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Teresa Cremin, CBE, is Professor of Education (Literacy) at The Open University, UK, and co-director of the Literacy and Social Justice Centre which creates space for research, practice and advocacy to enrich educational opportunities for all. An ex-teacher and teacher trainer, her conceptual and pedagogic research focuses on understanding the social and relational nature of children's volitional reading and writing, and teachers’ knowledge, practice and identities as readers and writers. A Fellow of the English Association, the Academy of Social Sciences, and the Royal Society of the Arts, Teresa is also a Trustee of The Reading Agency and the Love Reading Foundation and advises the DfE on reading for pleasure. She has published over 35 books on teaching literacy, including Reading and Writing for Pleasure: An evidence-informed Framework for Practice (2026) with H. Hendry, S. Hulston and L. Chamberlain and Reading for Pleasure: International Perspectives with S. McGeown (edited, 2025). Previously Teresa has been President of UKLA and UKRA, a board member of BookTrust and the Poetry Archive, a Director of the Cambridge Primary Review Trust, and edited the journals Literacy and Thinking Skills and Creativity. Teresa currently leads a research and practice coalition to support children’s and teachers’ volitional reading https://ourfp.org/