We can't wait for our Final Event this weekend. Here's a sneak peek at our schedule. Our keynote Welcome speech will be by Dr Alice Jones, Director of Goldsmiths University Unit for School and Family Studies. She will talk about what Parenting…
In February last year, Parenting Science Gang opened its doors and four groups of parents stepped up to the challenge of doing to some real science about the issues that parents care about most. Since then we've had another four groups join…
Today we're opening our notebooks to reveal a discussion our BOBAB and UKBAPS PSG groups had with Dr Simon Cameron in September 2017 as part of designing their "what's in breastmilk?" study. Simon: Hello everyone, my name is Simon and…
The Let Toys Be Toys Parenting Science Gang (LTBT PSG) is a group of parents who are supporters of the Let Toys Be Toys campaign, and who care about the effects of gender stereotypes on children. After lots of discussion,…
Do you breastfeed? Have you breastfed? Did you want to breastfeed? Did you have advice from a health care professional, breastfeeding counsellor or peer supporter? How did their advice affect you and your breastfeeding journey? These are the questions that…
Since April last year, we've had around 2000 citizen scientist parents planning, designing and running experiments into the areas of parenthood and childhood that matter to them. They've done a lot of their own research and collaborated with established scientists.…
We've got over 2000 parents taking part in Parenting Science Gang. So we picked their brains on what else they'd like to research if they had the chance. Photo by Rawpixel on Unsplash Here and now Parenting Science Gang is…
Breast Milk Experiment - The Results! You may remember that back in February, over 100 mums went to Charing Cross Hospital to donate milk for a breast milk experiment designed and run by Breastfeeding Older Babies and Beyond (BOBAB) PSG and UK Breastfeeding and Parent Support…
Image: Delfi de la Rua on Unsplash Wow - it's been 16 months since we launched Parenting Science Gang! So what have we been up to? There isn't really a road map for starting a novel user-led citizen science project for…
GDPR is here! We have a shiny new privacy policy on the PSG website which contains details on how we use personal data. PSG on the road We love how easy it is to join in on Facebook, but sometimes it's nice…