Newsletter #9 – Talk science and eat cake
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…
The Art of Motherhood: a Q&A with artist Lisa Creagh
Artist Lisa Creagh's exhibition Holding Time at the Royal Brompton Hospital and also her interviews of breastfeeding mothers address themes that some of our PSG groups are exploring in their research: in February, nearly 120 mothers from Parenting Science Gang took part…
Newsletter #8 – Introducing our new groups
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…
Pump it up! Mamas express milk for Parenting Science Gang to fill research gap
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…
Parenting Science Gang – breastmilk composition experiment
This February, something out of the ordinary is going to happen in West London. Over a hundred breastfeeding mothers will get together to donate breastmilk for an experiment they instigated and designed themselves, through citizen science project Parenting Science Gang (PSG) and…
Newsletter #7 – Season’s Greetings from PSG!
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 – 9 months on
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…
Breastmilk composition and child health – Q&A with Dr Meghan Azad
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…
Newsletter #6 – How to reach hard-to-reach groups?
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…
Does the UK Support Breastfeeding? Q&A with Dr Ruth Stirton
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…