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…
The Dumfries and Galloway Parenting Science Gang had a wonderfully in-depth discussion with Dr Tara Jones of the University of the West of Scotland about research methods in education. We learnt a lot and got some great ideas about how…
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…
The Dumfries and Galloway Parenting Science Gang have decided to investigate flexischooling in Scotland. At the minute we are preparing to write a survey and so we invited University of York education researcher Dr Louise Tracey along to a Q&A to…
We were really pleased to welcome Julia Black from Explorium to the Parenting Science Gang to answer our questions about the benefits of flexi-learning. Julia's work focuses on allowing a child to direct their own learning without being removed from…
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…
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, …
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…
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…