Shaping Social Play Behaviour in Interactive Playgrounds
The introduction of sensing technology in traditional play spaces such as playgrounds has given rise to the possibility of analysing children’s behaviour during actual play. Not only can this help to better understand what is going on during games but when combined with feedback and actuation technology, such as projections or robots, it can be […]
Harnessing New Technology to Better Understand the Family Language Environment
In this PEDAL presentation, Dr Elian Fink talks about the collaborative project Baby Talk, where they used a light-weight wearable pedometer to record infant-caregiver interactions. Play interactions between infant and caregiver have been studied in developmental psychology under many guises, including attachment behaviours, parental sensitivity and scaffolding. Baby Talk aimed to explore the association between […]
PEDAL Seminar: Self-regulation – Foundation skills for children’s healthy development
Part of the PEDAL Seminar series, in this seminar PEDAL and the Psychology & Education research group at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge come together to discuss the importance of children’s self-regulation skills. This seminar is introduced by Dr David Whitebread, and is presented by Dr Megan McClelland (Hallie Ford Center for Healthy […]
What matters to children themselves when they start school?
Christine O'Farrelly, Ailbhe Booth (University College Dublin), Mimi Tatlow-Golden (The Open University), and Beth Barker
Supporting families with their children’s behaviour: The Healthy Start, Happy Start Study
Christine O’Farrelly, Hilary Watt, Daphne Babalis, Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg, Beth Barker, Sarah Byford, Poushali Ganguli, Ellen Grimas, Jane Iles, Holly Mattock, Julia McGinley, Charlotte Phillips, Rachael Ryan, Stephen Scott, Jessica Smith, Alan Stein, Eloise Stevens, Marinus van IJzendoorn, Jane Warwick, Paul Ramchandani.
The protective effects of peer play against mental health problems
Yiran Vicky Zhao, Jenny Gibson
Symbolic play and autistic children’s structural language development
Yiran Vicky Zhao, Jenny Gibson
Hands-on activities and children’s learning
Elizabeth Byrne, Paul Ramchandani, Kayleigh Skene, Thomas Chupein, Hanne Jensen, Celia Hsiao, Bo Stjerne Thomsen, Amy Jo Dowd
Links between mums’ mental health and children’s pretend play
Zhen Rao, Beth Barker, Christine O'Farrelly, and Paul Ramchandani
Coping with Changes: Supporting social and emotional learning in early childhood
Natalie Kirby, Elizabeth Byrne, and Paul Ramchandani
Play in the Pandemic: The impact of quarantine and restrictive environments on children’s play
Kelsey Graber, Elizabeth Byrne, Emily Goodacre, Natalie Kirby, Krishna Kulkarni, Christine O'Farrelly, and Paul Ramchandani.
Links between children’s “aggressive” pretend play and real-life aggression
Zhen Rao, Elian Fink, and Jenny Gibson
Finding out more about our work in the PEDAL Centre…
By 2019, PEDAL had been running for four years. This journal article draws together several of our projects which focus on 'measuring play'.
