Parenting Science Gang has been running for 9 months now (!!), here’s what we’ve been up to. The first four groups We started by recruiting members from four existing Facebook groups for parents: Breastfeeding Older Babies & Beyond (BOBAB) UK Breastfeeding…
Are you member of a parenting group? (Maybe a Facebook community group?) Do you wish you could get evidence-based facts about the stuff that matters to you? Parenting Science Gang puts parents in charge of the research agenda. It’s a groundbreaking, user-led…
Do you have parenting questions you can't find an evidence-based answer to? Are you part of a community with questions that get overlooked by mainstream science? Parenting Science Gang puts parents in charge of the research agenda. It's user-led citizen science,…
We were pleased to welcome trustees from the Centre for Personalised Education, Dr Harriet Pattison, Alison Sauer and Emma Dyke to our Q&A this week. Harriet Pattison is a lecturer in early childhood education at Liverpool Hope University, and has…
Are you a member of a parenting group on Facebook - or elsewhere online? Has your group got questions about parenting? Or are you simply fed up with all the unsolicited advice we get as parents and wish you knew…
We were thrilled to talk to Dr Rosie Knowles this week. Rosie is a GP, founder of the Sheffield Sling Surgery, author of "Why Babywearing Matters" and experienced trainer of babywearing peer supporters. Photo by Katrina Shepherd Photography Q: Welcome…
The Science-Aware Natural Parenting - Parenting Science Gang are currently designing an experiment to investigate how a baby's temperature changes while in a sling. In this Q&A we quizzed Dr Davide Filingeri, an expert in environmental physiology from Loughborough University about methods for…
We were really excited to welcome Dr Helen Lees of Newman University to this week's Q&A on flexi-schooling. Helen is Reader in Alternative Education Studies, and her research touches on a variety of topics such as home education, democratic schooling, educational theory, …
Dr Meghan Azad joined us for an online Q&A. She is the co-Lead on the Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Study (Manitoba site) and also a Research Scientist at the Children's Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba (CHRIM). Q: Meghan we'd love…
Are you a member of a parenting group with lots of questions? Maybe a large Facebook group? Parenting Science Gang is about uncovering questions that matter to parents, but which science isn’t answering. Four Facebook communities have taken part this year, they've been exploring…