This is a blog post we've been meaning to write for a while. Back in February 2020 Polly took her little one to Birkbeck's Babylab, to take part in a study about toddler’s language development. The study was in three parts. Firstly, participants watch a short film of different video clips on a computer, whilst …
Category: Early Childhood Research
The Duchess of Cambridge’s Five Big Questions
This week we are reflecting on the Five Big Questions that the Duchess of Cambridge for the Royal Foundation has posed to every adult living in the UK. If you’ve not heard of them, they are part of a survey to try and increase knowledge of what parents understand about the importance of early childhood. …
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Educating babies and the EYFS
Last week we highlighted the consultation for the proposed changes to the EYFS which needs to be completed by 31st January. We hope you have been able to have a look at it and make a contribution. We have been busy working on our response this week and it has really got us thinking. A …
Rockabye baby: infants sleeping outdoors
You may remember in a previous post we told you about some research we are involved in which focuses on young children’s engagement (ie 0-2s) with the outdoors. The project is funded by the Froebel Trust and you can read about it here. One of the interesting things we have discovered through our reading is …
Research big and small
We always get really excited by research and we know that some of you now will be thinking about designing studies for dissertations. In the past, we’ve always had to encourage students not to think ‘too big’ in terms of research, however it is always interesting to hear about what big research teams are doing …
Parents’ perspectives of childcare and early years
This week Polly received a letter in the post from the Department for Education (DfE)! She has been randomly selected by Ipsos Mori, an independent research organisation commissioned by the DfE, to complete an online survey about parental views of childcare and out of school activities. The letter arrived with a free reusable shopping bag …
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Contemplating Childhoods 