We were delighted and very grateful to welcome Dr Petra Boynton to Parenting Science Gang for an online Q&A on pregnancy loss in Baby Loss Awareness Week 2018. Petra took questions from mothers in advance and on the night. For…
PSG's Breastfeeding and Healthcare Experiences group are interested in the vital role that health professionals play in supporting mothers to breastfeed successfully. UK breastfeeding rates are poor. In their 2017 Position Statement on Breastfeeding, the Royal College of Paediatrics and…
How does Personal Experience of Breastfeeding Affect the Professional Practice of Health Care Professionals? The second study from the PSG group Breastfeeding and Health Care Experiences, investigated the effect of their own breastfeeding experiences on the support that healthcare professionals…
In Parenting Science Gang, parents of small children (overwhelmingly mums) came up with their own research questions and then designed and ran their own experiments to answer them. The questions they came up with were about the things that mattered in…
In this blogpost you’ll find reflections from the Parenting Science Gang (PSG) core team on what worked well and what we’d do differently if we were running a similar project again. Parenting Science Gang, while based on a similar premise…
In this blogpost you’ll find our top tips on engaging parents online and at face-to-face events. The golden rule of public engagement is to know your audience, and if you want to get parents involved, then you need to cater…
Why we think using Facebook for this kind of project works Our tips on how to make the most of Facebook and how to get around some of the challenges Why Use Facebook? It’s huge. It’s accessible. It’s familiar. We…
Project overview Parenting Science Gang was a citizen science project, run by and for parents and funded by Wellcome. Parent groups, in collaboration with scientists, designed and ran their own experiments to answer questions of importance to them. These groups…
This is the second in a highly occasional series. In 2016 I wrote a blogpost about what we'd learned from running Nappy Science Gang. That post proved so popular on science communication twitter, that 37 people emailed me asking for…
Earlier this month, PSG headed off to the Institute of Health Visiting (IHV) Conference in Manchester to share the results of some of our research. Our Director, Sophia Collins, gave a presentation about co-producing research with parents, while four of our…