Dianne Murphy is the author of Thinking Reading, a specialist reading intervention for secondary schools in the UK. She holds a degree in Education and Linguistics, along with two post-graduate diplomas in special education and another in English language teaching. In 2015 she won a Teach First Innovation Award to assist her to scale-up the programme. In 2017 Thinking Reading won Innovation Partnership status with Teach First to continue to widen its impact. She is co-author of Thinking Reading: What Every Secondary Teacher Needs to Know About Reading.
Dianne works to disseminate research about good instructional practice in reading through social media, blogging and speaking at conferences.
