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Educational and work history
My first degree and PhD (entitled “Executive Dysfunction in Autism”) were both from the Experimental Psychology Department at Cambridge University. I then spent two years in Paris as a post-doctoral Fellow of the Fyssen Foundation, working at the Hopital Robert Debré and at the Université de Paris V. My research during this time focused on executive problems in relatives of children with autism. Next, I worked for six years with Professor Judy Dunn at the Institute of Psychiatry in London. During this time my research interests moved from autism to the cognitive and social difficulties of 'hard to manage' preschoolers. I began working at Cambridge University 10 years ago; first as a Lecturer and then as a Senior Lecturer and Reader. My research is based at the Centre for Family Research and my teaching is based in the Department of Social and Developmental Psychology, which is part of the Faculty of Politics, Psychology, Sociology and International Studies.
Current research
Alongside various collaborative projects, my main research programme is a longitudinal study (funded by grants from the ESRC and the Health Foundation) of a socially diverse group of children, recruited at the age of 2. My most recent grants from the ESRC are entitled: "Social and Cognitive Predictors of Success in the Transition to School." and "Peer interactions: Developmental change from age 2 to age 6 and familial predictors." My main collaborator on this research programme, and on many of the papers listed below is Dr Rosie Ensor. Many of the findings from this longitudinal study are presented in a new book (entitled “Social Understanding and Social Lives: from toddlerhood through to the transition to school) that will appear in February 2011, as part of the Essays in Developmental Psychology Series published by Psychology Press).
Publications
Publications by year
1992 - 1999
2000 - 2005
2006 - present
Publications by topic
Other activities
I am a Fellow and Director of Studies at Newnham College, Cambridge. In the Centre for Family Research, I lead a research group on children’s In the Department of Social and Developmental Psychology I am the course organizer for the third year ‘Development and Psychopathology’ paper (Psy 4); I am also the course organizer for the second year ‘Experimental Psychology’ paper (Psy 2). For most of the past 7 years I have been either Chair or Deputy Chair of Part II Examiners for the PPS (formerly SPS) Tripos at the University of Cambridge. Outside of the university I have, for the last 3 years (2007-2010), been the External Examiner for the MSc in Developmental Psychopathology at the University of Durham. I am also an action editor for the British Journal of Developmental Psychology and an associate editor for several other journals, including Child Development and Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.
Members of my research group:
Dr Rosie Ensor: Post-doctoral Fellow of the British Academy
PhD students (in alphabetical order)
Rory Devine: Adolescent developments in theory of mind
Nao Fujita: Theory of Mind and Executive Function in Japanese and British preschoolers
Martha Hart: Gender, Self-Esteem and Social Behaviour in six-year-olds
Gabriela Roman: Developmental changes in mother-child interactions and emotional regulation,fromages two to six years
Naomi White: Sibling relationships: Developmental trajectories and contrasts between typical and atypical groups
Keri Wong: Cognitive profiles of school-aged children with conduct problems
Adelle Pushparatnam: The recognition and treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Malaysia and the UK
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