Pamela Snow is Professor of Cognitive Psychology in the School of Education at the Bendigo campus of La Trobe University, Australia. She is also Co-Director (and Co-Founder) of the Science of Language and Reading (SOLAR) Lab in the School of Education. Pamela is a registered psychologist, having qualified originally in speech-language pathology and has taught a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate education and health professionals. Her research has been funded by nationally competitive schemes such as the ARC Discovery Program, ARC Linkage Program, and the Criminology Research Council, as a well as by government and non-government sectors and concerns the role of language and literacy skills as academic and mental health protective factors in childhood and adolescence. She has conducted research on the profiles and needs of high-risk groups such as youth offenders, children and adolescents in the state care system and flexible education systems, as well as research advancing evidence in the language-to-literacy transition in the early years of school. Pamela’s research has included quantitative (descriptive and experimental), qualitative, and mixed methods approaches. In 2020, Pamela established, with her colleague, Professor Tanya Serry, The Science of Language and Reading (SOLAR) Lab in the School of Education at La Trobe University. Together, they have designed and delivered three online short courses for school staff (completed by over 12K participants in their first four years), developed a Language and Literacy stream in the La Trobe Master of Education, and created a Graduate Certificate in Education (Language and Literacy). Pamela has over 200 publications, comprising refereed papers (in a wider range of international journals), books and book chapters, monographs and research reports. Pamela was a member of the 2017 National Year 1 Literacy and Numeracy Panel, convened by the Hon. Simon Birmingham, Federal Education Minister. She is a Life Member of Speech Pathology Australia and a past Victorian State Chair of the Australian Psychological Society. In addition to her wide-ranging academic outputs, Pamela writes a popular blog for teachers, parents, and clinicians: The Snow Report (over 1.25 million views since its establishment in 20213) and is a founding Associate Editor of The Reading League Journal. Pamela has also been interviewed on a number of Australian and international education-related podcasts, such as the Education Research Reading Room, The Science of Reading, Melissa and Lori Love Literacy, Chalk and Talk, and the Teaching Literacy Podcast. In September 2024, Pamela was named by the Australian Financial Review Magazine as one of the five most powerful people in education in Australia. Pamela is frequently called on to provide invited keynote and seminar presentations to a wide range of education, policy, welfare, and justice audiences in Australia and overseas.