Institute for Research in Child Development

News & events

• Oct 2012 Derek Moore Invited to talk at BPS Neurodevelopmental Disorders seminar on January 11th 2013
• Oct 2012 Paper on EEG effects in infants and relationship to SES accepted for special issue of Developmental Science
• Sept 2012 Paper on Age-related changes in face scanning patterns to AV mismatch now in press in European Journal of Developmental Psychology
• Sept 2012 Derek Moore took part in Voice of Russia radio round-table discussion on whether drugs trials should be televised with Prof Val Curran, Dr Tim Williams, and David Raynes Hear it on youtube link
• Sept 2012 Derek Moore invited to appear on Channel 4 "Drugs Live" which attracted 2m viewers
• Sept 2012 Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) equipment installed and ready to use
• Sept 2012 Latest findings for DAISY study published in Pediatrics
• August 2012 Protocol for ORiEL Olympic Legacy study published in BMJopen
• July 2012 Baseline data for Well London Study published in Trials
• July 2012 Haiko Ballieux contributed to both opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympics.
• July 2012 Congratulations to Dee Birtles on her re- appointment as a Research fellow.
• June 2012 Welcome have extended funding for the Well London Study to 2014
• April 2012 Elena Kushnerenko presents latest findings from the ELAS study at Baby Brains conference at ICH
• April 2012 Derek Moore presents keynote talk at the National Child Health Conference and shares platform with Dianne-Louise Jordan presenter of Songs of Praise and former presenter of Blue Peter
• April 2012 Caroline Edmonds and Chris Pawson presenting Hydration findings at the BPS conference. Findings featured in Daily Mail, the Daily Telegraph and on the BBC News website.
• Feb2012 Latest findings and press interest from the DAISY study. MDMA in pregnancy affects gender and motor quality. in Neurotoxicology and Teratology. Findings have impact seen on websites around the world.
• Jan 2012 Well done to Chris Pawson for sucessfully defending his thesis
• Jan 2012 Thanks to the Nuffield foundation for additional funding to undertake a training pilot
• 9th Sept 11 - ACORNS pages go live.
• 16 May 11 - More TALBY study coverage - read the feature by Lucy Tobin in Guardian.
• 3 May 11 - Welcome to Vanathi Tharmaratnam, who has joined IRCD team to work on the WellLondon project.
• 19 April 11 - Listen to live eye-tracking session from TALBY study online on the BBC Radio 4 programme 'All in the Mind'. Claudia Hammond and Andrew Luck-Baker have visited us to talk about engaging parents and studying early language in Newtec Deanery Rd Children's Centre. You can listen to it here.
• 9 March 11 - TALBY Project has been officially launched with a press release on the main UEL website. You can find more information about the project here and if you would like to sign up with your 6-7 month-old baby, please use the form here.
• 10 Dec 10 - This month sees the publication of an important new book with contributions from Professor Moore and the DAISY team at UEL and Case Western Reserve University US entitled: Alcohol, Drugs and Medication in Pregnancy: The Outcome for the Child
• 1 Oct 10 - Welcome back to Haiko Ballieux, who will be working as a researcher on the exciting TALBY Project supported by the Nuffield Foundation.
• 1 Sep 10 - Welcome to Dee Birtles who has been appointed as a Research Fellow in Infant Health and Development from the Vice-Chancellor's Fund.
• 12 July 10 - IRCD is delighted to have been awarded £166,000 by the Nuffield Foundation for an exciting new project which will be "using new technologies to engage parents from disadvantaged areas in the assessment of the language and social development of their babies"  More details here.
• 12 July 10 - Congratulations to Caroline Edmonds who has been awarded Promising Researcher Funding for a second year.
• 1 July 10 - Congratulations to Przemek Tomalski who was re-appointed as a Research Fellow for 2010-11
• 1 July 10 - IRCD were very pleased to attend the UEL Research and Knowledge Exchange conference and share our vision with staff across the university. A copy of the slides of this talk are available to view by UEL staff here
• 1 July 10 - Professor Moore gave a keynote talk at the 8th ECIDD conference in Geneva on the 19th June 2010. A copy of the slides of this talk are avaialble here.

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