The International Centre for Language and Communicative Development

Lead Research Organisation: University of Manchester

Department Name: School of Health Sciences

Abstract

The International Centre for Language and Communicative Development (LuCiD) will bring about a transformation in our understanding of how children learn to communicate, and deliver the crucial information needed to design effective interventions in child healthcare, communicative development and early years education.

Learning to use language to communicate is hugely important for society. Failure to develop language and communication skills at the right age is a major predictor of educational and social inequality in later life. To tackle this problem, we need to know the answers to a number of questions: How do children learn language from what they see and hear? What do measures of children's brain activity tell us about what they know? and How do differences between children and differences in their environments affect how children learn to talk? Answering these questions is a major challenge for researchers. LuCiD will bring together researchers from a wide range of different backgrounds to address this challenge.

The LuCiD Centre will be based in the North West of England and will coordinate five streams of research in the UK and abroad. It will use multiple methods to address central issues, create new technology products, and communicate evidence-based information directly to other researchers and to parents, practitioners and policy-makers.

LuCiD's RESEARCH AGENDA will address four key questions in language and communicative development:
1. ENVIRONMENT: How do children combine the different kinds of information that they see and hear to learn language?
2. KNOWLEDGE: How do children learn the word meanings and grammatical categories of their language?
3. COMMUNICATION: How do children learn to use their language to communicate effectively?
4. VARIATION: How do children learn languages with different structures and in different cultural environments?

The fifth stream, the LANGUAGE 0-5 PROJECT, will connect the other four streams. It will follow 80 English learning children from 6 months to 5 years, studying how and why some children's language development is different from others. A key feature of this project is that the children will take part in studies within the other four streams. This will enable us to build a complete picture of language development from the very beginning through to school readiness.

Applying different methods to study children's language development will constrain the types of explanations that can be proposed, helping us create much more accurate theories of language development. We will observe and record children in natural interaction as well as studying their language in more controlled experiments, using behavioural measures and correlations with brain activity (EEG). Transcripts of children's language and interaction will be analysed and used to model how these two are related using powerful computer algorithms.

LuciD's TECHNOLOGY AGENDA will develop new multi-method approaches and create new technology products for researchers, healthcare and education professionals. We will build a 'big data' management and sharing system to make all our data freely available; create a toolkit of software (LANGUAGE RESEARCHER'S TOOLKIT) so that researchers can analyse speech more easily and more accurately; and develop a smartphone app (the BABYTALK APP) that will allow parents, researchers and practitioners to monitor, assess and promote children's language development.

With the help of six IMPACT CHAMPIONS, LuCiD's COMMUNICATIONS AGENDA will ensure that parents know how they can best help their children learn to talk, and give healthcare and education professionals and policy-makers the information they need to create intervention programmes that are firmly rooted in the latest research findings.

Planned Impact

The RESEARCH AGENDA will bring about a step change in our understanding of how children learn to communicate with language, and deliver the evidence that parents, practitioners and policy-makers need to design effective interventions in early years education and healthcare (ESRC strategic priorities Influencing Behaviour & Informing Interventions, A Vibrant & Fair Society)

The TECHNOLOGY AGENDA will deliver two new software tools designed to be of direct benefit to researchers and practitioners, with commercial applications for business (ESRC area Innovations in Health & Social Care)

The COMMUNICATIONS AGENDA will guarantee that our research directly informs policy and practice, resulting in effective interventions for children with language delay and ensuring that early years education is rooted in the latest findings from neuro- and cognitive science (ESRC areas Innovations in Health & Social Care, Educational Neuroscience)

BENEFICIARIES & BENEFITS
CHILDREN, PARENTS & 3RD SECTOR GROUPS that support them (e.g. Mumsnet). The quality of the home environment is central to all aspects of child development. However, parents report that they do not know how to help their children develop language or how to check that their child is not falling behind. Our ENVIRONMENT, KNOWLEDGE & DISCOVERING BABYTALK programmes, with our BABYTALK APP, will deliver the information and technologies that parents need to promote children's language growth

PRACTITIONERS IN EARLY YEARS EDUCATION (e.g. nursery providers). The UK government has extended free childcare places to 2-year-olds, recognising the critical importance of high quality early years education. Yet educators report that providing language-rich environments in busy early years settings is a challenge. Our ENVIRONMENT, KNOWLEDGE, VARIATION and LUCID FOR PROFESSIONALS programmes will help early years educators maximise the environment for language learning, and achieve the standards recommended by the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) statutory framework

PRACTITIONERS IN HEALTHCARE (e.g. health visitors, speech and language therapists). Increasingly large numbers of children with language delay are being referred to healthcare providers, stretching services to the limit. Monitoring the language of these children, assessing their difficulties, and designing interventions are time-consuming and expensive tasks. Our BABYTALK APP & LANGUAGE RESEARCHER'S TOOLKIT will provide new technologies for these groups to monitor, assess and promote children's language development. Our KNOWLEDGE, COMMUNICATION, VARIATION and LUCID FOR PROFESSIONALS programmes will provide evidence-based advice about typical development, and how the process can go wrong in children with language delay

POLICY-MAKERS & COMMISSIONERS tasked with improving the life-chances of UK children (e.g. Dept for Education, Dept of Health, Early Intervention Foundation). We have long known that vocabulary at age 5 is a strong predictor of whether children are able to escape poverty in later adult life. Yet 5-year-olds from the poorest families are still 19 months behind their more affluent peers. Our LANGUAGE 0-5 PROJECT, ENVIRONMENT & VARIATION programmes, and POLICY IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY will provide information about the causes of poor language growth, the importance of early intervention, and how to choose the best evidence-based practice

BUSINESSES that use speech-analysis software or publish assessment and educational materials. New technologies offer opportunities to transform research, assessment and learning in health and education. Yet to be effective, such technologies must be easy to use and based on a robust evidence-base. This requires close collaboration between developers and researchers at all stages of development. Our integrated teams of language and computer scientists will produce technologies that have the potential to change the way that we monitor, assess and promote children's language

Funded Value:

£7,570,698

Funded Period:

Aug 14 - May 20

Funder:

ESRC

Project Status:

Closed

Project Category:

Research Grant

Project Reference:

ES/L008955/1

Principal Investigator:

Elena Lieven

Research Subject:

Education

Linguistics

Psychology

Research Topic:

Cognitive Psychology

Developmental psychology

Psycholinguistics

Psychology of Education

Organisations

People	ORCID iD
Elena Lieven (Principal Investigator)
Bob McMurray (Co-Investigator)
Jeffrey Elman (Co-Investigator)
Gert Westermann (Co-Investigator)
Morten H Christiansen (Co-Investigator)
Thea Cameron-Faulkner (Co-Investigator)
Fernand Gobet (Co-Investigator)
Ludovica Serratrice (Co-Investigator)	http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5141-6186
Sabine Stoll (Co-Investigator)
Meredith Rowe (Co-Investigator)	http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0076-4161
Padraic Monaghan (Co-Investigator)
Michael Tomasello (Co-Investigator)	http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1649-088X
Ben Ambridge (Co-Investigator)
Silke Brandt (Co-Investigator)
Anna Theakston (Co-Investigator)
Eugenio Parise (Co-Investigator)
Caroline Frances Rowland (Co-Investigator)
Colin James Bannard (Co-Investigator)
Grzegorz Krajewski (Co-Investigator)
Franklin Chang (Co-Investigator)
Evan James Kidd (Co-Investigator)
Floriana Grasso (Co-Investigator)
Julian Mark Pine (Co-Investigator)
Arielle Borovsky (Co-Investigator)
Vincent Michael Reid (Co-Investigator)	http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2774-6975
Katherine Alcock (Co-Investigator)
Daniel Freudenthal (Researcher)	http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3915-9484

Publications

Author Name

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Abbot-Smith K (2017) Do two and three year old children use an incremental first-NP-as-agent bias to process active transitive and passive sentences?: A permutation analysis. in PloS one

Aguado-Orea J (2015) Comparing different models of the development of verb inflection in early child Spanish. in PloS one

Aguado-Orea J (2016) Statistics and semantics in the acquisition of Spanish word order: Testing two accounts of the retreat from locative overgeneralization errors in Linguistics Vanguard

Alcock KJ (2020) Regional representation of toddler vocabulary in the UK - CDI construction using recognition and recall memory by parents

Alcock KJ (2017) Production Is Only Half the Story - First Words in Two East African Languages. in Frontiers in psychology

Alcock KJ (2020) The UK-CDI Words and Gestures and Words and Sentences

Ambridge B (2020) Current Perspectives on Child Language Acquisition - How children use their environment to learn

Ambridge B (2020) The crosslinguistic acquisition of sentence structure: Computational modeling and grammaticality judgments from adult and child speakers of English, Japanese, Hindi, Hebrew and K'iche'. in Cognition

Ambridge B (2017) Handbook of Categorization in Cognitive Science

Ambridge B (2019) Against stored abstractions: A radical exemplar model of language acquisition in First Language

Key Findings
Impact Summary
Policy Influence
Further Funding
Research Databases and Models
Research Tools and Methods
Collaboration
Spin Outs
Engagement Activities


Description	Our research on the FOUNDATIONS OF COMMUNICATION AND LANGUAGE IN INFANCY has shown that: (1) harnessing babies' curiosity about their world can enhance their learning; (2) short, frequent words in the sentences that babies hear, help them find the separate words and simultaneously learn about grammatical categories like 'noun' and 'verb'; (3) children's language learning is benefited by multiple variable (rather than perfectly reliable) cues to language structure; and (4) even before they start to point, babies use objects to share attention with their caregivers though these communications can be overlooked by caregivers. In EARLY LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT, we have shown that: (1) both children's early communicative gestures and their ability to learn patterns from what they hear predict the speed of word learning (2) that the speed with which children process sentences is related to their subsequent syntactic development (3) the errors children make (e.g., saying he go instead of he goes) can be explained by how they pick up particular strings of words from the input, and this process can also account for some of the errors made by children with Developmental Language Disorder; (4) in children learning Polish, Finnish, and Estonian, which have many more endings (inflections) than English (e.g. boy boys; play played), frequency and the similarity between groups of words is important for explaining the path of learning in all three languages. However, specific aspects of the individual languages also affect learning. We have successfully modelled these differences using the same computer programme which gradually learned from actual instances of child directed speech, showing errors similar those made by real children; (5) in children learning English as an additional language, their word learning is related to how much they hear but also to how variable the words and sentences are in their input. Our work on the MORE COMPLEX LANGUAGE which children need as they move into school, has compared the effect of (i) the order of events in a sentence and its mapping to the order in which things happen in the real world (e.g. After you wash your hands, get your dinner vs. Get your dinner after your wash your hands) and (ii) providing background context for the events (e.g. Now it's dinner time), on children's understanding of these complex sentences. We have shown that children do better when the order of events in the sentence is the same as that in the real world but providing them with background context is even more important and can override their reliance on the order in which events happen. Many of our studies use THE MULTI-METHOD APPROACH that is one of LuCiD's key contributions: e.g. detailed analysis of what children hear combined with either computer modelling or experiments; eye-tracking combined with behavioural responses; experimental methods informed by naturalistic corpora. We are contributing to resolving the problem that many studies cannot be replicated, by, wherever possible, pre-registering our studies within the Open Science framework.
Exploitation Route	Understanding the basis for language learning in infancy is an important aim, theoretically and for practical, applied reasons. LuCiD's research on babies' early understanding of the world, ability to integrate cues to language structure, and communicative skills, are crucial building blocks for developing theory and possible interventions, as is our contribution to addressing the replication crisis and the Many Babies project. Our focus on languages other than English is central to developing theories which encompass how children learn differently structured languages. The transition from oral language to school literacy is crucial for children's educational achievement. Our research on the learning of complex language is important for the development of reading and writing skills. Our work establishing how differences in the early vocabulary learning of children learning English as a second language relates to their later English abilities will have application for preschool settings. To complement our multi-method approach, our use of cutting-edge statistical approaches is important for developing more sophisticated data analytic approaches in language acquisition research as is our alignment of corpus analyses of child-directed speech with a corpus analysis toolbox developed by CASS (the ERSC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science).
Sectors	Education,Healthcare,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections
URL	http://www.lucid.ac.uk/resources/for-researchers/outputs-database/


Description	LuCiD's work directly informs public policy. Amongst many pieces of work undertaken, we have co-authored a report for Public Health England on needs provision for preschool children from disadvantaged backgrounds; we have contributed to work done for the Department of Work and Pensions' life chances strategy enquiry, and the Centre is currently undertaking work commissioned by the Department for Education to support "opportunity areas" in accessing and evaluating evidence for their approaches to early years speech, language and communication. We have worked with the Institute for Health Visiting on a national project to improve the language and communicative development training of health visitors in the UK as part of a Public Health England initiative. This has the potential to change practice nationally. We are also advising the Department for Education on their 'Hungry Little Minds' campaign to improve social mobility through education; and are the lead scientific advisors for the BBC's 'Tiny, Happy People' initiative: a 10-year campaign to promote language and communication during the preschool years and thereby reduce the number of children arriving at school without the language and communication skills necessary to succeed in the classroom. We have worked with the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists and Pearson Clinical Assessment to deliver training workshops, webinars and articles on the relationship between research findings and evidence-based practice. We also have close links with other non-government organisations concerned with early life chances and communicative development. We have delivered keynote lectures and workshops to conferences of early years practitioners (e.g. National Literacy Trust's 'Talk to Your Baby', Nursery World Show, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Speech and Language Professional Forum, Stockport Early Years Improvement Team conference) as well as writing a series of articles on language and communicative development for Nursery World and Nursing in Practice. We have written evidence briefings on a range of key topics identified by our impact champions, to help summarise current language research in a clear and accessible way for parents, practitioners and policy makers. We have also written up Case Studies about our work supporting non-academic partners with evaluating language interventions to exemplify good practice and highlight any pitfalls we found along the way. These have all been shared widely via our newsletter, social media and through our impact partners. We have engaged the public and raised the awareness of child language development via major local public engagement events (e.g., Manchester Museum, Whitworth Art Gallery, Walker Art Gallery, Manchester Central Library, ESRC Festival of Social Science, British Association for Science, Psychology Section). We have also hosted School visits and Sixth form internships through the Nuffield programme as well as contributing articles to The Conversation. Our KE uplift grant from the ESRC to develop our mother and baby English language programme (ESOL Stepping Stones) has been rolled out nationally. This was shortlisted for a British Council ELTon award and has now been set up as a social enterprise so it can continue sustainably beyond the grant life cycle.
First Year Of Impact	2015
Sector	Education,Healthcare,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections
Impact Types	Cultural,Societal,Policy & public services


Description	Advising Opportunity Areas - DfE/ TCT - LuCiD Lancaster
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
Impact	Working in collaboration with The Communication Trust on a DfE initiative to support government-identified, social opportunity areas in meeting children's speech, language and communication needs (SLCN). Our role has been to provide bespoke, expert support to these areas to enable them i) to access evidence to inform, and ii) to evaluate, their own service provision. Following the support, practitioners in these opportunity areas have taken different steps to improve their practice around SLCN, including: • Created tools for staff to access SLCN resource and information file, created a 'communication is key' board for parents, and are planning a resource linked to the wellcomm assessment • Used resources and information to help with actions taken to help strategies • Use of suggested tools for 2, 3, 4 and 5 year olds to identify and support children at universal and targeted levels. 2. Discussion about best stakeholders to target to use tools in our pilot project 3. Reading 4. Contacted Plymouth University researchers re: use of UKBTAT 5. Further advice from directors at LuCID for our pilot project for short period beyond scope of TCT/DfE funding. 6. Contacted local Health Visitors and Children's Centre manager colleagues to discuss trialling the tools in a small ward in Derby. 7. Use research and advice in write up of pilot in evaluation report at end of the pilot project.


Description	Advisor for The Communication Trust's 'Early Voices' health visitor training programme (Theakston)
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact	Prof Theakston advised on the Public Health England 'Early Voices' project - a new national training programme for Health Visitors to help them better understand and support language development. Theakston helped to develop the materials and ensure they were evidence based. So far 1000 UK Health Visitors have been trained under the new programme.
URL	https://www.thecommunicationtrust.org.uk/resources/resources/resources-for-practitioners/early-voice...


Description	Advisor to National Institute for Health Visiting (Theakston)
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
Impact	Participated in two writing workshops to develop the content for national 'Language & Communicative Development' Health Visitor training (commissioned by Public Health England, initial roll out to 1000 health visitors across UK). The initial roll out is underway but ultimately this could improve the language and communicative development training of all health visitors in England.


Description	Advisor, Department for Education Home Learning Environment Campaign and member Early Years Stakeholder Forum (Theakston)
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Membership of a guideline committee
Impact	Attended stakeholder workshops and provided written feedback on aspects of the DfE Hungry Little Minds campaign messaging & content. National campaign to improve language in the early years, and ultimately improve life outcomes.
URL	https://hungrylittleminds.campaign.gov.uk/


Description	BBC Education Strategy Advisory Board - Pine
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
URL	http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-35476433


Description	Bercow 10 Years On Advisory Board - Theakston
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact	One year after the publication of Bercow: Ten Years On, 17 of the 47 recommendations have been achieved so far. These can be found here: https://www.bercow10yearson.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Bercow_1st_Anniversary_Key-successes.pdf.
URL	https://www.bercow10yearson.com/


Description	Bercow: Ten Years On Report
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
URL	https://www.bercow10yearson.com/


Description	Consultation response: Child Poverty and Health - the Impact of the Welfare Reform and Work Bill 2015-2016
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review


Description	ESOL in the North West - Manchester City Council
Geographic Reach	Local/Municipal/Regional
Policy Influence Type	Citation in other policy documents
Impact	Our ESOL Stepping Stones programme is listed in the 2018 ESOL in the North West Manchester City Council report as an example of Innovative Practice that helps to overcome the main barrier to accessing ESOL (childcare). This document is shared with the North West Regional Strategic Migration Partnership and a number of ESOL leads across the north west. Following publication of the report we have seen an increase in people accesses the Stepping Stones materials.
URL	http://steppingstonescic.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/North-West-ESOL-End-of-Year-Report-2017-2018-1-00...


Description	Early Language Development: Needs, provision, and intervention for preschool children from socioeconomically disadvantage backgrounds: Co-authored report commissioned by Public Health England and EEF- Theakston
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
URL	https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/public/files/Law_et_al_Early_Language_Development_final....


Description	Evaluation of research programme for the University of Cologne - Lieven
Geographic Reach	Europe
Policy Influence Type	Membership of a guideline committee
Impact	N/A


Description	Evening classes on language acquisition for Sefton Council - Bidgood
Geographic Reach	Local/Municipal/Regional
Policy Influence Type	Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
Impact	This 5 week evening course was delivered at the request of Sefton local authority to 17 early years practitioners. No formal feedback was collected but informal feedback suggests that the course may have changed some of the attendees practice. One trainee, in an email to the trainer, reported "It has made to really think. I have never considered writing down the words/sentences a child says, to see if there is a pattern in it. This may then help with a referral". Furthermore, some of the practitioners recommended the course to colleagues and two attendees on a future course (saturday school) said they attended as a result of this recommendation.


Description	Evening course on language acquisition - Bidgood
Geographic Reach	Local/Municipal/Regional
Policy Influence Type	Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
Impact	This course 'How do children learn language' was delivered to a range of participants (Early years practitioners, parents, grandparents etc.). Feedback was collected from 13 of the attendees with those working in early years stating that they would incorporate the learning in their practice: "I feel I can incorporate many elements of this course into my role as I work with children 0-5 with SLN needs".


Description	Gave evidence to the Early Intervention Foundations for Life report
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact	This new report has assessed programmes available to UK commissioners, rather than considering programmes from around the world. This is the first time that EIF have used their own robust methods for rating the evidence and costs of early intervention programmes. The programmes included in this assessment were identified through systematic methods as part of the Best Start at Home review published in 2015. This included a range of programmes that supported the non-physical development of children between conception and age five through direct engagement with the parent. In Foundations for Life the evidence for the programmes was reviewed and rated by EIF and external experts, as well as being scrutinised by the EIF Evidence Panel of leading academics in the field of early intervention.
URL	http://www.lucid.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/eif-report-foundations-for-life-what-works-to-support-pa...


Description	Input about verb-marking errors in children with DLD - Charleen List
Geographic Reach	Local/Municipal/Regional
Policy Influence Type	Influenced training of practitioners or researchers


Description	Input into Department for Education early years assessment methods Alcock
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee


Description	Input into Early Years Training at Beanstalk
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
Impact	The charity reported that they had: 1. Fedback our advice to colleagues on most effective 'targets' for any Beanstalk programme development around supporting 'other adults' to provide support to children (i.e. child minders and librarians rather than parents). 2. Used the 'techniques to promote language development' material we prepared to a) tweak the structure of our Day 2 training session 'reading fluency' and b) as the basis of the session handouts, Our support will be acknowledged support via the LuCiD logo and referencing in documents. 3. To use the same material as the basis of designing their advanced 'working with early years children' online training module, taking an approach similar to that of Future Learn. 5. To use the 'scales' materials we recommended as the basis of developing an assessment of the efficacy of approach 'tool' which can be used as part of our wider training & support i.e. assess filmed and/or directly observed practice.
URL	https://www.beanstalkcharity.org.uk/blog/our-innovative-approach-to-transforming-early-years-educati...


Description	Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Speech and Language Professional Forum
Geographic Reach	Local/Municipal/Regional
Policy Influence Type	Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
Impact	Organised and delivered a series of workshops for the Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Speech and Language professional forum. This was attended by approx. 70 practitioners. Feedback from the Professional Lead, Speech and Language Therapy, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust: "First of all, many, many thanks for your presentations to our Forum last week. They were thoroughly enjoyed and I am still hearing staff talking about them and what the clinical implications of your studies could be. It is really valuable for a service like ours to have access to cutting edge research, both to add to our clinical evidence base and also to inspire and spark creativity, and the day has certainly achieved this".


Description	LuCiD workshop on use of ELAN, CLAN and LENA - Bidgood and co.
Geographic Reach	Local/Municipal/Regional
Policy Influence Type	Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
Impact	Trained LuCiD and affiliated researchers on the use of ELAN, CLAN and LENA as part of a workshop organised by the KE team. Approximately 30 people attended the workshop and feedback suggests they will implement learning in their future research. One attendee commented "Having attended this workshop I am confident I will now be able to use ELAN to code and analyse the videos I am working with. I will also be able to transcribe and run various commands using CLAN".


Description	Member of Advisory Board of ASLAN (ASLAN Laboratory of Excellence: Advanced Studies on LANguage Complexity), Lyon, France - Lieven
Geographic Reach	Europe
Policy Influence Type	Membership of a guideline committee
Impact	N/A


Description	Member of appointments committee - Lieven
Geographic Reach	Multiple continents/international
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact	N/A


Description	Member of the Speech Language and Communication Expert Advisory Group, Department for Education/Public Health England
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact	The Expert Advisory Group is creating a pathway for health visitors and associated early years professionals to signpost to parents and carers who have a concern about their child's language development.


Description	Methods for informally assessing children's language - SLT Workshop
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
Impact	This workshop introduced speech and language therapists (SLTs) to a range of research methods and resources that could be used to informally assess children's language. The workshop drew from research methodologies used routinely in child language research. Roughly 20 SLTs from across the UK attended the one-day workshop. Feedback from some of the attendees suggests they will implement some of the learning in their own practice: "All ideas for assessment were valuable and I will try to implement as much as I can either myself or pass on to colleagues". "I will use some of the assessments from the LUCID website, and I will consider whether children make statistically significant progress pre/post therapy."
URL	http://www.lucid.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/slt-workshop-methods-for-informally-assessing-children...


Description	Online course on language acquisition - Bidgood
Geographic Reach	Europe
Policy Influence Type	Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
Impact	10 people from a range of backgrounds took this online course in language acquisition. No formal feedback has been received yet.


Description	Peer review (Theakston)
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
Impact	Provided detailed feedback to Professor James Law, Newcastle University on first draft of language screening measure for health visitors commissioned by Public Health England (project site https://research.ncl.ac.uk/slcn/)
URL	https://research.ncl.ac.uk/slcn/


Description	Policy consultation with DfE - Alcock
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Membership of a guideline committee
Impact	Discussing and advising on improved spoken language section of the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile.


Description	Policy consultation with Public Health England
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Membership of a guideline committee
Impact	Discussing and advising on Early Language pathway in collaboration with the Department for Education


Description	Regional course in the Audiologopedic Association: "Language and social cognition in typical development and autism" - Boeg Thomsen
Geographic Reach	Local/Municipal/Regional
Policy Influence Type	Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
Impact	70 professional practitioners (speech-language therapists and regional child psychologists) attended a six-hour course on kindergarteners' and young schoolchildren's linguistic and sociocognitive development. The course included introduction to materials for evaluation and intervention and discussions of their practical implementation in the practitioners' everyday contexts. With both oral and email feedback, the participants said that the course had been "super inspiring" and "super instructive" and showed great interest in employing the presented materials. One group of speech-hearing therapists were stimulated by the course to apply for funding for a 4-year intervention project for children with autism.


Description	Roundtable policy discussion around Developmental Language Disorder organised by Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists (Theakston)
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review


Description	Saturday school on Language Acquisition - Bidgood
Geographic Reach	Local/Municipal/Regional
Policy Influence Type	Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
Impact	This one day Saturday School course on 'How do children learn language' took place at the University of Liverpool and was attended by a range of people included practitioners and parents. 7 of the attendees provided feedback with all agreeing the course increased their knowledge and understanding of language acquisition. One attendee reported that they would seek out more information following this taster course saying it had "given me lots of advice, especially on where to research further".


Description	Save the Children - Pine
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee


Description	Training course for A-Level English Language teachers - Bidgood
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
Impact	Training course for A-Level English Teachers on modern approaches to language acquisition research and the Language 0-5 Project. 28 teachers from all over the UK attended. The course will have had an impact on their teaching, so hundreds of students will potentially have been influenced, along with the teachers who attended on the day.


Description	Working with bilingual children training - Kolak
Geographic Reach	Europe
Policy Influence Type	Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
Impact	Joanna Kolak led two workshops for parents and practitioners working with bilingual children ("Benefits and challenges - how to support bilingual child's development?") during a conference "Bilingual child - a problem or a treasure?" in Rome, November 2016. The workshop consisted of three parts: 1) how to increase bilingual child's motivation to speak both languages, 2) how to develop effective language strategy, 3) how to distentangle facts from myths. Attendees commented that they would apply their learning to their work with bilingual children.


Description	ANU Collaborator Visit - Chang
Amount	£1,000 (GBP)
Organisation	Australian National University (ANU)
Sector	Academic/University
Country	Australia
Start	12/2016
End	12/2016


Description	Additional/match funding for ESRC Festival of Social Science 2018 grant - Bidgood
Amount	£500 (GBP)
Organisation	University of Liverpool
Sector	Academic/University
Country	United Kingdom
Start	11/2017
End	11/2017


Description	BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant - Westermann
Amount	£9,554 (GBP)
Organisation	The British Academy
Sector	Academic/University
Country	United Kingdom
Start	08/2015
End	09/2017


Description	ECR Travel Bursary - A Bidgood
Amount	£70 (GBP)
Organisation	Economic and Social Research Council
Department	ESRC Seminar Series
Sector	Academic/University
Country	United Kingdom
Start	01/2015
End	01/2015


Description	ECR travel bursary - A Bidgood
Amount	£99 (GBP)
Organisation	Economic and Social Research Council
Department	ESRC Seminar Series
Sector	Academic/University
Country	United Kingdom
Start	08/2015
End	09/2015


Description	ECR travel bursary - A Bidgood
Amount	£102 (GBP)
Organisation	Economic and Social Research Council
Department	ESRC Seminar Series
Sector	Academic/University
Country	United Kingdom
Start	04/2015
End	05/2015


Description	EEF Tenders
Amount	£3,756 (GBP)
Organisation	Education Endowment Foundation
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
Country	United Kingdom
Start	07/2016
End	12/2016


Description	EPS Grindley Grant - Trotter
Amount	£500 (GBP)
Organisation	Experimental Psychology Society (EPS)
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
Country	United Kingdom
Start	07/2016
End	09/2016


Description	ERC Advanced Grants - Fernand Gobet
Amount	£1,800,000 (GBP)
Funding ID	835002 GEMS
Organisation	European Research Council (ERC)
Sector	Public
Country	Belgium
Start	11/2019
End	10/2024


Description	ERC Consolidator Grant - Ambridge
Amount	€ 1,980,820 (EUR)
Organisation	European Research Council (ERC)
Sector	Public
Country	Belgium
Start	08/2016
End	08/2020


Description	ESRC Festival 2018 funding
Amount	£1,000 (GBP)
Organisation	University of Manchester
Sector	Academic/University
Country	United Kingdom
Start	07/2018
End	11/2018


Description	ESRC Festival Sponsorship 2016
Amount	£965 (GBP)
Organisation	Economic and Social Research Council
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	07/2016
End	12/2016


Description	ESRC Festival of Social Science - sponsorship 2015
Amount	£1,500 (GBP)
Organisation	Economic and Social Research Council
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	07/2015
End	12/2015


Description	ESRC Festival of Social Science 2018 - Bidgood
Amount	£1,000 (GBP)
Organisation	Economic and Social Research Council
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	11/2017
End	11/2017


Description	ESRC Future Research Leaders fellowship - Twomey
Amount	£180,000 (GBP)
Funding ID	ES/N01703X/1
Organisation	Economic and Social Research Council
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	08/2016
End	11/2018


Description	ESRC PhD Studentship
Amount	£76,148 (GBP)
Funding ID	7995306
Organisation	Economic and Social Research Council
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	09/2018
End	09/2022


Description	ESRC research grants open call - C Rowland
Amount	£1,435,782 (GBP)
Organisation	Economic and Social Research Council
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	03/2015
End	03/2018


Description	Early Career Small Grants Scheme (Gemma Taylor)
Amount	£4,414 (GBP)
Organisation	Lancaster University
Sector	Academic/University
Country	United Kingdom
Start	05/2015
End	03/2016


Description	Faculty research grant - Brandt
Amount	£2,500 (GBP)
Organisation	Lancaster University
Sector	Academic/University
Country	United Kingdom
Start	12/2017
End	12/2018


Description	Funding for Chang and Jessop to do collaborative research in Japan for a month in summer 2015. Travel, housing, and talk honorarium was provided
Amount	£2,000 (GBP)
Organisation	Kyoto Institute of Technology
Sector	Academic/University
Country	Japan
Start	06/2015
End	08/2015


Description	Global Challenges Research Fund Seed Corn
Amount	£4,788 (GBP)
Organisation	Lancaster University
Sector	Academic/University
Country	United Kingdom
Start	01/2019
End	03/2019


Description	Grindley Grant for Conference Attendance - Frost
Amount	£500 (GBP)
Organisation	Experimental Psychology Society (EPS)
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
Country	United Kingdom
Start	01/2016
End	01/2016


Description	Grindley Grant for Conference Attendance - Frost
Amount	£500 (GBP)
Organisation	Experimental Psychology Society (EPS)
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
Country	United Kingdom
Start	01/2016
End	01/2016


Description	ISDP Travel Award (Gemma Taylor)
Amount	$300 (USD)
Organisation	International Society for Developmental Psychobiology
Sector	Learned Society
Country	United States
Start	06/2015
End	09/2015


Description	ISDP Travel Award - Taylor
Amount	$300 (USD)
Organisation	International Society for Developmental Psychobiology
Sector	Learned Society
Country	United States
Start	06/2015
End	07/2015


Description	JSPS Invitation Fellowship for Research in Japan - Chang
Amount	£7,614 (GBP)
Organisation	Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
Sector	Public
Country	Japan
Start	08/2016
End	12/2016


Description	Lancaster University Marie Sklowdowska Curie Travel Bursary - Alcock
Amount	£1,000 (GBP)
Organisation	Lancaster University
Sector	Academic/University
Country	United Kingdom
Start	06/2017
End	07/2017


Description	Language Learning Earlier Career Researcher Grant
Amount	$9,998 (USD)
Organisation	Association for Language Learning
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
Country	United Kingdom
Start	04/2017
End	06/2018


Description	Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarship Programme on Interdisciplinary Research on Infant Development
Amount	£1,050,000 (GBP)
Organisation	The Leverhulme Trust
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
Country	United Kingdom
Start	08/2015
End	08/2020


Description	Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship - Dunn
Amount	£89,000 (GBP)
Organisation	The Leverhulme Trust
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
Country	United Kingdom
Start	01/2018
End	12/2020


Description	LuCiD Internship Scheme - Durrant, Rowland
Amount	£1,200 (GBP)
Organisation	University of Liverpool
Sector	Academic/University
Country	United Kingdom
Start	05/2016
End	07/2016


Description	M. Nakayama
Amount	£4,414 (GBP)
Organisation	Lancaster University
Sector	Academic/University
Country	United Kingdom
Start	05/2015
End	03/2016


Description	Many Babies- Theakston/ Ferry
Amount	£1,465 (GBP)
Organisation	Association for Psychological Science
Sector	Learned Society
Country	United States
Start	03/2017
End	08/2017


Description	New Investigator Award - Taylor PI, Monaghan Co-I
Amount	£293,048 (GBP)
Funding ID	ES/R004129/1
Organisation	Economic and Social Research Council
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	04/2018
End	04/2021


Description	PPL Dream Fund
Amount	£1,000,000 (GBP)
Organisation	People's Postcode Lottery
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
Country	United Kingdom
Start	03/2017
End	03/2019


Description	Paula Menyuk Travel Award - Bidgood
Amount	$300 (USD)
Organisation	Boston University
Sector	Academic/University
Country	United States
Start	11/2015
End	11/2015


Description	Project Grant
Amount	R550,000 (ZAR)
Organisation	South African Centre for Digital Language Resources.
Sector	Academic/University
Country	South Africa
Start	06/2018
End	07/2020


Description	Senior Research Fellowship
Amount	£43,000 (GBP)
Funding ID	SF150163
Organisation	The British Academy
Department	British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowships
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
Country	United Kingdom
Start	08/2016
End	08/2017


Description	Travel Award from Lancaster University - Kliesch
Amount	£250 (GBP)
Organisation	Lancaster University
Sector	Academic/University
Country	United Kingdom
Start	01/2018
End	01/2018


Description	Visit to Professor Kumiko Tanaka at Tokyo University - Chang
Amount	£200 (GBP)
Organisation	University of Tokyo
Sector	Academic/University
Country	Japan
Start	12/2016
End	12/2016


Title	Curiosity model
Description	Neurocomputational model of infant curiosity-based learning
Type Of Material	Model of mechanisms or symptoms - human
Year Produced	2018
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	Several requests for re-use of code (granted), discussion of future collaborations, in particular in developmental robotics with Prof. Angelo Cangelosi at University of Manchester.
URL	https://osf.io/ezwx6/


Title	LuCiD Toolkit
Description	We have developed a series of open access tools that make CHILDES analyses easier to do.There is a Browser program, which allows you to select corpora with particular characteristics (e.g., Cantonese children with a min age of 24 months). It also allows you to sort corpora by size, average length of utterance, age, and percentage of utterances by parent/child. Also, when you click on a particular row, the information about that corpus is provided below the table.There is a Childes2csv program, which allows you to download entire corpora as csv files. You can download the Manchester Corpus or Eng-UK as a single file. You can also change whether each row is a word or an utterance. There is a FilterCombine program, which allows you to do simple analyses without having to download files. There is an Ngrams program, which allows you to download different ngrams for different corpora.
Type Of Material	Data analysis technique
Year Produced	2017
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	In the two months that it has been active at the talkbank website, there have been 383 page views from a range of countries (see summary below). The figures show that the browser, childes2csv, and disclassify are the most popular pages so far. This work has led to an idea about how to quantify the amount of input that children experience in a range of languages and I am working towards a publication related to this idea.
URL	http://gandalf.talkbank.org:8080


Description	ASLAN, Lyon - Lieven
Organisation	University of Lyon
Department	ASLAN
Country	France
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Elena Lieven is an advisor to ASLAN, a multi-funded French research centre focusing on language development. She assesses the centre's work and advises on future direction.
Collaborator Contribution	ASLAN shares its research progress and plans with Elena Lieven.
Impact	Reports to French grant authorities
Start Year	2015


Description	Baby Sign Study - Bidgood
Organisation	University of York
Department	Department of Chemistry
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Language 0-5 data already collected will be used to study the impact of baby sign on maternal responsiveness. Bidgood supervised the data coding (completed by an hourly paid RA) and will coordinate reliability coding, as well as conducting initial analyses and writing up the paper.
Collaborator Contribution	Kirk (York) provided input into questionnaire design and research questions, as well as providing funding to pay the RA. She will advise on analysis and paper write-up.
Impact	None yet.
Start Year	2016


Description	COEDL
Organisation	Australian National University (ANU)
Country	Australia
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Expertise on cross cultural research on children's communication.
Collaborator Contribution	Input on typological differences between languages and expertise on language processing.
Impact	on going
Start Year	2014


Description	Hebrew and English Early Vocabulary - Alcock
Organisation	Tel Aviv University
Country	Israel
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Mentored through fellowship applications. Analysed UK data to compare to Israel data
Collaborator Contribution	Contributed Israeli CDI gesture data
Impact	Israeli CDI draft
Start Year	2017


Description	Many Babies
Organisation	Duke University
Country	United States
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	The Many Babies project is a global study involving over 60 worldwide laboratories which aims to address the replicability crisis in child research. The project sees labs around the world conduct the same experiments. Data is then collated and compared to examine the effect different lab methods can have on results. The LuCiD child labs at the Universities of Manchester, Liverpool and Lancaster are all taking part in this project and have conducted studies on adult-directed vs infant-directed speech. The University of Liverpool has also taken part in a study looking at gaze following in monolingual and bilingual children.
Collaborator Contribution	The partners listed are those on the original briefing paper. They conceived the idea for the project. Their labs, along with many others will also be running the studies. They will also be responsible for collating and comparing the data.
Impact	The main outputs will come after the data have been analysed (ongoing). However, the studies run in the LuCiD labs have proved very popular and helped with recruitment of babies to other studies.
Start Year	2017


Description	Many Babies
Organisation	Harvard University
Country	United States
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	The Many Babies project is a global study involving over 60 worldwide laboratories which aims to address the replicability crisis in child research. The project sees labs around the world conduct the same experiments. Data is then collated and compared to examine the effect different lab methods can have on results. The LuCiD child labs at the Universities of Manchester, Liverpool and Lancaster are all taking part in this project and have conducted studies on adult-directed vs infant-directed speech. The University of Liverpool has also taken part in a study looking at gaze following in monolingual and bilingual children.
Collaborator Contribution	The partners listed are those on the original briefing paper. They conceived the idea for the project. Their labs, along with many others will also be running the studies. They will also be responsible for collating and comparing the data.
Impact	The main outputs will come after the data have been analysed (ongoing). However, the studies run in the LuCiD labs have proved very popular and helped with recruitment of babies to other studies.
Start Year	2017


Description	Many Babies
Organisation	Leiden University
Country	Netherlands
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	The Many Babies project is a global study involving over 60 worldwide laboratories which aims to address the replicability crisis in child research. The project sees labs around the world conduct the same experiments. Data is then collated and compared to examine the effect different lab methods can have on results. The LuCiD child labs at the Universities of Manchester, Liverpool and Lancaster are all taking part in this project and have conducted studies on adult-directed vs infant-directed speech. The University of Liverpool has also taken part in a study looking at gaze following in monolingual and bilingual children.
Collaborator Contribution	The partners listed are those on the original briefing paper. They conceived the idea for the project. Their labs, along with many others will also be running the studies. They will also be responsible for collating and comparing the data.
Impact	The main outputs will come after the data have been analysed (ongoing). However, the studies run in the LuCiD labs have proved very popular and helped with recruitment of babies to other studies.
Start Year	2017


Description	Many Babies
Organisation	Northwestern University
Country	United States
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	The Many Babies project is a global study involving over 60 worldwide laboratories which aims to address the replicability crisis in child research. The project sees labs around the world conduct the same experiments. Data is then collated and compared to examine the effect different lab methods can have on results. The LuCiD child labs at the Universities of Manchester, Liverpool and Lancaster are all taking part in this project and have conducted studies on adult-directed vs infant-directed speech. The University of Liverpool has also taken part in a study looking at gaze following in monolingual and bilingual children.
Collaborator Contribution	The partners listed are those on the original briefing paper. They conceived the idea for the project. Their labs, along with many others will also be running the studies. They will also be responsible for collating and comparing the data.
Impact	The main outputs will come after the data have been analysed (ongoing). However, the studies run in the LuCiD labs have proved very popular and helped with recruitment of babies to other studies.
Start Year	2017


Description	Many Babies
Organisation	Skidmore College
Country	United States
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	The Many Babies project is a global study involving over 60 worldwide laboratories which aims to address the replicability crisis in child research. The project sees labs around the world conduct the same experiments. Data is then collated and compared to examine the effect different lab methods can have on results. The LuCiD child labs at the Universities of Manchester, Liverpool and Lancaster are all taking part in this project and have conducted studies on adult-directed vs infant-directed speech. The University of Liverpool has also taken part in a study looking at gaze following in monolingual and bilingual children.
Collaborator Contribution	The partners listed are those on the original briefing paper. They conceived the idea for the project. Their labs, along with many others will also be running the studies. They will also be responsible for collating and comparing the data.
Impact	The main outputs will come after the data have been analysed (ongoing). However, the studies run in the LuCiD labs have proved very popular and helped with recruitment of babies to other studies.
Start Year	2017


Description	Many Babies
Organisation	Stanford University
Country	United States
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	The Many Babies project is a global study involving over 60 worldwide laboratories which aims to address the replicability crisis in child research. The project sees labs around the world conduct the same experiments. Data is then collated and compared to examine the effect different lab methods can have on results. The LuCiD child labs at the Universities of Manchester, Liverpool and Lancaster are all taking part in this project and have conducted studies on adult-directed vs infant-directed speech. The University of Liverpool has also taken part in a study looking at gaze following in monolingual and bilingual children.
Collaborator Contribution	The partners listed are those on the original briefing paper. They conceived the idea for the project. Their labs, along with many others will also be running the studies. They will also be responsible for collating and comparing the data.
Impact	The main outputs will come after the data have been analysed (ongoing). However, the studies run in the LuCiD labs have proved very popular and helped with recruitment of babies to other studies.
Start Year	2017


Description	Many Babies
Organisation	University of British Columbia
Country	Canada
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	The Many Babies project is a global study involving over 60 worldwide laboratories which aims to address the replicability crisis in child research. The project sees labs around the world conduct the same experiments. Data is then collated and compared to examine the effect different lab methods can have on results. The LuCiD child labs at the Universities of Manchester, Liverpool and Lancaster are all taking part in this project and have conducted studies on adult-directed vs infant-directed speech. The University of Liverpool has also taken part in a study looking at gaze following in monolingual and bilingual children.
Collaborator Contribution	The partners listed are those on the original briefing paper. They conceived the idea for the project. Their labs, along with many others will also be running the studies. They will also be responsible for collating and comparing the data.
Impact	The main outputs will come after the data have been analysed (ongoing). However, the studies run in the LuCiD labs have proved very popular and helped with recruitment of babies to other studies.
Start Year	2017


Description	Many Babies
Organisation	University of Chicago
Country	United States
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	The Many Babies project is a global study involving over 60 worldwide laboratories which aims to address the replicability crisis in child research. The project sees labs around the world conduct the same experiments. Data is then collated and compared to examine the effect different lab methods can have on results. The LuCiD child labs at the Universities of Manchester, Liverpool and Lancaster are all taking part in this project and have conducted studies on adult-directed vs infant-directed speech. The University of Liverpool has also taken part in a study looking at gaze following in monolingual and bilingual children.
Collaborator Contribution	The partners listed are those on the original briefing paper. They conceived the idea for the project. Their labs, along with many others will also be running the studies. They will also be responsible for collating and comparing the data.
Impact	The main outputs will come after the data have been analysed (ongoing). However, the studies run in the LuCiD labs have proved very popular and helped with recruitment of babies to other studies.
Start Year	2017


Description	Many Babies
Organisation	University of Edinburgh
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	The Many Babies project is a global study involving over 60 worldwide laboratories which aims to address the replicability crisis in child research. The project sees labs around the world conduct the same experiments. Data is then collated and compared to examine the effect different lab methods can have on results. The LuCiD child labs at the Universities of Manchester, Liverpool and Lancaster are all taking part in this project and have conducted studies on adult-directed vs infant-directed speech. The University of Liverpool has also taken part in a study looking at gaze following in monolingual and bilingual children.
Collaborator Contribution	The partners listed are those on the original briefing paper. They conceived the idea for the project. Their labs, along with many others will also be running the studies. They will also be responsible for collating and comparing the data.
Impact	The main outputs will come after the data have been analysed (ongoing). However, the studies run in the LuCiD labs have proved very popular and helped with recruitment of babies to other studies.
Start Year	2017


Description	Many Babies
Organisation	University of Manitoba
Country	Canada
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	The Many Babies project is a global study involving over 60 worldwide laboratories which aims to address the replicability crisis in child research. The project sees labs around the world conduct the same experiments. Data is then collated and compared to examine the effect different lab methods can have on results. The LuCiD child labs at the Universities of Manchester, Liverpool and Lancaster are all taking part in this project and have conducted studies on adult-directed vs infant-directed speech. The University of Liverpool has also taken part in a study looking at gaze following in monolingual and bilingual children.
Collaborator Contribution	The partners listed are those on the original briefing paper. They conceived the idea for the project. Their labs, along with many others will also be running the studies. They will also be responsible for collating and comparing the data.
Impact	The main outputs will come after the data have been analysed (ongoing). However, the studies run in the LuCiD labs have proved very popular and helped with recruitment of babies to other studies.
Start Year	2017


Description	Many Babies
Organisation	University of Nevada
Country	United States
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	The Many Babies project is a global study involving over 60 worldwide laboratories which aims to address the replicability crisis in child research. The project sees labs around the world conduct the same experiments. Data is then collated and compared to examine the effect different lab methods can have on results. The LuCiD child labs at the Universities of Manchester, Liverpool and Lancaster are all taking part in this project and have conducted studies on adult-directed vs infant-directed speech. The University of Liverpool has also taken part in a study looking at gaze following in monolingual and bilingual children.
Collaborator Contribution	The partners listed are those on the original briefing paper. They conceived the idea for the project. Their labs, along with many others will also be running the studies. They will also be responsible for collating and comparing the data.
Impact	The main outputs will come after the data have been analysed (ongoing). However, the studies run in the LuCiD labs have proved very popular and helped with recruitment of babies to other studies.
Start Year	2017


Description	Many Babies
Organisation	University of Paris - Descartes
Country	France
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	The Many Babies project is a global study involving over 60 worldwide laboratories which aims to address the replicability crisis in child research. The project sees labs around the world conduct the same experiments. Data is then collated and compared to examine the effect different lab methods can have on results. The LuCiD child labs at the Universities of Manchester, Liverpool and Lancaster are all taking part in this project and have conducted studies on adult-directed vs infant-directed speech. The University of Liverpool has also taken part in a study looking at gaze following in monolingual and bilingual children.
Collaborator Contribution	The partners listed are those on the original briefing paper. They conceived the idea for the project. Their labs, along with many others will also be running the studies. They will also be responsible for collating and comparing the data.
Impact	The main outputs will come after the data have been analysed (ongoing). However, the studies run in the LuCiD labs have proved very popular and helped with recruitment of babies to other studies.
Start Year	2017


Description	Many Babies
Organisation	University of Plymouth
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	The Many Babies project is a global study involving over 60 worldwide laboratories which aims to address the replicability crisis in child research. The project sees labs around the world conduct the same experiments. Data is then collated and compared to examine the effect different lab methods can have on results. The LuCiD child labs at the Universities of Manchester, Liverpool and Lancaster are all taking part in this project and have conducted studies on adult-directed vs infant-directed speech. The University of Liverpool has also taken part in a study looking at gaze following in monolingual and bilingual children.
Collaborator Contribution	The partners listed are those on the original briefing paper. They conceived the idea for the project. Their labs, along with many others will also be running the studies. They will also be responsible for collating and comparing the data.
Impact	The main outputs will come after the data have been analysed (ongoing). However, the studies run in the LuCiD labs have proved very popular and helped with recruitment of babies to other studies.
Start Year	2017


Description	Many Babies
Organisation	Virginia Tech
Country	United States
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	The Many Babies project is a global study involving over 60 worldwide laboratories which aims to address the replicability crisis in child research. The project sees labs around the world conduct the same experiments. Data is then collated and compared to examine the effect different lab methods can have on results. The LuCiD child labs at the Universities of Manchester, Liverpool and Lancaster are all taking part in this project and have conducted studies on adult-directed vs infant-directed speech. The University of Liverpool has also taken part in a study looking at gaze following in monolingual and bilingual children.
Collaborator Contribution	The partners listed are those on the original briefing paper. They conceived the idea for the project. Their labs, along with many others will also be running the studies. They will also be responsible for collating and comparing the data.
Impact	The main outputs will come after the data have been analysed (ongoing). However, the studies run in the LuCiD labs have proved very popular and helped with recruitment of babies to other studies.
Start Year	2017


Description	Many Babies
Organisation	École Normale Supérieure, Paris
Country	France
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	The Many Babies project is a global study involving over 60 worldwide laboratories which aims to address the replicability crisis in child research. The project sees labs around the world conduct the same experiments. Data is then collated and compared to examine the effect different lab methods can have on results. The LuCiD child labs at the Universities of Manchester, Liverpool and Lancaster are all taking part in this project and have conducted studies on adult-directed vs infant-directed speech. The University of Liverpool has also taken part in a study looking at gaze following in monolingual and bilingual children.
Collaborator Contribution	The partners listed are those on the original briefing paper. They conceived the idea for the project. Their labs, along with many others will also be running the studies. They will also be responsible for collating and comparing the data.
Impact	The main outputs will come after the data have been analysed (ongoing). However, the studies run in the LuCiD labs have proved very popular and helped with recruitment of babies to other studies.
Start Year	2017


Description	Research Collaboration with the Reader Organisation - Rowland
Organisation	The Reader Organisation, UK
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
PI Contribution	Evaluating their intervention through a RCT
Collaborator Contribution	Providing the intervention
Impact	None as yet
Start Year	2015


Company Name	Stepping Stones Community Learning CIC
Description	Stepping Stones Community Learning Community Interest Company is a social enterprise formed to continue the vital work of the 'ESOL Stepping Stones' KE Uplift project long-term and to hopefully develop new courses and materials. ESOL Stepping Stones is a complete twelve-week ESOL course for non-English speaking mothers and their babies. Our materials provide a ready-made course to allow a setting's staff and/or volunteers to deliver basic ESOL to families, new to English, straight from the box, for and embedded within, their community. Our programme delivers functional language skills, in combination with health and parenting information, and is designed as a structured 12 week mother and baby 'stay and play' group. Each 45 minute session focuses on one particular aspect of family daily life (e.g. health, housing, shopping) and consists of infant-centred activities and informal language instruction. he ESOL Stepping Stones project was designed to produce materials that would empower and enable community settings to deliver basic ESOL to mums with little or no English, along with their babies using existing staff and/or volunteers. The five key aims of the project were to: -Increase the English Language skills of low income non-English speaking mothers -Increase levels of confidence and assertiveness in the target group -Provide examples of language rich activities which will be of benefit to the child (e.g. book reading, storytelling, singing and rhyme) -Increase the uptake of key services by the target group due to improved linguistic skills and confidence -Add to the skill set and resources of community venues' staff by providing full training, materials and on-going support We sell our hardcopy packs for £150 or an online version is available for free, along with a free online eLearning module. Currently we are running the business on a voluntary basis but hope to employ someone part time from June 2020.
Year Established	2019
Impact	The ESOL Stepping Stones programme has seen downloads of over 150, hard copy sales of 60+ and eLearning views of over 800. The resources have been accessed across the UK and as far away as Chile! Feedback from practitioners implementing the programme in their settings has indicated that there is a real need for this programme and that we are meeting our key aims. One practitioner said: "In my opinion there is a great need for this course in the Bury area and it should be delivered on a rolling programme within the Children Centre. We have so many families who this weekly session would benefit them enormously. In my role as a Programme Support Worker we have so many families who access the Children Centre with varying ethnicities and cultures and know that limited or no English language can be a huge barrier to lots of families. I feel that many EAL families can be very isolated and this in turn can have an impact on their children's learning, development and limit social opportunities to enable interaction with peers. For the parents too social isolation can have a negative impact on their confidence and self-esteem, mental health and well-being. It was so lovely each week to see the mums come to the Children Centre be able to say their name and address to our Admin then come into the session, greet each other, and smile and say hello to myself and [other practitioner name]. The mums formed friendships with each other. They were all so eager to learn and happy to participate in group activities. Parents were keen to try out new words and phrases through repetition and positive reinforcement. The high attendance throughout the course I feel reflects the need for an ESOL course in the Bury East area. " Other feedback has shown that mums who have never previously engaged with public services were now doing so (e.g. by registering for a GP, accessing the library etc.), which will only help in making these isolated mums feel part of their community.
Website	http://steppingstonescic.org.uk/


Description	Multiword units predict non-inversion errors in children's wh-questions: "What corpus data can tell us?". McCauley
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Undergraduate students
Results and Impact	McCauley presented his research on 'Multiword units predict non-inversion errors in children's wh-questions: "What corpus data can tell us?"' at the Child Language Symposium 2019. The talk sparked discussion.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019


Description	Ostensive-Referential Communication Fosters the Interpretation of Pictures of Objects as Symbols of their own Kind in 9-Month-Old Infants. DUCOG - Parise
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Poster was presented at the DUCOG conference in Dubrovnik leading to further discussion and debate.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	#Education Learn Webinar 2016 - Hartley
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Dr Calum Hartley presented a webinar on the latest research on communication interventions for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) last week, as part of this year's #EducationLearn event organised by Pearson.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://www.lucid.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/webinar-communication-interventions-for-children-with-...


Description	#SLT Learn 2016 - Monaghan
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Prof Padraic Monaghan led a free online training session on how children learn words and how to best support the early stages of language acquisition as part of Pearson's #SLTLearn. ~70 SLTs attended the workshop and the recording and slides are free to download via the LuCiD and Pearson websites.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://www.lucid.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/free-webinar-how-children-learn-words-and-how-we-can-s...


Description	10th Interdisciplinary Conference on Developmental Language Disorders talk - List
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Findings presented at 10th Interdisciplinary Conference on Developmental Language Disorders. Talk sparked debate and lively discussion.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018


Description	8th International Society for Gesture Studies Conference - Bidgood
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Poster on 'Baby sign, mind-mindedness and language development' presented at the 8th International Society for Gesture Studies Conference, Cape Town, South Africa. Talk sparked questions and lively debate
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018


Description	A Formal Occasion - Nursery World Magazine article
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Dr Anna Theakston wrote this four page article in Nursery World Magazine on how language becomes more complicated for children when entering school, with tips on how to help this process. Nursery World Magazine has 14,000 print subscribers and 120,000 online users each month and so this article was seen by a large group of practitioners, raising awareness of child language and of LuCiD. Local practioners reported having read the article and found it very interesting. We have also seen an increase in visits to our website/ twitter following publication of the article.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://www.lucid.ac.uk/media/1455/article-3_theakston-240815.pdf


Description	A cross-linguistic investigation of 3 to 5-year-old children's ability to interpret transitive clauses with one case-marked argument. Kolak
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Kolak shared her research on "A cross-linguistic investigation of 3 to 5-year-old children's ability to interpret transitive clauses with one case-marked argument" at the Child Language Symposium 2019. The talk sparked questions and discussion.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019


Description	APPG Speech and Language Difficulties Nov 2016 - Serratrice
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Prof Serratrice attended this All Party Parliamentary Group on Speech and Language Difficulties as a LuCiD representative. This APPG aims to make Parliament aware that the ability to communicate is a crucial life skill for all; to increase awareness about the impact communication difficulties have on other people's lives; to highlight the importance of early identification and intervention; and to press for increased provision of speech and language therapy. Attendance at the meeting raised the profile of LuCiD.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	https://www.rcslt.org/about/parliamentary_work/APPG_November_2016_developmental_language_disorder


Description	Akiko Okuno, Thea Cameron-Faulkner, & Anna Theakston. How does the world look to you? Talk given at Child Language Symposium, Warwick, 2015
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Presented research on crosslinguistic differences in associations between syntax and meaning. Sparked discussion.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	https://www.regonline.co.uk/builder/site/default.aspx?EventID=1628415


Description	All Party Parliamentary Group on Speech and Language Difficulties July 2016 - Lieven
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Prof Lieven represented LuCiD at the All Party Parliamentary Group on Speech and Language Difficulties. The meeting focused on 'Supporting children's life chances'. Attendance at the event raised LuCiD's profile with key stakeholders and policy makers. Following the event LuCiD was invited to collaborate with James Law on an EEF report on Language as a Life Chances Indicator.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	https://www.rcslt.org/governments/appg_meeting_july2016


Description	All Party Parliamentary Group on Speech and Language Difficulties Feb 2017 - Rowland
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Prof Rowland represented LuCiD at the All Party Parliamentary Group on Speech and Language Difficulties. The meeting focused on the impact of the SEND reforms in England on children and young people with speech, language and communication needs. Prof Rowland contributed to the discussions and is listed in the minutes: "Caro Rowland (LuCid centre) highlighted the particular importance of training for health visitors and early years practitioners in relation to 0-2s and the LuCid centre's encouraging local authorities to choose evidence-based training programmes." Attendance at the event raised LuCiD's profile with key stakeholders and policy makers.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017
URL	https://www.rcslt.org/governments/appg_meeting_feb2017


Description	Ambridge - Recorded two videos for Serious Science podcast
Form Of Engagement Activity	A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Recorded two vidoes - Theories of Language Acquisition and Language Acquisition in Children for Moscow-based Serious Science website. The videos are available on YouTube and together have had >2000 plays
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	http://serious-science.org/?s=ben+ambridge


Description	Anna Theakston & Stacey McKnight. My do it! Explanations for children's case marking errors in English. Developmental Section conference of the British Psychological Society
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Presented research on acquisition of case marked pronouns in English. Sparked discussion.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	https://www.bps.org.uk/events/conferences/developmental-section-and-social-section-annual-conference...


Description	Annual meeting, Basis Consortium - Lieven
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Made important links between practitioners and researchers working on autism spectrum disorders and the study of language development in neurotypical children.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing Conference - LuCiD Lancaster
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	LuCiD Lancaster organised AMLAP 2017, a major international conference organised on topic of language processing. This raised the profile of LuCiD amongst a wide network of researchers.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017
URL	http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/amlap2017/


Description	Art baby - Music baby - Language baby
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	This event, part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science, was a collaboration with the Whitworth Art Gallery.The day comprised of 4 multi-sensory workshops for babies and their grown-ups, as well as the opportunity to talk to and take part in demonstrations with language development experts from LuCiD. Notable impact from the event include: - Parents reported planned changes in behaviour in interaction with their babies. - Strengthened our relationship with the Whitworth Art Gallery and we are developing future projects with them - Made contact with a local health visitor, who we intend to work with on future projects - Recruited several new families to take part in our research - Following a successful pilot of a new storytelling session ('Language baby') developed for this event, the Whitworth is now planning to run this as a monthly fixture. - We have been shortlisted for a 'Making a difference award for social responsibility' at the University of Manchester. - Generated national press interest via ESRC's press release
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://www.lucid.ac.uk/news-and-events/blogs/blog-art-baby-music-baby-language-baby/


Description	Autism & bilingualism workshop: Edinburgh University - C Rowland
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Presented overview of LuCiD and discussed implications of research for autism and bilingualsim. Other conference delegates requested contact details and links to project websites, etc.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	BPS Developmental Conference - Language development in socio-cognitive contexts- Lieven
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Study participants or study members
Results and Impact	Increased recognition of the relationship between language development and social cognition and increase awareness of LuCiD within the professional association of psychologists.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Babies first gestures a sign of how they'll talk - Press Release ESRC
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Press release picked up by multiple national newspapers (daily mail, mirror, express) local TV channel & specialist early years publications (NurseryWorld). Following this we received an increase in sign ups to our social media channels and to take part in our studies, and requests for more information.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://www.esrc.ac.uk/news-events-and-publications/news/news-items/babies-first-gestures-a-key-sign-...


Description	Babies: Their Wonderful World
Form Of Engagement Activity	A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	Babies: Their Wonderful World. BBC2 TV series on early child development. KT and HK filmed in summer 2018; aired early 2019.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bt7v0j


Description	Blog / Commentary on Dunbar et al. (2015) - Kliesch
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Discussed findings of a recent research paper, its theoretical background and the wider context of the methodology used. The article has so far been shared 14 times via Facebook.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://www.replicatedtypo.com/i-know-1-that-you-think-2-its-funny-and-you-know-3-that-i-know-4-that-...


Description	Blog Learning words affects how children see objects - Twomey
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Blog about recently completed study. Blog was accessed by approx 40 people.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://www.lucid.ac.uk/news-and-events/blogs/learning-words-affects-how-babies-see-objects/


Description	Blog for the Early Intervention Foundation
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Invited by the Early Intervention foundation to write a blog on their new report Foundation for Life. The blog helped raise awareness of the report within the stakeholder communities, which will help commissioners and practitioners commission and implement evidence based policy.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://www.eif.org.uk/how-the-new-eif-report-will-help-us-help-parents-to-raise-children/


Description	Blog: The 3rd LuCiD Language and Communicative Development Conference - Trotter
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Online blog post reporting the LuCiD 2017 conference, including links to several participants slides, and light summaries of research
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017
URL	http://www.lucid.ac.uk/news-and-events/blogs/blog-the-3rd-lucid-language-and-communicative-developme...


Description	Campus in the City 2015 - Lancaster
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	This engagement event took place in Lancaster town centre and increased local awareness of LuCiD's research taking place at the Lancaster Babylab. Researchers spoke to over 500 people during the two day event. Following the event, there has been an increase in parents signing up to take part in studies at the Lancaster babylab.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://campusinthecity.com/


Description	Chang, F. & Jessop, A. (2015). A cross-linguistic model of production and comprehension in visual worlds. Talk presented at the CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, Los Angeles, USA
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Presented research on a model of language acquisition that uses visual input
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Child Language Symposium, July 2015 - c Rowland
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Presented research on children's understanding of the passive. Other conference delegates requested contact details and links to project websites, etc.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/psych/research/language/symposium/


Description	Children's acquisition of complex sentences: the influence of pragmatic function on comprehension - Lemen
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Lemen presented a poster at the 2019 Child Language Symposium on" Children's acquisition of complex sentences: the influence of pragmatic function on comprehension". This led to some interesting research discussions.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019


Description	Children's language development - what can researchers do to help practitioners? - Rowland
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	A National Children's Bureau seminar series - knowledge makes changes- which aims to share good practice of 'what works' for young children and their families. 72 early years professionals attended the event. Feedback from the event was extremely positive with comments including:"Will help me loads when going back to work and in how I talk to the children"; "Caroline was amazing, made me really think about how important our input could be for children."; "Has helped me have a much better understanding of talking to children and different ways to in different ways"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017


Description	Community Day Lancaster University
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Talks and demonstrations of child communication research to visiting general public in open day at Lancsaster University. 160 parents with children attended workshop on sensory communication. 200 parents with children visited children's arts and crafts stall and discussed child research with research students and staff.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017


Description	Conference on Developmental Language Disorders - List
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Findings presented at Conference on Developmental Language Disorders. Talk sparked questions and discussion.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018


Description	Contacting parents of participants when study is complete - Twomey
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Study participants or study members
Results and Impact	Inform parents who took part in studies of outcome and future dissemination. Responses from parents saying they'd enjoyed taking part; strengthening LuCiD researchers' relationships with local community and target audience
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Conversation Article - Watching TV can actually be good for toddlers - Taylor
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Article in the conversation for academics, media outlets and the public. Increase in visitors to our website and social media platforms.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	https://theconversation.com/watching-tv-can-actually-be-good-for-toddlers-38455


Description	Curator of @realsci_DE twitter account - De Ruiter
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	introduced developmental linguistics to lay audience, answering questions about language science and language development from parents and other stakeholders
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017


Description	DIFFICULTIES TRACKING ROLE-REFERENT SWITCHES CAN HELP TO EXPLAIN THE SUBJECT/OBJECT RELATIVE CLAUSE ASYMMETRY - Chang
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Talk presented at AMLAP conference 2018. Talk sparked questions and discussion afterwards.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018


Description	Demonstration during lab visit by 6th formers (Ashton college)
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	Gave a demo of an experimental set-up to (with pupils participating) to inform pupils about methods in child language research. Ashton college came back to us for another visit to inform pupils about studying psychology
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Demonstration during lab visit by 6th formers (Ashton college)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Gave a presentation on LuCiD in general and the overall aim of the research in WP11
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Departmental talk - Twomey
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Presented curiosity research to department. Suggestions for related work from peers; early promotion of LuCiD work
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Developmental Language Disorder public seminar
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Patients, carers and/or patient groups
Results and Impact	Seminar to inform parents about research and practice on DLD
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020


Description	Developmental Robotics brief lecture on Social Development
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Youtube lecture on the nature of early development and social cognition. Made robotics field aware of trends in infancy research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	https://developmentalrobotics.wordpress.com/webinar/social-development/


Description	Developmental Robotics brief lecture on Social Development - Reid
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Youtube lecture on the nature of early development and social cognition. Made robotics field aware of trends in infancy research
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Discussant - the Nijmegen Lectures 2017
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Discussion session on Gary Dell's 2nd Nijmegen lecture. A number of postgraduate and undergraduate students attended, together with researchers and members of the public. The audience engaged in a lively debate with the speakers and gave positive feedback on the session.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://www.mpi.nl/events/nijmegen-lectures-2017


Description	Does caregiver input influence children's acquisition of modality? - Bell
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Bell gave a talk entitled 'Does caregiver input influence children's acquisition of modality? at the 2019 Linguistics and English Language Postgraduate Conference, Edinburgh, UK. The talk sparked lively discussion.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019


Description	Dolly Parton Story Starters Tweet - Pine
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Dolly Parton tweeted about LuCiD, Beanstalk and the Dolly Parton Foundation Imagination Library's success in gaining 1m funding for Story Starters project. Tweeted to her 4m twitter followers. Tweet had 1317 engagements including 512 likes and 84 retweets. LuCiD gained 63 new followers within days of the tweet.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017
URL	https://twitter.com/DollyParton/status/825080015612157953


Description	ESRC International Centre for Language and Communicative Development summer internship
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Undergraduate students
Results and Impact	Supervision of 3rd year Speech and Language Therapy BSc student on 6-week summer internship funded by ESRC International Centre for Language and Communicative Development. Pilot corpus data for grant collected; student now keen to pursue research career.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	http://lucid.ac.uk/news-and-events/blogs/the-influence-of-child-directed-speech-on-children-s-acquis...


Description	Early Years Summit 2020 - Pine
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Prof Julian Pine gave a talk at the 2020 Early Years Summit which 33850 people signed up for from 111 countries.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://www.facebook.com/earlyyearssummit/


Description	English and Media Centre Conference - bidgood
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	Amy Bidgood (LuCiD Language 0-5 project) was invited to talk to 800 English Language A Level students and their teachers at the English and Media Centre conference in London. This came off the back of her 2 articles for eMagazine. Formal feedback is not yet available, but a number of attendees tweeted about the talk: "I'm learning loads about child language development! Amy Bidgood from @lang05project at @EngMediaCentre conference." "Brill talks @EngMediaCentre Conference- @DanSeanClayton @robdrummond @timegrant123 @lang05project @davcr Even my high expectations exceeded!" A number of English teachers and students followed us on twitter during and immediately following the conference, suggesting the talk increased interest in and raised awareness of LuCiD to a new audience.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	https://www.englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/emagazine-language-conference-2017-a-great-day


Description	Erin Dysaert lab visit from Hull University- Twomey
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Undergraduate students
Results and Impact	Arranged lab visit for Erin Dysaert from Hull University. Hosted her talk to LuCiD and Lancaster Babylab members.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016


Description	Euxton Pre-school
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	We discussed current LuCiD work and the potential to distribute information to parents and run the study at the pre-school. Information sheets and leaflets have been sent out to parents
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Evaluating Evidence Workshop - Durrant (with Julian and Paula)
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	We were invited by The Communication Trust (TCT) to deliver a workshop for Speech and Language Therapists about how to evaluate evidence in order to discriminate information from good sources from that which lacks a clear evidence base. This was part of a wider event organised by TCT. In the feedback from the wider event, 100% of attendees said that 'the event raised their awareness of developing and using evidence' and 73% of attendees said that they would 'definitely' change their practice as a result of attending the event. 89% of people attending LuCiD's workshop rated it useful or really useful. One attendee commented that the workshop was 'really informative and has given me skills I can take away'. Others commented that they would 'apply critical appraisal learning when looking at research evidence'.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017


Description	Expert comment for Independent online 25 words toddlers must know - lieven and rowland
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Profs Elena Lieven and Caroline Rowland were contacted by the Independent for expert opinion on a new study by US Child Study Institute at Bryn Mawr College which identified the 25 words toddlers 'must know'. They explained that children show large individual differences as they develop their skills and advised on different talking strategies. The article has been shared 595 times and encouraged parents to think about their children's language.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/should-children-understand-over...


Description	Eye tracking demonstration at Kids Say The Funniest Things, part of the ESRC Festival of Science
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Increased awareness and understanding of eye tracking and of language development in infants and toddlers. Excellent feedback from attendees.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://www.lucid.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/free-family-fun-day-at-the-manchester-museum-7-8-novem...


Description	Family Fun Day Lancaster University sports day
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Children's arts and crafts stall, discussed child research with students and staff.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017


Description	Featured in four short pilot films for BBC Learning
Form Of Engagement Activity	A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Michelle Peter was filmed discussing development over the first year of life with four different families. The aim was to provide families with real-life techniques and tips for supporting their child's development whilst also giving them the science behind it. The films are being used in the pilot phase of BBC Learning's 10 year campaign to improve language and literacy, and have been shown to real-life families and healthcare professionals during for their feedback.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018


Description	Featured in two episodes of the BBC2 documentary Babies: Their Wonderful World - Peter
Form Of Engagement Activity	A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Michelle Peter featured in two episodes of the BBC2 documentary Babies: Their Wonderful World. Discussed using parent-report data and real-life experiments with babies how children acquire language over the first two years of life. The programme was widely discussed and people have been in touch via our website.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bt7v0j


Description	Filming of a series of parent-focussed videos for the BBC Tiny Happy People website - Ambridge
Form Of Engagement Activity	A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Filming of a series of parent-focussed videos for the BBC Tiny Happy People website
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021
URL	http://www.lucid.ac.uk/news-events-blog/news/ben-ambridge-presents-a-series-of-short-films-for-bbc-t...


Description	Fitz, H. & Chang, F. (2015) Prediction in error-based learning explains sentence-level ERP effects. Talk presented at the Architecture and Mechanisms of Language Processing Conference. Valletta, Malta
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Presented research on a model of ERPs.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Form-meaning relations in acquisition: the case of polysemous constructions. -Theakston
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Prof Theakston presented research on ' Form-meaning relations in acquisition: the case of polysemous constructions' at the Societas Linguistica Europaea 52nd Annual Meeting, Leipzig, Germany. The talk sparked lively discussion.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019


Description	Function and frequency: an investigation into children's comprehension of complex causal and conditional sentences
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Lemen gave a talk on 'Function and frequency: an investigation into children's comprehension of complex causal and conditional sentences' at linguistics conference, TABU Dag in Groningen, the Netherlands. The talk sparked lively debate.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019


Description	Higher Education Network Meeting
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Workshop with preschool staff for child development research communication
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017


Description	Highfield Nursery School & Pre-school visit
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	We discussed current LuCiD work and the potential to distribute information to parents and run the study at the pre-school. Information sheets and leaflets have been sent out to parents
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	How children learn language - Rowland
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Caroline Rowland gave an invited talk at a festival for families and practitioners working with children with special needs. The audience were fascinated by the topic and asked lots of questions afterwards
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	https://www.festable.org/whats-on/presentations/


Description	How children think - Child Study Centre
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	We organised a family fun day ' How Children Think' at the Manchester Central Library as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science 2019. The event shared research on how children think about the social world, how they learn to reason and cooperate with friends. The event was attend by approx 80 caregivers and babies. Attendees were fascinated to discover more about the way children learn.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	https://twitter.com/UoM_ChildStudy/status/1184101243435794433/photo/1


Description	Hugh Baird College students presentation - Durrant
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	Presented an overview of the challenges children face and the skills they need to acquire to learn language in combination with the techniques we use to study these processes. These were students completing a language acquisition module as part of an access to teaching course.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018


Description	Hugh Baird College students presentation and lab visit - Durrant
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	Presented an overview of the challenges children face and the skills they need to acquire to learn language in combination with the techniques we use to study these processes. This was followed by a lab tour with the opportunity to try out some of those techniques and see first hand how the lab works. These were students completing a language acquisition module as part of an access to teaching course.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017


Description	Infant Directed Speech and Direct Eye Contact Share Common Neural Basis in 5-Month-Old Infants- SRCD - Parise
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Poster presented at SRCD. Presentation encouraged debate and discussion.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	International Mother Language Day - Serratrice
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	A round table to raise awareness about the maintenance of the home language in children growing up mutlilingual
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014,2017
URL	https://www.reading.ac.uk/15/about/newsandevents/Events/Event708867.aspx


Description	Interview Radio Lancashire - Monaghan
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Two interviews given two weeks apart for Radio Lancashire on role of sleep in cognition, language, and development.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017


Description	Interview The Daily Beast - Reid
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Vincent Reid gave an interview with The Daily Beast to discuss methods of research in fetal development. The piece raised awareness of fetal development research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-viral-fetuses-recognize-faces-theory-is-wrong


Description	Interview for Mother and Baby Magazine - Rowland
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Contributed information for a Mother & Baby magazine and is about how speech develops in babies and young children.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016


Description	Interview for national newspaper - Westermann
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	Provided advice on how to apply for a post doc
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2015/feb/01/applying-for-a-postdoc-job-here-are-...


Description	Interview on BBC 5Live re: summer babies - Ambridge
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Outlined the developmental differences in children starting school at different ages in response to news story about summer babies and school starting age. Invited for interview on BBC Radio Merseyside
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0536kzg


Description	Interview on BBC Breakfast News - Peter
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Michelle Peter gave an interview on BBC Breakfast News to showcase the BBC2 documentary, Babies: Their Wonderful World.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018


Description	Interview on BBC News 24
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	Interview by BBC News 24 on how adults talk to children and whether this assists children in vocabulary learning.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016


Description	Interview on BBC Radio Lancashire - Twomey
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Described CITC and LuCiD's research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Interview with Meghan Gurdon (Wall Street Journal)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Interviewed by the journalist for input into her forthcoming book The Enchanted Hour: Why Children Flourish When We Read Aloud, to be published by HarperCollins.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016


Description	Interview with The Atlantic - Reid
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Vincent Reid gave an interview on fetal development for The Atlantic article 'Science Is Giving the Pro-Life Movement a Boost'.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/pro-life-pro-science/549308/


Description	Invited Member, Lorentz workshop: Reappraising the Role of Linear Structure in Language, Leiden, Netherlands
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Discussed the role of hierarchical structure in language. Influenced group discussion
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Invited blog for the Communication Trust
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Caroline Rowland was invited to write a blog for the Communication Trust's new Developing and Using Evidence website.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://www.thecommunicationtrust.org.uk/posts/2016/caroline-rowland/


Description	Invited talk - Exploring Communication and Language in Action, Merseyside Local Authorities - Rowland
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	A series of talks to share good practice about how to promote language and communicative development in early years settings in Merseyside.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016


Description	Invited talk to undergraduate students on careers in psychology - Durrant
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Undergraduate students
Results and Impact	Invited lecture to 1st year undergraduate students about careers in psychology, specifically language research and the 0-5 project. Feedback showed that the lecture was well received and stimulated students to consider a research career.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016


Description	Invited talk: European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Leiden, Netherlands
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Invited talk: Twomey, K. E. & Cangelosi. A. Modeling Cognitive Mechanisms in an Embodied System
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018


Description	Kelton Nursery Open Day - Jago, Bidgood, List
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Presented research results to the parents and played some games with the children. Demonstrated what an experiment looks like. All the parents and practitioners were interested in the information we shared. Some parents signed up to the database. The nursery agreed to take part in a study.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018


Description	Kids Say the Funniest Things event - Manchester Museum
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Kids Say the Funniest Things, was a two day event at the Manchester Museum showcasing child language research to the general public. The event gave visitors the opportunity to take part in demonstrations based on some of our research studies, attend informal talks about child language acquisition, talk to our researchers and find out more about how children learn to communicate with language. The event was attended by over 500 people of all ages and from a range of backgrounds. Visitors reported that the event was fun and educational, with much of the feedback suggesting that they had taken away some of our key research messages. There was also some media interest, with a local TV station reporting from the event and some local newspaper coverage. The event also gave researchers from the centre the opportunity to enhance their public engagement and outreach skills. Following the event, we have seen an increase in sign ups to take part in studies and the Museum has invited us to run future events.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://www.lucid.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/lucid-takes-over-the-manchester-museum/


Description	LCICD presentation - List
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Findings presented at LCICD conference. Talk sparked questions and discussion afterwards.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018


Description	Lancaster University Open Day - Twomey
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Presented talk on word learning in babies and robots to prospective UG students as part of British Science week.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016


Description	Lancaster University Pre-school meeting
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	We discussed the potential to hold an event to inform practitioners at the university about our research within LuCiD and to find out what they might like from us. We have arranged to hold an event for the practitioners.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Lancaster University Pre-school meeting
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	We discussed current LuCiD work and the potential to distribute information to parents and run the study at the pre-school. Information sheets and leaflets have been sent out to parents
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016


Description	Language In Interaction Summer School - Rowland
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	A presentation at a summer school designed for postgraduate students. The presentation sparked a lively discussion and an increase in interest in language development
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	https://www.languageininteraction.nl/education/summer-school-2016.html


Description	Laura Boundy, Thea Cameron-Faulkner, & Anna Theakston Exploring early proto-declarative behaviours: A fine-grained analysis of infant's early shows and gives. Gesture in Language Development Workshop, Warwick, 2015
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Presented research on infants' early gestures. Sparked discussion.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Learning About Word Learning workshop
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	A workshop as part of the wider Lancaster University Campus in the City event. The event centred on word learning and informed the public about different aspects of language development. Attendees were very engaged and asked lots of questions. Following the workshop we had an increase in people signing up to take part in our research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Learning more than one language workshop - Serratrice
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	A CPD worskhop with the Stockport Childminders Network on the challenges and opportunities of children growing up with two languages. The presentation was interactive and was very well received. Text from Clare Bailey's email - the event organizer: "Thank you so much for coming to us and giving us such a fantastic talk". This talk arose following a previous workshop Prof Serratrice gave as part of the Stockport Consortium of Nursery Schools Conference 2016.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017


Description	Lieven -invited keynote: Talk to Your Baby annual conference
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Prof Elena Lieven was invited to give a keynote talk at the annual Talk to Your Baby Conference 2017, organised by the National Literacy Trust. The event was attended by Early Years practitioners, health professionals, third sector organisations etc. The talk focused on the influence of children's communicative environments. It sparked lively discussion and lots of questions afterwards. It also increased awareness of LuCiD and we had an increase in twitter followers and newsletter subscribers following the conference.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017
URL	http://www.lucid.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/lucid-to-give-keynote-at-talk-to-your-baby-2017-13th-m...


Description	Little Chatterboxes - Manchester Central Library
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	One-day, drop-in event to promote language research and language-supporting behaviours for parents and pre-school children. Resulted in parents signing up to our research database to take part in future studies
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	http://www.librarylive.co.uk/event/little-chatterboxes/


Description	Liverpool Language Lab in the city centre - Durrant (plus other members of the lab)
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Street recruitment stand - handing out information about the language lab, the work we do and how the general public can help with research at the University of Liverpool. The event allowed us to raise the profile of lucid and of child language research. Members of the public were interested in our research and many signed up to get involved in our studies.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017


Description	LuCiD Monitoring Strategy brainstorming meeting
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	The aim of the meeting was to bring key partners together to produce: a) a short narrative evaluation of the tools that non-specialists (health visitors and early years educators) currently use to track children's speech and language in the early years (0-4 years); b) a checklist of what should ideally be included in a) a reliable, valid monitoring tool and b) a reliable, valid screening tool; c) suggestions for how such tools should be used to greatest effect, as part of a wider language monitoring strategy
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019


Description	LuCiD Newsletter August 2016 - Allwood
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	LuCiD August 2016 newsletter outlining LuCiD's progress and plans. Delivered to 295 recipients on our mailing list (mix of researchers, practitioners, parents, advocacy groups etc,), opened by 149 with 77 link clicks. The newsletter was also shared widely on social media raising the profile of LuCiD.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=5c3506d45dc7c8b2278edb730&id=3eb5b9742b


Description	LuCiD Newsletter Dec 2016 - Durrant
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	LuCiD December 2016 newsletter outlining LuCiD's progress and plans. Delivered to 351 recipients on our mailing list (mix of researchers, practitioners, parents, advocacy groups etc,), opened by 154 with 89 link clicks. The newsletter was also shared widely on social media. Newsletter analytics suggest that readers were particularly interested in our gesture research and our latest evidence briefing on how parents can influence their children's language development.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=5c3506d45dc7c8b2278edb730&id=8d1066463d


Description	LuCiD Newsletter February 2016 - Allwood
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	LuCiD February 2016 newsletter outlining LuCiD's progress and plans. Delivered to 228 recipients on our mailing list (mix of researchers, practitioners, parents, advocacy groups etc,), opened by 122 with 62 link clicks. The newsletter was also shared widely on social media.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://us10.campaign-archive2.com/?u=5c3506d45dc7c8b2278edb730&id=93dd4f15c9


Description	LuCiD Newsletter June 2015 - Allwood
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	LuCiD June 2015 newsletter outlining LuCiD's progress and plans. Delivered to 99 recipients on our mailing list (mix of researchers, practitioners, parents, advocacy groups etc,), opened by 62 with 24 link clicks. The newsletter was also shared widely on social media. Newsletter analytics suggest that readers were particularly interested in our gesture research and our latest evidence briefing on how parents can influence their children's language development.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=5c3506d45dc7c8b2278edb730&id=63059a2fe9&e


Description	LuCiD Seminar Series (ongoing)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	The LuCiD seminar series has been running since LuCiD's inception in 2014. 36 seminars have been held to date (as of March 2018) with approx 1500 people attending overall. The series sees invited academics present new research related to language and communicative development. Seminars rotate across our 3 northwest institutions and are open to anyone wishing to attend. To date they have attracted a wide range of audience members including researchers and students from a range of disciplines, staff from local cultural institutions, speech and language therapists, early years practitioners etc. Some of our seminars are recorded and available to watch at a later date (where resources are available and speakers have consented), so that a wider range of people can access them. The seminars have resulted in lively discussions and questions, development of new research connections and have raised the profile of the Centre.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014,2015,2016,2017,2018
URL	http://www.lucid.ac.uk/resources/for-researchers/lucid-seminar-series/


Description	LuCiD Staff Seminar
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Supporters
Results and Impact	Presented a series of talks to ESRC members of staff at their HQ in Swindon, providing an overview of LuCiD; the aims, challenges, and some preliminary findings. The audience had many questions interesting about the nature of the project and the practicalities of running such a large data-intensive longitudianl study.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017


Description	LuCiD blog - Twomey
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Parent-aimed blogs about curiosity and word learning research carried out under LuCiD
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/westermann-lab/study-blogs-for-parents/


Description	LuCiD blog on Estonian Conference - de Ruiter
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	reported about a symposium organised at an international conference, described in general, accessible terms what the discussions were about.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017
URL	http://www.lucid.ac.uk/news-and-events/blogs/lucid-in-estonia/


Description	Masterclass on language development at Nursery World North. Monaghan
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Delivered by: Claire Noble, Padraic Monaghan, Caroline Floccia, Jacky Chan. Good communication skills benefit every aspect of our lives - from academic success to personal relationships. Mastering these skills depend on both the quantity and quality of the language spoken in adult-child interactions from the earliest stages of a child's life. In this masterclass, experts from the Story Starters project at the University of Liverpool and from the ESRC LuCiD Centre will: • outline their growing understanding of language development in both mono and bilingual children, and • provide practical guidance on how to support a child's early language development
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	https://www.nurseryworld.co.uk/nursery-world/event/1162439/nursery-world-show-north-2018


Description	Max Planck Insitute for Psycholinguistics, Invited talk - C Rowland
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Presented research on structural priming. Audience members requested contact details and links to project websites, etc.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014


Description	Meet the Scientist: Liverpool World Museum: Healthy Bodies Healthy Minds - Rowland
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Participation in 'Meet the Scientists', an interactive, hands-on science day for all the family run by scientists from the University of Liverpool
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://www.lucid.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/liverpool-meets-the-scientists-at-the-world-museum/


Description	Meet the Scientists at Walker Art Gallery
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	We ran a day of demonstrations and activities showcasing child language development research at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. The event raised the profile of LuCiD and shared information on language development with families. The Liverpool Language lab saw and increase in the number of families signing up to take part in their studies. The event also helped to cement our relationship with the Walker Art Gallery.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	http://www.lucid.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/meet-our-scientists-at-the-walker-art-gallery-on-satur...


Description	Michelle Davis, Thea Cameron-Faulkner,& Anna Theakston. Exploring patterns in tag question production: A multiple correspondence analysis of form and function. Talk given at Child Language Symposium, Warwick, 2015
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Presented research on acquisition of tag questions in English. Sparked discussion.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	https://www.regonline.co.uk/builder/site/default.aspx?EventID=1628415


Description	Michelle Davis, Thea Cameron-Faulkner,& Anna Theakston. Exploring patterns in tag question production: A multiple correspondence analysis of form and function. Talk given at Child Language Symposium, Warwick, 2015
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Presented research on acquisition of tag questions in English. Sparked discussion.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	https://www.regonline.co.uk/builder/site/default.aspx?EventID=1628415


Description	Multiword units predict non-inversion errors in children's wh-questions: "What corpus data can tell us?" McCauley CogSci
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	McCauley shared his research on 'Multiword units predict non-inversion errors in children's wh-questions: What corpus data can tell us?' at the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The talk raised the profile of LuCiD and sparked discussion.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019


Description	My Child Can. Learn Language - Durrant
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Keynote talk to around 100 nursery practitioners, teachers, and early years teams covering language development and strategies to encourage language in the early years - e.g. contingent talk.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wirral-early-years-conference-2019-my-child-can-be-understood-tickets...


Description	NWDTC Psychology Pathway PGR Conference- Christian Kliesch
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Presented planned research on the effect of ostensive communication on infants' understanding of actions. Received useful feedback from the audience and sparked discussion. Received the prize for best paper presentation.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Nappy Science Gang Webchat- Katie Twomey and Silke Brandt
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Online webchat for Nappy Science Gang about early language acquisition to share knowledge with parents/ general public. Verbal feedback from parents suggested they gained new insight into language acquisition.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	https://nappysciencegang.wordpress.com/2015/11/06/live-chat-with-babylab-language-researchers-katie-...


Description	Noah's Ark Pre-school meeting
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	We discussed current LuCiD work and the potential to distribute information to parents and run the study at the pre-school. Information sheets and leaflets have been sent out to parents
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	North West SEND and Council for Disabled Children event. Manchester, UK - Theakston
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	This event led by the Council for Disabled Children was attended by around 60 early years, SEND and health practitioners from across the North West. It provided an opportunity to share learning across the NW (including Better Start Blackpool and Greater Manchester's New Delivery Model) and work on challenges together. Prof Theakston presented a talk about LuCiD and about Language and Communicative Development in the Early Years. It raised awareness of the work of LuCiD and how to contact us for help and advice. Following the event we have had meetings with local council early years coordinator (Cheshire East, Manchester) and organised to discuss ways of evaluating service provision.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://www.lucid.ac.uk/media/1704/theakston-lucid-overview-nwsend-251016.pdf


Description	NorthWest Educational Psychologists Early Years Interest Group (Theakston)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Raised awareness among Educational Psychologists of children's learning of complex syntax in the classroom.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019


Description	Nursery World Magazine - All about contingent talk - Matthews McGilllion and Pine
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Article on importance of contingent talk in national magazine for nursery practitioners. Nursery World Magazine has 14,000 print subscribers and 120,000 online users each month and so this article was seen by a large group of practitioners, raising awareness of child language and of LuCiD.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://www.nurseryworld.co.uk/nursery-world/feature/1159755/eyfs-best-practice-all-about-contingent-...


Description	Nursery World Magazine - Dog Eats Man - Lieven
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Article in Nursery World Magazine on how different cultures approach learning to talk. Nursery World Magazine has 14,000 print subscribers and 120,000 online users each month and so this article was seen by a large group of practitioners, raising awareness of child language and of LuCiD. Increased visits to our website and social media profiles.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Nursery World Magazine - My mistake
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Article in national magazine for nursery practitioners. Increase in visitors to our website and social media platforms
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://www.lucid.ac.uk/media/1530/article-6_pine-161115.pdf


Description	Nursery World North Seminar - Monaghan
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Prof Padraic Monaghan gave an invited seminar at the Nursery World Magazine North show. He shared the latest research into how children learn words, and how early years practitioners can support the early stages of language acquisition. Formal feedback has not been provided, but informally attendees said that they would adjust the way they approached communication children - by not keeping sentence length very very short, and by not repeating things exactly the same way each time.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017
URL	http://nurseryworldshow.com/liverpool/seminar-and-masterclass/12-00-13-00-2


Description	Nursery meetings x 8- Taylor
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Meetings with 8 nurseries in the Lancaster area. We discussed current LuCiD work and the potential to distribute information to parents and run the study at the pre-school.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016


Description	Nursery world Magazine - Confused? - Durrant and Serratrice
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Article in national magazine for nursery practitioners. Increase in visitors to our website and social media platforms.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://www.lucid.ac.uk/media/1458/article-4_serratrice-and-durrant-210915.pdf


Description	Nursery world show quality and quantity of input workshop - monaghan
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Padraic Monaghan, Claire Noble, Jacky Chan and Caroline Floccia gave a nursery world show masterclass on 11 May in Liverpool. The masterclass focused on language development in monolingual and bilingual children and provided practical guidance on how to support a child's early language development. The workshop was attended by 40 practitioners and sparked questions afterwards.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	http://www.nurseryworldshow.com/liverpool/seminar-and-masterclass/09-15-12-15


Description	Online chat, Nappy Science gang - Rowland, Durrant, Peter
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Answering questions from the public about language development. Increase in visitors to our website and social media platforms.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	https://nappysciencegang.wordpress.com/2015/09/20/live-chat-with-researchers-sam-caroline-and-michel...


Description	Online talk at Pearson Assessment's SLTLearn Event
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Prof Julian Pine gave a webinar on children's early language development as part of Pearson Assessment's #SLTLearn online event. 69 people signed up for the webinar and either signed in on the day or received the recording retrospectively. All of the assessment materials have been made available on LuCiD website. The feedback from the event was extremely positive with one SLT commenting 'Thank you for forwarding the link to this talk. I was unable to join as arranged so am grateful for the opportunity to learn via the link you sent me. I found it very interesting and informative to my paediatric client group.'
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://www.lucid.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/childrens-early-language-development-webinar-15-july/


Description	Organisation of, and talk as part of, ESRC Festival of Social Science event 'Learning about Language Acquisition in the 21st Century' - Bidgood
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	Around 80 A-Level students and their teachers attended a mini-conference as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science to learn more about language acquisition and how it's studied in the 21st century. I organised this event and also gave a talk at it. Students and teachers reported that they found the event informative and engaging. It will have a direct impact on the students' coursework/essays on the topic, and teachers gained resources and ideas about integrating up-to-dated research in their teaching.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017
URL	http://www.esrc.ac.uk/public-engagement/festival-of-social-science/


Description	Other Cultures, Other Languages: Learning to talk around the world
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Elena Lieven wrote the blog Other Cultures, Other Languages: Learning to talk around the world for the National Literacy Trust and LuCiD websites. The blog aimed to increase knowledge of how the language learning experience varies around the world. The article has had 235 unique views on the LuCiD website with an audience across 26 countries. Analytics haven't been provided by the NLT website, but they have a much greater reach, so we anticipate this has been viewed widely.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017
URL	http://www.lucid.ac.uk/news-and-events/blogs/other-cultures-other-languages-learning-to-talk-around-...


Description	Outreach event at Runshaw Sixth Form College - Twomey
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	Series of research talks to prospective Psychology undergraduates at a sixth form college.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016


Description	Outreach visit to young mums group - Bidgood
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Patients, carers and/or patient groups
Results and Impact	Visit to a young mums group run by Lancashire County Council in Skelmersdale. I talked about language development to around 5 young mums, alone or in pairs, along with several of the members of staff working with them. The mums were also invited to complete some questionnaires if they wanted to, and one mum did so. She also requested information about some other projects.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016


Description	POSTURE HELPS ROBOTS LEARN WORDS, AND INFANTS, TOO- Christian Kliesch blog
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Blog post for replicated typo discussing different approaches to understanding children's understanding of mental states. The article received one comment and one blog post response on another site. It had 13 shares on Facebook, 1 share on Linked in, several shares on Twitter. The site has between 4000-12000 visitors / month
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://www.replicatedtypo.com/word-learning-robots-infants/10982.html


Description	Parent-focussed blog setting out "Evidence-based tips for boosting your child's language development" - Ambridge
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Parent-focussed blog setting out "Evidence-based tips for boosting your child's language development" for LuCiD website.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2022
URL	http://www.lucid.ac.uk/news-events-blog/blogs/evidence-based-tips-for-boosting-your-child-s-language...


Description	Parenting Science Gang; webchat with parents interested in language development- Brandt
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Chatted with about 20 parents about what we know about language development, atypical language development, and (observable) evidence for linguistic knowledge in toddlers.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017
URL	http://parentingsciencegang.org.uk/web-chats/language-development-an-online-qa-with-silke-brandt/


Description	Pop-up shop in Lancaster city centre (Campus in the City)- 2016
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Three day pop-up shop on language and communicative development in Lancaster city centre. Interacted with parents and caregivers, demonstrations of language learning activities and technology. We had 623 visitors, and we recruited 79 children to our database for taking part in studies.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	https://campusinthecity.com/


Description	Portée et limites du modèle CHREST.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Talk presented at the conference 'Rencontre interdisciplinaire: Chunking implicite et explicite' organised by Institut d'Etudes Avancées d'Aix-Marseille Université. The talk sparked lively debate amongst postgraduate students and other researchers.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	https://imera.univ-amu.fr/sites/imera.univ-amu.fr/files/agenda/files/workshop_chunking_12.09.18.jpg


Description	Poster Presentation BCCCD - Kliesch
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Presentation of results of collaboration with Lancaster and Max Planck institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences - approx 100 attendees, close discussions with approx 15 people, to discuss new condition for the study
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	Http://www.bcccd.org


Description	Poster Presentation LCICD Lancaster - Kliesch
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Presentation of results of collaboration with Lancaster and Max Planck institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences - approx 200 attendees, close discussions with approx 15 people
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/lcicd/programme/


Description	Poster Presentation PINA Conference - Kliesch
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Presentation of results of collaboration with Lancaster and Max Planck institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences - approx 200 attendees, close discussions with approx 15 people to present results and get feedback
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	https://www.fh-potsdam.de/fileadmin/user_dateien/2_studieren-FB_Sozialwiss/SG_MA_Fruehkindliche_Bild...


Description	Poster accepted at ICIS
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	-
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016


Description	Poster at BUCLD - Amy Bidgood
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Presented research on adults' and children's ability to produce passive sentences with different types of verbs. Other conference delegates requested copies of the poster.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://www.bu.edu/bucld/


Description	Poster at BUCLD - C Rowland
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Presented research on children's understanding of the passive. Other conference delegates requested contact details and links to project websites, etc.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://www.bu.edu/bucld/


Description	Poster at BUCLD - S Durrant
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Presented research on children's recognition of accented productions of words - specifically rhoticity. Other conference delegates requested contact details and links to project websites, etc.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://www.bu.edu/bucld/


Description	Poster at LuCiD mini-conference - Amy Bidgood
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Presented Language 0-5 research on children's prelinguistic skills and language environment, and how these link with language development. Shared research findings with the rest of the LuCiD Group.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://www.lucid.ac.uk/media/1383/brewin-et-al-babytalk-app-poster-may15.pdf


Description	Poster presentation CLS - Macdonald
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Presented a poster on 'Animacy and children's processing of subject and object relative clauses' at The Child Language Symposium 2018. The poster sparked lively discussion afterwards and shared our work with the wider academic community.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018


Description	Poster presentation at Boston University Conference on Language Development, 2015. Practice with pronouns: acquisition of differential object case-marking
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Presented research on acquisition of object case markers in Estonian at Boston University Conference on Language Development. Sparked discussion with other researchers.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Poster presentation at ISDP 2015
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Poster presentation at conference. Poster triggered discussion about language and memory.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Poster presentation at LuCiD launch event - Twomey
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Presented neural network model of curiosity-based learning. Input from other LuCiD affiliates; suggestion for future work
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Poster presentation at LuCiD mini conference - G Taylor
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Poster presentation at conference. Poster triggered questions and discussion about the role of media on early language learning.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Poster presentation at New Directions in Implicit and Explicit Learning, Lancaster 2015 - Rebecca Frost
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Presented research on adults' capacity to use nonadjacent dependencies simultaneously for segmentation and generalisation, and how this might be moderated by sleep. Discussions that followed this presentation helped to shape the writing of the paper.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Poster presentation at the EPS January meeting 2016 - Rebecca Frost
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Presented research on the potential benefit of high frequency words in speech at the Experimental Psychology Society meeting January 2016. Since the presentation Dr Frost has been discussing research with a potential collaborator, and is arranging for them to visit Lancaster.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://www.eps.ac.uk/images/epsfiles/2016/jan_prog_amend.pdf


Description	Poster presentation at the Statistical Learning conference, San Sebastian, 2015 - Rebecca Frost
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Presented research on adults' capacity to use nonadjacent dependencies simultaneously for segmentation and generalisation. The presentation sparked discussion and as a result, now having ongoing discussions with a potential new collaborator.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://www.bcbl.eu/events/statistical-learning/en/conference/


Description	Pre-school outreach talks
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	I gave a short talk about my research within LuCiD. Increase in knowledge about what we do within the LuCiD centre
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Preconference workshop on ELAN, delivered at LCICD - Bidgood and McLaughlin
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Bidgood and McLaughlin delivered an invited workshop on ELAN prior to the LCICD 2018. Attendees reported that they had learned valuable skills in ELAN.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018


Description	Presentation "Language and social cognition in toddlers" in Babylab tour for preschool and nursery staff (Higher Network Meeting) - Boeg Thomsen
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Preschool staff (approx. 12) got a brief introduction to important steps in toddlers' social understanding and its relationship to specific types of linguistic developments. Participants said this new knowledge would impact on their future practice.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017


Description	Presentation at BabyWeek Bradford - Westermann
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Presented research on early word learning and parents' mobile device use to a group of parents and early-years practitioners. Feedback from attendees suggested that this was very well received; there was some twitter activity related to my talk.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	https://betterstartbradford.org.uk/learning-resources/baby-week-bradford/


Description	Presentation at "Creating Captivating Spaces for the Under 5s" conference, The Whitworth Art Gallery
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Outlined visual development in infancy and discussed some of the implications for practitioners working with infants and caregivers in the creative arts. Many practitioners requested further information and/or suggested they will change their practice to accommodate new ideas. Increase in visitors and interactions on social media platforms.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creating-captivating-spaces-for-under-5s-tickets-19597642075


Description	Presentation at BUCLD 40 - Michelle Peter
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Presented research on tracking structural priming over development. Talk sparked discussion about the finding of a lexical boost in kids which has not been found so far. Since the talk, I have been contacted by two researchers who would like to talk about the result further.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Presentation at British Psychological Section Social/Developmental section 2015 - Twomey
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Presented research on curiosity in infants and neural network models. Talk sparked discussion about curiosity based learning. Made new connection with potential future collaborator who has agreed to review my ESRC Future Research leaders grant. Invited a speaker to present her word learning research to Lancaster Babylab
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	https://www.bps.org.uk/events/conferences/developmental-section-and-social-section-annual-conference...


Description	Presentation at British Psychological Section Social/Developmental section 2015 - Westermann
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Presented research on the link between shyness and early word learning in toddlers. This poster led to interesting discussions with other scientists and to suggestions for related work.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	https://www.bps.org.uk/events/conferences/developmental-section-and-social-section-annual-conference...


Description	Presentation at CLS - Amy Bidgood
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Presented research on adults' and children's ability to produce passive sentences with different types of verbs. Presentation sparked discussion and questions.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/psych/research/language/symposium/


Description	Presentation at Freshfield Nursery - De Ruiter
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presented the results of the study in which the nursery had been involved with. Answered questions about research practices, and discussed possible conclusions for nursery teachers' every day practices.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017


Description	Presentation at ICDL-EPIROB 2015 - Twomey
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Presented research on curiosity in infants and neural network models. Talk sparked discussion about curiosity based learning. Awarded best paper prize. Made new connection with potential future collaborator who has agreed to review my ESRC Future Research leaders grant. Discussed future lab visit with a second attendee for mutual knowledge exchange
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://www.icdl-epirob.org/2015


Description	Presentation at Neurocuriosity 2014 - Westermann
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Presented research on curiosity in infants and neural network models. Talk sparked discussion about curiosity based learning. Since the talk I have been liasing with two new potential collaborators to develop a research proposal on XXX.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	https://openlab-flowers.inria.fr/t/first-interdisciplinary-symposium-on-information-seeking-curiosit...


Description	Presentation at STAND North Wales Speech and Language in the Early Years conference - Bidgood
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presentation on current research methods in language acquisition research, alongside results from the Language 0-5 Project. The aim was to keep practitioners up-to-date with the latest advances in the field and show them how we study development rather than simply showing them what we've found.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	https://standnw.org/event/speech-and-language-in-the-early-years-conference/


Description	Presentation at Sussex University - Westermann
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Presented research on word learning in infancy. Discussed future collaborative activities with scientists in the audience; started a collaborative project already
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Presentation at Talk to Your Baby - Serratrice
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presented research evidence on language learning in pre-school bilingual children. Raised the profile of LuCiD with practitioners and policy makers
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019


Description	Presentation at University College London - Westermann
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Presented research on word learning in infancy. Discussed future collaborative activities with scientists in the audience
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Presentation at University of Bangor - Westermann
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Presented research on word learning in infancy. Discussed future collaborative activities with scientists in the audience
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014


Description	Presentation at University of Zürich - Westermann
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Presented research on word learning in infancy. Discussed future collaborative activities with scientists in the audience; met with PhD students to give them feedback on their work
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Presentation at Wai Yin Society Manchester - Cameron-Faulkner
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Presented information to service users on general language development and language boosting activities (e.g. book reading, engaging with visual media). The event was one of a series of scheduled events for service users of the Wai Yin. Feedback and discussion from the attendees suggests that the presentation was useful and interesting. Talk also helped to cement a continuing relationship with the Wai Yin Centre, where we hope to run an ongoing mother and baby group and teach English to low SES non-English mums.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017


Description	Presentation at a Northern Health and Social Care Trust Speech and Language Therapy Service Northern Ireland SureStart Clinical Excellence Network Meeting - Chan
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presented research on early bilingual development to ~30 practitioners from the Northern Health and Social Care Trust Speech and Language Therapy Service Northern Ireland SureStart Clinical Excellence Network. Feedback from the organiser and attendees suggests the presentation was well-received and has given the group plenty to think about in their work with bilingual children.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021


Description	Presentation at the 13th International Congress for the Study of Child Language - Westermann
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Presented research on the link between shyness and performance in early word learning tasks in toddlers. This poster won the prize as best stiudent poster at this high-profile conferece.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://www.iascl2014.org


Description	Presentation at the 2015 Biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development - Westermann
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Presented research on how shyness affects word learning in toddlers. This poster led to interesting discussions with other scientists and to suggestions for related work.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://srcd.org/meetings/biennial-meeting/2015-call-submissions


Description	Presentation at the British Psychological Society. Developmental Section and Social Section Annual Conference - Silke Brandt
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Presented research on the interaction of syntactic and social-cognitive skills as well as cross-cultural differences in this area. Discussion with various researchers working in the same area.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	https://www.bps.org.uk/events/conferences/developmental-section-and-social-section-annual-conference...


Description	Presentation in Babylab tour for A level students: "Grammar and social cognition in 2-3-year-olds" - Boeg Thomsen
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	A group of A level students working on language acquisition got a brief introduction to methods for examining social understanding and grammar development in 2-to-3-year-olds. Their teacher asked for follow-up materials, so that the students could refer to the newest research in their exams.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017


Description	Presentation to the Centre for Infant Studies Research Group (Stanford University) - Michelle Peter
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Presented the findings from my thesis as well as discussed the speed of lexical processing task being run as part of the Language 0-5 Project. Since my talk, I have been in regular contact with Virginia Marchman regarding this task.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Presenting a demonstration at a UCAS open day
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	Through this demonstration, students learnt about a new area in psychology. The session aimed to spark students' interest in psychology, with a view to encouraging them to pursue further study at Lancaster University. They also learnt about LuCiD's research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Putting complement clauses and false belief into context - Brandt
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Poster presented at the DUCOG conference. Shared research findings on complement clauses and false belief. Sparked questions and discussion.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	http://www.cecog.eu/abstract/DUCOG_Abstract_Book_2018_web.pdf


Description	Putting complement clauses and false belief into context: How does understanding of beliefs influence choice of sentence structure. - Brandt
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Dr Brandt gave a talk on 'Putting complement clauses and false belief into context: How does understanding of beliefs influence choice of sentence structure' at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Leipzig. The talk sparked lively discussion
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	http://sle2019.eu/downloads/SLE%202019%20BOOK%20OF%20ABSTRACTS.pdf


Description	Putting complex sentences into context - Brandt
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Poster on 'Putting complex sentences into context: Interactions between children's understanding of false belief and their comprehension and production of complement clauses' presented at Language in Mind and Brain Conference, Munich. The poster sparked questions and discussions afterwards
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	https://www.kognitive-sprachforschung.uni-muenchen.de/download/boa_final_website.pdf


Description	RCSLT Bulletin Blog - McLaughlin
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Blog in the RCSLT magazine for SLT practitioners (subscription 16,000 members). The blog was designed to encourage practitioners to engage more with research by providing a first hand account of an SLT who had taken a research post. Blog also raised awareness of LuCiD to the SLT community.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017


Description	Recruitment/outreach at Lancaster Library (four times to 01/16) - Twomey
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Talked to parent about infancy research in general, language acquisition in particular and the work that goes on in LuCiD university labs. Sign-ups to participant database
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Regional course in the Audiologopedic Association: "Language and social cognition in typical development and autism" - Boeg Thomsen
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	60 professional practitioners (speech-language therapists and regional child psychologists) attended a six-hour course on kindergarteners' and young schoolchildren's linguistic and sociocognitive development. The course included introduction to materials for evaluation and intervention and discussions of their practical implementation in the practitioners' everyday contexts. With both oral and email feedback, the participants said that the course had been "a true eye-opener" and "an epiphany" and showed great interest in employing the presented materials.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017


Description	Research seminar, Bangor University - C Rowland
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Presented research on structural priming. Audience members requested contact details and links to project websites, etc.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	School Visit (Liverpool)
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	20 pupils attended for a school visit to the Liverpool Language Lab. The Language05 research team gave them a talk on how we study how children learn to talk, and demonstrated some of our methods in the lab. The teachers reported an increased interest in research on child language development.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017


Description	Seminar presentation, Council for Disabled Children's Early Years SEND 'think tank' - Rowland
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Invitation to talk about collaborative research between LuCiD and Sefton Local Authority, as an example of good practice to support the more strategic aspects of support to early years practitioners with a keen focus on evidence. The event promoted the idea that local authorities, as required by the legislation, should articulate what they expect early years settings to provide for young children with SEN and disabilities, from the overall grant that they receive.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016


Description	Shyness affects word learning - SRCD 2015 poster Hilton M & Westermann G
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Type Of Presentation	poster presentation
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Poster sparked discussion.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Silke Brandt - Presentation at Boston University Conference for Language Development
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Presented research on the interaction of syntactic and social-cognitive skills as well as cross-cultural differences in this area. Sparked discussion with various researchers.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://www.bu.edu/bucld/


Description	Simulating typical and impaired acquisition of verb inflection in in English and Spanish- Freudenthal
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Freudenthal gave a talk on Simulating typical and impaired acquisition of verb inflection in in English and Spanish at the Fifth LuCiD Language and Communicative Development Conference, Manchester UK. The talk sparked discussion.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	http://lucid.ac.uk/news-events-blog/events/lucids-5th-international-language-and-communicative-devel...


Description	Sixth Form Lecture Series: Accrington CofE School - How do children learn to talk? - Anna Theakston
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	Dr Anna Theakston gave a talk, How do children learn to talk?, at Accrington CofE School. The sixth form students reported having greater awareness of issues in language acquisition following the talk.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://www.manchester.ac.uk/connect/teachers/students/post-16/academic-guest-lecture-series/


Description	Sixth Form Lecture Series: Ashton College - How do children learn to talk? - Anna Theakston
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	Dr Anna Theakston gave a talk, How do children learn to talk?, at Ashton Sixth Form college. The sixth form students reported having greater awareness of issues in language acquisition following the talk.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://www.manchester.ac.uk/connect/teachers/students/post-16/academic-guest-lecture-series/


Description	Sleep Research Workshop, Lancaster
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Organised a workshop on Conducting Sleep Research. During this workshop, several experts on sleep research presented papers and methodological presentations with the aim of informing peers about the field. This multi-disciplinary workshop sparked discussion.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Speech and language development in children, Nursing in Practice Magazine - Theakston
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Anna Theakston was commissioned to write an article on speech and language development in children for a Health Visitor supplement in Nursing in Practice magazine. The article raised awareness of speech and language issues with health visitors and also raised the profile of LuCiD.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017
URL	https://www.nursinginpractice.com/article/speech-and-language-development-children


Description	Stockport Consortium of Nursery Schools Conference 2016
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	LuCiD was invited to organise the 2016 Stockport Consortium of Nursery Schools Conference entitled 'Discover the science behind how children learn to talk'. Approx 90 people attended the event from a range of different settings including public and private nurseries, child minding services, local authority departments (children's services), NHS health visitors, Key Stage 1 teachers etc. 75 attendees provided feedback with 78% responding that they learned something new and 81% responding that they will use some of the learning from the day in their work. Many remarked on practical things they will do differently as a result of what they learned: "I will use more complex sentences in certain situations" "Bring language to the forefront of my practice" "Encourage parents [of bilingual children] to talk their children in their home language" "Give children longer to process what I've said" "Encourage staff to do more running commentary" "Rather than correct speech, repeat correct version" As well as this, we had 37 new sign ups to our mailing list and an increase in followers on social media. We also received invitations to talk at the Stockport Local Authority Early Years Improvement Team Conference and at a Stockport Childminding Network.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://www.lucid.ac.uk/resources/for-practitioners/stockport-consortium-of-nursery-schools-conferenc...


Description	Stockport Early Years Improvement Team Annual Conference
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Profs Elena Lieven and Anna Theakston were invited to give a workshop at the Stockport Early Years Improvement Team conference 2016. They led a workshop exploring the development of young children's conversation and narrative skills, looking specifically at how they develop a coherent narrative and the ability to take on the perspectives of others in conversations. Generated interest and discussion over how to best support children's learning and use of complex language.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://www.lucid.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/the-art-of-conversation-stockport-early-years-improvem...


Description	Story Starters Press Release - Beanstalk- Pine
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	Press Release about a new early years literacy project. Increased awareness of LuCiD and of the importance of reading in language development
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017
URL	https://www.beanstalkcharity.org.uk/news/story-starters-project-receives-1-million-of-funding


Description	Story Starters Press Release - Dolly Parton Foundation - Pine
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	Press Release about a new early years literacy project. Increased awareness of LuCiD and of the importance of reading in language development
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017
URL	http://dollyparton.com/imagination_library/1-million-dream-fund-award-to-imagination-library-uk/1349...


Description	Story Starters Press Release University of Liverpool - Pine
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	Press Release about a new early years literacy project. Increased awareness of LuCiD and of the importance of reading in language development. It also highlighted the importance of evidence-based interventions and the role LuCiD can play in supporting evaluation of language interventions.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017
URL	https://news.liverpool.ac.uk/2017/01/31/early-years-literacy-1-million-lottery-funding/


Description	Studying input effects in child language acquisition? It's Hip To Be (Chi) Square Blog - Ambridge
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Ben Ambridge wrote a blog for the LuCiD website on 'Studying input effects in child language acquisition? It's Hip To Be (Chi) Square', linked to his recently published research paper: Disentangling Effects of Input Frequency and Morphophonological Complexity on Children's Acquisition of Verb Inflection: An Elicited Production Study of Japanese. The blog was written to make the content of the research more accessible to a general audience. The blog has had 165 unique views to date from an international audience (10 different countries).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017
URL	http://www.lucid.ac.uk/news-and-events/blogs/studying-input-effects-in-child-language-acquisition-it...


Description	Synaesthesia Workshop for visiting students as part of the Psychology Discovery Day
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	Presented a workshop on synaesthesia to visiting GCSE and A level students. The session led to interesting discussions about science and cognition. Students reported a real interest in the topic, and a desire to learn more about it.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Talk at Heswall Primary School as part of their Opportunities series of assemblies - Durrant
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	Presented information to the whole school (teachers and pupils) about being a researcher generally, and then specifically about the work we are doing in the Language 0-5 Project. Engagement from a younger audience about language research and teachers were particularly interested in the language aspects of our work.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Talk at Kyoto Institute of Technology Seminar on Lanugage Development: Linking vision and language: From infant cognition to eye-tracking in the visual world
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Presented research on a model of language acquisition that uses visual input
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://www.ii.is.kit.ac.jp/id_c/talks#2015


Description	Talk at National Caiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan - Westermann
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Gert Westermann gave an invited talk to students and staff. The talk stimulated discussion and raised the profile of LuCiD.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016


Description	Talk at National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan - Westermann
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Gert Westermann gave an invited talk to students and staff. The talk stimulated discussion and raised the profile of LuCiD.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016


Description	Talk at National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan - Westermann
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Gert Westermann gave an invited talk to students and staff. The talk stimulated discussion and raised the profile of LuCiD.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016


Description	Talk at Nottingham University - Westermann
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Gert Westermann gave an invited talk to students and staff. The talk stimulated discussion and raised the profile of LuCiD.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017


Description	Talk at Nursery World conference - Monaghan
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Talk to practitioners, students, and general public about children's early language development. The audience asked lots of questions. As a result of the event, Padraic has been invited to deliver more workshops for nursery world.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017
URL	http://www.nurseryworldshow.com/london/seminar-and-masterclass/13-30-14-30


Description	Talk at the Child Language Lab at Boston University
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Gave a presentation on LuCiD in general and the overall aim of the research in WP11.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Talk on Clever Mistakes at Kids Say the Funniest Things event MCR Museum - Ambridge
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Gave a talk on the clever mistakes children make when learning language, and how this can constitute a window onto their linguistic development
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://www.lucid.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/free-family-fun-day-at-the-manchester-museum-7-8-novem...


Description	Talk on Key 103 radio - Taylor
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Talked to Regional radio station Key 103 about article published in Journal of Children and Media on children's use of phones and tablets and importance of reading.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017


Description	Talk to Parents' Network Meeting at University of Liverpool - S Durrant
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Talked about language development and answered questions from the attendees. Audience members requested contact details and links to project websites, etc. Attendees reported an increase in awareness of their role in their child's language development
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Talk to Your Baby - Theakston
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Invited talk to share the latest research from the LuCiD centre with early years practitioners and third sector organisations. Raised awareness of our work with attendees from multiple local councils, early years settings & third sector organisations as well as to influential bodies such as the local MP & the BBC
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	https://literacytrust.org.uk/early-years/talk-your-baby-conference/


Description	Talk to Your Baby Conference 2018 - Monaghan
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Monaghan gave a keynote at the 2018 Talk to Your Baby conference, on supporting children's early language development. The talk sparked questions and discussion with practitioners.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	https://literacytrust.org.uk/resources/talk-your-baby-2018-participants-area/


Description	Talk to early-years practitioners - Monaghan
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Talk and question-and-answer session on language development milestones to early years professionals in Lancaster area.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016


Description	Talk to new parents as part of Wai Yin Society first 1000 days project - Cameron-Faulkner
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Presented information on language development and ways to boost language skills in the early years. The audience comprised of new mothers from a range of ethnic minority households. The discussion following the talk was very engaged with many mothers mentioning the helpfulness of the content and their greater awareness of their role in their children's language development following the talk.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020


Description	Talk to your baby leaflet - Cameron-Faulkner/Allwood
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	We created a leaflet promoting language boosting behaviours for Chinese parents from low incomes for distribution at the Wai Yin Society, Manchester. The information in the leaflet highlighted the importance of engaging young children in conversation and also contained links to both Chinese and English versions of a well known children's song (twinkle, twinkle little star) which we recorded specifically for the target users.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017


Description	Talks given at nurseries in Finland - Granlund
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Presented research on children's language development, with emphasis on topics covered by LuCiD. Talk sparked a lively discussion among parents and nursery staff on language and language development.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016


Description	Talks given at three nurseries in Finland - Granlund
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Presented research on children's language development, with emphasis on topics covered by LuCiD. Talk sparked a lively discussion among parents and nursery staff on language and language development.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016


Description	Testing two different models of verb-marking error in children with Developmental Language Disorder and language-matched controls.- List
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Presented study findings at Child Language Symoposium. Talk sparked questions and discussion afterwards.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018


Description	That's Manchester TV Interview - Museum event 2015
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	LuCiD researchers were interviewed for local TV channel, That's Manchester, as part of the Kids Say the Funniest Things event. The news story was shown on the local channel and on their youtube channel. It increased awareness of LuCiD and of child language research more generally.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLw6AwifgkI


Description	The 3rd LuCiD Language and Communicative Development Conference
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	The annual conference aims to help early career researchers present their work in a friendly environment, and to facilitate greater knowledge sharing between LuCiD sites regarding ongoing projects.The conference sparked lots of questions and discussion.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016,2017
URL	http://www.lucid.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/3rd-lucid-language-and-communicative-development-confe...


Description	The CHREST Cognitive Architecture: Application to Expertise and Language Acquisition. Gobet
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Gobet presented a talk on the CHREST Cognitive Architecture: Application to Expertise and Language Acquisition to a group at the Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France. The talk raised the profile of LuCiD and sparked discussion.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020


Description	The Conversation Article - How we showed 'sleeping on it' really is the best way to solve a problem
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	This article in The Conversation, an international online outlet for wide dissemination to the public, practitioners, and media, intended to share research on sleep with wide, non-academic audience. It reached around 45000 readers and was shared from the original article 438 times on social media. The author was also asked for further information in the form of comments posts in response to the article.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	https://theconversation.com/how-we-showed-sleeping-on-it-really-is-the-best-way-to-solve-a-problem-4...


Description	The Conversation Article - What is going on in your brain when you sleep?
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	This article written by Padraic Monaghan for The Conversation, an international online outlet for wide dissemination to the public, practitioners, and media, intended to share research on sleep with wide, non-academic audience. It reached around 67000 readers and was shared widely on social media. One reader commented: "Fascinating article, thank you for the clear description of the study and its outcomes! As a researcher interested in the interplay between emotions and sleep the outcome of this study is very exciting. Understanding how we process emotion could lead to manipulations of behaviour that interact with underlying brain regions and improve emotional regulation. Perhaps a few decades away but exciting nonetheless."
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	https://theconversation.com/what-is-going-on-in-your-brain-when-you-sleep-39723


Description	The Curiosity Project website - Twomey
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Blog related to ESRC Future Research Leaders fellowship, also with general information about developmental psychology and language
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/curiosity/


Description	The Wonderful World of Babies- BBC2 - Lowe and Twomey
Form Of Engagement Activity	A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Drs Michelle Lowe and Katie Twomey were invited to take part as experts in a new BBC2 3 part documentary, The Wonderful World of Babies, which focuses on a range of aspects of early development. They both provided expert input and demonstrated simple experiments to illustrate aspects of language development. The show will air in the autumn of 2018.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2018/bbc-science-commissions


Description	Theakston & Koymen 'Getting ready for school', talk at ESRC Festival of Social Science - Kids say the funniest things, the Manchester Museum
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Talk given at the Manchester museum on how children learn complex language and how language changes as they enter school. The talk was recorded and is available on the LuCiD website, where anyone can watch it.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://www.lucid.ac.uk/resources/for-parents/child-language-talks/getting-ready-for-school/


Description	Toddler Robots help solve the language puzzle- blog- Twomey
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Dr Twomey wrote a blog about using a robot (iCub) to find out more about how children learn language. Following publication of the blog, she has been contacted by a school student in the US to find out more about the project and potential progress in robotics in the future.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://www.lucid.ac.uk/news-and-events/blogs/toddler-robots-help-solve-the-language-puzzle/


Description	Training workshop for Speech and Language Therapists
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	This workshop aimed to introduce speech and language therapists (SLTs) to a range of research methods and resources that could be used to informally assess children's language. The workshop was attended by 20 SLTs from across the UK. It increased awareness of outcome measures and available research resources amongst SLTs. Feedback from some of the attendees suggests they will use the learning in their practice: "I will use some of the assessments from the LUCID website, and I will consider whether children make statistically significant progress pre/post therapy." "All ideas for assessment were valuable and I will try to implement as much as I can either myself or pass on to colleagues"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://www.lucid.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/slt-workshop-methods-for-informally-assessing-children...


Description	Universal Grammar Guardian Podcast - Ambridge
Form Of Engagement Activity	A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Prof Ben Ambridge contributed to a Guardian Science Podcast on the Universal Grammar debate. He offered an alternative view to the Chomsky and his followers. The podcast was published on the Guardian website in January 2017. At time of reporting (1 March 2017) it had been shared 997 times on facebook and had started an interesting debate in the comments section amongst some listeners. It was also shared on Guardian Science twitter feed to its ~6000 followers.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017
URL	https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2017/jan/11/universal-grammar-are-we-born-knowing-the-rule...


Description	University of Liverpool Departmental Open Day - M Peter
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Undergraduate students
Results and Impact	Welcomed students to the department and explained the type of research (specifically language) that they can become involved in should they choose to come to university. As a result we hope that some of these students might come to this University.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Up to Speed, Nursery World Article - Rowland & Peter
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Article in national magazine for nursery practitioners. Increase in visitors to our website and social media platforms.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://www.lucid.ac.uk/media/1428/article-1_peter-and-rowland-150615.pdf


Description	Video interview about Campus in the City
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Rebecca Frost completed a video interview about the Babylab and LuCiD to promote our involvement in Campus In The City. The video helped to raise awareness about Campus in the City and also enhanced Rebecca's skills in being interviewed by the media.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://campusinthecity.com/2015/06/17/campus-in-the-city-2015/


Description	Virve Vihman, Elena Lieven, & Anna Theakston. Something from nothing: What do children learn from omitted arguments in the input? Talk given at Child Language Symposium, Warwick, 2015
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Presented research on acquisition of argument structure in Estonian. Sparked discussion.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	https://www.regonline.co.uk/builder/site/default.aspx?EventID=1628415


Description	Visit of Finnish Psychology PhD students
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Ten PhD students and two faculty from universities across Finland visited Lancaster University. They visited the Babylab and took part in a two day series of talks on language and linguistics with students/ staff from Lancaster University. The two day event sparked questions and discussion. Following the visit, one of the Faculty members from Finland reported that "this visit was a memorable experience for our students, some reporting on their work in English for the first time, and overall a worth while, most educating visit for all".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	WEIRCLE workshop - Cameron-Faulkner
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Discussed methodological issues of cross linguistic research. Raised awareness of LuCiD. networking
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	WP14 at WEIRCLE workshop
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Type Of Presentation	poster presentation
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Presented preliminary analysis from WP14. Talk sparked questions and discussion afterwards and increased awareness of LuCiD. networking
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Word for word - Nursery World Magazine article
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Three page article in Nursery World Magazine on how children learn words with tips on how to help this process. Nursery World Magazine has 14,000 print subscribers and 120,000 online users each month and so this article was seen by a large group of practitioners, raising awareness of child language and of LuCiD. Local nurseries reported having read the article and found it very interesting. The article gave some of our early career researchers the opportunity to write accessible content for a non-academic audience, enhancing their science communication skills.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://www.lucid.ac.uk/media/1446/article-2_frost-twomey-taylor-westermann-and-monaghan.pdf


Description	Workshop on "Reappraising the role of linear structure in language". Netherlands Institute of Advanced Science - Lieven
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	As the sole language acquisition researcher, contributed an important perspective to the research conducted.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015


Description	Workshop: Building Realistic Models of Language Development
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	The aim of this two day workshop was to bring together specialists in language development with language modellers interested in simulating developmental data, to stimulate the cross-fertilisation of ideas. The workshop sparked questions and discussion about how best to communicate research to multidisciplinary audiences. There are plans to run a follow up workshop in the future.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://www.lucid.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/building-realistic-models-of-language-development/


Description	blog post for National Literacy Trust website - Monaghan
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Monaghan wrote a blog for the National Literacy Trust on why early language development is critical for later literacy development.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	https://medium.com/national-literacy-trust/closing-the-word-gap-812b2b41b413?source=rss----5e20d9eab...


Description	eMagazine Article - Learning about language acquisition - Bidgood
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	Article in a national magazine for A-Level English students and teachers. This article was also published on the LuCiD website, so will have reached a wider audience. Since then, I have been asked to write a second article (due for publication in the Autumn 2016), to deliver training and to speak at the publisher's annual conference.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://lucid.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/emagazine-article-language-acquisition-how-the-language-0-5-...


Description	emagazine - What comes before words? - Bidgood
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	Article in national magazine for A-Level English students and their teachers.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://www.lucid.ac.uk/media/1658/emagazine-article-gestures-babble-small.pdf


Description	presentation at iccg8, Osnabrueck, Germany, workshop Modelling the mechanisms
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Present research on word category learning. Influenced group discussion
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014


Description	presentation at ncpw14, Lancaster, UK
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Presented research on word category learning. Answered questions
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014

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