Author, speaker, expert
Author of 100 books and an international authority on adolescent brains and stress, wellbeing, learning, the reading brain and the effects of life online on all of us. You can book me to speak or work with you, buy my popular classroom materials or find out about my books, and immerse yourself in science and fascinating insights into human behaviour.
My Areas of expertise
Adolescent brains
and lives
Explaining the changes that define teenage development: biological (sleep, emotion, peer pressure, risk-taking) and external pressures of exams, friends, school and family. Key books: Blame My Brain – The Amazing Teenage Brain Revealed and Positively Teenage.
Wellbeing and
stress management
Bringing you evidence-based understanding of stress management, with intriguing insights into brain bandwidth and multi-tasking. For all ages, for life. Key books: Teenage Guide to Stress, Teenage Guide to Friends and Positively Teenage.
The reading
brain
A former dyslexia expert, I’m passionate and knowledgeable about the science of reading and the different effects of our choices. My special interest is the evidence of the enormous benefits of reading for pleasure and I invented the word “readaxation”.
Life
online
The internet and our always-with-us devices have changed our lives, work, friendships – even sleep. I share the science – negatives and positives – for all ages. With common sense, I promise. Key book: The Teenage Guide to Life Online is out in 2018.
Award-winning author of fact and fiction
BUY Classroom MATERIALS
My popular materials are used in schools all over the world to teach wellbeing and boost learning for life. Perpetual licences make them exceptional value.
Latest news
Exciting news coming: a wonderful school, a new book and a special project
Very recently I visited Haggerston School in Hackney, because they’d come second in my Ask Nicola Morgan competition. (Congratulations to them!) I visit lots of schools and some of them
Featured Book
The pros and cons of the Digital Age, from the information explosion to the growth of social media. I investigate hot topics like fake news and privacy, multi-tasking and distraction, addiction and over-use, with fascinating, cutting-edge research into how the internet and screen-use affect our lives.
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Nicola's story
Most people look at me, read my books or hear me speak and think I am super-controlled, calm, healthy and confident. Most of that is a façade I’ve learned to display. With a highly-ambitious, perfectionist, over-sensitive and introvert personality, I have experience of stress-related illness, anxiety and failure to deal with pressure.
I am an international speaker and have spoken to audiences in countries including France, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Spain, Sweden, the UAE, Malaysia, Brunei, India, Indonesia and Hong Kong.
ARTICLES BY CATEGORY
#AskNicolaMorgan 11: How would Blame My Brain have changed my life if I’d had it as a teenager? And did my parents understand me?”
Two fantastic questions from Wolverhampton Grammar School, who came third equal in the Ask Nicola Morgan competition. Congratulations to them! “If someone had given you Blame My Brain to read
#36 of 52 WAYS to WELL-BEING – Talk to the face
Social media give us endless opportunities to communicate easily with a wide range of people. We can have conversations via text, email, Facebook, What’s App and any number of forums
Empathy from stories: true AND made-up #EmpathyDay
This is something I feel passionately about. It’s also something I know about, as the science of reading is one of my “things”. In fact, this is a re-posted blog
Podcast interview for You Inside Out on social media, screens and self-esteem
Recently, I really enjoyed being interviewed by the tour de force that is Sonja Lewis, creator of the You Inside Out blog and podcast for girls. Of course, lots of
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