It has been a good season on the track for Dr Kristy Howells. The Reader of Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy has a stellar record in competitive solo and team […]
Do you know about Makaton?
Dr John-Paul Riordan writes about Makaton: Makaton is a sign and symbol language programme used by children and adults with speech, language and communication difficulties and their families, friends, teachers, […]
Experiences of looked after children and ‘instant adulthood’
Ruth Rogers from the Research Centre for Children, Families and Communities writes about her research on children in care: There are approximately 75,000 children ‘looked after’ or in care in England […]
Babies and Music
Vanessa Young discusses the BabySong Project which was a Faculty research project funded by the Ragdoll Foundation: Babies are born with a pre-disposition to music and actually prefer listening to Infant […]
The Epistemic Insight Initiative
Professor Berry Billingsley gives us an insight into the Epistemic Insight Initiative: What insights do we expect young people to call on when they address the big questions of life […]
Visual Support Systems for Autism: What do parents think?
Highly-Specialist Speech and Language Therapist and Senior Lecturer, Dr. Rachel Mallia-Borg, gives us a taste of her Doctoral Research relating to Visual Support Systems and parents’ perspectives of using such […]
Brave, or plain stupid – the beautiful risk of writing autobiographically
Dr. Paula Stone. Senior Lecturer Primary Education recently gave a talk at our Faculty’s recent Narrative Research Day. Here she reflects on her presentation: You’re brave, was a constant refrain […]
What’s the connection between a black hole and a companion robot?
Professor Berry Billingsley gives us a taste of her research into Epistemic Insight ahead of the launch of the Big Questions event launch on 16 May: “What’s the connection between […]
Children are citizens too – it’s imperative we hear their voices!
In our final post of the week celebrating Universal Children’s Day, Dr Alison Body, reflects on children as citizens and the importance of their voices being heard. “Change has always […]