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Dr Emma Blakey

@EmBlakey

Senior Lecturer in Developmental Psychology @sheffieldcogdev @scienceshef Executive functions, learning & social inequality. School Director of People & Culture
Sheffield, England shef.ac.uk/psychology/sta… Joined December 2013
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We are so excited to be part of this @ScienceShef @sheffieldcogdev, working with an amazing team led by @GaiaScerif. We’ll be trialling a co-developed intervention aimed at supporting early years practitioners to embed executive functions into numeracy based play activities.
EEF @EducEndowFoundn Mar 29, 2023
TODAY: In collaboration with @educationgovuk’s Stronger Practice Hubs, we've launched eight new trials of programmes for nurseries and early years settings across England.

Read more: eef.li/4ULN6h

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So excited to see this out today which has been years in the making! Experiences of first time parents during the pandemic. With a wonderful team & inspired by our own journeys to becoming parents. Thanks to everyone that shared their stories with us bit.ly/pandemicparent…
link.springer.com Becoming a new parent during the pandemic: experiences of pregnancy, birth, and the postnatal period BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth - New parenthood in ordinary times can be a vulnerable and unpredictable time. The Covid-19 pandemic brought additional, unprecedented changes to policy and practice...
Dr Emma Blakey @EmBlakey
A pleasure to be involved in this important report out today 📣 on the importance of prioritising the early years and supporting preschool education. Lovely to see our maths & EF intervention “the ONE” featured as an example of innovative practice.
Child of the North @ChildoftheNort1 Oct 4, 2024
A new report by Child of the North - led by @n8 @n8research & @_henorth - & @annelongfield’s @Cfyounglives urges the government to tackle the preschool crisis and warns that hundreds of thousands of children arrive at school not ready for learning tinyurl.com/mkyzdyj5
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Excited to share our article out this week in @SRCDtweets led by the brilliant @EJamesBrabham as part of her PhD & @cvonbastian and Carmel. A real labour of love examining via meta-analysis the relation between home activities & children’s maths skills

srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cd…
onlinelibrary.wiley.com Do home mathematical activities relate to early mathematical skills? A systematic review and... Children's foundational mathematical skills are critical for future academic attainment. While home mathematical activities (HMAs) have been proposed to support these skills, the extent to which...
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