Centre for Child, Adolescent & Family Research Seminar Series


2023-06-05 11:00: CENTRE FOR FAMILY RESEARCH SEMINAR: "Supporting the development of young children’s cognitive skills (Dr Andrew Ribner, University of Pittsburgh)

2023-11-28 11:30: Development of an observational tool to measure executive function in Nigeria (Chika Ezeugwu, Faculty of Education, Cambridge.)

2024-01-16 11:00: Empowering parents to foster children's early executive function development, in two different contexts (Dr Alexandra Hendry, Department of Experimental Psychology University of Oxford)

2024-01-30 11:00: Promoting mental health in the early years: Identifying the golden threads of effective parenting programmes (Dr Christine O’Farrelly, Centre for Mental Health University of Cambridge)

2024-02-06 12:30: Foetal Behaviour and Development (Professor Nadja Reissland, Durham University & Dr Staci Weiss, University of Cambridge )

2024-02-13 11:00: No Longer the One-Child Family: Parenting and Sibling Relationships in China (Professor Bin-Bin Chen, Fudan University. )

2024-02-27 11:00: Recognising and addressing the trauma-related mental health needs of young people in care (Professor Rachel Hiller, Clinical, Educational & Health Psychology University College London)

2024-03-12 11:00: The InCLUDE Project: Making Research in Foster and Kinship Care Inclusive and Accessible (Professor Nick Midgley, Clinical, Educational & Health Psychology University College London)

2024-04-30 11:00: The Impact of AI on Language Acquisition Research (Dr Abdellah Fourtassi, Aix-Marseille University )

2024-05-14 11:00: Bridging Research & Policy: An Introduction to Centre for Science & Policy (Kavya Neeba and Nicola Buckley from the Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP), University of Cambridge)

2024-05-21 11:00: The Children of the 2020s Study: An overview of the first findings of a new birth cohort study on early childhood development. (Dr Laurel Fish & Dr Livia Bernardi, Clinical, Educational & Health Psychology University College London)

2024-06-04 11:00: Parenting and the intergenerational transmission of inequality (Dr Jasmin Wertz, School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh)

2024-10-22 16:00: The short- and medium-term impacts of Sure Start on children's outcomes. (Dr Sarah Cattan, Institute for Fiscal Studies)

2024-11-05 16:00: Do children’s education-linked genetic propensities influence the way they are parented and educated? (Dr Chloe Austerberry, University of Cambridge)

2024-11-19 16:00: Empathy during infancy: Assessment, development, parenting predictors, and developmental outcomes.  (Professor Maayan Davidov, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

2024-12-03 16:00: Mapping developmental paths to neurodevelopmental conditions. (Professor Emily Jones, Birkbeck)

2025-02-04 16:00: Starting Big: the importance of whole-to-part learning in language acquisition  (Professor Inbal Arnon, Hebrew University of Jerusalem )

2025-02-18 16:00: From Womb to the World: Foetal sensory abilities and their post-birth effects  (Dr Beyza Üstün-Elayan, University of Cambridge )

2025-03-04 16:00: The nature-nurture debate in education: implications for narrowing attainment gaps  (Professor Michael Thomas, Birkbeck)

2025-03-18 16:00: Development and plasticity of control and control beliefs  (Professor Nikolaus Steinbeis, UCL)

2025-05-06 16:00: The challenges and rewards of pursuing real-word Developmental Science (Professor Denis Mareschal, Birkbeck)

2025-06-03 16:00: Social and emotional difficulties in adolescence (Blanca Piera Pi-Sunyer and Emily Towner, Blakemore Lab, Centre for Child, Adolescent and Family Research, Cambridge. )

2025-06-17 16:00: On the promotion of Autistic flourishing. (Professor Elizabeth Pellicano, UCL)

2025-11-04 15:00: Partnering with adolescents and communities to strengthen perinatal mental health. (Dr Tatiana Salisbury, KCL )

2025-11-18 16:00: Development and plasticity of control and control beliefs. (Professor Nikolaus Steinbeis, UCL)

2025-11-25 16:00: Intervening to Improve Sensitive Caregiving and Child Psychological and Physical Health.  (Dr Anne Rifkin-Graboi, National University of Singapore)

2025-12-09 16:00: Collaborative Childrearing Among Hunter-Gatherers: Implications for Maternal and Child Wellbeing in Industrialised Societies. (Dr Nikhil Chaudhary, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Cambridge)

2026-02-03 15:00: The results of a school-based transdiagnostic preventative intervention for adolescent mental health.  (Professor Pasco Fearon, Centre for Child, Adolescent and Family Research, Cambridge.)

2026-02-17 15:00: Interdisciplinary youth mental health research: bullying, phenomenology, and epistemic justice. (Professor Matthew Broome, University of Birmingham)

2026-03-03 15:00: Does IQ matter for the brain basis of reading skill? (Professor James Booth, Vanderbilt University)

2026-03-17 15:00: When Research Challenges Conviction: Surrogacy Families in the Political Crossfire. (Professor Susan Golombok, University of Cambridge)

2026-05-12 15:00: Title to follow (Professor Philip Shaw, Kings College London)

2026-06-09 15:00: Title to follow (Dr Jack Andrews, Oxford)