PROFESSOR NAOMI WINSTONE
Educational Psychology
University of Surrey

Professor Naomi Winstone is Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Surrey, where she directs the Surrey Assessment and Learning Lab, and an Honorary Professor at the Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning (CRADLE), Deakin University, Australia. A cognitive psychologist by training, her research focuses on students' engagement with feedback, examining the cognitive, motivational and emotional processes that shape how feedback is received and used. She developed the Developing Engagement with Feedback Toolkit (DEFT), now used by over 200 universities and colleges worldwide, and Feedback emPower Tools, an online tool to support the use of feedback. In response to GenAI, Naomi led the development of an international Manifesto for Feedback in the Age of AI, and the Black Box Assessment model. She is a UK National Teaching Fellow and Principal Fellow of Advance HE, and her work with colleagues won the American Psychological Association's 2017 Outstanding Article Award in educational psychology.