Research.

I have been researching children’s development for over 20 years and many of my academic papers on the topics below are listed under the Publications tab on this site, or can be downloaded from the archive on the University of Hertfordshire website. I lecture in developmental psychology at the University of Hertfordshire and supervise a number of PhDs and Masters theses.

• Children’s implicit and explicit representations
• Advertising and children
• Gestures and cognition
• Behavioural economics
• Gestures and speech
• Women & money
• Spelling development
• Maths development
• Development of science concepts
• Educational interventions
• Infant gesture
• Effects of ‘babysign’
• Gestures as influencers
• Behavioural change
• Body image
• The microgenetic method
• Kids & technology
• Happy children
• Family functioning