Mealtime Hostage Parenting Science Gang are hot on the trail of gaps in research looking at extreme fussy eaters - children who won't just eat when they get hungry. Some of these children have been diagnosed with a condition known as…
Mealtime Hostage Parenting Science Gang is looking into the issues that affect families where a child suffers from a selective eating disorder. We chatted to Dr Terry Dovey to find out more about what research is going on in this…
We were the experts for this Q&A! Prof Peter Brocklehurst joined us to pick our brains. How can you reach a large number of new mothers and what information do they need to encourage them to join a study such…
Artist Lisa Creagh's exhibition Holding Time at the Royal Brompton Hospital and also her interviews of breastfeeding mothers address themes that some of our PSG groups are exploring in their research: in February, nearly 120 mothers from Parenting Science Gang took part…
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…
Cordelia Fine, academic and author of the bestselling Delusions of Gender and Testosterone Rex, joined our Let Toys Be Toys, Parenting Science Gang for an online Q&A. Cordelia Fine: Hi everyone. To briefly introduce myself, I am an academic psychologist at the University of…
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…
Water births, midwife-led units and surprising research findings were on the agenda for the Big Birthas' Parenting Science Gang discussion with Dr Rachel Rowe of the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit. Image: Eric Peacock CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Rachel: Hi everyone, thanks so much…
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…