Our Breastfeeding & Healthcare Experiences (BF HCE) PSG has been running 2 complementary studies: looking at how personal breastfeeding experiences affect professional practice in health care professionals, in collaboration with Dr Yan-Shing Chang (King's College London), and looking at the…
Babies. Exciting. Inspiring. Privilege. Happy. Boobs. Empowering. Just some of the words used to describe taking part in Breastfeeding Older Babies and Beyond (BOBAB) and UK Breastfeeding and Parenting Support (UKBAPS) PSGs #breastmilkexperiment. These 2 Gangs wanted to know what’s…
Our Let Toys Be Toys Parenting Science Gang (LTBT PSG) have an ongoing study looking at the effects of story books on children's social attitudes. At our Final Event in November, the group presented a short picture book, designed for…
Surprising insights into reflux and multiple potential journal papers! If you've got 3 minutes, you can catch up on the progress of Mealtime Hostage Parenting Science Gang by having a look at the poster that they made for our Final…
We asked our members whether there is enough research into parenting / parenthood, and where they would like to see more research. In general, PSGers felt that parenting is underrepresented in research and what research there is is often poorly…
We received over 750 responses to our survey on breastfeeding and healthcare experiences in the UK and our citizen scientist analysts are looking at the data as we speak. Here's a chat we had with Dr Gavin Brookes a little…
We've been desperate to chat to Dr Wendy Jones, the breastfeeding pharmacist, since the beginning of Parenting Science Gang, and so it was with delight and excitement that we welcomed her to a Q&A last week. Image: USDA PSG G: Wow,…
The PSG Final Event #parentsdoscience Parenting Science Gang is funded by Wellcome for a two year period and we’re coming towards the end of our project. Over the last 21 months, our 2000+ citizen scientists have achieved amazing things. They've created…
Update! Recruitment for this study is now closed. If you are enrolled on the study and have any questions, please email the research team on bookspsg@gmail.com Read with your child for science! We are a group of parents and carers interested…
Are picky-eaters doomed to long-term bad health? This is the fear of many of the members of the Mealtime Hostage Parenting Science Gang, and so we were delighted to welcome Dr Caroline Taylor to talk to us about her research looking at…