Paid leave was related to better language skills in 24-36m infants. For infants from lower-SES households paid leave was linked to positive socioemotional skills, suggesting that access to paid leave may reduce SES disparities early in life #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa.1…

New online study - parents with English speaking children aged 16-30 months living in Scotland🧠🎓 The survey should take around half an hour to complete and can be accessed here - livpsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6V… Please see below for details and retweet if you can!

Exciting news! The website for Lancaster University Language and Literacy Unit is up and running, complete with blog. We hope you enjoy browsing and learning about who we are and what we do. wp.lancs.ac.uk/language-liter… #language #literacy #Lancaster #LancasterUniversity

For the next part of our CDI project we’re looking for parents with English speaking children aged 16-30 months living in Wales 🧠 They survey should take around half an hour to complete and can be accessed here - livpsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5d… Please retweet!

One of the best things about being part of LuCiD is our monthly seminars. I’m delighted they are back for the year and can’t wait to see everyone together again (virtually)!

...excuse me???!!! 😳 What about giving us stable jobs by our mid-30s, if we are lucky?

Have you ever wondered how to support daily reading for the reluctant reader? LuCiD's Dr Samantha Durrant has and consequently put together this informative blog together with Kelly Burgoyne & Jenny Freed whose research looks at reading in children. lucid.ac.uk/news-events-bl…

Our Lancaster University Babylab UG student is looking for UK primary school children aged 5-7 to take part in a short online interactive study about knowledge transmission - please contact Meg for more info: [email protected]

As a new report reveals the scale of disadvantage facing pupils in the North of England, Dr Megan Dixon says we need to put children's rights at the centre of Covid recovery tes.com/magazine/teach…

I just wish academia didn’t involve having to be excellent the whole bloody time. Can’t I just be proficient?

Sam Russell and Kate Cain have had the following paper accepted for publication in Elsevier Psychology (JECP): The Animals in Moral Tales; Does Character Realism Influence Children's Prosocial Response to Stories? eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/1652…

Our next LuCiD seminar is on 05th April (11am UK time). Dr Judit Fazekas Judit Fazekas (University of Manchester) will talk about the role of prediction in language development. For more info about the talk & how to join: lucid.ac.uk/news-events-bl…

Hey Economic and Social Research Council, turnaround of 4 working days to reply to reviews during Easter hols when all investigators are working mothers is unreasonable. Please reply to the extension request positively. #Diversity #Equity #Inclusion

HAPPENING TONIGHT! If you would like more information about how your little one learns language and tips and tricks on how to support their development. Join us at 8pm for a free workshop with our researcher Anna. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Attended the fantastic (and aptly named) LuCiD Demystifying Bayesian Statistics workshop by Sam Jones today! Excellent explanations on how and why to use Bayesian stats 👍

We would like to welcome our newest LuCiD member Laura. Laura started this Monday as the new LuCiD Centre Manager. She will be based in Manchester The University of Manchester, but provide support across the LuCiD network. Welcome to the team!

Codebooks! What a tool for sharing data and understanding variable names 🤩 Jessica Logan #SSSR2022 #datamanagement

Congratulations to our very own Laura Diprossimo, who was invited to speak at SPUI25, Digital Childhoods: Learning Within New Media. Great work, Laura, and all of e-LADDA! #LancasterUniversity #PsychologyLancaster

New paper by Dr Lana Jago, me and the UK-CDI team where we try to use CDIs at 2 yrs to predict later concern for language disorder. Tl;dr - we can't. 🙁frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…