Introducing our new groups! We're pleased to announce two more science gangs - Big Birthas (BB PSG) and Mealtime Hostage (MH PSG). Big Birthas - we've teamed up with Amber Marshall of bigbirthas.co.ukto ask the questions bigger mums want the answers to. You…
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…
Season's Greetings from PSG! Season's greetings from everyone at Parenting Science Gang! It's been a busy year - our first four groups got underway in April and 9 months on are working to make their chosen experiments happen. 2018 looks set to…
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…
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…
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…
Residential Weekend June kept us busy! The month began with a weekend in Derbyshire for our first Parenting Science Gang (PSG) residential. Q: Can you make a two-day training session accessible to parents of small children, including several breastfeeding mothers? The…
This week we're... ... packing our bags for our residential weekend in the Peak District. 5 PSG staffers, 14 PSGers, 12 other halves, 19 children and 4 speakers are off to Mount Cook Adventure Centre near Matlock in Derbyshire. We'll be getting to…
And we're off... Our first newsletter celebrated the launch of Parenting Science Gang (PSG). Three weeks on, the project has: 425 new members 720 Facebook comments 4 Facebook groups (launched 13th -15th April) 2 live online Q&As with experts completed 1 residential weekend…
Parenting Science Gang is Go! Parenting Science Gang, an innovative user-led citizen science project, was given a Society Award by the Wellcome Trust in November 2016 and officially started on 20th February this year. In our first week we held a…