We spent a fascinating hour talking to Prof Gina Rippon about what neuroscience tells us about sex and gender. Image: Patrick Hales, UCL (CC by 4.0) Hello everyone. I am Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Neuroimaging at the Aston Brain Centre,…
We were really pleased to talk to Amber Marshall from BigBirthas.co.uk this week. Amber's website provides information and support to mums and mums-to-be with a higher BMI. Image: operabug (CC BY-NC 2.0) PSG: Thanks so much for joining us Amber. Can…
Our Breastfeeding and Health Care Professionals Parenting Science Gang is starting to design a research study looking into the experiences of breastfeeding mothers with heath care professionals. We chatted to Dr Sally Dowling of UWE to find out more about the subject. Image: U.S. Department of Agriculture (CC…
We were delighted to welcome Prof Carrie Paechter to the Q&A room to answer our questions about her research on how children learn about and understand gender. Image: Viktor Karppinen by CC2.0 Carrie: Hi everyone. I'm Carrie Paechter, and I'm Director of the…
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…
As our new Let Toys Be Toys - Parenting Science Gang gets started on their mission to explore gender stereotyping in childhood, we were excited to welcome Rebecca Asher, author of Man Up: Boys, Men and Breaking the Male Rule, for…
Over all the Parenting Science Gangs, forest schools are extremely popular with the majority of members saying that they either attended or would like to attend one with their children. So we were delighted to be able to speak to…
Dr Rebecca Whittle is a human geographer at Lancaster University. She came to talk to us about her research into how babywearing affects people's sense of space and place. You can read about the background to her research in two…
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…