Child Development Forum (CDF)

CDF logo (a brain integrated into a tree to represent growing branches)

Overview

The University's Child Development Forum (CDF) provides a series of talks, bringing together early-career researchers in developmental science (broadly defined) across the University of Cambridge.

Talks take place on Tuesday afternoons, once or twice per term, usually at the Centre for Child, Adolescent and Family Research (Free School Lane).

Join the mailing list to keep up-to-date, or sign up to give a talk.

Series Convenors 2025-26

Carly Hood, Speech Pathologist and PhD student in Neuroscience, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit

Chloe Austerberry, Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre for Child, Adolescent and Family Research 

Francesco Poli, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscientist & Postdoctoral Researcher, MRC-CBU & Psychiatry

Lucia Hernandez Pena, Research Associate, Centre for Child, Adolescent and Family Research 

Rebecca Reid, Teacher and PhD student in Education, Faculty of Education (PEDAL)

Sara de Felice, Social Neuroscientist, Centre for Child, Adolescent and Family Research

Sharon Ting, PhD student, Centre for Child, Adolescent and Family Research 

Tom Rance, Paediatrician and PhD student in Epidemiology, School of Clinical Medicine

(Committee coordinator: Louise Gray, Engagement Coordinator, Centre for Child, Adolescent and Family Research)