The impact of socio-economic polarisation and inequalities of wealth and income on sensorimotor development in children

该项目将研究儿童运动技能发展在SEP和文化因素之间的途径中所起的中介作用，以及由此导致的幸福和成就方面的不平等。运动奠定了学习更多抽象技能的基础，因此是一座看似合理的“桥梁”，学习环境中的因素可能会对儿童的福祉产生连锁影响，这些因素受到文化偏见的影响，并受到潜在社会经济地位的强烈预测。这个项目将利用这些洞察力，并将在一个独特丰富的数据集中使用强大的纵向方法来探索它们-转变我们对发展路径的知识和理解，这些路径可能在确定社会流动性和幸福感方面的晚年不平等方面发挥重要贡献。

This project will study the specific role that children's motor skill development plays as an intermediary link in the pathway between SEP and cultural factors, and resultant inequalities in wellbeing and attainment. Movement underpins the learning of many more abstract skills and thus is a plausible 'bridge' through which factors in learning environments may have knock-on impacts on how effective children's wellbeing, affected by cultural biases and being strongly predicted by underlying socioeconomic status. This studentship will draw upon these insights and will explore them using robust longitudinal methods in a uniquely rich dataset - transforming our knowledge and understanding of the developmental pathways that likely play a significant contributory role in determining later life inequalities in social mobility and wellbeing.