7. Sharing your research

Yitong Wang is a doctoral student in the developmental psychology program at Simon Fraser University, Canada. Her research focuses on cultural similarities and differences in child development, and how variation in children’s early experience affect their developmental processes, including motor development, social learning, and moral development. Yitong is passionate about building authentic partnerships with communities during the research process with the goal of developing participant driven and community-led research.

Srujana Duggirala is a doctoral student at Simon Fraser University, Canada, working with Tanya MacGillivray in the Culture and Development lab. Srujana graduated from Osmania University, Hyderabad, India, with a Master of Philosophy in Psychology and a Master of Arts. Her research centers around parenting across diverse cultural contexts as well as prosocial development and reasoning in children.

Alejandrina Cristia is Research Director at Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, Département d’études cognitives, École Normale Supérieure, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, PSL University, France. Alejandrina Cristia’s long-term aim is to shed light on child language development, both descriptively and mechanistically. To this end, her team draws methods and insights from linguistics, psychology, anthropology, economics, and speech technology. With an interest in cumulative, collaborative, and transparent science, she co-founded the first meta-meta-analysis platform (metalab.stanford.edu) and several international networks, including DAylong Recordings of Children’s Language Environment (darcle.org), and the Consortium on Language Variation in Input Environments around the World (LangVIEW), which aims to increase participant and researcher diversity in language development studies.

Natália Dutra is Associate Professor at Federal University of Pará, Brazil, in the Behavior Theory and Research Centre. She holds a PhD in Developmental Psychology from Durham University, UK, and an MSc in Psychobiology from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Her research currently focuses on the psychological mechanisms underlying human social learning and cooperation. Natália is also interested in open science and diversity in science.

Xiaojie Tian holds a PhD in Area Studies and is currently Associate Professor at the Institute of Health and Sport Sciences at University of Tsukuba, Japan. She has conducted anthropological research on pastoralist Maasai communities in Southern Kenya over the past decade. She integrates research methods from different disciplines focusing on ethnobiological knowledge, child learning and development, childhood play and work, and physical culture. Her recent publication includes Maasai Childhood: The Rhythm of Learning in Daily Work and Play Routines.

Annemieke Milks is a Paleolithic archaeologist, and currently holds a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Reading, UK. Her work explores the intersection between material culture, skill, and learning. She specializes in weaponry, early wooden artefacts, and Pleistocene childhoods. Annemieke’s work is interdisciplinary, exploring the archaeological record through macro- and micro-imaging of artefacts, morphometrics, experimental archaeology, and ethnography.

Dorsa Amir received her PhD in Anthropology from Yale University, US. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University and the Director of the Mind & Culture Lab. Dorsa’s work focuses on cognitive development across diverse cultures, with a particular focus on judgement and decision-making.

Claire Hodson is a lecturer in Human Bioarchaeology in the Department of Archaeology at Durham University, UK. Claire’s research focuses on early life health and wellbeing, as well as evidence of growth disruption, considering the interaction and implications of both intrinsic and extrinsic factors on fetal and infant development. Claire is currently working to develop new methods for the recording and identification of pathology in fetal infant individuals and the use of imaging technology to enhance this understanding.

Sarah Pope-Caldwell is Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology, Georgia State University, USA. Sarah’s research focuses on cognitive flexibility, problem-solving, and decision-making, with a strong emphasis on how these processes are shaped by cultural environments and experiences across the lifespan. She explores these areas through a cross-cultural lens, incorporating research from communities around the world, including the United States, Namibia, Germany, and the Republic of the Congo. Additionally, Sarah studies nonhuman primates like baboons, chimpanzees, rhesus macaques, and capuchin monkeys to understand the evolution of flexible problem-solving.