Senior Lecturer in Developmental Psychology @sheffieldcogdev @scienceshef Executive functions, learning & social inequality. School Director of People & Culture
Sheffield, England
Joined December 2013
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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.
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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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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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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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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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.
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
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
srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com…
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!
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
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…
What an amazing resource for EF researchers!
✨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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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!
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.
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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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
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
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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📈🔍 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!🚀
