Dr Rob Aldridge of University College London joined us to help demystify epidemiology. Q: Rob, please could you tell us what are you working on at the moment? Rob: My work at the moment fits into two broad areas Understanding…
Good evening everyone! I'm Alaa Bani Hani, a lecturer and specialist registrar in Paediatric Dentistry (kids’ teeth) at University of Leeds and Leeds Dental Hospital. I have been searching different approaches for restoring decayed baby teeth and how can we…
How to reach hard-to-reach groups? We're recruiting more groups and we're especially keen to work with harder to reach groups such as young parents, black and ethnic minority parents and groups for people with disabilities. We’re also keen to find some fathers to…
Dr Philomena de Lima is the Director of the Centre for Remote and Rural Studies at University of the Highlands and Islands in Scotland. Philomena studies the experiences of people living rurally and is particularly interested in social justice, exclusion, equality,…
Emily Oster When Emily Oster, a professor of economics at Brown University, was pregnant, she was given a long list of dos and (mainly) don’ts about risky foods to avoid: wine, cheese, pate. But looking into the data behind the…
Does the UK support breastfeeding? The World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative (WBTi) is assessing and monitoring the progress of countries towards the recommendations of the WHO’s Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding. Guess how the UK is performing? Not…
“The first class I had on human milk I was blown away, It’s Harry Potter meets Willy Wonka. It’s a magical food.” Dr Maryanne Perrin Dr. Maryanne Perrin’s research on breastmilk composition has been groundbreaking. There is very little research…
Can you help us get bigger? We're growing! We're looking for more parenting groups to work with from October. Do you know any groups of parents who might like to get involved? Parenting Science Gang works best with groups of parents brought…
We asked some of the members in our first citizen science project – Nappy Science Gang (NSG) – to tell us about their experience of being involved in the project. This is Hayley's story: Name: Hayley Occupation: play worker in…
by Sarah West, Senior Research Associate, University of York and PSG Project Evaluator Parenting Science Gang, and its sister project, Nappy Science Gang, are citizen science projects, projects where scientists and non-scientists work together to answer questions about the world. In the past…