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PhD (University of Cambridge), MPhil (Educational Research) (University of Cambridge), BEd (Queensland University of Technology), BAppSci (Queensland University of Technology)
Sonia White is a Senior Research Fellow (ARC: DECRA) in the School of Early Childhood and Inclusive Education. She was appointed in 2010 as part of the Early Career Academic Recruitment and Development (ECARD) Program.
Her research interests focus on number and arithmetic development in children. These areas include the acquisition of Arabic digits and their semantic properties, spatial numerical associations, along with various elements of strategy application. Most recently Dr White has worked with colleagues from the School of Optometry and Vision science to examine the visual processing behaviours that underpin mathematical processes and classroom learning.
Dr White is keen to further explore the underpinning cognitive mechanisms of learning; with particular interest in the intuitive strategies employed by children during the first years of formal schooling. Understanding more about the development of numerical processing skills could have implications for curriculum construction, but also facilitate the design of early diagnostic and effective intervention programs for children with mathematics difficulties.