Dr. Sobana Wijeakumar PhD BEng
@DrSWijeakumar
Assistant Professor @UniofNottingham| Neurocognitive development | Caregiver-child interactions | Contextual influences| Long-term outcomes.
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🔊 Final Call for Late Breaking Abstracts ▶️ Due to the extenuating circumstances of the current uncertainties surrounding travel and funding this year, FIT’NG is offering a final extension for abstract submissions. 🗓️ Submission deadline: July 24 fitng.org/late-breaking-…
Our new mental health funding award opens soon! We’re supporting teams to accelerate the development and roll out of psychological or social interventions for anxiety, depression and psychosis in young people. Applications open July 28. Find out more ⤵️…
The University @UoNFacultyMHS has marked the official unveiling of the Naaz Coker Ovarian Cancer Research Centre bringing together leading scientists to develop innovative new approaches to diagnosing and treating ovarian cancer #OvarianCancer ➡️nottingham.ac.uk/news/novark-op…
Great to be at #ECP2025 and present talks on caregiver-infant interactions, cross-cultural findings in UK and India and computational modelling of caregiver and infant visual cognition.
Liu et al. (2025): At 12mos, preterm infants spent most of their time interacting w/ objects, and parents were often engaged. Freq of infant-object interaction bouts per minute at 12mos was negatively associated w/ 30mo cognitive scores #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa.7…
Well done to @davidsonchri for passing her PhD viva today! Her work from @NeurosyncP looked at longitudinal changes in different types of caregiver-infant play interactions and links to infant visual working memory.
BREAKING: MIT just completed the first brain scan study of ChatGPT users & the results are terrifying. Turns out, AI isn't making us more productive. It's making us cognitively bankrupt. Here's what 4 months of data revealed: (hint: we've been measuring productivity all wrong)
We’re proud to share the news that we’ve been ranked among the world’s top 100 universities in the latest QS World University Rankings. Read more at bit.ly/4ecqPvx #QSWUR2026 #TopUnis
Proud supervisor day. @aimeetheyer successfully defended her viva today. Her work focussed on infant visual neurocognition and caregiver-infant interactions - data from @NeurosyncP.
Over the last 2 weeks, all Year 4 children in England have been assessed on their ability to quickly recall multiplication facts. But using these facts is about so much more than fast recall.... theconversation.com/nine-year-olds… #primarymaths #mathschat #numberfacts #EduTwitter
If you’re interested in diversity in academia, join our virtual panel event! We’ll be featuring developmental psychology/neuroscience researchers from minority backgrounds and having a discussion about their academic journeys and the challenges they’ve faced. Details 👇👇👇
We are excited to invite you to our second Shades of Science virtual panel event on June 25th 3-4 pm BST featuring @DrSWijeakumar Prof @leher_singh and Dr @Dolapoadegboye3. Register your place using the QR code in the flyer!#DiversityInScience
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We are excited to invite you to our second Shades of Science virtual panel event on June 25th 3-4 pm BST featuring @DrSWijeakumar Prof @leher_singh and Dr @Dolapoadegboye3. Register your place using the QR code in the flyer!#DiversityInScience
We are excited to invite you to our second Shades of Science virtual panel event on June 25th 3-4 pm BST featuring @DrSWijeakumar Prof @leher_singh and Dr @Dolapoadegboye3. Register your place using the QR code in the flyer!#DiversityInScience
New paper from our team: Pathogenesis of Preterm Intraventricular Haemorrhage karger.com/dne/article/do… We review the maturational profile of cerebrovascular development in the preterm neonate.
Thanks Sue for your valuable radio doc where we discussed the myth that autistic people lack empathy. Autistic people may struggle with cognitive empathy but their affective empathy is intact. In this way, they are the mirror opposite of psychopaths bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…
According to my #autism assessment, my empathy score is disturbingly low. If you mistakenly think all autistic people have no empathy, listen to my latest radio doc with @annefelice on @bbcworldservice Autism, empathy & Psychopaths. Prepare to rethink the stereotype. Link below.
Exciting news📢 Thanks to a £2.3M grant from Research England and Leicestershire’s universities, we have an incredible opportunity to expand our initiatives with an additional 27 PhD studentships and 12 Research placements funded across the county. 🔗: loom.ly/H8vBxt4
This looks super cool and you get to work with @DrSWijeakumar - get applying!
Interested in a fully-funded PhD to look at adult-child-robot interactions at @UniofNottingham? Find information about the project in the image below and about the application process under the link: nottingham.ac.uk/computerscienc…
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🎉 We are thrilled to welcome the newest member of the Developmental Science team – our new DEI Associate Editor, @bruce_rawlings! We can't wait to see the positive impact they will bring to the journal!