🧠 Calling all parents in North East England with infants or young children! 👶 Enroll in the Durham University Family Database and take part in exciting research opportunities! Sign up here and have your child contribute to new scientific discoveries! forms.office.com/pages/response…

📢 Apply now for our First Book Grant Fellowship! Deadline: 5 PM GMT (6 PM CET), 1st November 2024. Candidates must have been awarded their PhD and should be within three years of PhD award at the time of application Share widely! More info 👇 isrf.org/funding-opport…

⌛️Few days remaining to sign up to our webinar on 'The ShREC Approach' 🧠A great chance to find out how to use strategies to support children's communication and language 👇Register here: forms.gle/VSP7Q6vwkggHev… National Children's Bureau #strongerpracticehub #ShREC #earlyyears #education

😲10 SPACES REMAINING! 🏫Early years settings & PVIs with 2-3 year olds, join our FREE training programme funded by EEF 👇Register for the EYCP forms.gle/6huoAy724iRHmF… Sign up to tomorrow's webinar for more info forms.gle/6huoAy724iRHmF… Melissa Prendergast National Children's Bureau

👇To register for the EYCP forms.gle/RzJ6TryceDdgo2… EEF Melissa Prendergast National Children's Bureau #earlyyears #educators #education #EYCP #ShREC #PVIs #schools #learning #practitioners #earlystart #children #toddlers #EYFS

What kind of childhood makes a top scientist? Is it enough to have all the right traits (brilliance, grit, etc) or do you need the right family too? And why should we care? A 🧵 on our paper on the Nobel Laureates. A teaser: the income distribution of the laureates' fathers.1/N

To learn more about the Child of the North campaign, its series of reports which are putting the interests and life chances of children and young people at the heart of policymaking, and how delivering on these plans is crucial to Britain’s future, visit tinyurl.com/y28y33p6.

This 20-year longitudinal study identifies potential sensitive periods during which the developing brain may be particularly vulnerable to harsh or warm parenting, which may in turn shape future mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. ja.ma/3C8jFcG

Postdoc opportunity at the University of Amsterdam! Our project examines human sources of bias in AI models of face classification & implications for users' behavior. Co-supervised by me and Andreas Schuck. Details here: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies/p… Deadline Apr 15! DM me with Qs

A report launched today by Child of the North - led by @n8research and @_henorth - and Anne Longfield’s @Cfyounglives warns the talents of millions of children are being wasted, and calls for creativity to be embedded into an inclusive school curriculum tinyurl.com/2eca46yb

My honour and pleasure to lead on this new report for Child of the North. Please read and share!! Let's get creativity and the arts at the heart of the education of every child!!!

📣 Calling all early years educators! Access free professional development for your staff with NDNA's Maths Champions, a programme which builds the knowledge of nursery practitioners to support children’s early mathematical development. Sign up: ow.ly/u4wz50Vqwy6

📢: Read this new publication on “With eyes of a machine: A three-step guide for applying machine learning to visual content analysis in social research” by Anna Helene Kvist Møller and Massimo Airoldi ! 🔍:journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20… #machinelearning #mixedmethods #AI #visualmethods

Join us at the Imagining Better Education Conference 2025 at Durham University – a welcoming space for education & social science researchers. 📅 14–15 Oct | 📍 Durham 📝 Submit by 31 July 🔗 Scan the QR code or visit the link on the poster! #EducationConference #DurhamUniversity

We are hiring! The School of Education has a vacancy for a Professor (Research & Education) Grade 10: £72,693 p.a Permanent, full time, 35 hrs a week Closing date: 15 August 2025 Find out more and apply: durham.taleo.net/careersection/…

How can we achieve a step change in access to effective parenting support? youtube.com/live/VMbFocCcc… via YouTube

A recent study (Lee, Chung, Nave et al., 2025) shows that AI assistance enhances the originality of individual ideas; it substantially reduces conceptual diversity across participants (94% overlap). Is efficiency undermining creative variation? nature.com/articles/s4156…

Many congratulations  Yuting Guo School of Education at Durham University on passing her PhD viva on 26 Sept. Laura Mazzoli Smith and I are very proud of Yuting's work and are grateful to both examiners Professor Jonathan Tummons and Dr Stephen MacGregor for a thorough, and well-discussed viva.