News

Welcome to Professor Marcia Collaer

6 November 2018

The GDRC is very pleased to welcome Prof Marcia Collaer to Cambridge! Marcia is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience Affiliate at Middlebury College, VT, USA. She is currently a Visiting Scholar in the GDRC, Department of Psychology and Overseas Fellow at Churchill College for 2018-19.

Group members at Gender Development Research Conference, San Francisco

1 November 2018

Prof Melissa Hines, Dr Debra Spencer and PhD candidate Marta Beneda went to the Gender Development Research Conference, San Francisco. This event is held every two years in San Francisco and hosts many of the world’s leading researchers of gender development from interdisciplinary fields. Prof Hines gave a talk and the group also presented two posters.

Listen to Debra Spencer on BBC Radio 4's 'Bringing Up Britain'

30 July 2018

Dr Debra Spencer, Research Associate and Affiliated Lecturer in the GDRC, appeared in BBC Radio 4's 'Bringing Up Britain' programme, discussing aggression in children.

Jac Davis publishes blog post on LD4D 'Livestock data for decisions' web page

3 July 2018

Jac Davis, PhD candidate in the GDRC, published a blog post on the Livestock data for decisions web page titled 'Integrating gender into livestock projects: How data can help'.

New publication on 'Sex differences in associations between spatial ability and corpus callosum morphology' published in Journal of Neuroscience Research

18 June 2018

The GDRC's Dr Debra Spencer and Prof Melissa Hines have a paper published in the Journal of Neuroscience Research on 'Sex differences in associations between spatial ability and corpus callosum morphology'.

Ellen Robertson (PhD candidate) presents a talk as part of the SDP seminar series

30 May 2018

Ellen Robertson, PhD candidate in the GDRC, presented a talk on her research 'Social representations of women who live as men in northern Albania' as part of the Social and Developmental Psychology seminar series.

PhD candidate Marta Beneda wins second prize in British Psychological Society poster competition

24 May 2018

Marta Beneda, PhD candidate in the GDRC, attended the British Psychological Society's annual conference, 02-04 May 2018. She won second prize in the poster competition for her poster on 'Do infants prefer dolls of the same sex? Sex-typical toy preferences in Poland and in the UK'.

Dr Constantinescu moves to University of East London

24 May 2018

Congratulations to Dr Miha Constantinescu, who has moved to the University of East London to take up the position of Lecturer in Developmental Psychology.

Prof Hines presents a seminar at King's College, London

15 May 2018

Prof Melissa Hines from the GDRC presented a seminar on 'Human gender development: some current perspectives' at the Department of Psychology, King's College, London on 14 May 2018.

Prof Hines presented a seminar at King's College, London