Dr. Charles Hulme FBA

Founder and CEO, OxEd and Assessment

Charles Hulme is Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Education at the University of Oxford, and founder and CEO of the University of Oxford spinout company, OxEd Ltd. His work has made important contributions to understanding the role of language skills in learning to read and to cognitive theories of developmental disorders of learning. His theoretical work has led to the development of intervention programmes that are proven to improve children’s language and literacy skills. One such programme, the Nuffield Early Language Intervention (NELI), also known as the TEL Ted programme has now been rolled out over the last 5 years to approximately two thirds of English primary schools with support from the UK government Department for Education as well as to many schools worldwide (US, Paraguay, Netherlands, New Zealand). Charles is proud of the fact that this basic research has translated into practical benefits for children at scale. He has published widely and is in the top 1% for citations of all researchers in the field of Education. He holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Oslo (2014) and is a member of Academia Europea and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2017.