Check out some of our currently funded projects and ongoing collaborations!
Developing Belief Network
Jocelyn Dautel leads one of 10 inaugural research teams making up the Developing Belief Network, an international, cross-cultural, collaborative research network exploring the development and diversity of cognition. This project is funded by the John Templeton Foundation. Our research team includes Hannah Kramer and Aidan Feeney at QUB, as well as Laura Taylor, University College Dublin, and John Coley, Northeastern University. See developingbelief.com for more information or follow @DevelopBelief on Twitter!
Communicating ‘Truth’: Selective Information Processing in a Divided Society
This mixed-method, interdisciplinary project funded by Templeton World Charity Foundation as part of the Grand Challenges for Human Flourishing Initiative explores the consumption and transmission of polarized narratives at different levels of society, with a focus on young people in Northern Ireland. See more about our project in our blog: Is ‘Truth’ as Objective as We Think? or public webinar: Community-Level Truth Seeking and Human Flourishing. Collaborators on this project include Bethany Corbett, Mariah Kornbluh, Jing Xu, Lara Wood, Christin Schulz, Jennifer Watling Neal, Kathleen Corriveau and Emma Flynn.
Beyond School Gates
Children’s Contribution to Community Integration
We want to find out more about children’s experiences and understanding of integration in Bolton, Blackburn with Darwen and Preston in England, and how schools and local services may play a pivotal role in community integration. This project is supported by the Understanding Communities Fund – a collaboration between The Nuffield Foundation and The British Academy. Visit our Nuffield webpage to learn more.
Helping Kids! Lab
The Helping Kids! Lab is an international project, collecting data in five different countries (Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, Kosovo, Macedonio and Israel), exploring Children’s Empathy and Prosocial Behaviours within a Developmental Intergroup Framework; or for short, Helping Kids! View this short video summarizing our previous international research and collaboration! Meet the Helping Kids! team and hear some of our research backgrounds, questions, and findings.
Understanding Others Minds
This project bridges research areas in developmental and social psychology to ask whether children are selective in their reasoning about the mental states of others, specifically in intergroup contexts. This project is in collaboration with Niamh McLoughlin, Crane Center for Early Childhood and Policy Research and Harriet Over, University of York, and funded by The British Academy.
Playfulness
Children’s play is often both acknowledged as important and taken for granted. Led by PhD researcher Risa Rylander, this project aims to investigate how different people perceive playfulness, how it’s measured, and what role playfulness plays in relation to children’s socio-cognitive development. This is a collaborative project with local Belfast childcare provider Venture Kids Belfast, and ESRC funded through the NINE DTP Studentship programme.