Category: PEDAL Students
María Alejandra Álvarez Taborda
19 November 2024
Alejandra is a first year PhD student at PEDAL, supervised by Professor Jenny Gibson and funded by The Cambridge Trust.
Natalie Kirby
1 July 2022
Tilly is a final year PhD student researching the ways play and booksharing can support families in children's earliest years.
Debbie Kwan
1 July 2022
Debbie is a second year PhD student exploring ways to promote and measure empathy. Her work involves adapting and implementing an intervention suitable for use in a junior school classroom, as well as developing a play-based measure of cognitive empathy.
Zijia Li
27 November 2024
Zijia is a first year PhD student at PEDAL exploring children’s pretend play and their social cognitive development.
Stuart Macalpine
16 November 2023
Stuart is a part-time doctoral student, researching the conceptualisation of learning goals in policy.
Carolyn Mazzei
1 July 2022
Carolyn is a PhD student examining play and classroom talk, and how these are related to children's cognitive development.
Paulina Pérez-Duarte Mendiola
1 July 2022
Paulina is a final year PhD student exploring how children behave before, during and after they interact with Hospital Play Specialists and what children think of these interactions.
Rebecca Reid
18 February 2025
Rebecca is a first-year PhD student at PEDAL, researching play and adolescence in the context of school exclusions.
Rebecca Sands
28 January 2025
Rebecca is a first year PhD student interested in children's development of critical thinking skills through the English primary curriculum.