Dr Emma Blakey

Senior Lecturer in Developmental Psychology @sheffieldcogdev @scienceshef Executive functions, learning & social inequality. School Director of People & Culture

[Dr Emma Blakey @EmBlakey]

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]

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: https://t.co/uE0yQNFd1N

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[Dr Emma Blakey @EmBlakey]

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 https://t.co/liK72flht7

[Emma Hart @EmmaRoseHart]

Little is known, although much is theorized, about the long-run benefits of boosting children's social-emotional skills.

Across 450 post-test & follow-up impacts from 86 RCTs, we found similar fadeout rates for intervention impacts on social-emotional & cognitive skills.

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[Centre for Applied Education Research @CAERBradford]

We're excited to hear more from @Laparker1988 @EmBlakey @MarielaRiosDiaz and @50TTD on the 17th!

[Dr Emma Blakey @EmBlakey]

@perry_roisin @EJamesBrabham @SRCDtweets @cvonbastian @JoVanHerwegen If you do, we’d love to hear your thoughts!

[Ella James-Brabham @EJamesBrabham]

Excited to share our meta-analysis on home maths activities and children's maths skills is published in @SRCDtweets! It’s been an amazing project with @EmBlakey, @cvonbastian, and Carmel Brough. I’m thrilled to share our key recommendations for the field🧵
https://t.co/wvUqUwbboh

[Lauren Parker nee Powell @Laparker1988]

I feel very lucky to have worked with colleagues to lead a report with Child of the North - setting out an evidence-based plan to tackle the crisis in preschool provision. The report is launched today and already has lots of media coverage 🤩

https://t.co/9rfdqfRR8s

[Faculty of Health | University of Sheffield @shefunihealth]

The Government is being urged to tackle the high number of children starting school not ‘school ready’, in a new @ChildoftheNort1 @CfYoungLives report co-authored by researchers at the University of Sheffield.

https://t.co/QMyDtZAoUk

[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]

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 https://t.co/oYmD5gsHq6

[Dr Emma Blakey @EmBlakey]

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

https://t.co/GKxn8PaPtl

[Dr Emma Blakey @EmBlakey]

Wonderful to host @Dr_Tre_Crew today who gave a brilliant seminar on experiences of being working class in higher education. Themes of identity, belonging & the role of precarity. The quote “class runs through me like a stick of rock” will stay with me. Thanks, Teresa!

[Dr Emma Blakey @EmBlakey]

@JillyGMiller Really inspiring and important work @_AnkitaMishra
@JillyGMiller @ChantelleWWood well done!

[Dr Emma Blakey @EmBlakey]

3. Ultimately, the importance of spending time in investing in your teams, thinking about the culture you want to nurture, the team vision - and checking in on it as a continual process.

[Dr Emma Blakey @EmBlakey]

1. I’ve been lucky to have been a @UKRI_News Future Leader Fellow @FLFDevNetwork for the last few years, with training ending this week in an inspiring leadership retreat. As academics I think we often are cynical about visions and management speak, but I’ve felt feeling inspired

[Dr Emma Blakey @EmBlakey]

2. There were great messages/reminders about the importance of noticing and naming, value based leadership, building trust in teams and thinking spaces, horizon scanning…

[Dr Emma Blakey @EmBlakey]

What an amazing resource for EF researchers!

[Dr. Jelena Obradovic @dr_jobradovic]

✨New Global Executive Function Initiative's (GEFI) recommended practices for selection, adaptation, and administration of EF performance-based tasks and for processing, evaluating, reporting, and interpreting data that these tasks yield. Download here: https://t.co/FzvoDviRtc

[Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet]

I'm putting together a list of people interested in NHS maternity services reform - historians, antenatal educators, parents, health researchers, midwives, doctors, policy folks etc - for a project I'm working on and some future events.

Let me know if you'd like to be added!

[Dr Emma Blakey @EmBlakey]

@EllieBraithwai2 @BPSDevSection Was lovely to see you and hear about your work on visual attention!

[Dr Emma Blakey @EmBlakey]

@ProfVicSimms @BPSDevSection @CamillaKGilmore @ceml_esrc It was an amazing talk! Thank you Camilla. Perfect way to round off the conference.

[Dr Emma Blakey @EmBlakey]

Thank you @ProfVicSimms sobering findings, but so great to get the chance to bring together researchers together working at this from multiple angles! Really enjoyed the discussion.

[Victoria Simms @ProfVicSimms]

A brilliant symposium @BPSDevSection conference on the impact of socioeconomic circumstances on #childdev This is so imp work. Couldn’t stop thinking of @C_Fitz_ during @nesta_uk presentation on impacts of 2 child policy. @EmBlakey well done on org. #bpsdev2024

[Dr Emma Blakey @EmBlakey]

@maheensidd91 @BPSDevSection @BPSOfficial @fNIRS2024 Congratulations Maheen!