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Next Steps: A Q&A With Siân Jones For Let Toys Be Toys PSG

Next Steps: a Q&A with Siân Jones for Let Toys Be Toys PSG

  • May 12, 2018
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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…

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What To Ask Health Professionals Who Breastfeed? (Study Design Notes)

What to ask health professionals who breastfeed? (Study design notes)

  • May 3, 2018
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The PSG group Breastfeeding and Health Care Experiences is a unique mix of breastfeeding mothers with a wide range of backgrounds including a significant minority of health care professionals (HCPs) within the group. This group's main research project will explore the experiences…

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The Logistics Of Poo! Researching The Microbiome: A Q&A With Dr Nigel Field

The logistics of poo! Researching the microbiome: A Q&A with Dr Nigel Field

  • April 23, 2018
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Parenting Science Gang has a new group looking at the microbiome. For two weeks, our citizen scientist parents are working with Dr. Nigel Field (UCL) Prof. Peter Brocklehurst (Birmingham) and Rachel Plachinski (NCT) from the upcoming Baby Biome Cohort Study - a large scale…

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Bedtime Reading And Gender Stereotypes: A Q&A With Dr Lauren Spinner

Bedtime Reading and Gender Stereotypes: a Q&A with Dr Lauren Spinner

  • April 22, 2018
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Our Let Toys Be Toys -Parenting Science Gang members have been considering researching the effect bedtime stories have on children's gender stereotyping. Dr Lauren Spinner joined us for a Q&A to help us explore this idea. Lauren Spinner: Hi everyone! I think this…

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The Baby Biome Cohort Study – A Q&A With Peter Brocklehurst And Nigel Field

The Baby Biome Cohort Study – a Q&A with Peter Brocklehurst and Nigel Field

  • April 17, 2018
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Welcome to Parenting Science Gang, Dr Nigel Field and Prof. Peter Brocklehurst. Please could tell us a bit about yourselves and what the Baby Biome Cohort Study is about? Nigel Field: I’m Nigel Field. I’m a public health doctor and researcher…

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Children’s Gender Development – A Q&A With Dr Lauren Spinner

Children’s Gender Development – a Q&A with Dr Lauren Spinner

  • March 29, 2018
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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…

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Breastfeeding & Health Care Experiences: Study Design -next Steps

Breastfeeding & health care experiences: study design -next steps

  • March 8, 2018
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In our chat this week, the Breastfeeding and Healthcare Experiences group decided their topic and also had a think about specifics: What exactly would we do? What numbers would we aim for, what techniques would we use, and so on? This blog post…

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How To Do Research? A Q&A With Dr Petra Boynton (part 2)

How to do research? A Q&A with Dr Petra Boynton (part 2)

  • March 3, 2018
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We're very excited to welcome back Petra Boynton, author of The Research Companion, and a very talented social science researcher. Hopefully she's going to help us lick our research ideas into shape. Petra is a Social Psychologist who's worked in International…

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Parenting Science Gang – Breastmilk Composition Experiment

Parenting Science Gang – breastmilk composition experiment

  • February 5, 2018
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This February, something out of the ordinary is going to happen in West London. Over a hundred breastfeeding mothers will get together to donate breastmilk for an experiment they instigated and designed themselves, through citizen science project Parenting Science Gang (PSG) and…

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One Layer, Or Two? The Effects Of Babywearing Upon The Skin And Core Temperature Of A Baby

One Layer, or Two? The Effects of Babywearing upon the Skin and Core Temperature of a Baby

  • January 31, 2018
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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…

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