Dr Prof Kay Gallagher
Professor
Emirates College for Advanced Education
Dr Kay Gallagher, PhD, SFHEA, is a Professor in Language Education at Emirates College for Advanced Education, Abu Dhabi, where she teaches and conducts research in language, and literacy education, and teacher education. Kay has taught and led in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Hong Kong, and in her home country, Ireland, where she was a school principal.
Her latest edited book is World Englishes in the Arab Gulf States (Routledge, 2025). She co-leads the Fathers and Reading research project in Abu Dhabi, funded by the Early Childhood Authority, which supports emergent literacy and wellbeing through father-child reading at home.
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Professor Kay Gallagher from Emirates College for Advanced Education presents insights into the joys of parent-child interactive shared reading for pleasure, drawing on the Fathers and Reading research project.
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