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.

Debbie Kwan
1 July 2022
Debbie is a second year PhD student exploring ways to promote and measure 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.

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.

Kateryna Tyzhuk
16 November 2023
Kate is a second year PhD student in PEDAL and the MRC Epidemiology Unit, investigating young children's risky play within early childhood educational settings in the UK.

Alejandra Vijil Morin
4 November 2024
Alejandra is a first year PhD student researching play in contexts of emergencies.