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Astrid E. J. Bowen

Research Associate, University of London and the University of York

Astrid Bowen is a researcher and lecturer who previously worked as a teacher and special educational therapist. Her doctoral research project was a mixed-methods evaluation of a complex school-based intervention to improve the wellbeing of struggling students. She is currently project lead on a government-funded cluster-randomised controlled trial of a teacher training intervention to improve the quality of mainstream spelling and reading instruction in English.

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