Dr Samantha Durrant

Language researcher working on individual differences currently. Also interested in accents and dialects and their impact on language skills

[Happy Researchers @hapyresearchers]

A few tips for new PhDs

-Academia is part of your life but not your life
-If you fail today, tomorrow is a new day to start again
-Remember to self care, sleep enough & stay healthy
-Maintain human relationships
-Relax and enjoy over weekends
#hapyresearchers

[Dr Samantha Durrant @Sam_Durrant_]

New paper from the Language 0-5 project. Exciting seeing more of this work out there! Thanks to all collaborators including @cryst_aal @CaroRowland @michelle19peter and others not on here.

[Dr Caro Rowland @CaroRowland]

The latest Language 0-5 Project paper has just been accepted by Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. Its on executive function, language and sentence processing in English 3 year olds. All materials including manuscript are here on #OSF. https://t.co/c12Dh5rCqm

[LuCiD @LuCiD_Centre]

Read @Sam_Durrant_ @LuCiD_Centre Post-Conference blog which will hopefully inspire you to join @LCICD in August 2023. https://t.co/gvPYpwT6kg

[Dr Samantha Durrant @Sam_Durrant_]

@LingwoodJamie Now that’s a bike I’d have a go on!!

[Alissa Ferry @USBabyScientist]

Manchester has some funded Teaching Assistant +PhD studentships for next year in our division. If you’re interested in doing a PhD, you can take a look at the projects available here (including some with me !!! and others doing development psych work): https://t.co/QgaylyHgoz

[Professor Helen Dodd @DrHelenDodd]

We are going to be observing play in schools in spring and need a couple of research assistants to help. Working out the details but likely 3/4 weeks, Mon-Fri 10-2 from 25th April. Probably in Birmingham but can cover travel costs. Contact me if you might be interested. Pls RT.

[LuCiD @LuCiD_Centre]

Post-Doctoral Research Assistant to work with Kelly Burgoyne on an ESRC-funded project to adapt & evaluate a parent-delivered early language intervention for children with Down syndrome. Closing date 10/01/2022! https://t.co/kueKyAdeLr

[Dr Samantha Durrant @Sam_Durrant_]

Tonight @CaroRowland will give an @abralin_oficial online lecture and I’ll be the discussant. Come and join us and add your questions for Caro!

[LuCiD @LuCiD_Centre]

Prof Caroline Rowland is giving one of the @abralin_oficial online lectures this Wednesday 10th November (18.00 CET). Visit https://t.co/jPyR0QZDfM for more.

[Dr Samantha Durrant @Sam_Durrant_]

@lanajago @chbergma @pdakean With @cryst_aal we are currently analysing 0-5 eyetracking data at 3-4years (same task 3 times) and looking at relations with EF (same tasks over time) concurrently and predictively. The EF measures we've used are stable over time but the eye-tracking data doesn't seem to be

[Dr Samantha Durrant @Sam_Durrant_]

@KarlaHolmboe @pdakean Absolutely agree with this and we (@CaroRowland) are regularly encountering these concerns with the Language 0-5 project data. No answers either but lots of questions about reliability for individual differences

[Dr Samantha Durrant @Sam_Durrant_]

Thanks for making his day again @TranmereRovers

[Dr Samantha Durrant @Sam_Durrant_]

@CaroRowland @LuCiD_Centre @Benambridge @gert_westermann @USBabyScientist I second this. It was the first paper I thought of too.

[Prof_Richard_Bentall_psychologist @BentallProf]

1/24 A little while ago I tweeted about bad things happening at Liverpool University. What they are doing there is threatening to the entire academic community and the very idea of a university. Bare with me; I want to explain why (thread): https://t.co/SHNFnKOQzC

[Jamie Lingwood @LingwoodJamie]

Great opportunity for anyone interested in #impact and #languagedevelopment research. Feel free to drop me or @Cat_Davies a message!

[Dr Samantha Durrant @Sam_Durrant_]

@LingwoodJamie @LivHopePsych Good luck, not that you need it, you’ll smash it! They are lucky to have you.

[Dr Caro Rowland @CaroRowland]

We're hiring - a postdoc in data analysjs and modelling to work on our projects on language development @MPI_NL. Details here. Please share widely. https://t.co/UUppfAdkhf

[Dr Samantha Durrant @Sam_Durrant_]

@lilacCourt Something in a garden centre would be my top choice!

[Dr Samantha Durrant @Sam_Durrant_]

Great resource for teaching, definitely planning to use this. Thank you for sharing

[Prof Catherine Davies @Cat_Davies]

Seeking a postdoc for our UKRI COVID project on the impact of school closures on foundation skills in reception children, using EYFSP / reading data collected by schools before closures and in the autumn/spring terms. FT G7 10 mts; closes 12 Oct. Plz share https://t.co/Wmfe7NEs1u

[Dr Caro Rowland @CaroRowland]

On Tuesday at #UKCLC2020 I’ll give my 1st keynote featuring the Language0-5 project; a project that has taken 8 years of my life so far! We tracked 90 children's development from 0-4 years, and are using the data to develop detailed explanations of how children build language 1/