Our Let Toys Be Toys -Parenting Science Gang members have been considering researching the effect bedtime stories have on children's gender stereotyping. Dr Lauren Spinner joined us for a Q&A to help us explore this idea. Lauren Spinner: Hi everyone! I think this…
Welcome to Parenting Science Gang, Dr Nigel Field and Prof. Peter Brocklehurst. Please could tell us a bit about yourselves and what the Baby Biome Cohort Study is about? Nigel Field: I’m Nigel Field. I’m a public health doctor and researcher…
My name is Lauren Spinner. I am a Developmental Psychologist and my research focuses on children’s gender development. I’m particularly interested in how children come to understand gender norms and how/why children are motivated to conform to them in terms…
Welcome Graham Andre of "No More Boys and Girls"! Graham Andre: Evening everyone, I am a Year 4 teacher working at Lanesend Primary on the Isle of Wight, this is my 6th year of teaching, before that I was a…
In our chat this week, the Breastfeeding and Healthcare Experiences group decided their topic and also had a think about specifics: What exactly would we do? What numbers would we aim for, what techniques would we use, and so on? This blog post…
We're very excited to welcome back Petra Boynton, author of The Research Companion, and a very talented social science researcher. Hopefully she's going to help us lick our research ideas into shape. Petra is a Social Psychologist who's worked in International…
Hello everyone! We're absolutely delighted that we have Petra Boynton here to help us think about our research. Hello Petra, and welcome to our Breastfeeding & Health Care Experiences -Parenting Science Gang! Petra: Hello everyone! Thanks for asking me along tonight.…
Over one hundred mothers gathered yesterday at Imperial College, London to donate breast milk to the first research study analysing how the composition of breast milk changes as children get older. The experiment, probably a world record for the number of mothers…
Dr Meghan Azad joined us for an online Q&A. She is the co-Lead on the Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Study (Manitoba site) and also a Research Scientist at the Children's Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba (CHRIM). Q: Meghan we'd love…
Are you a member of a parenting group with lots of questions? Maybe a large Facebook group? Parenting Science Gang is about uncovering questions that matter to parents, but which science isn’t answering. Four Facebook communities have taken part this year, they've been exploring…