by Amber Marshall of Big Birthas Are you a plus-size Mum or Mum-to-be? Trying to get pregnant, perhaps? Looking for information specific to your circumstances, and struggling to find it? There's a lot of research out there, but not a…
Guest blogger Caitlin Rose tells us about the babywearing experiment designed and run by the Science-Aware Natural Parenting Science Gang. Image: Kristi Hayes-Devlin (CC by-ND 2.0) As with anything related to child-rearing, there’s a lot of advice out there about what…
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…
by guest blogger M. Wright from UKBAPS - Parenting Science Gang. On Tuesday 16th January 2018, I attended a conference on the effects of screen time on young people in London at The Wellcome collection with my one year old son…
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…
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…