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Research projects

Our staff actively engage in a wide range of research and are funded by a wide range of organisations.

Current research projects

Epigentic Pathways to Conduct Problem Trajectories: The Role of Prenatal and Postnatal Environmental Risk Exposure

  • Researchers: Drs Edward D. Barker and Jonathan Mill (Institute of Psychiatry)
  • Funded by: National Institute of Child and Human Development (USA).
  • Dates: 01 March 2012 – 29 February 2015

Applying the Medical Research Council guidance to develop and evaluate interventions to support uptake and adherence to antiretroviral therapy for HIV

  • Researchers: Professor Jonathan Smith with R. Horne, Institute of Pharmacy
  • Funded by: National Institute for Health Research
  • Value: £1,992,681
  • Dates: 2010-2015

APPDEV: lacking Early Human Development: From Basic Science to Applications

Architecture of Human Face Processing in Typical and Atypical Populations: Combining Behavioural and Electrophysiological Measures

  • Researcher: Professor M Eimer
  • Funded by: Economic & Social Research Council
  • Dates: 01/01/2010-31/12/2012

Autistica: ‘Intervention within the British Autism Study of Infant Siblings (i-BASIS)

Baby Siblings at risk for Autism Research Network

Bridging the gap between lab measures and biomarkers

  • Researcher: Dr M Elsabbagh
  • Funded by: Leverhulme Trust
  • Dates: 01/09/2009-30/08/2011

Data Analysis and Dissemination of the Families, Children and Child Care (FCCC) Study

  • Researcher: Professor J Barnes
  • Funded by: Tedworth Charitable & Glass-House
  • Dates: 01/03/2010-28/02/2012

The demographic and psychological predictors of uptake of FOBt screening in the borough of Camden and Islington

  • Researchers: Anne Miles (PI) Jane Wardle, Dennis Wright

Department of Health Research and Development Health Technology Assessment Programme

  • Researcher: Anne Miles (PI)
  • Funded by: Department of Health: HTA 04/33/01
  • Dates: 2006-2012.

The development and interfacing of neuropsychological testing in mice and humans to advance gene investigations into WBS

Enhancing the scientific study of early autism: A network to improve services, research, and outcomes

  • Researchers: Professor Mark Johnson and Professor Tony Charman (Institute of Education)
  • Funded by: European Science Foundation COST Action BM1004

Epigenetic biomarkers of nonshared environmental influences

  • Researchers: Dr Emma Meaburn, Dr Angelica Ronald, Professor Robert Plomin, Dr Jonathan Mill, Dr Thomas Price, and Dr Leonard Schalkwyk (Institute of Psychiatry)
  • Funded by: Autism Speaks

Extension of the Effective Pre-School and Primary Education (EPPE) Project to End of Key Stage 3 (KS3)

  • Researcher: Professor E Melhuish
  • Funded by: Department for Education & Skills
  • Dates: 01/02/2007-31/08/2011

Family drama: exploring how early, and to what degree children inherit the social behaviour patterns of their parents

  • Researcher: Dr A Ronald
  • Funded by: British Academy
  • Dates: 01/11/2009-30/04/2011

The Family Nurse Partnership Programme - Formative Evaluation of Waves 1 test sites: Years 3 and 4

  • Researcher: Professor J Barnes
  • Funded by: Department of Health
  • Dates: 01/04/2009-31/12/2010

Frequency of follow-up for patients with intermediate grade adenomas

  • Researchers: Anne Miles, Wendy Atkin (PI), Jane Wardle et al.
  • Funded by: Bowel Disease Research Foundation
  • Dates: 2009-2011

Gender, alcohol and interventions

  • Researchers: Professor Jonathan Smith with R. De Visser and C. Abraham, Sussex
  • Funded by: Alcohol Education and Research Council
  • Value: £70,000
  • Dates: 2010-12.

Group-Based Care Evaluation

  • Researcher: Professor J Barnes
  • Funded by: Department of Health
  • Dates: 01/09/2009-31/03/2011

Health of Children born to Older Mothers

Hemispheric asymmetries in facial information processing

  • Researcher: Dr M Smith
  • Funded by: British Academy
  • Dates: 14/06/2010-13/06/2011

HEMSDEV: Human Embodied MultiSensory Development

High-resolution cross-subject visual area maps and their cognitive functions

Imitation of the new, not the old

  • Researcher: Miss R Wu
  • Funded by: University of London Central Research Fund
  • Dates: 01/03/2009-28/02/2011

The impact of high sex ratios in urban and rural China

  • Researcher: Professor Jay Belsky
  • Funded by: Economic & Social Research Council
  • Dates: 01/05/2008-30/04/2011

The impact of interval cancers in faecal occult blood (FOBt) screening on adjustment to a cancer diagnosis and attitudes to screening

  • Researchers: Anne Miles (PI), Robert Steele, Jane Wardle, Nick Sevdalis

Is eye contact the key to the social brain?

  • Researcher: Dr A Senju
  • Funded by: Economic & Social Research Council
  • Dates: 14/11/2008-13/11/2011

Juvenile Huntington's Disease Project

  • Researcher: Professor J A Smith
  • Funded by: Huntington's Disease Association
  • Dates: 01/11/2003-31/01/2011

Learning to combine sense and experience for optimal perceptual judgements

  • Researcher: Professor D Mareschal
  • Funded by: Economic & Social Research Council
  • Dates: 01/01/2008-30/06/2011

Lexical retrieval difficulties in children: a new approach combining modelling of impairment and intervention to help word-finding

  • Researcher: Dr M Thomas
  • Funded by: Economic & Social Research Council
  • Dates: 01/01/2011-31/12/2014

The Neural Basis of Action Interpretation in Human Infants

  • Researcher: Dr V Southgate
  • Funded by: Wellcome Trust
  • Dates: 01/10/2009-30/09/2014

Physiological and Cognitive Mediators of Gene x Environment Interaction Effects on Children's Antisocial Behaviour

  • Researcher: Professor J Belsky
  • Funded by: Economic & Social Research Council
  • Dates: 01/02/2009-31/01/2014

Promoting evidence-based practice for autism in the Arab World

  • Researcher: Dr M Elsabbagh
  • Funded by: Wellcome Trust
  • Dates: 01/10/2009-30/09/2012

Reading and the genome: Finding genes associated with reading abilities in early adolescence

  • Funded by: The University of London Central Research Fund and Birkbeck School of Science (£4,918)

The relationship between cancer fear and the processing of cancer-related information

  • Anne Miles (PI), Jane Wardle, Andrew Mathews
  • Funded by: Cancer Research UK
  • 2005-2007

The role of the prefrontal cortex in the development of uniquely human social cognition

  • Researcher: Dr T Grossmann
  • Funded by: Wellcome Trust
  • Dates: 01/01/2008-31/12/2011

Sure Start National Evaluation

Top-down modulation of attentional capture in vision: electrophysiological investigations

  • Researcher: Professor M Eimer
  • Funded by: Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council
  • Dates: 01/01/2008-31/12/2010

Tracking early development: From basic science to applications

The Typical and Atypical Development of the Social Brain During Infancy

  • Researcher: Professor M Johnson
  • Funded by: Medical Research Council
  • Dates: 01/10/2008-30/09/2013

Using new technologies to engage parents from disadvantaged areas in the assessment of the language and social development of babies

Visibility of Targets with Dynamic Attributes

  • Researcher: Dr S Green
  • Funded by: Postar Lli
  • Dates: 01/01/2010-31/12/2010

Completed research projects

NHS Screening Programme

Semantic inhibition through short-term retention

  • Researcher: Dr Eddy Davelaar
  • Funded by: British Academy
  • Value: £7207
  • Dates: 1 October 2009 to 31 March 2010