Origins of learning difficulties and behaviour problems: from behavioural genetics to behavioural genomics
Lead Research Organisation:
King's College London
Department Name: Social Genetic and Dev Psychiatry Centre
Abstract
Learning difficulties and their associated behaviour problems incur major social cost because they affect so many children and their families, they often persist into adolescence and adulthood, and their effects spill into many areas of children?s lives. Understanding the genetic and environmental origins of these problems is critical to predicting and preventing them. Since 1995, MRC programme grant G500079 has provided continuous support for the UK Twins Early Development Study (TEDS) on the genetics of learning difficulties and associated behaviour problems in childhood, the world?s largest study of twins assessed from infancy to adolescence. TEDS findings have led to new ways of thinking about the genetic and environmental origins of learning difficulties and behaviour problems in childhood, most notably a ?generalist genes? theory of learning difficulties. These findings have charted the course for molecular genetic research that has begun to identify genes responsible for the substantial genetic influence on these disorders. During 2010-15, we will capitalise on this 15-year programme of research by assessing 5000 pairs of at age 16, a crucial developmental turning point socially and biologically coming as it does at the end of compulsory education and near the end of puberty. Using Web-based tests that have been developed as part of TEDS, we will test the twins for aspects of learning that have proven most important and interesting in our research: reading, language and speech, mathematics, science, and general cognitive ability. We will also assess school performance (GCSE), behaviour problems, and home and school environments. This research is not merely about the nature-nurture issue of how much genetics affects learning difficulties and their associated problems. The classic twin design comparing identical and non-identical twins allows us to ask key questions about development (e.g., do genetic effects change from age to age?), about links between disorders (e.g., do different genes affect different disorders such as reading and mathematics?), and about the interplay between genes and environment (e.g., do genes affect our experiences?). Great value has been added to TEDS by obtaining two million DNA markers on 4000 of the TEDS children, which will make it possible for the first time to conduct systematic searches across the genome for genes responsible for these genetic effects. Finding these genes will make it possible to identify children at risk long before they fail in school and to foster environmental interventions that prevent the onset of these disorders.
Technical Summary
Learning difficulties are among the most common problems in childhood and can have a major impact on outcomes later in life. Our programme of research brings together quantitative genetic and molecular genetic strategies to understand the genetic and environmental origins of learning difficulties and associated behaviour problems. The research will capitalise on the Twins Early Development Study (TEDS), the premier study of UK twins assessed since infancy as part of our continuous MRC programme grant funding (G500079) since 1995. During 2010-15, we will assess 5000 TEDS twin pairs after age 16, a crucial developmental turning point at the end of school and puberty as children begin to make their own way in their worlds. Testing such a large sample has been made possible by the use of an innovative battery of Web-based tests developed in TEDS. In collaboration with 12 former TEDS students, we will focus on testing genetic hypotheses at age 16 that have emerged from our TEDS research in childhood in reading, language and speech, mathematics, science, general cognitive ability, as well as school performance (GCSE), co-morbid behaviour problems, and home and school environments. We will continue to apply state-of-the-art model-fitting analyses to test hypotheses about development (e.g., genetic change and continuity from age to age), multivariate links between disorders (e.g., genetic co-morbidity and heterogeneity), and genotype-environment (GE) interplay (e.g., GE correlation and GE interaction). These quantitative genetic analyses have charted the course for our molecular genetic research which will benefit from 2 million DNA markers (SNPs and CNVs) that we have recently obtained for each of 4000 TEDS children (Affymetrix 6.0 GeneChip microarrays). These genomic data will greatly increase our ability to conduct genome-wide association (GWA) studies of the major domains of TEDS. The overall hypothesis is that our multiple-stage QTL (quantitative trait locus) GWA design guided by our quantitative genetic analyses will be able to detect and replicate SNP/CNV associations. Although each SNP/CNV association is likely to have only a small effect, multiple SNP/CNV associations can be aggregated for each phenotype in what we call a ?QTL set?. These QTL sets will be uniquely useful as indices of genetic risk in behavioural genomic research on the developmental, multivariate and GE interplay origins of learning difficulties and associated behaviour problems.
Organisations
- King's College London, United Kingdom (Collaboration, Lead Research Organisation)
- Unlisted (Collaboration)
- University of California, Berkeley (Collaboration)
- Karolinska Institute, Sweden (Collaboration)
- University of Sussex, United Kingdom (Collaboration)
- Birkbeck, University of London (Collaboration)
- University of New Mexico, United States (Collaboration)
- University of Colorado at Boulder, United States (Collaboration)
- University of York, United Kingdom (Collaboration)
People |
ORCID iD |
| Robert Plomin (Principal Investigator) | |
| Ian Craig (Co-Investigator) |
Publications
Arden R
(2014)
Genes influence young children's human figure drawings and their association with intelligence a decade later.
in Psychological science
Ayorech Z
(2017)
Genetic Influence on Intergenerational Educational Attainment.
in Psychological science
Ayorech Z
(2017)
Personalized Media: A Genetically Informative Investigation of Individual Differences in Online Media Use.
in PloS one
Ayorech Z
(2016)
Publication Trends Over 55 Years of Behavioral Genetic Research.
in Behavior genetics
Bartels M
(2018)
Childhood aggression and the co-occurrence of behavioural and emotional problems: results across ages 3-16 years from multiple raters in six cohorts in the EU-ACTION project.
in European child & adolescent psychiatry
Brunsdon VE
(2015)
Exploring the cognitive features in children with autism spectrum disorder, their co-twins, and typically developing children within a population-based sample.
in Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines
Bulik CM
(2017)
Solving the Eating Disorders Puzzle Piece by Piece.
in Biological psychiatry
Cederlöf M
(2017)
Reading problems and major mental disorders - co-occurrences and familial overlaps in a Swedish nationwide cohort.
in Journal of psychiatric research
Cheesman R
(2017)
Childhood behaviour problems show the greatest gap between DNA-based and twin heritability.
in Translational psychiatry
| Description | Series of Presentations - Department for Education |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Witness - Education Committee (Underachievement in Education by White Working Class Children) |
| Geographic Reach | Asia |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a national consultation |
| Description | Behavior Genetics Association - Travel Award |
| Amount | $685 (USD) |
| Organisation | Behavior Genetics Association |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | Global |
| Start | 06/2014 |
| End | 06/2014 |
| Description | British Academy - Small Grant |
| Amount | £10,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | The British Academy |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship (Haworth) |
| Amount | £258,002 (GBP) |
| Organisation | The British Academy |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2011 |
| End | 09/2014 |
| Description | British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship (Trzaskowski) |
| Amount | £273,711 (GBP) |
| Organisation | The British Academy |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2014 |
| End | 08/2017 |
| Description | British Psychological Society - Travel Award |
| Amount | £100 (GBP) |
| Organisation | British Psychological Society (BPS) |
| Sector | Learned Society |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2013 |
| End | 10/2013 |
| Description | ERC Advanced Investigator Grant |
| Amount | £1,752,641 (GBP) |
| Organisation | European Research Council (ERC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 05/2012 |
| End | 04/2017 |
| Description | EU FP7 |
| Amount | £316,600 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 602768 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 06/2014 |
| End | 05/2019 |
| Description | IOPPN/MRC Excellence Studentship |
| Amount | £25,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | King's College London |
| Department | Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2013 |
| End | 09/2014 |
| Description | MRC Centenary award (Haworth and Davis) |
| Amount | £15,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | MRC New Investigator Award (Ronald) |
| Amount | £450,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2011 |
| End | 09/2014 |
| Description | Medical Research Foundation - Research Grant |
| Amount | £15,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | G9817803-E02/1 |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Department | Medical Research Foundation |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | NIH Competing Research Application (R01 CATSLife) |
| Amount | $1,436,439 (USD) |
| Funding ID | AG046938 |
| Organisation | National Institutes of Health (NIH) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United States |
| Start | 06/2015 |
| End | 05/2020 |
| Description | NIH Competing Research Application (R21 Danese) |
| Amount | £172,700 (GBP) |
| Organisation | National Institutes of Health (NIH) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United States |
| Start | 08/2011 |
| End | 07/2013 |
| Description | Nuffield Foundation - Grants for Research and Innovation |
| Amount | £154,564 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EDU 40881 |
| Organisation | Nuffield Foundation |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | Russian Federation Grants for State support for research (Kovas) |
| Amount | £3,100,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Government of Russia |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Russian Federation |
| Start | 11/2011 |
| End | 12/2013 |
| Description | Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education - Travel Award |
| Amount | € 500 (EUR) |
| Organisation | Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Sweden |
| Start | 02/2014 |
| End | 02/2014 |
| Description | Waterloo Foundation - Research Award (Child Development) |
| Amount | £42,173 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | York Dyslexia project 1204/1776 |
| Organisation | The Waterloo Foundation |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2013 |
| End | 10/2014 |
| Title | Web-based assessment of spatial visualisation abilities |
| Description | A series of tests of mental rotation and other spatial visualisation abilities, suitable for easy, remote administration via web browsers |
| Type Of Material | Physiological assessment or outcome measure |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | (1) Paper published: "Rotation is visualisation, 3D is 2D: using a novel measure to investigate the genetics of spatial ability", doi:10.1038/srep30545. (2) As well as permitting large-scale data collection in our own sample, the measure is available to other researchers, facilitating easy administration of a standardised test of this spatial skill. For example, this test is being used for cross-cultural comparisons with Russian and Chinese samples. |
| Title | Web-based battery of diverse spatial abilities |
| Description | Diverse tests across the breadth of the domain of spatial ability, all suitable for easy, remote administration via web browsers. |
| Type Of Material | Physiological assessment or outcome measure |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | (1) Paper published: "Phenotypic and genetic evidence for a unifactorial structure of spatial abilities", doi:10.1073/pnas.1607883114. (2) As well as permitting large-scale data collection in our own sample, the measure is available to other researchers, facilitating easy administration of a standardised test of this spatial skill. For example, these tests are being used for cross-cultural comparisons with Russian and Chinese samples. |
| Title | Web-based battery of navigational abilities. |
| Description | A 'gamified' test of diverse navigational skills in a 3D virtual environment, in a format suitable for easy, remote administration via web browsers. |
| Type Of Material | Physiological assessment or outcome measure |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | (1) A paper is in preparation. (2) As well as permitting large-scale data collection in our own sample, the measure is available to other researchers, facilitating easy administration of a standardised test of this spatial skill. For example, this battery is being used for cross-cultural comparisons with Russian and Chinese samples. |
| Title | The spACE analysis approach to geocoded twin data |
| Description | This is a novel statistical and visual analysis approach to twin data that incorporates spatial information from geocoding twin pairs. It identifies genetic and environmental geographical hotspots for phenotypes: areas where genetic or environmental variation are responsible for more of the population variation in a trait. The results for TEDS are presented in a series of interactive maps of the UK. |
| Type Of Material | Data analysis technique |
| Year Produced | 2012 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The original article is available Open Access from Molecular Psychiatry, and software implementing the approach is available Open Source from http://bit.ly/tedsgeo. The member of our research team who developed the technique has ongoing collaborations with several other twin samples around the world to apply the approach. The technique has received national and international press coverage resulting in a record number of daily visits to the TEDS website. The PubMed ID for this paper is 22688189. |
| URL | http://bit.ly/tedsgeo |
| Description | Attachment study |
| Organisation | University of Reading |
| Department | School of Psychology and Clinical Language Science |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Provision of access to the Twins Early Development Study sample - including contact details for the sample. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Access to data |
| Impact | Publications |
| Start Year | 2010 |
| Description | Biomarkers |
| Organisation | King's College London |
| Department | Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Provision of access to the Twins Early Development Study sample - including contact details for the sample. |
| Collaborator Contribution | NA |
| Impact | No outputs or outcomes at this point. |
| Start Year | 2010 |
| Description | CATSLife |
| Organisation | University of California |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Will assist with the many CATSLife analyses that emerge from the extension of CAP and LTS into early adulthood. However, the primary focus of the analyses will be to replicate CATSLife results using the TEDS longitudinal dataset on 7500 pairs of twins, which includes many of the mediators and moderators assessed in CAP and LTS in emerging adulthood, although not to the upper end of the age-span in CATSLife and without as much data on physical health as in CATSLife. Attempts will also be made to conduct combined adoption/twin analyses of CATSLife, LTS and TEDS when possible. Finally, TEDS has genome wide genotype data for nearly 6000 unrelated TEDS participants, which will enable SNP-based genetic analyses of variance and covariance and polygenic score analyses between DNA markers and measures, mediators and moderators relevant to the proposed CATSLife project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The resulting Colorado Adoption/Twin Study of Lifespan behavioral development and cognitive aging (CATSLife) will be the first prospective longitudinal study of the etiologies of behavioral and cognitive changes during the transition to middle adulthood. The aims are to: conduct a genetically sensitive study of individual differences in behavioral and cognitive change at the cusp of middle adulthood, in 1600 participants studied almost yearly from birth to early adulthood; map individual differences in growth and maintenance of cognitive abilities; evaluate and trace measured physical factors and health behaviors, biochemical markers and measured genetic pathways important to sustaining cognitive performance; and track measured environmental factors that may decrease, sustain or boost cognitive performance. The CATSLife will include expanded assessment of cognitive performance, physical functioning and health behaviors, gene pathways, including measured genetic variation in lipid, synaptic plasticity and cell-signaling paths (based on chip array variants), biochemical markers (e.g., serum lipids), and environmental measures (e.g., engagement in leisure activities). We will assess etiologies of changes in physical health and cognitive functioning, and test whether associations across domains change with age due to changes in genetic variation or self-selection of environments. Measured gene pathway sets, and environmental measures, including engagement in leisure activities and neighborhood-level variables, will be evaluated as potential factors underlying dynamics of genetic variation or environmental selection. Thus, the CATSLife will provide an unparalleled opportunity to assess prospectively the etiologies of cognitive change, and test the saliency of early childhood versus proximal influences on the genesis of cognitive decline. |
| Impact | PMC4967849 |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | CATSLife |
| Organisation | University of Colorado |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Will assist with the many CATSLife analyses that emerge from the extension of CAP and LTS into early adulthood. However, the primary focus of the analyses will be to replicate CATSLife results using the TEDS longitudinal dataset on 7500 pairs of twins, which includes many of the mediators and moderators assessed in CAP and LTS in emerging adulthood, although not to the upper end of the age-span in CATSLife and without as much data on physical health as in CATSLife. Attempts will also be made to conduct combined adoption/twin analyses of CATSLife, LTS and TEDS when possible. Finally, TEDS has genome wide genotype data for nearly 6000 unrelated TEDS participants, which will enable SNP-based genetic analyses of variance and covariance and polygenic score analyses between DNA markers and measures, mediators and moderators relevant to the proposed CATSLife project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The resulting Colorado Adoption/Twin Study of Lifespan behavioral development and cognitive aging (CATSLife) will be the first prospective longitudinal study of the etiologies of behavioral and cognitive changes during the transition to middle adulthood. The aims are to: conduct a genetically sensitive study of individual differences in behavioral and cognitive change at the cusp of middle adulthood, in 1600 participants studied almost yearly from birth to early adulthood; map individual differences in growth and maintenance of cognitive abilities; evaluate and trace measured physical factors and health behaviors, biochemical markers and measured genetic pathways important to sustaining cognitive performance; and track measured environmental factors that may decrease, sustain or boost cognitive performance. The CATSLife will include expanded assessment of cognitive performance, physical functioning and health behaviors, gene pathways, including measured genetic variation in lipid, synaptic plasticity and cell-signaling paths (based on chip array variants), biochemical markers (e.g., serum lipids), and environmental measures (e.g., engagement in leisure activities). We will assess etiologies of changes in physical health and cognitive functioning, and test whether associations across domains change with age due to changes in genetic variation or self-selection of environments. Measured gene pathway sets, and environmental measures, including engagement in leisure activities and neighborhood-level variables, will be evaluated as potential factors underlying dynamics of genetic variation or environmental selection. Thus, the CATSLife will provide an unparalleled opportunity to assess prospectively the etiologies of cognitive change, and test the saliency of early childhood versus proximal influences on the genesis of cognitive decline. |
| Impact | PMC4967849 |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | LEAP study |
| Organisation | Birkbeck, University of London |
| Department | Department of Psychological Sciences |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | TEDS twins, who will be 15-18-years-old at the start of the project, will be assessed on psychotic experiences over three years. All contact will be carried out by the TEDS team. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Access to data |
| Impact | Publications |
| Start Year | 2011 |
| Description | Pilot study for investigating parenting and child-outcomes |
| Organisation | University of Sussex |
| Department | School of Psychology Sussex |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | NA - project has just started. |
| Collaborator Contribution | NA |
| Impact | NA |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | Pupils' choices as they prepare to leave school |
| Organisation | University of York |
| Department | Department of Education |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | NA - project has just started. |
| Collaborator Contribution | NA |
| Impact | NA |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | STINT |
| Organisation | Karolinska Institute |
| Department | Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics |
| Country | Sweden |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Exchange of students |
| Collaborator Contribution | Exchange of students |
| Impact | NA |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | Second Language Acquisition |
| Organisation | University of New Mexico |
| Department | Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Dale, P.S., Harlaar, N., & Plomin, R. (2012). Nature and nurture in school-based second language achievement. Language Learning, 62, 28-48. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2012.00705.x |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partner is corresponding author on this paper. |
| Impact | Dale, P.S., Harlaar, N., & Plomin, R. (2012). Nature and nurture in school-based second language achievement. Language Learning, 62, 28-48. 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2012.00705.x |
| Start Year | 2011 |
| Description | Specific Language Impairment |
| Organisation | University of New Mexico |
| Department | Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Manuscript in preparation based upon data arising from the grant. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partner is corresponding author. |
| Impact | Manuscript in preparation based upon data arising from the grant. |
| Start Year | 2011 |
| Description | Swedish conscript sample and Swedish Patient Register |
| Organisation | Karolinska Institute |
| Department | Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics |
| Country | Sweden |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The idea, analyses and write-up using the Swedish databases to investigate the aetiology of mild versus severe intellectual disability. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Providing the databases. |
| Impact | This collaboration has resulted in abstracts for talks and a paper that is currently in preparation. |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | 2011 Interview - Associated Press |
| 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 | Principal investigator interviewed by Alicia Chang and Malcolm Ritter, journalists at the Associated Press. Reported widely, e.g.: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/9/specific-iq-genes-still-elusive-latest-hunt-finds/?page=all |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| URL | http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/9/specific-iq-genes-still-elusive-latest-hunt-finds/?pa... |
| Description | 2011 Interview - ITV Four of a Kind television programme |
| 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 | Member of research team was invited to assess four siblings - identical quadruplets. Interview was structured to demonstrate and explain the results from the assessment, and to talk about explanations for these siblings' developmental differences Programme was broadcast at prime time and so had a significant public impact in explaining nature/nurture. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| Description | 2011 Interview - Los Angeles Times |
| 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 | Principal investigator interviewed by Alan Zarembo, journalist at the Los Angeles Times. Newspaper article: http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jul/05/health/la-he-autism-20110705 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| URL | http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jul/05/health/la-he-autism-20110705 |
| Description | 2011 Interview - Radio 4 Woman's Hour |
| 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 | Member of the research team gave an interview to Radio 4's Woman's Hour programme. Radio programme: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b011vg8z/Womans_Hour_15_06_2011/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| URL | http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b011vg8z/Womans_Hour_15_06_2011/ |
| Description | 2011 Interview - Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative |
| 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 | Member of research team interviewed by Deborah Rudacille, News Editor. Online article: https://sfari.org/news-and-opinion/news/2011/twin-study-suggests-autism-traits-inherited-independently |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| URL | https://sfari.org/news-and-opinion/news/2011/twin-study-suggests-autism-traits-inherited-independent... |
| Description | 2011 Interview - The Globe and Mail, Canada |
| 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 | Principal investigator interviewed by Nathan VanderKlippe, journalist at The Globe and Mail newspaper (Canada). http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/parenting/infant/infant-trends/what-can-twins-teach-us-about-genetics/article2105342/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| URL | http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/parenting/infant/infant-trends/what-can-twins-teach-us-about-gen... |
| Description | 2011 Interview - The Independent |
| 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 | Principal investigator interviewed by Kate Hilpern, freelance journalist. Newspaper article: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/who-made-me-what-i-am-2345823.html |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| Description | 2011 Interview - The Independent |
| 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 | Principal investigator interviewed by Clint Witchalls, freelance journalist. Newspaper article: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/schools/should-we-sound-the-bell-on-singlesex-schools-2367032.html |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| URL | http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/schools/should-we-sound-the-bell-on-singlesex-schools-23... |
| Description | 2011 Interview - Weekendavisen (Denmark) |
| 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 | Principal investigator interviewed by Lone Frank, Science Correspondent at Weekendavisen (Denmark). Newspaper article (in Danish) appeared in Weekendavisen. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| Description | 2013 Interview - BBC Radio 3 Night Waves |
| 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 | Principal investigator was interviewed for BBC Radio 3 Night Waves programme. Broadcast was entitled 'Genetics and Education'. NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01nkgv2 |
| Description | 2013 Interview - BBC Radio 4 Start the Week |
| 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 | Member of the research team was interviewed for the BBC Radio 4 Start the Week programme. The broadcast was entitled 'The Building Blocks of Life and Intelligence'. NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03kpnjn |
| Description | 2013 Interview - Education Media Centre |
| 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 | Member of the research team was interviewed by the Education Media Centre for a live briefing on the subject of genes and education. NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | http://educationmediacentre.org/briefings/genetics-education-experts-audio-reactions/ |
| Description | 2013 Interview - Radio New Zealand |
| 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 | Member of the research team was interviewed on the subject of 'The impact of genetics on education and achievement' by a journalist from Radio New Zealand's Nine to Noon programme. NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/20131114 |
| Description | 2013 Interview - Science Uncovered |
| 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 | Principal investigator was interviewed by Mun-Keat Looi, journalist at Science Uncovered, for an article entitled 'Inside the mind of a genius'. NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | http://issuu.com/jojoii/docs/science_uncovered_-____3_february_2 |
| Description | 2013 Interview - The Guardian |
| 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 | Principal investigator was interviewed by Shiv Malik, journalist at The Guardian, for an article entitled 'Academic experts criticise Boris Johnson IQ claims'. NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/nov/28/academic-criticise-boris-johnson-iq-claims |
| Description | 2013 Interview - The Times |
| 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 | Principal investigator was interviewed by Matt Ridley, journalist at The Times, for an article entitled 'Britain's IQ test is to raise the lower levels'. NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/columnists/article3943358.ece |
| Description | 2013 Interviews re Shakeshaft et al PLoS ONE |
| 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 | Principal investigator and members of the research were interviewed by journalists from numerous media outlets. Numerous articles in the print and broadcast media, including: TV: Sky News and BBC World News Radio: Radio 4 Today programme and Radio 5 Live http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-25337953 http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24745-nature-more-than-nurture-determines-exam-success.html http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/science/article3946805.ece http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/richard-garner-the-genetics-route-could-spell-a-new-direction-for-education-8998652.html http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/11/genetics-variation-exam-results1 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2522299/Genetics-school-biggest-factor-exam-success-DNA-twice-significant-environmental-factors.html http://www.standard.co.uk/panewsfeeds/success-more-nature-than-nurture-8999044.html |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | 2013 Invited talk - Progress Educational Trust |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Principal investigator gave an invited talk entitled 'MZ, DZ and DNA' at the Progress Educational Trust's conference 'Double Take: Twins in Genetics and Fertility Treatment' on 04/12/13. NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | http://www.progress.org.uk/conference2013 |
| Description | 2014 Documentary - University of Warwick |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Member of the research team was interviewed about their research on genes and happiness, and a brief documentary of the research was made. NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/features/what-makes-us-happy/claire-haworth/ |
| Description | 2014 Expert panel - Cheltenham Science Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Principal investigator appeared as part of an expert panel discussing the subject 'What is school for?' at the Cheltenham Science Festival on 06/06/14. NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.cheltenhamfestivals.com/science/whats-on/2014/what-is-school-for/ |
| Description | 2014 Expert panel - Hay Festival (HowTheLightGetsIn) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Member of the research team participated in an expert panel session which generated much further discussion from the audience about the science. NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://iai.tv/video/the-science-of-sex |
| Description | 2014 Focus group - TEDS |
| 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 | Participants in your research and patient groups |
| Results and Impact | Principal investigator and members of the research team ran a focus group at the SGDP Centre at which TEDS participants discussed their participation in the study. NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | 2014 Interview - BBC Radio 4 Intelligence: Born Smart, Born Equal, Born Different |
| 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 | Principal investigator was interviewed for a three-part BBC Radio 4 programme entitled 'Intelligence: Born Smart, Born Equal, Born Different'. Three episodes are available at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b041xbxc (Born Smart) http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b042jhl3 (Born Equal) http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b042zsxv (Born Different) NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | 2014 Interview - Daily Mail |
| 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 | Members of the research team were interviewed by Jenny Hope, journalist at the Daily Mail, for an article entitled 'Find it hard to place a face? It's all in the genes: Inability to recognise people is inherited, study says'. NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2622909/Find-hard-place-face-Its-genes-Inability-recognise... |
| Description | 2014 Interview - Die Zeit |
| 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 | Principal Investigator was interviewed by two journalists from Die Zeit (German newspaper) for an article on the subject of genetics and education. Forthcoming article. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | 2014 Interview - NTN24 |
| 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 | Principal investigator was interviewed by a journalist from NTN24 news channel for an article entitled 'Establecen que la habilidad matemática y la del lenguaje están determinadas por los mismos genes'. NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.canalntn24.com/noticia/establecen-que-la-habilidad-matematica-y-la-del-lenguaje-estan-det... |
| Description | 2014 Interview - Radio 5 Live Naked Scientists |
| 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 | Principal investigator was interviewed for BBC Radio 5 Live programme 'The Naked Scientists' on the subject of maths and reading. NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/content/interviews/interview/1000851/ |
| Description | 2014 Interview - Simons Foundation |
| 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 | Member of the research team was interviewed by Nicholette Zeliadt for SFARI (Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative). SFARI article: http://sfari.org/news-and-opinion/news/2014/roots-of-language-troubles-autism-traits-may-diverge?utm_source=Autism+research+news+from+SFARI.org&utm_campaign=91a2e30756-SFARI_Newsletter_20140916&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0a60ccb345-91a2e30756-385161514 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://sfari.org/news-and-opinion/news/2014/roots-of-language-troubles-autism-traits-may-diverge?utm... |
| Description | 2014 Interview - The Guardian |
| 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 | Principal investigator was interviewed by Peter Wilby, journalist at The Guardian, for an article entitled 'Psychologist on a mission to give every child a Learning Chip'. NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/feb/18/psychologist-robert-plomin-says-genes-crucial-educa... |
| Description | 2014 Interviews re Arden et al Psychological Science |
| 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 | Members of the research team were interviewed by journalists from numerous media outlets. Numerous articles appeared online and in print - for example: The Times: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/science/article4180349.ece Independent: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/toddlers-who-can-draw-as-are-more-likely-to-grow-up-to-be-clever-9676971.html Daily Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/11041402/Childrens-drawings-could-be-a-clue-to-their-intelligence-study-finds.html Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2728381/How-child-s-drawings-four-clue-cleverness-Young-depict-human-form-artworks-likely-brighter-teenage-years.html The Australian: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/latest-news/drawings-at-age-4-linked-to-intelligence/story-fn3dxix6-1227029015847?nk=6336cb770997e9f439c16b43fb959393 MSN NZ: http://health.msn.co.nz/healthnews/8892864/drawings-at-age-4-linked-to-intelligence BBC News: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-28852471 TIME magazine online: http://time.com/3140944/what-kids-drawings-say-about-their-intelligence/ Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2014/08/19/drawings-may-indicate-later-intelligence-according-to-new-study/ O Globo (Brazil): http://oglobo.globo.com/sociedade/saude/criancas-que-conseguem-desenhar-aos-4-anos-sao-mais-inteligentes-na-adolescencia-13656465 Xinhua (China): http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/sci/2014-08/20/c_133569047.htm Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/08/19/kids-drawings-children-intelligence_n_5690247.html NPR: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/08/20/341604160/what-kids-drawings-say-about-their-future-thinking-skills?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=storiesfromnpr BBC Brazil: http://www.bbc.co.uk/portuguese/noticias/2014/08/140818_desenho_crianca_mdb.shtml Member of research team appeared on Sky News and BBC Radio 5 Live (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0252r6h) to discuss the paper's findings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-28852471 |
| Description | 2014 Interviews re Davis et al Nature Communications |
| 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 | Member of the research team was interviewed by a number of journalists in relation to a paper which appeared in Nature Communications (doi: 10.1038/ncomms5204). Resultant articles included the following: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-28211676 http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/science/article4142574.ece http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/10953914/Children-do-not-have-innate-ability-in-English-or-maths.html http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-math-reading-genes-20140711-story.html NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | 2014 Interviews re Krapohl et al PNAS |
| 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 | Members of the research team were interviewed by journalists from numerous media outlets. Numerous articles appeared online and in print - for example: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/genes-partly-decide-how-well-you-do-at-school-study-finds-9780610.html http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/science/nature-beats-nurture-more-60-4391333 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2782433/Bad-exam-results-Blame-PARENTS-Child-s-educational-success-based-genes-environment.html http://www.newstatesman.com/education/2014/10/how-genes-can-influence-children-s-exam-results http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2014/10/genes-dont-just-influence-your-iq-they-determine-how-well-you-do-school http://www.latimes.com/science/la-sci-sn-educational-attainment-genetic-20141006-story.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/10/12/how-genes-influence-childrens-success-in-school |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | 2014 Invited talk - IOPPN |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Member of the research team gave an invited talk entitled 'Something old, something new: disentangling genetic and environmental influences on anxiety and depression' at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience on 08/10/14. The talk covered her exploration of the interplay between both genetic and environmental influences on anxiety and depression. NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.kcl.ac.uk/ioppn/news/engagement/inaugural/talks.aspx |
| Description | 2014 Invited talk - Morpeth School |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Principal investigator gave an invited talk at Morpeth School, London, on the subject of the genetic influences on educational achievement. NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.cambridgeheath.towerhamlets.sch.uk/232/news/article/16/morpeth-school-welcomes-professor-... |
| Description | 2014 Invited talk - Psychology Society at Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Member of the research team gave an invited talk to the Psychology Society at Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge on 17/01/14. Talk was entitled 'Herodotus, Twins, and Dogs'. Audience consisted of students studying psychology at AS level and A level. The College Principal wrote after to say that the talk had generated a lot of interest in scientific research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | 2014 Invited talk - SGDP Centre |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Principal investigator gave an invited talk at the MRC SGDP Centre, IOPPN, on 08/10/14. Talk was entitled 'TEDS at 20: 1994-2014'. Synopsis: The Twins Early Development Study (TEDS) began 20 years ago, at the same time as the MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry (SGDP) Centre. The histories of TEDS and the SGDP Centre are intertwined and TEDS illustrates the remarkable advances in SGDP research at the interface between nature and nurture during the past 20 years. NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | 2014 Press Release re Ritchie et al Child Development |
| 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 | Member of the research team issued a press release in relation to a paper in Child Development entitled 'Does learning to read improve intelligence? A longitudinal multivariate analysis in identical twins from age 7 to 16' (doi: 10.1111/cdev.12272). NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.ed.ac.uk/news/2014/reading-240714 |
| Description | 2015 40-minute audio interview with the UK Guardian newspaper |
| 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 | July 2015: 40-minute audio interview with Robert for the UK Guardian newspaper: http://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2015/jul/17/genetic-screen-science-podcast |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2015/jul/17/genetic-screen-science-podcast |
| Description | 2015 Coverage of Shakeshaft et al paper in PNAS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | News coverage of Genetic specificity of face recognition paper |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28258-our-knack-for-remembering-faces-is-a-highly-evolved-ski... |
| Description | 2015 Half-hour film about Robert Plomin's Twins Early Development Study (TEDS) |
| 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 | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | In May 2015 a half-hour film about Robert Plomin's Twins Early Development Study (TEDS) was produced to mark 20 years of the study: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LaGbuQnBnQ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LaGbuQnBnQ |
| Description | 2015 Half-hour interview BBC Radio 4's distinguished program, The Life Scientific |
| 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 | October 2015: Half-hour interview with Robert Plomin on BBC Radio 4's distinguished program, The Life Scientific: (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06j1qts) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06j1qts |
| Description | 2015 Headline speaker for the Times Festival of Education: 'Is Intelligence Heritable?' |
| 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 | Headline speaker for the Times Festival of Education: 'Is Intelligence Heritable' 17 June 2015 (Welliington College) And 'Genetics and Education' 18 June 2015. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | 2015 ISIR - Invited talk (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Professor Plomin gave a talk to a predominantly academic audience. The title of his talk was 'A genome-wide analysis of putative functional and exonic variation associated with extremely high intelligence' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | 2015 ISIR - distinquished contributor interview (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | November 2015: Hour-long filmed interview with Robert Plomin as part of his lifetime achievement award from the International Society of Intelligence Research: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiDWj_idj8w |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiDWj_idj8w |
| Description | 2015 Interview - Guardian Science Weekly podcast |
| 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 | Professor Robert Plomin talks about the role of genetics on children's academic success on the Science Weekly podcast for the Guardian. Prof Plomin joins Ian Sample in the studio, along with the Guardian's science correspondent Hannah Devlin. No current impacts noted |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2015/jul/17/genetic-screen-science-podcast |
| Description | 2015 Interview with Robert Plomin in Die Zeit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | June 2015: Interview with Robert Plomin in Die Zeit: http://www.zeit.de/2015/23/intelligenz-vererbung-iq-robert-plomin |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.zeit.de/2015/23/intelligenz-vererbung-iq-robert-plomin |
| Description | 2015 Interviews RE von Stumm paper in PLOSone |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Press coverage of paper 'Breastfeeding and IQ Growth from Toddlerhood through Adolescence'. Coverage in: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3246372/Breast-NOT-best-comes-IQ-Children-breastfed-no-intelligent-bottle-fed.html http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/607477/breast-fed-babies-no-more-clever-than-bottle-fed-research-intelligence https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.scotsman.com/news/health/breastfed-babies-not-more-intelligent-say-experts-1-3896403&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTgwODAxMzA2OTc3Nzg2NjQwODYyHjdmMWNmYTUzMTM2YzBjZWU6Y28udWs6ZW46R0I6TA&usg=AFQjCNHDlVu_rpc6NmuGWJ26dGnjs1RKAQ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/11886646/Breastfeeding-does-not-improve-IQ-study-finds.html http://www.westerndailypress.co.uk/8203-Breast-feeding-benefit-bottle-feeding-comes/story-27852880-detail/story.html http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/09/24/breastfeeding-iq-study-intelligence-bottle-feeding_n_8187692.html http://www.techtimes.com/articles/87967/20150924/breast-feeding-no-different-from-bottle-feeding-for-improving-baby-iq.htm |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | 2015 Numerous presentations at ICPS (Amsterdam, Netherlands) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS), 12-14th March 2015, Amsterdam, Netherlands Presentation title: Why is educational achievement so highly heritable? (part of the symposium: Genetically informative investigations into child development). PhD student Kaili Rimfeld presented recent findings from educational achievement using both, the classical twin study that compares identical and non-identical twins and a new method based on a DNA alone (GCTA). Presentation title: How general is general cognition? Evidence from specific domains PhD student Nicholas Shakeshaft presented findings focused on general cognitive ability. Specific cognitive abilities, from mathematical ability to literacy, have typically been found to be highly heritable, and substantially correlated with general cognitive ability ('g'). Presentation title: Genetic link between family socioeconomic status and children's educational achievement estimated from genome-wide SNPs PhD student Eva Krapohl presented findings on the best predictors of children's educational achievement. Presentation title: The role of polygenic scores in the prediction of the developmental course of behavioural problems from early childhood to adolescence PhD student Eva Krapohl explained how latent growth curves were used to model the overall behaviour problems score. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | 2015 Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre talk |
| 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 at the Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre weekly seminars |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | 2015 Twins Early Development Study Infographic |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Infographic sent to study participants |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | 2015 Twins Early Development Study Interview with Naked Scientists re Shakeshaft et al paper |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Interview with memver of the Twins Early Development Study team regarding paper: Genetic specificity of face recognition: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p032vbxw http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/typo3conf/ext/naksci_podcast/jplayer/player.php?podcast=1001174?em=1004185 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | 2015 Twins Early Development Study newsletter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The annual TEDS newsletter which goes out to all participants |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | 2015 Undergraduate seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Undergraduate seminar to 150 psychology students |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | 2015 online video and audio interviews featuring Robert Plomin |
| 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 | November 2015: Interview with Robert Plomin in Times Education Supplement |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4VCISnwE-k |
| Description | 2015 presentation at BGA, San Diego, USA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Behavioral Genetics Association (BGA) meeting. 17-20 of June. San Diego, USA Presenter - PhD student Kaili Rimfeld Presentation title: Genetic and environmental underpinnings of spatial abilities and their role in predicting academic achievement and success in STEM Presenter - PhD student Eva Krapohl Presentation title: Phenome-wide analysis of genome-wide polygenic scores |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | 2015 presentation at Estonian Genome Centre, Tartu, Estonia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation title: Quantitative Genetic research into cognitive development and educational achievement using the Twin Early Development Study (TEDS) sample. PhD student Kaili Rimfeld gave a talk that introduced the Twins Early Development Study and discussed the main findings in recent years focusing on the cognitive and educational achievement outcomes using behavioral genetic methods. The second part of the talk focused on the top 10 replicated findings from behavioral genetics (Plomin, R., DeFries, J. C., Knopik, V. S., & Neiderhiser, J. M. (2016). Top 10 Replicated Findings From Behavioral Genetics. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 11(1), 3-23.) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | 2015 talk at the ISIR conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Nicholas Shakeshaft, a TEDS PhD student gave the talk "The genetic specificity of face perception" at the International Society for Intelligence Research conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | 2016 Interview with Robert Plomin for the tes |
| 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 | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Interview with Dr Kat Arney for the tes |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.tes.com/news/tes-magazine/tes-magazine/unleashing-power-potential |
| Description | 2016 talk with postgraduate students |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to postgraduate students |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Contribution - The Spectator 2013 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Member of the research team wrote a blog for The Spectator's 'Coffee House' section entitled 'Genes do influence children, and acknowledging that can make schools better' and which appeared online on 17/10/13. Blog post - http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2013/10/genes-do-influence-children-and-acknowledging-that-can-make-schools-better/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Interview - BBC Radio 4 (Moral Maze) 2013 |
| 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 | Member of the research team appeared as a panel guest on the BBC Radio 4 programme 'The Moral Maze' on 30/10/13. Programme was entitled 'Genetics and education'. Radio broadcast - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03fdjsp |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Interview - BBC Radio 4 UK (Inside Science) 2013 |
| 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 | Principal investigator was interviewed by BBC Radio 4 programme 'Inside Science' for a section covering genetics and education. Radio broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 17/10/13. See http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b036f7w2/broadcasts/2013/10 for more information. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Interview - BBC Radio 4 UK (The World Tonight) 2013 |
| 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 | Principal investigator was interviewed by BBC Radio 4 programme 'The World Tonight' for a section entitled 'Is exam success down to nature not nurture?'. Radio broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 25/07/13. See http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0377078 for more information. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Interview - BBC World Service (The Forum) 2013 |
| 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 | Member of the research team appeared on the BBC World Service Radio programme 'The Forum' on 09/11/13. The programme was entitled 'Advantage'. Radio broadcast - http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/forum |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Interview - BBC World Service Radio 2013 |
| 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 | Member of the research team was interviewed for the BBC World Service radio programme "The Why Factor'. Radio broadcast - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01358tn (see also http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21180321). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Interview - Jerusalem Post |
| 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 | The Principal Investigator was interviewed by Judy Siegel-Itzkovich, Health and Science Editor at the Jerusalem Post. Newspaper article: http://www.jpost.com/Health/Article.aspx?id=280069 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Interview - Nature 2013 |
| 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 | Principal investigator was interviewed by Erika Check Hayden, Senior Reporter at Nature. Magazine article - http://www.nature.com/news/ethics-taboo-genetics-1.13858 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Interview - Nature 2013 |
| 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 | Principal investigator was interviewed by Ed Yong, a science writer at Nature. Magazine article - http://www.nature.com/news/chinese-project-probes-the-genetics-of-genius-1.12985 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Interview - New Scientist |
| 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 | The Principal Investigator was interviewed by Andy Coghlan, Senior Reporter at New Scientist magazine. Magazine article: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21705-best-evidence-yet-that-a-single-gene-can-affect-iq.html |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Interview - Radio 5 Live (Stephen Nolan show) 2013 |
| 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 | Member of the research team appeared on the BBC Radio 5 Live radio programme 'The Stephen Nolan Show' on 12/10/13. Radio broadcast - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03cnhzh |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Interview - Science 2012 |
| 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 | Principal investigator was interviewed by Greg Miller, a journalist at Science. Magazine article -http://www.sciencemag.org/content/338/6103/35.full |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Interview - Talent magazine |
| 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 | The Principal Investigator was interviewed by Anne Van Kessel for Talent magazine (Netherlands). Magazine article (in Dutch): http://annevankessel.nl/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/PDF-Reportage-IQ-project-in-Talent.pdf |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Interview - The Spectator UK 2013 |
| 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 | Principal investigator was interviewed by Mary Wakefield, Deputy Editor of The Spectator. Magazine article - http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/8970941/sorry-but-intelligence-really-is-in-the-genes/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Interview - The Sunday Times UK 2013 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Principal investigator and another member of the research team were interviewed by Sian Griffiths, Education Editor at the Sunday Times. Newspaper article -http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/Education/article1332727.ece |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Interview - The Times UK 2011 |
| 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 | Principal investigator interviewed by Mark Henderson, Science Editor of The Times. Newspaper article: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/science/genetics/article3119622.ece |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| Description | Interview - The Times UK 2013 |
| 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 | Principal investigator was interviewed by Leo Lewis, Beijing Bureau Chief for The Times. Newspaper article -http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/science/article3763947.ece |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Interview - The Yorkshire Post 2013 |
| 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 | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Member of the research team was interviewed by Chris Bond, journalist at The Yorkshire Post. Newspaper article -http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/features/academics-make-start-on-addressing-taboo-over-impact-of-genes-at-school-1-6237236 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Interview - Wall Street Journal 2013 |
| 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 | Principal investigator was interviewed by Gautam Naik, a journalist at the Wall Street Journal. Newspaper article - http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887324162304578303992108696034 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Interview - sfari.org 2013 |
| 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 | Prinicpal Investigator was interviewed by Virginia Hughes, Science Journalist at sfari.org. Online article - http://sfari.org/news-and-opinion/news/2013/twin-study-finds-epigenetic-imprint-of-autism-traits |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Interview and Appearance - DNA Dreams film 2013 |
| 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 | Principal investigator was interviewed for a film 'DNA Dreams' produced by VPro (Netherlands) and directed by Bregtje van der Haak. Film was broadcast at numerous international film festivals - see https://www.facebook.com/DNADreams |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Interview for the tes |
| 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 | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Interviewed for the tes about genetics and education |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-news/exclusive-tes-film-dont-be-afraid-genetics-leadin... |
| Description | Interviews - various media sources |
| 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 | Member of research team was interviewed by numerous journalists in response to an article published in Molecular Psychiatry on which he was first author. Numerous newspaper articles (and other media reporting). E.g.: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/science/genetics/article3443897.ece http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/9326819/Nature-vs-nurture-outcome-depends-on-where-you-live.html http://m.npr.org/news/Science/154945173 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Interviews - various media sources |
| 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 | Member of research team was interviewed by numerous journalists in response to an article published in Public Library of Science on which she was first author. Numerous newspaper articles (and other media reporting). E.g.: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/feb/03/cribsheet-square-kids-round-holes http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-12339798 http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/science/genetics/article2897943.ece |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| Description | Interviews re Rimfeld et al Scientific Reports |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Interviews, press releases and commentary on paper: 'Pleiotropy across academic subjects at the end of compulsory education' Coverage: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3172385/GCSE-results-GENES-DNA-plays-bigger-exam-success-school-home-life-combined.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/11758761/Failed-your-GCSEs-You-should-blame-your-genes.html http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jul/23/genes-influence-academic-ability-across-all-subjects-latest-study-shows https://theconversation.com/the-same-genes-influence-exam-results-across-a-range-of-school-subjects-45059 http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/science/how-well-you-your-gcses-6126756 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3172385/GCSE-results-GENES-DNA-plays-bigger-exam-succ... |
| Description | Invited talk - CAiTE |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Member of the research team gave an invited talk entitled 'Mapping the UK's genetic and environmental hotspots' to the MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology (CAiTE), University of Bristol, UK. NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Invited talk - Bangor University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Member of the research team gave a talk at the Department of Psychology, Bangor University in November, 2012. The talk focused on research concerned with the etiology of typical and atypical language development. NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Invited talk - British Psychological Society Conference 2013 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Paper Presentation |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Member of the research team gave an invited talk entitled 'How do identical twins and their parents explain discordant GCSE results?' at the British Psychological Society Conference in Harrogate on 10/04/13. NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Invited talk - British Psychological Society Psychology of Education Section Conference 2013 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Member of the research team gave an invited talk entitled 'What can identical twins tell us about environmental influences on achievement?' at the British Psychological Society Psychology of Education Section Conference in York on 09/11/13. NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Invited talk - Centre for the Developing Brain |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Prinicipal Investigator gave a talk at the Centre for the Developing Brain, King's College London, on 15/11/12 entitled 'Genetic influence in cognitive development: DNA estimates'. NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Invited talk - Department of Health 2013 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Member of the research team gave an invited talk entitled 'What genetic influence on wellbeing really means (and what it doesn't)' to the Health Improvement Analysis Team, at the Department of Health. The talk covered their research on genetic and environmental influences on wellbeing. Research included in narrative and fact sheets prepared by the Department of Health for policy makers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Invited talk - ESPRG |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Member of the research team gave an invited talk entitled 'MZ differences in classroom experience' to the Environmental Systems and Processes Research Group (ESPRG) at the University of Sussex. NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Invited talk - European Science Foundation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Principal Investigator gave an invited talk entitled 'Welcome to King's College London and introduction to the theme: Two perspectives on collaboration between the life sciences and social sciences'. Talk was given on 12/03/12 at the Europena Science Foundation workshop entitled 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly': Understanding collaboration between the social sciences and the life sciences'. NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Invited talk - Goldsmiths |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | A member of the research team gave an invited talk entitled 'Psychological wellbeing: an interdisciplinary approach' at the Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths College, London. The talk covered their research on genetic and environmental influences on wellbeing. NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Invited talk - Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Principal Investigator gave an invited talk entitled 'DNA and the Mind' on 15/07/12 as part of a three-day international workshop on temperament held at the Department of Psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Invited talk - Institute of Child Health |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Member of the research team gave an invited talk entitled 'Dynamic developmental genetics: mapping the UK's genetic and environmental hotspots' to the Institute of Child Health at Great Ormond Street, University College London, UK. NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Invited talk - Institute of Psychology, Moscow |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Principal Investigator gave an invited talk at the Institute of Psychology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia on 07/11/11. NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Invited talk - Karolinska Institute, Sweden |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | A member of the research team gave an invited talk entitled 'Social, genetic and developmental approaches to psychological wellbeing' at the Karolinska Institute, Sweden. The talk covered their research on genetic and environmental influences on wellbeing. NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Invited talk - Karolinska Institute, Sweden. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Member of the research team gave an invited talk entitled 'What can data visualisation do for genetic and environmental epidemiology?' at the Karolinska Institute, Sweden. NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Invited talk - London School of Economics 2013 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Member of the research team gave an invited talk entitled 'What genetic influence on wellbeing really means (and what it doesn't)' as part of the London School of Economics Centre for Economic Performance Wellbeing Seminar Series. The talk covered their research on genetic and environmental influences on wellbeing. NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Invited talk - Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Principal Investigator gave an invited talk entitled 'General Cognitive Ability ('g') and Genius: Pleiotropy and Polygenicity' at the Donders Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands, on 18/09/12. NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Invited talk - Randall Division, King's College London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Member of the research team gave an invited talk entitled 'Why context matters for human genetics' to the Randall Division, King's College London. NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Invited talk - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences 2013 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Principal investigator gave an invited talk as part of an academy colloquium entitled 'Complex traits genetics: the future of twin research'. NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Invited talk - SGDP Centre |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Member of the research team gave an invited talk entitled 'Dynamic genetics and the SGDP spACE program' at the SGDP Centre, King's College London. See Research Materials section for further information. NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Invited talk - SGDP Centre, Institute of Psychiatry UK. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Principal Investigator gave a talk at the SGDP Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, London, on 04/10/12 entitled 'DNA estimates of genetic influence confirm twin-study findings for cognitive development but not for behaviour problems'. NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Invited talk - SGDP Centre, Institute of Psychiatry UK. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Principal Investigator gave a talk at the SGDP Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, London, on 09/05/12 entitled 'Results of twin studies confirmed by DNA analysis'. NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Invited talk - Sheffield University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | A member of the research team gave an invited talk entitled 'Positive Genetics: an interdisciplinary approach' at the Department of Psychology, Sheffield University. The talk covered their research on genetic and environmental influences on wellbeing. NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Invited talk - Sheffield University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Member of the research team gave an invited talk entitled 'Your genome in social context' to the Department of Psychology, Sheffield University. NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Invited talk - UCL Genetics Institute |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Member of the research team gave an invited talk entitled 'Visual analysis for human genetics: showing that your genome cares about where you grow up' at UCL Genetics Institute, London, UK. NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Invited talk - University of Sussex |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Principal Investigator gave a talk at the Department of Neuroscience, University of Sussex, on 25/10/12 entitled 'Genetic influence in psychology: DNA estimates'. NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Invited talk - University of Warwick |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Member of the research team gave an invited talk entitled 'Positive and dynamic genetics: an interdisciplinary approach' at the University of Warwick. The talk covered their research on genetic and environmental influences on wellbeing. NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Invited talk - University of York |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Member of the research team gave an invited talk entitled 'Genes for Language? Nature and Nurture in Children's Language Development' at the University of York in June 2012. NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Invited talk - University of York Department of Education 2013 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Member of the research team gave an invited talk entitled 'Influencing the Influencers: What predicts success in GCSE Maths?' at the University of York Department of Education on 05/06/13. NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Invited talk - University of the Arts, London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Member of the research team gave an invited talk on the subject of 'Evolution and Novelty' based on research on early human figure drawings. NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Invited talk - Wellcome Trust Genome Campus |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Member of the research team gave an invited talk entitled 'Why context matters for human genetics' to the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory at Hinxton, UK. The talk was broadcast to the European Molecular Biology Laboratory's other centres in Germany, France and Italy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Invited talk - Wellcome Trust Public Science |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Member of the research team gave an invited talk at the Wellcome Trust Packed Lunch on Antisocial Behaviour in March 2012. This talk was part of the Wellcome Trust Public Science talk programme (see http://www.wellcomecollection.org/whats-on/events/packed-lunch-podcast/antisocial-behaviour.aspx). NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Invited talk - Yale (Clinical Seminar) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Member of the research team gave a talk as part of the Clinical Seminar Series at the Department of Psychology, Yale University in April, 2012. The talk focused on research concerned with the etiology of typical and atypical language development. NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Invited talk - Yale (EGLab) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Member of the research team gave a talk at EGLab (Behavioural & Molecular Genetics), Child Study Centre, Yale University in April, 2012. The talk focused on research concerned with the etiology of typical and atypical language development. NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Invited talk - Yale University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Member of the research team gave a talk as part of the Postgraduate seminar course in Developmental Psychopathology at the Department of Psychology, Yale University. The lecture focused on behavioural genetic methodology, and what it can tell us about language disorders in children. NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Invited talk - Yale University (Haskins Lab) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Member of the research team gave a talk at Haskins Laboratories, Yale University in April, 2012. The talk focused on research concerned with the etiology of typical and atypical language development. NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Keynote speech - VU University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | A member of the research team gave a keynote speech entitled 'Looking on the bright side: social, genetic and developmental approaches to psychological wellbeing' at VU University, Amsterdam. The talk covered their research on genetic and environmental influences on wellbeing. NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Multiple invited talks - UCSB |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Principal Investigator gave a number of invited talks at the University of Santa Barbara in February 2012 as part of a month-long residency. Talks were entitled 'Behavioral genetics and the mind' (06/02/12); 'DNA and the mind' (13/02/12); 'Beyond Nature vs. Nurture: The Implications of Behavioral Genetics Research for Education' (16/02/12); 'Genetics, learning abilities and disabilities, and education' (22/02/12); and 'Genetics and experience' (27/02/12). NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Ongoing social media |
| 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 | Ongoing social media. Regularly updated Facebook and Twitter accounts: https://www.facebook.com/TedsProject https://twitter.com/tedsproject |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014,2015 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/tedsproject |
| Description | Poster presentation - Wellcome Trust |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Poster Presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Member of the research team presented a poster entitled 'Visual analysis of genetic and environmental influences on emerging psychiatric disorders' at a Wellcome Trust Researchers meeting held at the Wellcome Trust, London, UK. NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Press conference - British Science Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Paper Presentation |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Member of the research team was involved at a British Science Festival press conference event that generated substantial newspaper and on-line publicity. Several articles appeared in national newspapers and high-impact websites, such as: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/feedarticle/10415967 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/children_shealth/9510937/One-in-100-children-are-psychopaths-experts-believe.html http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/08/30/psychopath-children-university-college-london-callous-unemotional_n_1842943.html |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Published letter - The Guardian |
| 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 | The Principal Investigator and other members of the research team submitted a letter to the Guardian newspaper entitled 'Behavioural genetics and the phonics test'. Published letter: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/oct/01/behavioural-genetics-and-phonics-test?newsfeed=true |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | SGDP Centre Open Day 2013 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Workshop Facilitator |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Principal investigator and members of the research team participated in the MRC Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Centre Open Day on 26/06/13. This involved engaging members of the local community, local schoolchildren, and those with a specific interest in the work of the Centre. Activities were designed to explain the use of the twin study model within the Twins Early Development Study and to provide young schoolchildren with a basic understanding of twins as a concept. Forged links with local school and enhanced understanding of the research being carried out within the study. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | http://vimeo.com/75420384 |
| Description | SGDP Poster Session presentation 2013 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Poster Presentation |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Member of the research team presented a poster entitled 'Face perception and the cognitive hierarchy' on 25/09/13 at the MRC SGDP Centre. The session was attended by approximately 40 postgraduate students, postdoctoral researchers and lecturers. The poster presentation covered a pilot twin study which was conducted to investigate the relationship between face recognition ability and other cognitive abilities. A number of researchers and students expressed interest in the study and proposed future collaborations. Plans for a new study are in process. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Symposium presentation - International Positive Psychology Association Conference 2013 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Member of the research team gave an invited talk entitled 'What do genetic influences on wellbeing really mean for the success of intervention programs?' as part of an invited symposium on 'Cutting-edge Experimental Research on Positive Activities' at the International Positive Psychology Association Conference in Los Angeles. The talk covered their research on genetic and environmental influences on wellbeing. NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | TEDS talks series |
| 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 | Series of video interviews with TEDS researchers about their work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usP3KFsDloA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fteDvLsfEL0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPVeU8zqev8 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usP3KFsDloA |
| Description | Workshop - 'Parenting: a Public Health Issue |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Workshop Facilitator |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Health professionals |
| Results and Impact | Member of the research team facilitated a workshop on the subject of measuring parenting and behavioural genetics for parenting at the 'Parenting: a Public Health Issue' conference' on 02/07/12. Workshop was attended by 50 delegates. (See http://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/downloads/bhcc/children/Chinese_Whispers_Workshop_Notes.pdf). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |