If you wanted to find out what your child thought about jobs / roles and who they were for (woman/man) - how would you find out? This is the question our Let Toys Be Toys - PSG group have been…
Sian Jones joined our Let Toys Be Toys - Parenting Science Gang to help us refine our research ideas. Siân Jones: I'm an Associate Lecturer at Goldsmiths and Birkbeck, UoL, and have a PhD in Psychology. My research is mainly…
My name is Lauren Spinner. I am a Developmental Psychologist and my research focuses on children’s gender development. I’m particularly interested in how children come to understand gender norms and how/why children are motivated to conform to them in terms…
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…
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…
This week Dr Bonamy Oliver of the University of Sussex joined us for a fascinating chat about behaviour research. Bonny is a developmental psychologist interested in family relationships and children's behaviour. Her research focuses on all sorts of relationships in…
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.…