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Research Publications

  • McGeown, S., Errington, P., et al. (2025). The Future of Books and Reading. Literacy Lab,

    University of Edinburgh, UK. 

  • Pitur, S., & Miu, A. C. (2025). The Poet is Speaking: A Case for Studying the Role of Auditory Imagery in Poetry-Elicited Emotions. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 0(0).
  • Santi, E., Cebula, K., and McGeown, S. (2025) Reading and Empathy: Qualitative insights into adolescents' experiences with fiction books. Literacy, 59: 304–313.
  • Errington, P. J, Thye, M., Tao, A., & Mirman, D. (2024). Effects of ease of comprehension and individual differences on the pleasure experienced while reading novelized verb-based metaphors. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 46.
  • Webber, C., Santi, E., Calabrese, J., & McGeown, S. (2024). Using participatory approaches with children and young people to research volitional reading. Language and Education, 38(4), 652–667.
  • Errington, P. J, Thye, M., Tao, A., & Mirman, D. (2024). Effects of ease of comprehension and individual differences on the pleasure experienced while reading novelized verb-based metaphors. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 46.
  • Errington PJ, Thye M, Mirman D (2022). Difficulty and pleasure in the comprehension of verb-based metaphor sentences: A behavioral study. PLoS ONE 17(2): e0263781.

Other Publications

  • (Re)Writing a Way into Poems: New Research on Young People’s Poetry Literacy and Wellbeing. Blog post by Patrick Errington (2025), The Poetry Society