Kathy Rastle is a Professor of Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London who has published over 100 articles on the neurocognitive mechanisms that underpin reading and learning to read. Rastle’s research has received over 20 years of continuous funding from the Economic and Social Research Council and has won a series of major prizes. Rastle is very interested in translating her scientific work to create positive impacts on literacy policy and practice, and recently won the Economic and Social Research Council’s ‘Celebrating Impact’ Prize recognizing the global impact of her work on ‘Ending the Reading Wars’. She is a past President of the Experimental Psychology Society and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and the Academia Europaea.