News

Paper on infants' performance in mental rotation tasks published in Developmental Science

17 November 2017

The GDRC's Dr Miha Constantinescu and Prof Melissa Hines have a paper published in Developmental Science showing a correlation between testosterone and infants' performance in mental rotation tasks.

Prof Hines and Dr Spencer present a talk at EASE meeting

9 November 2017

The East Anglia Society for Endocrinology will meet on Tuesday November 14th at The Rosie Hospital, CUH.

Hormones & Child Behaviour Study update

24 October 2017

The GDRC has produced a newsletter from Melissa Hines' Hormones & Child Behaviour Study, available to read here.

Researching sworn virgins in Albania

19 July 2017

The GDRC's Ellen Robertson is in Albania for four months, studying the traditional practice of women taking a vow of chastity and living as men - becoming 'sworn virgins', or burrneshas.

Talk on analyzing the corpus callosum by Dr Eileen Luders, UCLA

18 July 2017

Join us on Monday 24th July at 12pm for a talk by Dr Eileen Luders, Associate Professor at the Department of Neurology, UCLA, about analyzing the corpus callosum in the human brain.

Paper on gender-typed play and physical aggression published in Archives of Sexual Behavior

30 June 2017

Congratulations to the GDRC's Tim Kung, Gu Li, Melissa Hines and Jean Golding on their play and aggression article, which has been made an open access publication, available to read here.

Conference on Collaborating for Gender Equality in STEM

19 May 2017

GDRC's Karly Drabot, Ellen Robertson and Jac Davis organised a one-day conference and workshop with leading academics, professionals, non-profits and students.

Science Festival workshop a success!

27 March 2017

Thanks to everyone who came along last Saturday to the Psychology open day and participated in our event 'Like apples to oranges... not quite'.

Li, Kung & Hines' sexual orientation paper published in Developmental Psychology

24 February 2017

The GDRC's Gu Li, Tim Kung and Melissa Hines are published in Developmental Psychology, which is now available online.

GDRC's Gu Li takes post-doctorate post at University of British Columbia

10 February 2017

After undertaking his PhD at the Gender Development Research Centre, Gu Li has taken a post at UBC in Vancouver. He is a Visiting International Research Student (soon to be Postdoctoral Research Fellow) in the Stigma and Resilience Among Vulnerable Youth Centre at UBC's School of Nursing, supervised by Professor Elizabeth...