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Season's Greetings and a happy and playful new year from all at PEDAL. We're taking a little break to enjoy the festivities and will be back in the new year!
Our paper on the use of AI in child development checks is available now on the Early Childhood Education Journal: link.springer.com/article/10.1... @drjennyg.bsky.social
Mark your calendars: The #PEDALConference2026 is coming on Thursday 11th June 2026, #InternationalDayOfPlay 🧸 More details to follow...
Our Thriving Together Framework is here! www.pedalhub.net/wp-content/u... @nihr.bsky.social @ukri.org
"These toys might be providing some kind of social interaction, but it's not human social interaction" says @ejgoodacre.bsky.social, PEDAL postdoc researcher in conversation with Priscilla Blossom for @yahoolifeuk.bsky.social 🤖 uk.style.yahoo.com/ai-toys-are-...
AI toys are the future of play. I'm a researcher trying to figure out if that's a good thing for kids.
Researcher Emily Goodacre is exploring how AI-powered toys impact kids. Here's what she wants parents to consider.
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The Hesscairn Guide to Learning: Transforming Education written by PEDAL PhD student and school principal @stuartmacalpine.bsky.social was published this week! It delivers the essential manual we never had, challenging foundational ideas about education. www.ingrovepress.com/products/the...
The Hesscairn Guide to Learning: Transforming Education. The essential
The Hesscairn Guide to Learning delivers the essential manual we never had, challenging foundational ideas about education. This ultimate resource equips parents, teachers, leaders and policymakers wi...
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PEDAL PhD student @tomrance.bsky.social, Kathryn Hesketh (UCL) and PEDAL's @paulramchandani.bsky.social have published an article in Archives of Disease in Childhood entitled Risky play: our children need more: adc.bmj.com/content/110/...
New publication celebrating 10 years of @pedalcam.bsky.social! 🌟 Featuring reflections from our first decade, including... 🗨️ children's self-reported playfulness 🤝 children as advisors on research 📹 child-driven creative methods 🔓 Open access: doi.org/10.1080/2159... @paulramchandani.bsky.social
Innovative methods to centre children in research: celebrating 10 years of play with the PEDAL Research Centre
Centring children in play research is fundamental for both children and researchers. It also offers the opportunity to gain important insights that would otherwise remain hidden from view for other...
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PEDAL's @ejgoodacre.bsky.social, Laura Oxley, Zhiyu Zhao, Rebecca Reid, Alejandra Vijil Morin & @paulramchandani.bsky.social have published a paper in the International Journal of Play exploring innovative methods to centre children in research: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Please join us on Monday 10 November for a Trio of A Trio of Inaugural Professorial Lectures from the Psychology and Education Group at @camedfac.bsky.social. All welcome, register here for in-person and online: forms.office.com/pages/respon... @michellefson.bsky.social @drjennyg.bsky.social
Did you know that PEDAL launched the Mobilise Podcast mini-series in 2024? 🎧 PEDAL's former Senior Policy Fellow @salhogg.bsky.social talks to leading UK policymakers and politicians about how research can be used in policy to improve children's lives. www.pedalhub.net/projects/ite...
The Mobilise Podcast - PEDAL
Mobilise is a podcast mini-series where we talk to leading policymakers and politicians from across the UK about how research can be used in policy to improve children's lives.
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In this piece from the #PEDALResourceLibrary archives, PEDAL's @emmapritchard95.bsky.social, Carmen de Lemos, Katie Howard and PEDAL's @drjennyg.bsky.social focus on the experiences and perspectives of autistic people concerning the topic of autistic play: www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...
Diversity in Autistic Play: Autistic Adults' Experiences | Autism in Adulthood
Background: Play is important for mental health and well-being. Descriptions of autistic play have typically focused on “deficits” and are based on comparisons to neurotypical “norms”. According to…
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You can also find PEDAL on X (Twitter) LinkedIn, YouTube and Instagram! We're @PEDALCameverywhere, or you can click the icons at the top of the LinkTree in our bio: linktr.ee/pedalcam
In this talk from the #PEDALConference2025, Dr Nikhit D’Sa shares lessons from four years of research with communities in Haiti including lessons for similar initiatives in other contexts around the world: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RvB...
Dr Nikhit D’Sa: Leveraging alternative systems to support children’s development amid crisis
YouTube video by Play in Education, Development and Learning
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How to communicate with hospitalised children, according to Health Play Specialists: www.pedalhub.net/resource-lib...
How to communicate with children, according to Health Play Specialists in the United Kingdom: A qualitative study - PEDAL
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Past and present PEDAL colleagues Janina Eberhart, Carolyn Mazzei, Dina Fajardo Tovar, Zhen Rao and Sara Baker together with Allison Haack have published a paper in the Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
How do children’s personality traits - especially callous-unemotional (CU) traits like seeming less sensitive to others’ feelings - affect how teachers see their behaviour, and how do these traits change how much children enjoy school?
Understanding how certain personality traits impact children’s enjoyment of school and teachers’ perceptions of children’s behaviour - PEDAL
Read a summary of this recent paper published by Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties which used data from the Healthy Start, Happy Start study.
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"It is our collective responsibility to understand how toys powered by artificial intelligence impact young children." @drjennyg.bsky.social and @ejgoodacre.bsky.social in The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
How will childhood be changed by AI toys? | Letter
Letter: Our study is looking into how toys powered by AI can affect children’s development and their right to privacy, write Dr Emily J Goodacre and Prof Jenny Gibson
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More about @drjennyg.bsky.social and @ejgoodacre.bsky.social's research on AI toys and children's development here: content.educ.cam.ac.uk/content/new-...
New project aims to understand how AI ‘smart’ toys affect disadvantage, development and play
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Emily J. Goodacre@ejgoodacre.bsky.social · 12mo agoToday in our Guardian letter, @drjennyg.bsky.social and I call for a greater public discourse on how AI toys are interacting with young children and the impacts on their development. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Today in our Guardian letter, @drjennyg.bsky.social and I call for a greater public discourse on how AI toys are interacting with young children and the impacts on their development. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
How will childhood be changed by AI toys? | Letter
Letter: Our study is looking into how toys powered by AI can affect children’s development and their right to privacy, write Dr Emily J Goodacre and Prof Jenny Gibson
theguardian.com
PEDAL's @ejgoodacre.bsky.social & @drjennyg.bsky.social have had a letter published in The @theguardian.com which responds to Arwa Mahdawi's article about her family's experience with an AI toy: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
How will childhood be changed by AI toys? | Letter
Letter: Our study is looking into how toys powered by AI can affect children’s development and their right to privacy, write Dr Emily J Goodacre and Prof Jenny Gibson
theguardian.com
The long-term follow up findings of our Healthy Start, Happy Start study have been published in the @acamh.bsky.social Journal Of Child Psychology And Psychiatry this week. Read a quick-read summary by @camedfac.bsky.social: content.educ.cam.ac.uk/content/heal...
This animation provides an update on the long term findings of the Healthy Start, Happy Start study testing a relationship-based parenting programme. @nihr.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @ihealthvisiting.bsky.social @acamh.bsky.social @camedfac.bsky.social
New research from @pedalcam.bsky.social shows that a short, relationship-based programme for families can protect against children developing behaviour problems years later. Quick-read summary here: content.educ.cam.ac.uk/content/heal... ...or take a look at the full paper in the attached post!
Healthy Start, Happy Start
New evidence that a brief relationship-based intervention for families can protect against children developing behaviour problems years later.
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PEDAL Research Centre@pedalcam.bsky.social · 12mo agoThe long-term follow up findings of our Healthy Start, Happy Start study have been published in the Journal Of Child Psychology And Psychiatry: doi.org/10.1111/jcpp... @camedfac.bsky.social @nihr.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk
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.
PEDAL Research Centre@pedalcam.bsky.social · 12mo agoThe long-term follow up findings of our Healthy Start, Happy Start study have been published in the Journal Of Child Psychology And Psychiatry: doi.org/10.1111/jcpp... @camedfac.bsky.social @nihr.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk
The long-term follow up findings of our Healthy Start, Happy Start study have been published in the Journal Of Child Psychology And Psychiatry: doi.org/10.1111/jcpp... @camedfac.bsky.social @nihr.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk
<em>Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry</em> | ACAMH Pediatric Journal | Wiley Online Library
Background Behaviour problems are common in childhood and are associated with higher rates of mental health problems, educational and relationship difficulties throughout life. This study assessed w...
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Learn more about how PEDAL research can improve maths outcomes and think more creatively about how to achieve this goal: www.pedalhub.net/resource-lib...
🌍 From Cambridge, UK! Our Digital Child team had the pleasure of meeting with Professor Paul Ramchandani, Director of the PEDAL Research Centre and with Emily Goodacre, RA at PEDAL. PEDAL’s mission: discovering how play can spark change in families, schools, and communities.
