In the early 90s, a team from the University of Bristol recruited 10,000 pregnant women for a study on the environmental and genetic factors that affect a person’s health and development. Over the last 26 years, these women, their children and…
This week we're... ... packing our bags for our residential weekend in the Peak District. 5 PSG staffers, 14 PSGers, 12 other halves, 19 children and 4 speakers are off to Mount Cook Adventure Centre near Matlock in Derbyshire. We'll be getting to…
Silke Brandt from the Lancaster University Babylab joined us to answer our questions about language development in children. Silke's research focuses on how language and cognitive development interact and she is also interested in the influence of growing up bilingual.…
This week's Q&A was with Sarah McMullen, Head of Knowledge at the NCT (National Childbirth Trust), supported by Rachel Plachcinski, the NCT's Research Engagement Officer. Sarah says: The Knowledge team support NCT to be evidence-based in all we do. This…
Heather Welford has been an NCT breastfeeding counsellor and tutor, training other breastfeeding counsellors and healthcare professionals, for many years. As a journalist and writer, she's written several books and many articles about feeding babies, and has a strong interest…
For our second online Q&A, we spoke to Heather Trickey, a breastfeeding counsellor and Research Manager for the NCT. Heather is interested in why some public health policies appear to work whilst others fail, and her PhD in infant feeding policy…
