PsychologiCALL
Are you a psychology student, struggling to concentrate on reading papers? A psychology lecturer, trying to mix up your teaching a bit? A teacher or parent who wants to know what's going on in child development research? or maybe a neurodivergent adult reflecting on their youth? If so, welcome to our podcast! We hope these bite-sized, guided tours of recent research papers - via an informal chat with the author - will interest and inform you. The podcast is currently hosted by Louisa (Lou) Thomas, a postdoctoral research assistant in the Centre for Autism at the University of Reading. Each episode is a conversation between Lou, and a fellow academic. Together we discuss one of their recent (or classic) papers relating to child and adolescent development and learning. We don’t have a recording booth or fancy equipment, but this wee bit of brain food should be a nice nutritious snack for a curious mind.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 21 minutes
- Episodes
- 48
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2023
On body schema plasticity in dyspraxia, with Marie Martel
Marie Martel is a cognitive neuroscientist at Royal Holloway, University of London, who specialises in understanding how the brain controls imagined and real movements performed with the hand or a to…
On access to support for children with developmental disabilities, with Suzi Sapiets
Suzi Sapiets is a postdoctoral research associate at the Tizard Centre, University of Kent, who specialises in autism, learning disabilities and improving access to support. During this podcast Suzi…
On striatal myelin in children with developmental language disorder, with Saloni Krishnan
Saloni Krishnan is a developmental cognitive neuroscientist at Royal Holloway who specialises in the neural basis of developmental language disorder. During this podcast she talks to Lou about her ne…
On the sensory experiences of autistic adults in public spaces, with Keren MacLennnan
Dr Keren MacLennan is an Assistant Professor in Neurodiversity, in Department of Psychology, at Durham University. Her research interests are related to mental health, autism, and sensory reactivity …
On ADHD in the classroom, with Emily McDougal
Dr Emily McDougal is a developmental psychologist, currently based at University of Surrey, who specialises in neurodiversity and cognition in the classroom. During this podcast episode she chats to …
On diagnosis and treatment decisions for care-experienced young people, with Rosie McGuire
Rosie is a post-doctoral researcher at UCL specialising in the mental health of care-experienced young people. During this podcast she chats to Lou about a piece of work looking at potential biases m…
On inclusive and participatory research, with Sue Fletcher-Watson
Sue Fletcher-Watson is a Professor of Developmental Psychology at the University of Edinburgh, and Director of the Salvesen Mindroom Research Centre. Sue is also the creator of the PsychologiCALL pod…
The season 3 advice episode
For the final episode of season 3, Louisa brings you a brief overview of the episodes from this season.
At the end of every episode, the guest gets asked if they have advice for students and early car…
On social vulnerability and social interaction style in neurodevelopmental conditions, with Ellen Ridley
Ellen Ridley is PhD student in the Centre for Neurodiversity & Development at Durham University. The aim of her research is to better understand the factors that impact on social vulnerability in chi…
On helping employers to make tailored adjustments for their autistic employees, with Beatriz López
Beatriz López is a Reader in Developmental Psychology at the University of Portsmouth, who specialises in the double empathy problem in autism, heterogeneity in autism and employment. During this pod…
On play-based inventions and mental health in autism and developmental language disorder, with Gill Francis
Dr Gill Althia Francis is a Research Fellow in Cognitive Psychology and Children's Play at the University of York, who specialises in researching how play impacts development for both neurodiverse an…
On visual motion processing in dyslexia, with Cathy Manning
Dr Cathy Manning is a lecturer at University of Reading who researches sensory processing and decision-making in typically developing, autistic and dyslexic children. During this podcast she chats to…
On contagion of temporal discounting preferences in autism, with Louisa and Jasmine Virhia
This week is a slightly different format, because we've flipped the script. During this podcast episode, Louisa is interviewed by Jasmine Virhia, a postdoctoral researcher in the inclusion initiative…
On curiosity-driven learning in dyslexia, with Saloni Krishnan
Saloni is a developmental cognitive neuroscientist trying to understand how to help children with communication disorders. During this podcast, she chats with Louisa about her recent work on intrinsi…
On facial expression recognition in autism, with Connor Keating
Connor Keating is an experimental psychologist at the University of Birmingham who specialises in emotion perception and production in autism. During this podcast, he chats to Louisa about a piece of…
On exploration during adolescence, with Alex Lloyd
Alex Lloyd is a developmental psychologist at University College London who specialises in cognitive development and mental health. During this podcast, they chat to Louisa about a paper examining th…
On the impact of sensory processing differences for autistic pupils, with Liz Jones
Liz Jones is a developmental psychologist at Durham University who specialises in sensory differences in autism. During this podcast they chat to Louisa about a piece of work looking at the the impac…
On linking brain and behaviour using network analyses with Joe Bathelt
Dr Joe Bathelt is a developmental cognitive neuroscientist who investigates how brain and behavioural differences interact as young people grow up. During this podcast, he chats to Louisa about a pie…
On adventurous play in school-aged children, with Rachel Nesbit
Dr Rachel Nesbit is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow based in the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Research Collaboration at the University of Exeter. She specialises in play and mental health…
On children’s perceptions of the risks and benefits of social media, with Beatrice Hayes
Beatrice is a social developmental psychologist at Royal Holloway, University of London who specialises in children and adolescents' use of online digital technologies as well as students' use of onl…