Visiting researcher: Chin Ee Loh
We are hosting reading researcher Chin Ee Loh of the National Institute of Education, Singapore, with whom we will exchange insights from participatory research.
Chin Ee Loh, our next visiting researcher, is Associate Professor at the English Language and Literature Department and Associate Dean (Impact & Partnerships) at the Office for Research of the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her work on young people’s reading at the intersection of globalisation and technological changes is widely recognised and her edited book, The Reading Lives of Teens (Routledge, 2024), was awarded the UKLA Academic Book Award. Together with WONDRE PI Anežka Kuzmičová and colleagues Teresa Cremin (Open University), Sarah McGeown (University of Edinburgh) and Laura Scholes (Australian Catholic University), she has also recently authored a position paper, The Decline in Volitional Reading: Evidence-Informed Ways Forward.
Chin Ee is currently leading the Education Research Funding Programme (ERFP)-funded five-year project, Reading Futures Study: A Longitudinal Cross-Case Comparison of Adolescents’ Print and Digital Reading Practices. She will be sharing important insights with us on participatory and ethnographic data collection techniques, including the use of smartphone and photo-elicitation methods for mobile ethnography, and learning from us about our child child-centred research designs. Furthermore, she will participate in WONDRE’s Children’s Reading Experiences workshop (17 September 2025) and in the 2nd International Children and Youth Perspectives Conference (18-19 September 2025), also co-organised by WONDRE.
