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Professor Lydia Plowman Speaks At CAMRI

 

Professor Lydia Plowman visited the ‘Comparing Children’s Media Around the World’ conference, held at the University of Westminster on the 4th of September 2015, where she addressed attendees from around the globe, on some of the groundbreaking research in which she is involved. The Comparing Children’s Media Around the World conference set out to discuss an international, cross-cultural approach for delivering children’s media, and featured contributions from academic thinkers in addition to a panel of intercontinental media producers.

Stuart Gray

BrainQuest’s First Big Test

 

Over recent months, everybody’s favourite cattle rustling based research project, BrainQuest, has gathered some momentum.

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Lydia talks children and tablet computers with the BBC

 

Research conducted by Children and Technology’s Professor Lydia Plowman, and her colleagues at the Universities of Edinburgh and Sheffield, has revealed that in families which own tablet computers, almost a third of children aged under five have their own device.

Lydia spoke with the BBC’s Education Correspondent, Sean Coughlan, for his article for the BBC News website earlier this week:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-34454263