Blogs & Podcasts

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• Blog about CALM

• Podcast with PsychologiCALL

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Publications for specialist audiences

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• A classroom-based approach to working memory problems

• Understanding working memory: A classroom guide

• Working memory and learning: A guide for teachers 

• Developmental impairments of Working Memory

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Support for parents and families

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• Local and nationwide charities and services

• Working memory and learning difficulties

• Resources for mental health

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Public Engagement and Outreach

Since 2015

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• CALM annual practitioners’ conference, MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit (every year since 2015)

• Mental health in struggling learners, Ready or Not, Here We Come! CPD Event for School Teachers, April 2021

• The CALM approach to understanding neurodevelopmental disorders, podcast with Association of Child and Adolescent Mental Health, April 2021.

• The CALM approach to neurodevelopmental research, blog post for Association of Child and Adolescent Mental Health, April 2021.

• On transdiagnostic development and learning, podcast with PsychologiCALL, June 2020.

• Working memory and learning, Pint of Science, Cambridge 22nd May 2019.

• Cognitive development and educational attainment. Born In Bradford School Engagement Conference, 2nd October 2018.

• How cognition constrains learning. Keynote at 10th Annual Thinking Skills Conference, 12-13th June 2018.

• Working memory and classroom learning, Keynote at Better Learning Conference, Cambridge University Press, Churchill College, University of Cambridge, 25th-27th June 2018.

• Working memory and how it constrains learning. Leys and Grange SpLD Outreach Service Training, 21st May 2018.

• Working Memory and classroom learning: time to consider broader cognitive dimensions. BrainCanDo, Queen Anne’s School, Reading, 15th March 2018.

• Working memory and learning, Partners in Learning CPD event, Hungerhill School, 9th November 2017.

• Managing working memory loads in the classroom and the importance of broader cognitive dimensions that impede learning. EEF Research Schools Conference, North Lincolnshire 24th May 2017.

• Working memory in the classroom. workshop, 20th Annual SEND Residential Conference 2017, Learning Works, 12-13th May 2017.

• Understanding working memory in the classroom. Letchworth PATOSS, 26th April, 2016.

• CALM research clinic: Dimensions not diagnoses for children struggling with attention, learning and memory. Cambridgeshire Speech and Language Therapists County Study Day, 28th April 2016.

• CALM research clinic: Dimensions not diagnoses for children struggling with attention, learning and memory. Cambridge Paediatric Neuropsychology Peer Supervision Group, Addenbrookes Hospital, 7th June 2016.

• Understanding working memory in the classroom. Enfield & Barnet PATOSS, 11th June 2016.

• Understanding working memory in the classroom. St John’s School INSET, 5th September 2016.

• Understanding working memory difficulties in the classroom. ESRC Workshop: Working memory for educational psychologists, Bristol, 27th March, 2015

• Does brain stimulation boost the effects of brain training? Pint of Science, Cambridge, 20th May 2015.

• Enhancing cognition, Interview on Naked Scientists Radio, October 2015

• Working memory, attention and executive function processes in children, Eastern Child Head Injury Network, 16th October, 2015.