{"id":20,"date":"2025-03-13T13:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T13:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/hms\/?p=20"},"modified":"2025-03-13T13:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T13:58:09","slug":"new-developmental-psychology-phd-project-starting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/hms\/2025\/03\/13\/new-developmental-psychology-phd-project-starting\/","title":{"rendered":"New developmental psychology PhD project starting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/hms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2025\/01\/Developmental-Psychology-PhD-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"Child with wearable technology\" class=\"wp-image-8\" style=\"width:448px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/hms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2025\/01\/Developmental-Psychology-PhD-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/hms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2025\/01\/Developmental-Psychology-PhD-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/hms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2025\/01\/Developmental-Psychology-PhD-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/hms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2025\/01\/Developmental-Psychology-PhD-1536x1020.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/hms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2025\/01\/Developmental-Psychology-PhD-2048x1360.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/hms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2025\/01\/Developmental-Psychology-PhD-120x80.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>An exciting new PhD project is starting soon, co-supervised by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gre.ac.uk\/people\/rep\/faculty-of-education-and-health\/laura-katus\">Dr Laura Katus<\/a>, Senior Lecturer in Psychology. The PhD will be based at the University of East London with Professor Sam Wass, principal supervisor for the PhD, in collaboration with Procter &amp; Gamble, and focus on the development of tools to measure naturalistic parent-child interactions during nappy changes using wearable technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Katus and Prof Wass are interested in the parent-child relationship and how it is positively influenced by factors like parental stress and the early social environment, with early-life environments impacting long-term child development. The study will adopt an innovative methodology, using new wearable technologies (video, sensors, machine learning and AI enabled algorithms) to conduct dynamic, real-time data analysis of emotional and physical states. The project also involves a collaboration with Procter &amp; Gamble to use these new techniques to develop tools to measure how nappies affect parent-child interactions, tracking emotions during nappy changes to improve product development and customer satisfaction, and developing versatile new tools that can be used to measure child-caregiver interaction in multiple settings. This collaboration between the academic team the Procter &amp; Gamble research team will provide valuable insights into an industrial research environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An exciting new PhD project is starting soon, co-supervised by\u00a0Dr Laura Katus, Senior Lecturer in Psychology. The PhD will be based at the University of East London with Professor Sam Wass, principal supervisor for the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychology-counselling"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/hms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/hms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/hms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/hms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/hms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/hms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/hms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/hms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/hms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/hms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}