CoGDeV lab

This February, Dr Su Morris and Dr Katie Gilligan-Lee interviewed Jane Butler to hear her insights on teaching mathematics to individuals with Down syndrome. Agnieszka Kapka has summarised the interview in this blog.  Jane has a very interesting perspective on this topic, as a retired teacher of mathematics with more than 30 years’ experience, and […]

This year the Down Syndrome Research Forum was held online for the first time – breaking geographical barriers and widening scope for participation. Over the two-days, attendees joined from 32 different countries. Research was presented from England, Ireland, Canada, USA, Russia, Japan, Qatar, Norway and Germany, representing the work of 105 researchers. Although we were […]

The Centre for Educational Neuroscience host a weekly online seminar http://www.educationalneuroscience.org.uk/events/seminars/.  On 3rd December 2020, Prof Mark Hollands (Liverpool John Moore’s University) spoke about understanding developmental coordination disorder. The virtual seminar was attended by our lab members, and the blog below by Afreen Shakur outlines some highlights of the talk. The speaker began by outlining […]

Until very recently I had never heard of Open Research and what it meant.  I came across an article in The Conversation that had a headline that caught my attention ‘Medical research is broken: here’s how to fix it’. On reading the article I learned about the reproducibility crisis. I was astounded to read that […]

The concept ofopen research has been rapidly gaining momentum over the last five to ten years. Awareness is higher in some disciplines than others, with a particularly strong emphasis on open research coming from Psychology. With the aim of being transparent through all stages of research, it has motivated researchers to build on existing literature […]

Megan Davies from the CoGDeV lab attended this year’s Annual Learnus Lecture which took place virtually on the 25th November. Professor Denis Mareschal, from Birkbeck College, presented the lecture outlining a recent intervention study, UnLocke (http://www.unlocke.org/) that aimed to improve maths and science reasoning in primary school children. Prof. Farran from our lab is also […]