We were really excited to welcome Dr Helen Lees of Newman University to this week's Q&A on flexi-schooling. Helen is Reader in Alternative Education Studies, and her research touches on a variety of topics such as home education, democratic schooling, educational theory, …
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…
Dr Rob Aldridge of University College London joined us to help demystify epidemiology. Q: Rob, please could you tell us what are you working on at the moment? Rob: My work at the moment fits into two broad areas Understanding…
Good evening everyone! I'm Alaa Bani Hani, a lecturer and specialist registrar in Paediatric Dentistry (kids’ teeth) at University of Leeds and Leeds Dental Hospital. I have been searching different approaches for restoring decayed baby teeth and how can we…
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…
Dr Philomena de Lima is the Director of the Centre for Remote and Rural Studies at University of the Highlands and Islands in Scotland. Philomena studies the experiences of people living rurally and is particularly interested in social justice, exclusion, equality,…
Emily Oster When Emily Oster, a professor of economics at Brown University, was pregnant, she was given a long list of dos and (mainly) don’ts about risky foods to avoid: wine, cheese, pate. But looking into the data behind the…
Does the UK support breastfeeding? The World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative (WBTi) is assessing and monitoring the progress of countries towards the recommendations of the WHO’s Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding. Guess how the UK is performing? Not…
“The first class I had on human milk I was blown away, It’s Harry Potter meets Willy Wonka. It’s a magical food.” Dr Maryanne Perrin Dr. Maryanne Perrin’s research on breastmilk composition has been groundbreaking. There is very little research…