Centre for Child, Adolescent & Family Research Seminar Series
Our talks 2024-25
Centre for Child Adolescent & Family Research seminars enable researchers to share findings with staff, PhD students and guests with similar research interests, and those from related areas.
All talks run from 4-5pm on alternate Tuesdays in term time, and are open to anybody to attend in person or online (see below for details).
Easter term 2025
06th May, 2025: The challenges and rewards of pursuing real-word Developmental Science.
Professor Denis Mareschal, Birkbeck College
20th May, 2025:
CANCELLED
03rd June, 2025: Social and emotional difficulties in adolescence.
Blanca Piera Pi-Sunyer and Emily Towner, Blakemore Lab, Centre for Child, Adolescent and Family Research, Cambridge.
17th June, 2025: On the promotion of Autistic flourishing.
Professor Liz Pellicano, UCL
Lent term 2025
4th February, 2025: Starting Big: the importance of whole-to-part learning in language acquisition.
Professor Inbal Arnon, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
18th February, 2025: From Womb to the World: Foetal sensory abilities and their post-birth effects.
Dr Beyza Üstün-Elayan, University of Cambridge
4th March, 2025: The nature-nurture debate in education: implications for narrowing attainment gaps.
Professor Michael Thomas, Birkbeck
18th March, 2025: Development and plasticity of control and control beliefs.
Professor Nikolaus Steinbeis, UCL
Michaelmas term 2024
22nd October, 2024: The effects of Sure Start on a variety of health and education outcomes.
Dr Sarah Cattan, Institute for Fiscal Studies
5th November, 2024: Do children’s education-linked genetic propensities influence the way they are parented and educated?
Dr Chloe Austerberry, University of Cambridge
19th November, 2024: Empathy during infancy: Assessment, development, parenting predictors, and developmental outcomes.
Professor Maayan Davidov, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
3rd December, 2024: Mapping developmental paths to neurodevelopmental conditions.
Professor Emily Jones, Birkbeck College
How to attend in person
Our CAFR Seminars are free to attend normally held in the Ground Floor Seminar Room, Old Cavendish Building (Rayleigh Wing), Free School Lane / New Museums Site (unless otherwise stated), and are open to all.
Location Map - please enter via the brown door nearest Bene't Street.
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How to attend online
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