Research and Learning

Many of you are passionate practitioners, always curious to expand your knowledge base. Below we have summarised a few websites and newsletters that could help you grow your understanding of the theory behind the nurture approach, and keep up-to-date with new research and tools that come out every day!

 

SEN:

• SEND Gateway is a platform regrouping lots of resources, events and organisations focusing on special education needs.
• SEN keeps you updated about the special education needs through articles, resources and a magazine.

Mental Health:

• Young Minds offers lots of resources and tools to support the mental health of young people, but also of staff and parents.
• Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families has a wide range of resources and videos to support teachers with the mental health of their pupils. Their newsletter can be accessed here.
• MindEd provides different resources for families, teachers and researchers to help them get insight into mental health.

Wellbeing:

• The NSPCC has an incredible library online providing child protection resources across a variety of topics. Their newsletters give you the chance to receive weekly updates about new resources and research.
• Action for Happiness is there to help you become a happier person and make the world around you a happier place! Lots of resources and topics to choose from to suit your needs.

Child development:

• Center on the Developing Child provides lots of accessible reports about a variety of topics related to child development, including impact of stress on the brain, resilience, executive skills, etc. They have a mailing list here.
• Encyclopedia of Early Childhood Development focuses on child development from conception to age 5. Their newsletter is accessible here.
• Child Trends gives you updates about new research related to child and adolescent development and keeps a database of evaluations conducted on interventions.

Education & Teaching:

• TES keeps you updated with news about the education sector
• Twinkl gives you loads of learning materials adapted to different year group and pupil needs.
• Pupil Inclusion Network Scotland provides loads of information related to a variety of education themes. Their monthly newsletter can be accessed here.
• The PSHE Association has lots of resources to help teachers incorporate emotional health and wellbeing into their lessons.

Psychology & Neuroscience:

• The Psychologist World makes resources about psychology topics accessible to a non-academic audience. Learn more about memory, behaviour, emotion, and many more on this website.
• Simply Psychology reviews different theories and psychologists that you might come across during your studies.
• Serious Science regularly publishes new videos based on interviews from eminent scientists in the field of psychology and neuroscience.
• Neuroscience News gives more advanced daily updates about new research that has just been published around the world. You can sign up to their newsletter on their main page.
• Neuro-hits or Neuro-myths? Check the scientific basis for the most common ideas related to neuroscience eg. Are people really more left or right brain thinkers? Are learning styles really a thing? Great list to update our beliefs!

Research:

• The Child Outcomes Research Consortium provides support with measuring impact and outcomes following interventions. They have a free membership from where you can receive a monthly newsletter.
• The Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health publishes academic journals focusing on child and adolescent psychology, psychiatry and mental health services.