Category: Families
PEDAL’s new report for The Centre for Emotional Health
24 February 2025
Our new report investigates how employers’ can support parents’ emotional health and their parenting.
It’s a Pandemic in the Playborhood: An International Perspective of Play Therapists on the COVID-19 Pandemic
7 January 2025
The COVID-19 pandemic, lockdowns and beyond, impacted many professions and workplaces, including therapists and their therapy rooms.
Innovative ways to support decision makers to use evidence in national and local systems
3 December 2024
In this PEDAL Conference 2024 recording, Sally Hogg presents PEDAL's Mobilise programme and Foundations' Becky Saunders talks about Foundations' work to support local systems to improve services for families with young children.
Innovative ways to use technology to support parent-child interaction
3 December 2024
In this PEDAL Conference 2024 recording, Rob Hughes presents Tandem - a ground-breaking app which uses AI to support active engagement between parents and children, and Eloise Stevens and Nesta's Lauren Liotti and Zhen Rao talk about PEDAL’s Playtime with Books programme.
Innovative approaches in the development of parenting support: Moving beyond manualised programmes
3 December 2024
In this PEDAL Conference 2024 recording, Dr Beth Barker presents The Golden Threads project and Dr Caroline White talks about Invest in Play.
What is a common elements approach?
27 November 2024
This short animation explains what a common elements approach is, and why PEDAL are using it in our research.
The Oxford Brain Story: Embedding an understanding of the importance of the early years
22 October 2024
In this PEDAL Conference 2024 keynote, Louise Dalton presents her programme of work entitled the Oxford Brain Story.
Designing Evidence-Based Parenting Support for Impact at Scale
22 October 2024
In this PEDAL Conference 2024 keynote, Louise Bazalgette speaks about the scale of the challenge in closing the gap in early years outcomes in the UK.
Universality without Uniformity: Appreciating High-Quality Practices in Low-Resource Settings
22 October 2024
In this PEDAL Conference 2024 keynote, Professor Junlei Li speaks about the power of everyday interactions in early childhood.
Listening to children with empathy – the ethical case
30 May 2024
In this piece, Soizic le Courtois argues that advice given to parents should draw on scientific evidence about children's subjective wellbeing, children's perspectives and the contribution of any practice to children's development and outcomes. We should also be attuned to our empathetic responses to children, which can give us clues about the "right" thing to do.