Rate My Professor Marialivia Bernardi

Dr Marialivia Bernardi is a Senior Research Fellow and Project Coordinator in Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology at University College London, within the Faculty of Brain Sciences and the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences. She previously held the position of research associate at University College London, where she investigated neurodevelopmental outcomes of extremely preterm birth. Bernardi completed her PhD at City, University of London in the Division of Language and Communication Science. Her doctoral research examined the relationship between the development of motor coordination, executive functions and academic achievement, with a focus on children with developmental coordination disorder. She also holds a Post-Graduate Certificate in Higher Education from the University of Greenwich. Bernardi's research interests include working memory and executive functions in children with special educational needs and disabilities, the effects of screen time on toddlers, and home learning environments in early childhood. She has contributed to studies commissioned by the UK Department for Education, including work on the Children of the 2020s cohort examining home learning and related outcomes. Her publications address topics such as neuropsychological abilities underpinning academic achievement in children born extremely preterm and executive functions in children with developmental coordination disorder. Bernardi teaches developmental psychology, neuropsychology and psychopathology.