by Mara van der Meulen, Anoek Sluiter-Oerlemans and Katerina Kalamari Following up on an inspiring brainstorm session for the CIDyoung community, the first CIDyoung meeting on “Conducting longitudinal research with CID- examination of translational perspectives” successfully took place on the 14 November 2019. Our aim was to encourage the exchange of ideas and experiences between researchers…

Ine Beyens has been appointed assistant professor in the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR) at the University of Amsterdam. Ine’s research focuses on the uses and effects of screen media among children and adolescents, and the role that parents play in shaping these effects. After completing her PhD at KU Leuven (Belgium) in 2015,…

It’s a wrap for Roy Hessels (Postdoc Utrecht University Experimental Psychology and Developmental Psychology). His paper was the first accepted to the CID special issue in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience (DCN). Roy and colleague Ignace Hooge describe why eye-tracking is an excellent tool to study early development (the good). But how invalid conclusions may be drawn…

Data from 32,892 children was used to examine the relation between parental age and behavioural problems in a recent paper published in Child Development. The children were part of four Dutch longitudinal cohort studies: Generation R, the Netherlands Twin Register, the Research on Adolescent Development and Relationships-Young Cohort (RADAR-Y), and the Tracking Adolescents’ Individual Lives Survey (TRAILS). They…

by Mariëlle Zondervan-Zwijnenburg postdoc WP4 I enjoy developing methods that are helpful to other researchers During my PhD at the Utrecht University Methodology and Statisticsdepartment, I became involved in a multi-cohort Consortium on Individual Development (CID) project. The aim was to examine parental age and child behaviour problems in four different CID cohorts (Generation-R, NTR, RADAR-Y and TRAILS)….

Stefanie Nelemans was awarded a Dutch Research Council (NWO) Veni grant for her project Why is everybody watching me?! Working towards a novel model to explain social anxiety in adolescence NWO selects researchers based on the quality of the researcher, the innovative nature of the research, the expected scientific impact of the research proposal and possibilities…

Spring 2019 was sprinkled with CID PhD graduations across work packages and locations. Congratulations are in order for: Jiska Kentrop (UMCU, WP4), Challenging early life environments: Impact on behavioral inhibition and (pro-)social behavior in rats. Jiska examined how challenging early life environments impact behavioural inhibition and (pro-)social behaviour. To this end, a rat model was used…

Exciting times for Michelle Achterberg and Mara van der Meulen. They are the sole authors on a recent publication about brain scan quality published in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience (DCN). A great first step towards scientific independence that they took together. So how did they do it? In 2014, Michelle and Mara started their PhD research…

by Susanne Schulz (WP3) & Sanne Geeraerts (WP1) We were thrilled when asked to prepare a family lecture for the movie ‘Lepel’ as part of the Smart Movies initiative of the University Museum Utrecht. On 10th May 2019, children and their families learned about Coping strategies in difficult situations. Our lecture highlighted certain aspects of the movie to enhance…

Jelle Knop (PhD candidate WP2 and WP4) wants to share his research on early stress and development with the general public. So he teamed up with the Scientist wanted platform. Scientist wanted envisions a future with more young researchers talking to the general public. First step: highlight young researchers who are very willing to talk to…