales.
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2007
2006
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Dr Noni McDonald award, Canadian Paediatrics Association award for best paper of the year.
Canadian Speech and Language Association Editors award for best paper of the year (with Professor Susan Rvachew)
Savage et al. (2001) cited in the Rose Review of Literacy Policy in England and Wales, influencing all subsequent national policy.
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2004
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SSHRC research grant application was short-listed for the AURORA prize for new researchers.
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2002
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Honorary Research Associate, University College, London.
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2001
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Honorary Research Associate, Institute of Education, London
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