Senior Lecturer in Developmental Psychology @sheffieldcogdev @scienceshef Executive functions, learning & social inequality. School Director of People & Culture
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29 Mar 2023
We are so excited to be part of this @ScienceShef @sheffieldcogdev, working with an amazing team led by @GaiaScerif. We’ll be trialling a co-developed intervention aimed at supporting early years practitioners to embed executive functions into numeracy based play activities.
29 Mar 2023
TODAY: In collaboration with @educationgovuk’s Stronger Practice Hubs, we've launched eight new trials of programmes for nurseries and early years settings across England.
Read more: eef.li/4ULN6h
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So excited to see this out today which has been years in the making! Experiences of first time parents during the pandemic. With a wonderful team & inspired by our own journeys to becoming parents. Thanks to everyone that shared their stories with us bit.ly/pandemicparentpaper
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17 Oct 2024
Little is known, although much is theorized, about the long-run benefits of boosting children's social-emotional skills.
Across 450 post-test & follow-up impacts from 86 RCTs, we found similar fadeout rates for intervention impacts on social-emotional & cognitive skills.
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On Thursday the 17th of October, we will host a @ChildoftheNort1 @CfYoungLives webinar addressing the preschool health crisis. Speakers will present evidence, policy recommendations & case studies. No registration needed - Join here on 17/10➡️ us06web.zoom.us/j/8852351227…
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7 Oct 2024
Excited to share our meta-analysis on home maths activities and children's maths skills is published in @SRCDtweets! It’s been an amazing project with @EmBlakey, @cvonbastian, and Carmel Brough. I’m thrilled to share our key recommendations for the field🧵
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4 Oct 2024
I feel very lucky to have worked with colleagues to lead a report with Child of the North - setting out an evidence-based plan to tackle the crisis in preschool provision. The report is launched today and already has lots of media coverage 🤩
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The Government is being urged to tackle the high number of children starting school not ‘school ready’, in a new @ChildoftheNort1 @CfYoungLives report co-authored by researchers at the University of Sheffield.
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4 Oct 2024
A pleasure to be involved in this important report out today 📣 on the importance of prioritising the early years and supporting preschool education. Lovely to see our maths & EF intervention “the ONE” featured as an example of innovative practice.
4 Oct 2024
A new report by Child of the North - led by @n8 @n8research & @_henorth - & @annelongfield’s @Cfyounglives urges the government to tackle the preschool crisis and warns that hundreds of thousands of children arrive at school not ready for learning tinyurl.com/mkyzdyj5
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4 Oct 2024
Excited to share our article out this week in @SRCDtweets led by the brilliant @EJamesBrabham as part of her PhD & @cvonbastian and Carmel. A real labour of love examining via meta-analysis the relation between home activities & children’s maths skills
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1 Oct 2024
Wonderful to host @Dr_Tre_Crew today who gave a brilliant seminar on experiences of being working class in higher education. Themes of identity, belonging & the role of precarity. The quote “class runs through me like a stick of rock” will stay with me. Thanks, Teresa!
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25 Sep 2024
1. I’ve been lucky to have been a @UKRI_News Future Leader Fellow @FLFDevNetwork for the last few years, with training ending this week in an inspiring leadership retreat. As academics I think we often are cynical about visions and management speak, but I’ve felt feeling inspired
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2. There were great messages/reminders about the importance of noticing and naming, value based leadership, building trust in teams and thinking spaces, horizon scanning…
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3. Ultimately, the importance of spending time in investing in your teams, thinking about the culture you want to nurture, the team vision - and checking in on it as a continual process.
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What an amazing resource for EF researchers!
24 Sep 2024
✨New Global Executive Function Initiative's (GEFI) recommended practices for selection, adaptation, and administration of EF performance-based tasks and for processing, evaluating, reporting, and interpreting data that these tasks yield. Download here: gefi.stanford.edu/gefi-resou…
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18 Sep 2024
I'm putting together a list of people interested in NHS maternity services reform - historians, antenatal educators, parents, health researchers, midwives, doctors, policy folks etc - for a project I'm working on and some future events.
Let me know if you'd like to be added!
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13 Sep 2024
Thank you @ProfVicSimms sobering findings, but so great to get the chance to bring together researchers together working at this from multiple angles! Really enjoyed the discussion.
13 Sep 2024
A brilliant symposium @BPSDevSection conference on the impact of socioeconomic circumstances on #childdev This is so imp work. Couldn’t stop thinking of @C_Fitz_ during @nesta_uk presentation on impacts of 2 child policy. @EmBlakey well done on org. #bpsdev2024
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10 Sep 2024
When you assign a reading & the students can’t stop talking about it & connecting it to their life 😭 truly top tier experience some times I LOVE my job so much 😭❤️🔥 today that reading was…
Tuck & Yang 2012❤️🔥 just highly recommend you add it to your syllabus this second
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11 Sep 2024
On my way to Glasgow this morning with @sheffieldcogdev for @BPSDevSection conference. Excited to see colleagues & present a symposium and workshop on disadvantage and child outcomes with the brilliant @OxfordBabylab @LAOuthwaite & @EllieBraithwai2
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11 Sep 2024
And my brilliant research team (Molly Jackson, Molly Willis and Emma Smith) will be presenting some of the first findings on children’s language, executive functions and family disadvantage to come out of the Sheffield Early Years Study 🙌🏻
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6 Sep 2024
This week I have started as our School Director of People and Culture (or “One University”) with my brilliant colleague @AshaAkram2. It’s an honour to be in the role and to be working to support our vision of being an equitable, inclusive and supportive place to work & study.
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4 Sep 2024
📈🔍 Exciting findings from our @ceml_esrc project! We've discovered how Year 1 children's feelings towards maths are related to their maths skills. We'll be launching a training programme for schools to get involve in, stay tuned for more details!🚀
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