📢 CLS working paper Research using the Millennium Cohort Study shows that teenagers who didn't pass their English or Maths GCSEs were more likely than their peers to have poorer health/wellbeing at ages 17-18, and to have engaged in criminal behaviour ➡️ bit.ly/4cKcx3H

If the Labour Party has a moral mission, it must be to eradicate child poverty. I join the 11 unions affiliated to the Labour Party & the TUC, which represents six million workers, in calling for the two-child benefit cap to be immediately scrapped. I will vote for it today.

This is why I voted to scrap the two-child benefit cap and immediately lift 300,000 children out of poverty.

Young Africans will soon comprise the most significant group of globally mobile students. What if universities met them with a sustainable, positive vision for their communities and the host institutions? Here are some practical strategies #THECampus timeshighereducation.com/campus/sustain…

Our recent article in The Conversation "Nearly half of children born in Wales in 2002-3 classed as having special educational needs – this may have negatively affected their attainment" Dr Emily Lowthian School of Education | University of Bristol Education & Childhood Studies - Swansea University Nuffield Foundation theconversation.com/nearly-half-of…

Britain's prosperity depends on its universities -- but they have been perilously neglected. Wellcome letter in The Times and The Sunday Times today ✍️🏻

Excited to announce our new preprint looking at how primary school children view learning and behaviour problems, and if a brief P4C intervention can change their feelings, behaviour or thoughts is now available! #attitudes #P4C #inclusion doi.org/10.31234/osf.i…

🚨New article alert 🚨 Our paper exploring sibling relationships and parental interventions to sibling bullying is now live journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23…

📢 Great opportunity to join us as a Race Equity Associate We're building a pool of Race Equity Associates, with expertise in YEF's sectors #ChildrensServices #Education #Health #Neighbourhoods #Policing #YouthJustice #YouthSector with focus on the prevention of children's

Woo hoo! Our text book on #DevLangDis and social emotional development is out! Umar Toseeb Developmental Language Disorder and Social-Emotional Development: An Introduction to Theories, Concepts, and Research amzn.eu/d/83RH9iV

🥳 Happy to report some funding success! 🥳 I'll be running a 2yr mixed-methods project on allomothering in middle childhood and adolescent outcomes, using Children of the 90s! I'll be looking for a postdoc with experience of cohort data analysis who is keen to develop/learn qual methods 😊

Congratulations class of 2024! #graduation University of York

The political and media class is complicit in this racist, Islamophobic violence. They stoke division because they don’t want us to remember this truth: the enemy of the working class travels by private jet, not migrant dinghy. Me for the The Guardian: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Congratulations to Olakunle Oginni on receiving the prestigious Behaviour Genetics Association (BGA) Early Career Award! 🥳 Read about Dr Olakunle Oginni's award, research, and career path on this news piece: cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/2831…

📣 New pod! The fantastic Dr. Kenny Chui, UEA, talks to Umar Toseeb about 'Adolescent Social Anxiety Symptoms and their relationship with Suicidal Ideation and Depressive Symptoms' bit.ly/4cktRLH #ListenLearnLike #Anxiety #Depression #SuicidalIdeation

An online conference with world experts on narrative intervention (Prof Spencer), supporting bilingual DLD in schools (Prof Wong) and lived experience of DLD (Prof Lyons) -all on my wishlist for a better experience for DLD around the world and in Singapore thedldproject.com/international-…

Apply now for a funded research visit in Europe! Awardees will receive €1,250 per week during their visit at one of eight leading research institutions. #TransnationalAccessVisit #TAV #research #children #longitudinal #coordinate #grant #research

Proud to be an author of this hard hitting report

Check out my conversation with Phil Martin about AI and language education for BALEAP @TELSIG podcast #AI #LanguageLearning