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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…