Dr Samantha Durrant

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Dr Samantha Durrant

Dr Samantha Durrant

@Sam_Durrant_

Language researcher working on individual differences currently. Also interested in accents and dialects and their impact on language skills

Katılım Ağustos 2012
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Happy Researchers
Happy Researchers@hapyresearchers·
A few tips for new PhDs -Academia is part of your life but not your life -If you fail today, tomorrow is a new day to start again -Remember to self care, sleep enough & stay healthy -Maintain human relationships -Relax and enjoy over weekends #hapyresearchers
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Dr Samantha Durrant@Sam_Durrant_·
New paper from the Language 0-5 project. Exciting seeing more of this work out there! Thanks to all collaborators including @cryst_aal @CaroRowland @michelle19peter and others not on here.
Dr Caro Rowland@CaroRowland

The latest Language 0-5 Project paper has just been accepted by Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. Its on executive function, language and sentence processing in English 3 year olds. All materials including manuscript are here on #OSF. osf.io/zqmf2/

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Alissa Ferry
Alissa Ferry@USBabyScientist·
Manchester has some funded Teaching Assistant +PhD studentships for next year in our division. If you’re interested in doing a PhD, you can take a look at the projects available here (including some with me !!! and others doing development psych work): jobs.manchester.ac.uk/displayjob.asp…
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Professor Helen Dodd
Professor Helen Dodd@DrHelenDodd·
We are going to be observing play in schools in spring and need a couple of research assistants to help. Working out the details but likely 3/4 weeks, Mon-Fri 10-2 from 25th April. Probably in Birmingham but can cover travel costs. Contact me if you might be interested. Pls RT.
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LuCiD
LuCiD@LuCiD_Centre·
Post-Doctoral Research Assistant to work with Kelly Burgoyne on an ESRC-funded project to adapt & evaluate a parent-delivered early language intervention for children with Down syndrome. Closing date 10/01/2022! jobs.manchester.ac.uk/displayjob.asp…
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Dr Samantha Durrant@Sam_Durrant_·
@lanajago @chbergma @pdakean With @cryst_aal we are currently analysing 0-5 eyetracking data at 3-4years (same task 3 times) and looking at relations with EF (same tasks over time) concurrently and predictively. The EF measures we've used are stable over time but the eye-tracking data doesn't seem to be
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Dr Lana Jago@lanajago·
@chbergma @pdakean I’m afraid I don’t know the answer. This sounds very interesting but my knowledge of EF and using eye tracking to assess this is nonexistent! @Sam_Durrant_ , any ideas?
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Dr Samantha Durrant@Sam_Durrant_·
@KarlaHolmboe @pdakean Absolutely agree with this and we (@CaroRowland) are regularly encountering these concerns with the Language 0-5 project data. No answers either but lots of questions about reliability for individual differences
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Prof_Richard_Bentall_psychologist@BentallProf·
1/24 A little while ago I tweeted about bad things happening at Liverpool University. What they are doing there is threatening to the entire academic community and the very idea of a university. Bare with me; I want to explain why (thread): twitter.com/BentallProf/st…
Prof_Richard_Bentall_psychologist@BentallProf

In a move that looks completely illegal @LivUni is making staff redundant to replace them with 'better quality' academics; none failed to meet reasonable performance targets. Please, all academics everywhere, sign this open letter: docs.google.com/document/d/1OJ… #liverpoolredundancies

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Jamie Lingwood
Jamie Lingwood@LingwoodJamie·
Great opportunity for anyone interested in #impact and #languagedevelopment research. Feel free to drop me or @Cat_Davies a message!
Prof Catherine Davies@Cat_Davies

I'm hiring! FT 6-month postdoc position on the impact phase of my #esrc project on adjectives in vocab learning. We'll run a CPD event with our researcher-practitioner network and write up practitioner reports. V. short closing date 18/02. Please RT. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?r…

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Jamie Lingwood
Jamie Lingwood@LingwoodJamie·
Today is my first day as a Lecturer @LivHopePsych. Feel very fortunate for this opportunity. Excited to meet everyone and get started!
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Dr Caro Rowland
Dr Caro Rowland@CaroRowland·
We're hiring - a postdoc in data analysjs and modelling to work on our projects on language development @MPI_NL. Details here. Please share widely. mpi.nl/career-educati…
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Dr Samantha Durrant@Sam_Durrant_·
Great resource for teaching, definitely planning to use this. Thank you for sharing
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Prof Catherine Davies
Prof Catherine Davies@Cat_Davies·
Seeking a postdoc for our UKRI COVID project on the impact of school closures on foundation skills in reception children, using EYFSP / reading data collected by schools before closures and in the autumn/spring terms. FT G7 10 mts; closes 12 Oct. Plz share jobs.leeds.ac.uk/MHPSY1068
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Dr Caro Rowland
Dr Caro Rowland@CaroRowland·
On Tuesday at #UKCLC2020 I’ll give my 1st keynote featuring the Language0-5 project; a project that has taken 8 years of my life so far! We tracked 90 children's development from 0-4 years, and are using the data to develop detailed explanations of how children build language 1/
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