Infant play and the development of executive function: Implications for policy and practice

我的奖学金将集中于评估我的博士研究结果的理论和实践意义，并将这些发现传播给政策制定者和公众。我的奖学金的一个主要目标将是通过传播我的博士学位关于母婴游戏的重要性的研究结果来产生影响。我将通过思想节和科学节等活动，以及通过针对普通受众的在线博客和/或杂志文章，向公众展示我的发现。我将通过一个或多个简报活动和对书面议会简报的贡献，向政界人士和政策制定者介绍我的调查结果。2015年，我在威斯敏斯特的议会科学和技术办公室接受了为期3个月的研究，我将与在那里共事的人联系，以确定向议员和政策制定者传达我的发现的最佳方式，并在伦敦安排至少一次简报活动。我将通过活动的反馈表、杂志发行和书面简报的数据以及博客浏览量来衡量我的活动的影响。我将完成我的博士发现的撰写工作，以便在同行评议的学术期刊上发表。具体来说，一篇描述我的主要发现的文章将提交给关于学龄前儿童发展的元认知与学习特刊，一篇关于游戏在发展中的作用的评论文章将提交给教育心理学家或教育研究评论。这篇评论文章还将用于通知和开发ESRC新调查员计划的资金申请。一小部分时间(约15%)将用于完成对我在博士学位期间收集的一些额外数据的分析，这些数据没有包括在我的论文中。这些额外的数据涉及阅读过程中的母婴游戏，这项分析可能会加强我的主要博士发现，并为父母和政客提供更好的指导。最后，我将在团契期间从事少量的教学工作。这将改善我作为一名大学讲师的职业前景，并培养我的公开演讲和演讲技能。

My fellowship will be focused around assessing the theoretical and practical implications of the findings from my PhD research, and disseminating those findings to policy makers and the public. A primary aim of my fellowship will be to achieve impact through the dissemination of findings from my PhD, regarding the importance of mother-infant play. I will present my findings to the public through events such as The Festival of Ideas and The Science Festival, and through an online blog and/or an article in a magazine aimed at a general audience. I will present my findings to politicians and policy makers through one or more briefing events and contributions to written parliamentary briefings. In 2015, I undertook a 3-month fellowship at The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology in Westminster, and I will liaise with people I worked with there to determine the best way of communicating my findings to MPs and policy makers, and to arrange at least one briefing event in London. I will measure the impact of my activities through feedback forms at events, data on distribution of magazines and written briefings, and blog view counts.I will complete the writing up of the findings from my PhD for publication in peer-reviewed academic journals. Specifically, an article describing mymain findings will be submitted to a special issue of Metacognition & Learning on preschool children's development, and a review article about the role of play in development will be submitted to Educational Psychologist or Educational Research Review. The review article will also be used to inform and develop a funding application to the ESRC New Investigators Scheme.A small portion of the time (approximately 15%) will be spent completing the analysis of some additional data collected during my PhD, which was not included in my thesis. This additional data involves mother-infant play during book reading, and the analysis could strengthen my main PhD findings and provide enhanced guidance for parents and politicians. Finally, I will engage in a small amount of teaching during the fellowship. This will improve my career prospects as a university lecturer, and develop my public speaking and presentation skills.