This is one of very few long term studies of a brief early intervention to improve mental health in young children. The news is positive - we can make sustained improvements for children early in their lives. Something that early years practitioners know - now there is more research to back it up.
17.09.2025 09:32 β π 6 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
IFS Associate Director @ckfarquharson.bsky.social gives evidence to @commonshealth.bsky.social tomorrow at 9:30am on the provision of early years services and our recent report on the impact of Sure Start centres.
Find out more here: committees.parliament.uk/event/24353/...
03.06.2025 15:04 β π 0 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
It's your last chance to book your place for the #PEDALConference2025 as ticket sales close at 11pm on Friday!
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29.05.2025 15:05 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Do you work with or volunteer with children under five? Please complete this survey about AI in the early years and/or share with your networks.
cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Thanks so much!
22.05.2025 15:54 β π 1 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
PEDAL Conference 2025 - PEDAL
Join us at PEDALβs 2025 Conference to celebrate our 10th anniversary and a decade of play and early years research!
2/2 Catherine Draper (Witts Unit, South Africa), Ellen Sandseter (Queen Maud Uni, Norway), Bo Stjerne Thomsen (LEGO Education), Julian Grenier (EEF) and Nikhit D'Sa (Notre Dame Uni, USA).
It'll be a day filled with learning and good company. Here's the link to book:
www.pedalhub.net/news-events/...
23.05.2025 14:38 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
A few places left for our PEDAL annual conference on 11th June. We've booked the biggest room in the Faculty and so can squeeze a few more in. As well as Minister Stephen Morgan MP, we have lots of excellent early years and play science and practice, with experts from all over including....(1/2)
23.05.2025 14:38 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Stephen Morgan MP was appointed Minister for Early Education at the Department for Education on 9 July 2024. He was re-elected as the Member of Parliament for Portsmouth South in July 2024.
Stephen leads on a wide portfolio as the Minister for Early Education. He covers all aspects of Early Years and Childcare policy, as well as being the ministerial lead for AI and digital & data, education estates, school food, safeguarding, behaviour, sustainability and mental health support in schools.
We'll be joined at the #PEDALConference2025 by keynote speaker @stephenmorganmp.bsky.social, Minister for Early Education at the Department for Education
Learn more at: pedalhub.net/conference20...
Book your tickets at: pedalhub.net/conference2025
21.05.2025 11:38 β π 0 π 2 π¬ 0 π 1
The fight to keep big tech in check: digital researchers are in βDavid and Goliathβ battle
Resource constraints hobble analyses of how digital technologies affect mental health, and take a huge toll on the scientists working to make the online world safer.
Very good article by Amy Orben
"we propose that if there is inadequate safety information available about a digital product ... researchers and policymakers should lower the evidence thresholds needed to start testing interventions to address potential harms."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
22.05.2025 16:03 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
We've sold 75% of the available tickets for the #PEDALConference2025!
Book your ticket at pedalhub.net/conference2025 and join us at @camedfac.bsky.social on Wednesday 11th June 2025 ποΈ
30.04.2025 15:51 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
We'll be joined at the #PEDALConference2025 by keynote speaker @juliangrenier.bsky.social, Senior Content and Engagement Manager for Early Years at the Education Endowment Foundation.
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01.05.2025 15:28 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Join us at the #PEDALConference2025 where @juliangrenier.bsky.social will present "Play, access and opportunity: Game-changing action for children".
Learn more at: pedalhub.net/conference20...
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02.05.2025 09:21 β π 1 π 3 π¬ 1 π 1
Due to popular demand, we've just released another 30 tickets for the #PEDALConference2025! ποΈ If you've been thinking about booking, now is the time! β°
Book your ticket for the #PEDALConference2025 at pedalhub.net/conference2025
08.05.2025 14:18 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 1 π 1
#Academics in England! Please sign & share! A group of us across academic disciplines have drafted a letter in support of the #PlayCommission's call for an English national #PlayStrategy. It will be submitted alongside others from people in built environment, health, education etc. bit.ly/4dalQed
09.05.2025 14:49 β π 8 π 7 π¬ 0 π 1
Wonderful to see the findings from this important trial published. Congratulations to the research team and all involved in delivering it. Challenging findings, that I still need to digest, but good to see this trial, in a complex area of practice, being delivered.
09.05.2025 15:55 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Join us at the #PEDALConference2025 where Dr Nikhit D'Sa will present "Leveraging alternative systems to support childrenβs development amid crisis".
Learn more at: pedalhub.net/conference2025speakers
Book your tickets at: pedalhub.net/conference2025
25.04.2025 09:21 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
We'll be joined at the #PEDALConference2025 by keynote speaker Nikhit DβSa, developmental psychologist & applied education researcher at the Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child.
Learn more at: pedalhub.net/conference20...
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24.04.2025 09:21 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
A Foundations branded graphic that reads: 1 day to go. Launch of the Foundations Guidebook'. Below this is a calendar icon, followed by the date: Thursday 1 May 2025. Next to this is an icon of a local decision maker, wearing a suit with their hands on their hips. The background is a blurred screen capture of the Guidebook website.
Just one day to go until the launch of the new Foundations Guidebook! β³
The Guidebook is a free, online digest of over 130 interventions, which makes it easy to access evidence on what works for children & families & put it into practice. Watch this space to find out more π
30.04.2025 11:36 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
We'll be joined at the #PEDALConference2025 by keynote speaker Ellen Beate Hansen Sandseter, Professor at the Department of Physical Education and Health at Queen Maud University College
Learn more at: pedalhub.net/conference2025speakers
Book your tickets at: pedalhub.net/conference2025
17.04.2025 15:27 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
We'll be joined at the #PEDALConference2025 by keynote speaker @DrCathD, Associate Professor in the SAMRC Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit at the University of the Witwatersrand in SA πΏπ¦
Learn more at: pedalhub.net/conference20...
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19.04.2025 09:21 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Join us at the #PEDALConference2025 where Dr Catherine Draper will present "Early childhood development and the βnext 1000 daysβ: Research and implementation insights from South Africa"
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21.04.2025 09:21 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
The first five years of life are crucial to a childβs development, the prevention of future #mentalhealth conditions and the promotion of mental wellbeing and resilience. Read more about our case for action here: www.rcpsych.ac.uk/docs/default...
14.04.2025 10:54 β π 8 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
Bo Stjerne Thomsen, Head of Educational Impact at LEGO Education will present "Play: The future of learning and thriving" at the #PEDALConference2025
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16.04.2025 15:40 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
We're so excited to introduce you to our first #PEDALConference2025 keynote speaker: Bo Stjerne Thomsen, Head of Educational Impact at LEGO Education
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16.04.2025 10:48 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
After our successful joint symposium with @starlightuk.bsky.social in 2023, we wanted to explore what more we could do together to improve childrenβs healthcare π₯π§Έ
This new literature review is the result: www.pedalhub.net/projects/item/playing-with-childrens-health
31.03.2025 06:00 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 3
PEDAL Conference 2025 tickets are available now!
pedalhub.net/conference2025
07.04.2025 13:12 β π 1 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
PEDAL Conference 2025: Playing for the Future | University of Cambridge
Join us at PEDAL’s 2025 Conference to celebrate our 10th anniversary and a decade of play and early years research! Hear more about what the future o
This years PEDAL Conference will be on 11th June. We'll be celebrating 10 years with some great speakers.
More details here (including some of the speakers):
www.pedalhub.net/news-events/...
And if you want to book a place, go here:
onlinesales.admin.cam.ac.uk/conferences-...
09.04.2025 17:09 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Thank you Karen - very kind.
06.01.2025 14:41 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Richard M. Nixon looking balefully over a cup of coffee, as a reaction to a coworker saying βhope you had a restful break!β with the implication of βbecause Iβm about to ruin your dayβ
βHope you had a restful break!!β
01.01.2025 23:31 β π 14 π 2 π¬ 1 π 1
Member of Parliament for Portsmouth South βοΈ | Lord Commissioner of the Treasury | Pompey born and bred
stephen.morgan.mp@parliament.uk
Play Pedagogy Officer @Play Scotland. Championing childrenβs right to play in Scotland, inspiring & supporting educators to embrace play-based learning in schools. MEd student, bookworm, and cake lover. β€οΈ All views my own! πππ
Prof of Primary Care Health Sciences, Oxford. Researching digital health/ inequities, covid prevention (masks/ air quality). Wild swimmer. Mum to Rob (marine bio) & Al (doc). She/her. https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=QDCqsJwAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Professor of Developmental Neuroscience
@DondersInst and @radboudumc. Developmental cognitive neuroscience, brains, cognitive performance, longitudinal modeling, sourdough, science & Rstats.
Associate Professor and Clinical Psychologist researching adolescence and anxiety and related disorders. Based in the Department of Experimental Psychology and New College, University of Oxford
Applied developmental psychologist focusing on early childhood development; Associate professor @HGSE
All my own views despite working at Tavistock Relationships, #couplestuff #megaliths #art #kindness #maps #Ottomans & more
Early Childhood Academic,Author, International Speaker: Nurture, Play, Child Development & Social Mobility. Co Chair ECSDN, MNS/PVI School Governor: Views my own #EarlyYearsSky #PlayMatters #edusky
Educational Psychologist - early years, child trauma & adversity, infant mental health, equalities & childrenβs rights; deputy chair BPS Practice Board
Director of Research in Practice | Strategic Director @ National Childrenβs Bureau. Trustee of Family Action.
All views & swearing my own. Expert in nowt (except maybe Transitional Safeguarding).
Actually, βranting with referencesβ is a job.
Official account for Britainβs leading independent economic research institute. https://ifs.org.uk/
We are Nesta, the UK's innovation agency for social good. We design, test and scale new solutions to societyβs biggest problems. http://nesta.org.uk/newsletter
The Resolution Foundation is an independent think-tank dedicated to lifting living standards in the UK.
Co-founder and Chief Analyst, Teacher Tapp, surveying over 12,000 teachers every day.
UGA Psychology prof, PI of UGA Infant Lab. Higher Ed, developmental science, prenatal dev, Georgia life. Missouri native and Jayhawk at heart. Lover of podcasts, piano, and professors who use their tenure (while it still exists).
Canada Research Chair in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience & Learning at Western University. CIFAR Fellow. Opinions are my own (he/him/his) π¨π¦
CLS is home to a unique series of UK national cohort studies. We conduct research and produce policy evidence to improve lives.
We are based at UCL Institute of Education (IOE). We are funded by the ESRC.
https://cls.ucl.ac.uk
Child Poverty Action Group is the leading charity campaigning for an end to child poverty in the UK.
NCB is a leading charity driving change across society so all children can thrive. The #NCBFamily is #UnitedForABetterChildhood.
ncb.org.uk
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Political Editor, The Guardian
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