Research Interests

• The role of the father in the family (with Michael Lamb (Cambridge))
• Life experiences and family relationships
• Theorizing the development of social understanding (with Jeremy Carpendale (Simon Fraser))
• Social understanding and culture (with Masuo Koyasu and Ayako Ogawa (Kyoto))
• Social understanding in children with autism
• Preschoolers' understanding of irony (with Maki Rooksby)
• Eye-witness testimony in children with learning disabilities (with Deirdre Brown (Wellington) and Michael Lamb (Cambridge))
• The influence of advertising on children (with Susan Auty and Laura Owen)
• Children's early grasp of number (with Kevin Muldoon (Heriot Watt) and Norman Freeman (Bristol))
• Statistical models of developmental change (with Andrea Towse, Peter Diggle and Brian Francis)