Dr Katrina Dulay
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About
Overview
Katrina is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Developmental Psychology. She conducts research in children's language and literacy development, with a particular focus on parent-child interactions, home literacy environments, and children growing up in socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds and low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
She is developing a contextualised, ecosystems approach to reading development. Read more about her UKRI FLF project, the LEARN Project, here: https://www.facebook.com/LEARNProjectPinas
She completed her degrees in psychology in the Philippines (Bachelor of Arts), United Kingdom (MSc), and Hong Kong (PhD) and worked in teaching and research positions in the three countries.
Previous projects include a parent coaching programme to foster language, literacy, and numeracy development in the Philippines (CUHK), a massive open online course about teaching struggling readers around the world (CUHK), an e-book intervention to promote healthy eating among preschoolers in the UK & EU (See & Eat: University of Reading), and an international collaboration to support the oral language development of children in India and the Philippines (TalkTogether: University of Oxford).
Visit the LEARN Project Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/LEARNProjectPinas
Visit the TalkTogether OSF page to download a children's book levelling tool and word corpora in Kannada and Filipino: https://osf.io/3zdfn
Visit the See & Eat page for free e-books to promote healthy eating in preschoolers (available in English, Italian, Dutch, Finnish, French, Polish): https://www.seeandeat.org
Qualifications
- PhD in Psychology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China, August 2014 - July 2018
- MSc in Cognitive Neuropsychology, University of Essex, United Kingdom, October 2010 - September 2011
- AB Psychology, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines, June 2004 - March 2008
Employment
- Research Officer, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, January 2020 - October 2021
- Postdoctoral Research Assistant, University of Reading, United Kingdom, January - December 2019
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China, August 2018 - January 2019
- Lecturer, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines, November 2011 - May 2014
Publications
Featured publications
- Nag, S., Vagh, S.B., Dulay, K.M., Snowling, M., Donolato, E. and Melby-Lervåg, M. (2024). Home learning environments and children’s language and literacy skills: A meta-analytic review of studies conducted in low- and middle-income countries. Psychological Bulletin, 150(2), pp. 132-153. doi:10.1037/bul0000417
- Dulay, K.M., Cheung, S.K. and McBride, C. (2019). Intergenerational transmission of literacy skills among Filipino families. Developmental Science, 22(5). doi:10.1111/desc.12859
- Dulay, K.M., Cheung, S.K., Reyes, P. and McBride, C. (2019). Effects of parent coaching on Filipino children’s numeracy, language, and literacy skills. Journal of Educational Psychology, 111(4), pp. 641-662. doi:10.1037/edu0000315
Publications by category
Journal articles (19)
- Pan, D.J., Ng, M.C.Y., Dulay, K.M., McBride, C. and Ho, C.S.H. (2026). Reciprocal associations of oral language skills and word spelling within and across L1 Chinese and L2 English. Reading and Writing. doi:10.1007/s11145-026-10845-x
- Dulay, K.M., Mirković, J., Fua, M.M.R.C., Prabhu, D. and Nag, S. (2025). Measurement of age-of-acquisition in morphologically rich languages: Insights from Kannada and Filipino. Behavior Research Methods, 58(1). doi:10.3758/s13428-025-02876-z
- Cheah, Z.R.E., McBride, C., Dulay, K.M., Cheung, S.K., Reyes, P. and Dillenbourg, P. (2024). Effects of online parent coaching on Filipino children's skills. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 68, pp. 191-202. doi:10.1016/j.ecresq.2024.05.006
- Masento, N.A., Dulay, K.M., Roberts, A.P., Harvey, K., Messer, D. and Houston-Price, C. (2023). See and Eat! The impact of repeated exposure to vegetable ebooks on young children's vegetable acceptance. Appetite, 182, pp. 106447-106447. doi:10.1016/j.appet.2022.106447
- Masento, N.A., Dulay, K.M., Harvey, K., Bulgarelli, D., Caputi, M., Cerrato, G.... Houston-Price, C. (2022). Parent, child, and environmental predictors of vegetable consumption in Italian, Polish, and British preschoolers. Frontiers in Nutrition, 9. doi:10.3389/fnut.2022.958245
- Pan, D.J., Yang, X., Ku, Y.Y.S., Dulay, K.M., Cheung, S.K., McBride, C.... Ho, C.S.H. (2022). Variability in Asian parents’ English and mathematics skills: A family-based study. Frontiers in Education, 7. doi:10.3389/feduc.2022.898201
- Caputi, M., Dulay, K.M., Bulgarelli, D., Houston-Price, C., Cerrato, G., Fanelli, M.... Molina, P. (2021). Corrigendum: See & Eat! Using E-books to Promote Vegetable Eating Among Preschoolers: Findings From an Italian Sample. Frontiers in Psychology, 12. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.773658
- Yang, X., Dulay, K.M., McBride, C. and Cheung, S.K. (2021). How do phonological awareness, rapid automatized naming, and vocabulary contribute to early numeracy and print knowledge of Filipino children? Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 209, pp. 105179-105179. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105179
- Caputi, M., Dulay, K.M., Bulgarelli, D., Houston-Price, C., Cerrato, G., Fanelli, M.... Molina, P. (2021). See & Eat! Using E-books to Promote Vegetable Eating Among Preschoolers: Findings From an Italian Sample. Frontiers in Psychology, 12. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.712416
- Dulay, K.M., Law, S.Y., McBride, C. and Ho, C.S.-.H. (2021). Reciprocal effects of morphological awareness, vocabulary knowledge, and word reading: A cross-lagged panel analysis in Chinese. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 206. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105100
- Cheung, S.K., Dulay, K.M., Yang, X., Mohseni, F. and McBride, C. (2021). Home Literacy and Numeracy Environments in Asia. Frontiers in Psychology, 12. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.578764
- Cheung, S.K., Dulay, K.M. and McBride, C. (2020). Parents’ characteristics, the home environment, and children’s numeracy skills: How are they related in low- to middle-income families in the Philippines? Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 192, pp. 104780-104780. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2019.104780
- Dulay, K.M., Masento, N.A., Harvey, K., Messer, D.J. and Houston‐Price, C. (2020). Me and my veggies: The use of interactive, personalised picture books in healthy eating interventions. Nutrition Bulletin, 45(1), pp. 51-58. doi:10.1111/nbu.12415
- Nag, S., Vagh, S.B., Dulay, K.M. and Snowling, M.J. (2019). Context and Implications: Home language, school language and children's literacy attainments: A systematic review of evidence from low‐ and middle‐income countries. Review of Education, 7(1), pp. 151-155. doi:10.1002/rev3.3132
- Nag, S., Vagh, S.B., Dulay, K.M. and Snowling, M.J. (2019). Home language, school language and children's literacy attainments: A systematic review of evidence from low‐ and middle‐income countries. Review of Education, 7(1), pp. 91-150. doi:10.1002/rev3.3130
- Cheung, S.K., Yang, X., Dulay, K.M. and McBride, C. (2018). Family and individual variables associated with young Filipino children's numeracy interest and competence. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 36(2), pp. 334-353. doi:10.1111/bjdp.12222
- Dulay, K.M., Cheung, S.K. and McBride, C. (2018). Environmental correlates of early language and literacy in low- to middle-income Filipino families. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 53, pp. 45-56. doi:10.1016/j.cedpsych.2018.02.002
- Dulay, K.M., Tong, X. and McBride, C. (2017). The Role of Foreign Domestic Helpers in Hong Kong Chinese Children's English and Chinese Skills: A Longitudinal Study. Language Learning, 67(2), pp. 321-347. doi:10.1111/lang.12222
- Dulay, K.M. and Hanley, J.R. (2015). Stress errors in a case of developmental surface dyslexia in Filipino. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 32(1), pp. 29-37. doi:10.1080/02643294.2014.984602