CoGDeV lab

The BPS Developmental Section met for its annual conference on 14th September, in the Hilton Hotel, Belfast. Bringing together experienced and early-career researchers from across the UK, the conference showcased recent thinking and research in a broad range of areas of developmental psychology. Five members of the CogDev Lab attended, including Emily Farran, who presented […]

To accompany the Neurodevelopmental Disorders Annual Seminar, Emily Farran and the CoGDeV lab arranged a workshop on Overcoming and Considering Difficulties of Research with Neurodevelopmental Disorders. After a hectic day of engaging with lots of different research talks at the conference on the previous day, a smaller group of 60 delegates had the chance to get […]

The seminar series started in 2012-2013 as a collaboration between Jo Van Herwegen, Emily Farran and Deborah Riby and provided a platform for early career as well as established researchers to discuss the application of recently developed tools and innovative research methods to the study of neurodevelopmental disorders. This year, the event took place at […]

The Royal Society, 26th May 2016 This event was a collaborative venture between the British Psychological Society, Experimental Psychology Society, and the Association of Heads of Psychology Departments. It was designed to promote discussion on the subject of replication and reproducibility in psychology in response to Nosek et al’s 2015 paper. The event was very […]

Part of ‘The Educated Brain’ Seminar SeriesMonday April 18th, Newnham College, University of Cambridge The first of three seminars on ‘The Educated Brain’ began with a morning of six talks on infancy and early childhood. One of the main themes of the morning was the translation of neuroscientific evidence to early education and the obstacles […]

11 -12 January 2016, MRC Cognitive and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge On the 11th of January, the MRC-CBU welcomed researchers and practitioners to Cambridge for a two-day seminar on cognitive training in children. The workshop opened with a presentation from Edmund Sonuga-Barke from the University of Southampton, examining randomised control trials of ADHD […]