Steven Howard

Professor Steven Howard is a Senior Academic Research Leader in Child Development and Education with the Department of Education at the University of Oxford. He is a leading researcher of children’s self-regulation, executive function, and related abilities. He has published well-cited papers in leading journals regarding self-regulation and executive function meta-analyses and reviews, and on their development, antecedents, outcomes, intervention, and assessment. Currently, he is leading a longitudinal study of self-regulation across the transition to school years. He is also a founding Chief Investigator with the Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child, in which his research focuses on intersections between children’s self-regulation and digital engagement.