Gary Morgan

Email: gmorgan0@uoc(dot)edu

Dr. Gary Morgan is Professor of Psychology at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain. He received a B.A. in Psychology from Manchester University and a Ph.D. in Deafness and Language Development from Bristol University, both in the UK. His previous academic positions include Lecturer at Bristol University, Post-doctoral researcher at University College London (UCL) and Professor at City University London. 

Dr. Morgan's research focuses on the development of cognition and language in children who are born deaf and children with other developmental difficulties. He has published extensively on deaf children's development of language in British Sign Language and spoken English, and also worked on hearing and deaf children´s development of spoken Spanish and Catalan. He has also published on the relation between gesture and language in aphasia and developmental language disorders, the role of parent-child interaction in language development, Theory of Mind development and the development of narrative in spoken and signed languages. Most recently he is looking at the role of executive functions and language development in deaf and hearing children, as well as, children with DLD. His work has primarily been funded by the UK Economic and Social Science Research Council (ESRC) and National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). 

Dr. Morgan has published two volumes on deaf children's language development in the Trends in Language Acquisition Research book series published by John Benjamins, and serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Child Language and of the Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education. From 2005 to 2015, he was one of the directors of the ESRC research centre Deafness, Cognition and Language (DCAL) based at UCL.