Speaker
Professor Sam Wass
Child Psychologist, Neuroscientist, and Leader of the BabyDevLab at the University of East London
Biography
Professor Sam Wass is a child psychologist and neuroscientist, and his research examines how concentration, stress and learning capacities develop during childhoodHe leads a research unit, the BabyDevLab, which is funded by the European Research Council, Research Councils UK and others, based at the University of East London. He works with typically developing children as well as children growing up in diverse socio-economic status backgrounds in East London and a major focus of his research is on understanding how different early life environments and different early inter-personal interaction styles influence the development of concentration and stress during infancy and early childhood.
He is also a collaborator on a range of projects in London, Europe, the United States and Canada with clinical populations (children with Attention Deficit Disorder, Autism Spectrum Disorders, preterm birth and Rett Syndrome). His research has been funded by the Medical Research Council, the Economic and Social Research Council, the National Institute of Health Research, the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust, the Nuffield Foundation, and others. In addition, Sam is also very active in the public communication of science.