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Category: PEDAL Students

Dina Fajardo-Tovar

13 October 2022

Dina is a 3rd year PhD student exploring Mexican teachers' perspectives on using playful learning in their practice, particularly in urban and rural preschools.

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 PhD student exploring ways to promote and measure empathy.

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.

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.

Yanwen Wu

1 July 2022

Yanwen is a 2nd year PhD student, investigating the relationship between pretend play and counterfactual reasoning from a temporal perspective.

Zhiyu Zhao

16 November 2023

Zhiyu is a first year PhD student with PEDAL.