Project news

October 2024: Welcome to Raji!

Rajalakshmi (Raji) Madhavan has joined us as a new Postdoctoral Research Associate for SENFM. She has recently completed her PhD from the University of Göttingen, where her thesis explored parent-child dynamics in social interactions, particularly examining how parental input and children’s selective interests in various topics influence the interaction, and subsequently the novel word learning that occurs. We are excited to have her as part of our team! 

August 2024: Welcome to Charlotte!

Charlotte Blake has just joined us from the University of Kent, where she is just finishing up her MSc in Developmental Psychology with a dissertation on the topic of children's thinking, communication, and morality, supervised by Dr. Angela Nyhout. Charlotte is the Lab Manager for SENFM and will be supporting us across a range of administrative and research-based tasks.

July 2024: Attendance at ICIS 2024

We had a great time attending the International Congress of Infant Studies in Glasgow, 9-11th July. You can view the poster that we presented here, and see below for a photo!

June 2024: Poster presentation at ICIS 2024!

Our pilot study, led by Margherita Belia, has been accepted for a poster presentation at the International Congress of Infant Studies in Glasgow, July 2024. This presentation will be based on an initial exploratory study where we tested babies at different time-points to establish a methodological framework for collecting and analysing lingual ultrasound data with infants. This is a collaborative project with George Bailey, Sam Cobb, Chris Cox, Florence Oxley and Amelia Gully, funded by a HRC Postgraduate Collaborative Project Grant awarded to Margherita Belia (University of York) and an Interacting Minds Centre Seed Fund grant awarded to Chris Cox (Aarhus University/University of York).

February 2024: Recruitment update!

We are pleased to announce that we have just recruited two new postdocs to the project: Florence Oxley, starting in April 2024, and Raji Satarai Madhavan, starting in September 2024. A Lab Manager job vacancy will be posted soon!