With the help of families and schools in Sheffield we are developing an understanding of how cognitive abilities develop and change across infancy and childhood

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Our team is so excited to be part of this amazing trial designed to support early numeracy & executive functions in the year before children start school!
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 1/6
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It's #NeurodiveristyWeek - a great opportunity to reintroduce the Sheffield Autism Research Lab (ShARL) at @SheffieldUni! 👋 We focus on advancing research into Autism and genetic syndromes, with the aim of having a positive impact on the lives of diagnosed individuals.
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Come & work with us! We have an exciting 2 yr post-doc position at @UlsterUni to work with me, @ProfVicSimms @DrAbbieCahoon @EJamesBrabham & Matthews to create & rigorously test a parent co-developed home maths intervention for the early years bit.ly/43nu6lA pls share!

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We are so excited that today we welcome our first family for our Sheffield Early Years Longitudinal Study! We’ll be looking at how language and core cognitive skills develop in the toddler to preschool years over 18 months sites.google.com/sheffield.a…
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Welcome to Toni Loveridge and Carmel Brough who joined our lab as research assistants to work on this @EducEndowFoundn trial in collaboration with a great international team. Welcome Toni & Carmel!
29 Mar 2023
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The ONE Project designed to improve children’s numeracy and executive functions, delivered by @UniofOxford and @sheffielduni, is another of our trial projects. 5/6
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We are excited to welcome Molly Jackson to our team. Molly will be working with @EmBlakey on the Sheffield Early Years Study to better understand early cognitive development in the exciting toddler years (stay tuned for updates)! sites.google.com/sheffield.a… Welcome Molly!
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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 1/6
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Spring into action with your toddler! 🐤🐣 Here are some fun Spring themed activities you can enjoy this season! teaching2and3yearolds.com/fu…

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Need some ideas for what to do with all this snow? Here are some great activities to try with your children over the wintery weekend! ❄️⛄️🌨️parents.com/fun/activities/o…
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Want to help us understand how children are learning at home? If you are a parent and would like to help please follow the link below to register: bit.ly/3rzVSuL #research #parents #children #home #environment fb.watch/coTvcurz1n/
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Did you become a first time parent during the pandemic? @EmBlakey & colleagues are working with @NCTcharity to document parents' stories and find out how we can best support new parents. See the video below for info or see sites.google.com/sheffield.a…
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Did you become a first time parent during the pandemic? @EmBlakey & colleagues are working with @NCTcharity to document parents' stories and find out how we can best support new parents. See the video below for info or see sites.google.com/sheffield.a…
Did you know that number #boardgames could improve numeracy skills? Find out more here 👉blog.lboro.ac.uk/cmc/2022/01…

Check out our blogpost about why number #boardgames might boost #children’s early #number skills on the @lborocmc blog. Read to find out more about the #educational benefits of boardgames and @f_sella and @timjay @NuffieldFound project on this! blog.lboro.ac.uk/cmc/2022/01…
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And even more excited to be thinking with you about mechanisms of EF/maths change @rebeccammerkley , @SylviaGattas and a superb advisory board, including @DrVicSimms @EmBlakey and others - thanks you @NuffieldFound for making this happen. And keeping us on check.
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Excited to follow up on this with an early years intervention study with @GaiaScerif & team! Hoping to get a better understanding of why/how early math and EFs are related - a question I started working on with Gaia 10 years ago (& she's been thinking about for even longer 😉)
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Research has shown young children see intervening in antisocial behaviour as a universal duty.🌍 Here's a great article on how children believe everyone present in antisocial events have a responsibility to take action, not just the authorities.👮‍♀️👍 digest.bps.org.uk/2020/06/08…

Did you know that by age one children already have expectations on the fair distribution of resources, and by age two tend to themselves distribute resources equally?🧐 Here is a really interesting article on how toddlers reward those who act fairly.😃 digest.bps.org.uk/2021/06/15…

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