Doing a PhD within a niche, interdisciplinary field can be filled with both euphoric highs and confusing lows. Am I doing something so ground-breaking that it will make simultaneous waves within several fields? Or is my work so niche it will fail to even register a ripple on any of its founding disciplines? As a result, hearing of success within your niche can help calm these choppy waters.
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.
Over recent months, everybody’s favourite cattle rustling based research project, BrainQuest, has gathered some momentum.
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:
