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…
Update! This study is now closed. We had 757 responses - thank you everyone! We'll publicise the results in early 2019. If you would like to share your breastfeeding story, please consider taking part in Dr Ruth Stirton's online research…
We were joined by some of the partners of PSG members for a busy Q&A session about dads’ mental health this week with Dr Zoe Darwin. Image: Federico Enni Zoe: Hello everyone! I'm Zoe, a Lecturer at the University of…
Today we're opening our notebooks to reveal a discussion our BOBAB and UKBAPS PSG groups had with Dr Simon Cameron in September 2017 as part of designing their "what's in breastmilk?" study. Simon: Hello everyone, my name is Simon and…
Confused about how much weight you should gain during pregnancy? Most of us are! Big Birthas Parenting Science Gang spotted Hannah Hartley's research poster about what mothers understand about gestational weight gain at at a conference and asked her to tell…
How can you help your kids be confident with maths? According to Dr Vic Simms, you can make a difference right from the start, so we invited her along to a Q&A to tell us more. Vic: Hi all! I’m…
Three of our PSG groups are using thematic analysis to make sense of information that they are gathering for their research. But what is thematic analysis and how do we do it? In steps Nicky Human who uses and teaches thematic…
We've got over 2000 parents taking part in Parenting Science Gang. So we picked their brains on what else they'd like to research if they had the chance. Photo by Rawpixel on Unsplash Here and now Parenting Science Gang is…
We are a group of parents of children who experience issues with eating, and we want to know more about how eating is related to children's emotional behaviour and sensory sensitivity. We have worked with Prof Jackie Blissett (Aston University)…