This February, something out of the ordinary is going to happen in West London. Over a hundred breastfeeding mothers will get together to donate breastmilk for an experiment they instigated and designed themselves, through citizen science project Parenting Science Gang (PSG) and…
Guest blogger Caitlin Rose tells us about the babywearing experiment designed and run by the Science-Aware Natural Parenting Science Gang. Image: Kristi Hayes-Devlin (CC by-ND 2.0) As with anything related to child-rearing, there’s a lot of advice out there about what…
Our Breastfeeding and Health Care Professionals Parenting Science Gang is starting to design a research study looking into the experiences of breastfeeding mothers with heath care professionals. We chatted to Dr Sally Dowling of UWE to find out more about the subject. Image: U.S. Department of Agriculture (CC…
by guest blogger M. Wright from UKBAPS - Parenting Science Gang. On Tuesday 16th January 2018, I attended a conference on the effects of screen time on young people in London at The Wellcome collection with my one year old son…
Our second year groups are looking at potential questions to investigate and are trying to find out what research already exists. So we asked one of our Let Toys Be Toys - Parenting Science Gang members, Katie Alcock, to write…
We were delighted to welcome Prof Carrie Paechter to the Q&A room to answer our questions about her research on how children learn about and understand gender. Image: Viktor Karppinen by CC2.0 Carrie: Hi everyone. I'm Carrie Paechter, and I'm Director of the…
Image: Sew Katy Did; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 The SANP-Parenting Science Gang is running an experiment on the temperature of babies (age 0-13 months) when in slings. You can read all about the background to their decision in this blog post by one of…