
Developmental Psychologist, leading @UoDPsychology's self and social cognition lab. Co-founder @Artatthestart1 Get involved by emailing [email protected]
University of Dundee
Joined December 2015
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Thanks to @BritishAcademy_ for funding me to apply a developmental perspective to understand selfhood in dementia, and make this film 👉youtu.be/q57JxjDjNAw. Thanks also to @SocSciScotland for funding @kmentzou to continue the journey. Happy birthday Granma, this one's for you
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📣 Funding Announcement 📣 Delighted to share a new project starting in January 2025: ‘Reducing loneliness for perinatal Muslim women: codesigning an intervention and evaluation tools for a perinatal well-being walking group’.
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Get your abstracts ready for #BPSDevCon24! Call for for papers is still open (but ends today) for the 2024 BPS Developmental Section Conference bps.org.uk/event/development…
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Robin Campbell 1942-2024
@ProfAndyTolmie, Chair of the @BPSOfficial Research Board, introduces 'in memorium' from @BPSDevSection members.
I met Robin a few times and can attest to his good humour and generous mentorship.
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Thanks @melanie_farman & @ArtattheStart1 for being part of the day. And thank you to all our contributors & attendees for making the Network Day such an engaging and positive event yesterday. We hope you went away feeling inspired! We can't wait to welcome you again next time!
Fantastic day connecting with colleagues @ParentInfantFdn network day. Felt privileged to be able to present with @ArtattheStart1 and share about our work in Blackpool #FamilyHubs #StartforLife #PaIRS #ParentInfantRelationships
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Today myself and colleagues from the Blackpool Better Start partnership @CECDBlackpool @BpoolCouncil #FamilyHubs @BlackpoolHosp #PaIRS are @ParentInfantFdn network meeting to share about working with @ArtattheStart1 to bring this approach to supporting early years relationships
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We are delighted to award the 2024 Neil O'Connor Award to @josaul14 @UCLPALS for her paper on expressive language impairments in minimally verbal autistic prschoolers. Come to her presentation #BPSDevCon24 and read her award-winning paper journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs…
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Many congratulations to @MimHanley @DurhamPsych for winning the BPS Developmental Section's 2024 Impact and Engagement Award for translating developmental psychology into practice. Looking forward to her presentation #BPSDevCon24
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The BPS Developmental Section is delighted to present @ElizabethMeins @YorkPsychology with our Distinguished Contribution Award for her sustained and substantial contributions to developmental psychology and wider society. Hear her present #BPSDevCon24.
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Many congratulations to @maheensidd91 from @BirkbeckBabylab for winning the BPS Developmental Section's 2024 Margaret Donaldson Award for outstanding early career contributions to developmental psychology! Maheen will present her award-winning research at #BPSDevCon24
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Call for Papers is now open for the 2024 BPS Developmental Section Conference. Join us in Glasgow and hear from our award winners @ElizabethMeins @maheensidd91 @josaul14 @MimHanley and our keynote speakers @CamillaKGilmore and Heather Ferguson #BPSDevCon24
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A great day promoting @ArtattheStart1 and @DCAdundee's collaborative project @familyarts1 conference #FAConf2024 . Organised around the theme "art is for all, no family left behind" , we were there to speak up for the wee-est ones! #infantvoice
So interesting listening to @hellosephine talk about the work she’s doing with @ArtattheStart1 - also makes me so proud to live & work in Scotland where we have the Infant Pledge. A really interesting project about infant mental health & bonding. Much to think about! #FAConf24
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What do family arts and detective novels have in common? Sometimes it’s all about the evidence. 🔎 Learn from @hellosephine from @UoDPsychology about @ArtattheStart1. 👀
Discover the full programme and book your tickets now:
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ALT Art at the Start: How can we work together to provide and evidence the efficacy of arts-based supports for the early years? with Josephine Ross Art at the Start is a partnership between a research psychologist and an arts therapist, dedicated to evidencing the impact the arts can have upon infant development and how shared art experiences may help bonding in the early years.
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Delighted to share the latest article @ASPE3_13 Education 3-13-Visual arts participation and young children’s social emotional wellbeing: A scoping review with @Holly_Rumble @hellosephine @dundeeuni tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1… @UoDOpenResearch @UoDPsychology @UoD_ESW
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Sometimes, unresolved trauma, ACEs & adversity disrupt the way a parent’s mind meets their new baby’s mind. Supporting parents, including through specialist parent-infant therapies, can prevent babies becoming children w mental health problems. Not all MH problems start this way.
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Huge congratulations @hellosephine @ArtattheStart1 Here @CECDBlackpool @BpoolCouncil we feel so privileged to bring @ArtattheStart1 to Blackpool and for you to have collaborated with us as part of our #StartForLife #FamilyHubs work #Trailblazer #WorkingTogether #BabyVoice
@ArtattheStart1 are proud to be included as a case study of best practice in this report, representing our commitment to supporting equity of all voices in parent-infant relationships.
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We are so grateful to have teamed up with @ArtattheStart1, implementing universal & specialist creative art sessions as part of our holistic parent infant relationships work. Well done guys, great to be recognised 🎨 👶 🌟
@BpoolCouncil @CECDBlackpool #StartForLife #FamilyHubs
@ArtattheStart1 are proud to be included as a case study of best practice in this report, representing our commitment to supporting equity of all voices in parent-infant relationships.
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📢 Job Announcement📢
We are very excited to have TWO permanent Grade 8 Lectureship (Assistant Professor) positions available! Both are teaching & research based, open to any area of Psychology, particularly health, cognitive, or social.
More details: jobs.ac.uk/job/DEN380/lectur…
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This is such a key message to share with all families with babies - Behaviour IS Communication. ❤️
@Earlychildhood @BTCTouchpoints @ChildrensComm @andrealeadsom @MMHAlliance @BestBeginnings @first1001days @homestartuk
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Really great keynote from @MoragTreanor @UofGlasgow on indivisibility of parental and child mental health and why poverty matters using @growingupinscot data at @GrowingUpIre annual conference today jahonline.org/article/S1054-…
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BPS Developmental Section Awards NOW OPEN for nominations! Please nominate deserving candidate (or yourself) for an award by November 20 2023 at bps.org.uk/member-networks/d…





















