Carrying out international collaborative research in child development with a special focus on learning difficulties and developmental disorders and improving educational outcomes.
- Meet the team
Academic staff
- Dr Jo Van Herwegen (Lab Director)
- Dr Laura Outhwaite (Co-director)
- Dr Daniel Clowes
PhD students and affiliates
- Tugce Cetiner
- Hannah Hamid
- Dr Petri Partanen (Mid-Sweden University)
- Erica Ranzato
- Dr Muhammad Shakir (visiting scholar from university of The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Pakistan)
- Zahra Siddiqui
- Unta Taiwo
- Helen Williams
- Dr Erin Early (Queen's University Belfast)
- Vassilis Sideropoulos
- Stella Xu
- Şeyda Çetintaş
- Kate Gwilliam
- Leung, Jaimie
Lab coordinator
- Aira Ansara
- Research themes
We focus on research that supports children’s learning and educational practice such as:
- Awareness of developmental Dyscalculia and Mathematical Difficulties toolkit (ADD UP)
- Development in individuals with Williams syndrome
- Educational technologies and apps
- Mathematical development in the Early Years
- Raising educational outcomes for pupils with SEN and disabilities (MetaSENse)
- Supporting children with SEND at home and in the classroom