APPOINTMENT of 2 post-docs on Living Assessments project
The School of History are delighted to share the news of the appointment of two new post-docs on Professor Julie Anderson’s ‘Living Assessment‘ project: Dr Emily Bartlett and Dr Eilis Boyle. The Living...
View ArticlePhD Viva passed! Congratulations to Barry Coughlan for his research on...
Dr Barry Coughlan Summary Making sense of developmental differences in children can be challenging. Two critical nodes in the assessment pathway are identification and formal assessment. The research...
View ArticleExperts-by-Experience have spoken to the Treasury!
Rose, aged 21, describes how presenting her concerns to a meeting of Government officials, renewed her faith in the people in charge as being eager to listen. The National Children’s Bureau, gave me...
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Living Assessments research
New and robust evidence demonstrates that investing in prevention, including family support and early help, can reduce demand for more expensive crisis support later on, and leads to better services...
View ArticleSixty years old. Forever young.
The Living Assessments team at the University of Kent were thrilled to be involved in the research for this interactive timeline. To learn more about the NCB’s work over the past 60 years visit NCB 60...
View ArticleOur podcast is LIVE! 🥳
In the first episode of Growing Up we partnered with Meg, an activist, advocate, and educator, to share her experiences of the UK education system as a late-diagnosed autistic young woman. Meg has been...
View Article60 years of the National Children’s Bureau!
We heard from Eilis and Emily about their personal highlights working on the timeline. What did you enjoy most about researching the timeline? As historians, it was fascinating to place NCB’s...
View ArticleBarry Coughlan’s research on assessment practices for children with social...
Living Assessments co-investigator Dr Barry Coughlan. Could you tell us a bit more about your PhD research and time at your current institution? I did my PhD at the Department of Public Health and...
View ArticleTeaching Girls to Care: Gendered Labour is not Unique to a Global Pandemic
A recent study conducted by children’s charity TheirWorld found that girls are doing more housework in Covid lockdown than boys. According to the survey, girls between the ages of 14 and 24 spent more...
View ArticleVulnerable to over-use
Richard Newson, NCB’s Media and Communications Manager, and Juliette Balchin a member of Young NCB, put a line under the overuse of the sector’s favourite adjective. Every field has its favourite...
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