Recordings of Lunch and Learn Webinars can be found here.
If you would like to present or feel that there is a topic that you would like to be included please email the network.
Recordings are unlisted on youtube, meaning that only those with the link can view them (they are not searchable).
The webinars are structured in two halves, with a presentation for the first half. From the
outset these webinars invite interactive discussions with network members. For example,
speakers may provide pointers for discussions by posting specific questions to the audience,
explore possibilities for future pilot studies, or ask specialists in other areas to give feedback on
aspects of their work. The second half then opens the floor for discussion.
July 2025 to February 2026 is the PUMP PRIME SERIES
24th November 2025
Professor Sam Wass
Developing low cost wearables to track how early environments influence neurodivergent children
24th October 2025
Dr Teresa Del Bianco, London Metropolitan University
Through their eyes: Empowering neurodivergent perspectives with eye-tracking
Professor Jo Hajnal 22nd September 2025
22th September 2025
Professor Jo Hajnal, King’s College London
Immersive Virtual Reality for MRI scanning of awake young children with neurodevelopmental conditions
24th June 2025
Dr Julia Föcker, University of Lincoln
W.I.S.E. (Wheelchair Integrated Sensory Education)
2025 RESPECT 4 Neurodevelopment Webinars
24th June 2025
Dr Mirko Uljarevic, Stanford University
Utilizing dimensional frameworks to advance the understanding of autism and other neurodevelopmental conditions
May 2025 – CANCELLED
28th April 2025
Prof Teodora Gliga, University of East Anglia
Understanding why hypersensitive children struggle to sleep: the need for “hard” and “soft” science
24th March 2025
Fredrick Shic, University of Washington
Moving targets: The Evolving Study of Attention at the Intersection of Autism, AI, and Early Development
27th February 2025
Bishma Chakrabarti, University of Reading
Digitally phenotyping neurodevelopment through non-specialists
27th January 2025
Professor Matthew Goodwin, Northeastern University
Wearable Biosensing to Predict Imminent Aggressive Behavior in Psychiatric Inpatient Youths with Autism
25th November
Professor Ben Seymour, University of Oxford
Neurodevelopment and changes in behavioural homeostasis.
28th October
Ryan Field, Electrical Engineer at Kernel
Time-Domain fNIRS – An advanced technology for studying brain function.
SUMMER BREAK
22nd July 2024
Dr Anna Gui, University of Essex
Personalising experimental designs to appreciate diversity in social attention
24th June 2024
Kate Still, Scientific Director of the Phelan-McDermid Syndrome Foundation
(PMSF),
Unmet needs in neurotechnology for Phelan-McDermid syndrome – a rare
syndrome with significant medical complexity
20th May 2024
Dr Nick Puts, King’s College London
Sensory perception in the context of neurodevelopmental conditions.
22nd April 2024
Dr Virginia Carter Leno, Birkbeck, University of London
Differences in sensory responsivity in young children: underlying mechanisms and
impact on mental health.
25th March 2024
Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox, Cambridge University
Taking fNIRS out of the research lab to study infant development.
26th February 2024
Dr Nicolo Pini, Columbia University, Irving Medical Center
Wearables for Sleep Health Research: Opportunities and Challenges
22nd January (was on 1st Feb) 2024
Dr Dafnis Batallé, University College London
Functional brain dynamics in the early developing brain.
2023 RESPECT 4 Neurodevelopment Webinars
December – No Webinar
27th November 2023
Professor Luca Pollonini, University of Houston
A holistic approach towards reliable subject-level fNIRS imaging.
23rd October
Professor David Edwards, King’s College London
Macroscopic connectomics in the developing brain
25th September
Professor Judith Gervain, University of Padua, Italy and CNRS, Paris, France
How deaf and cochlear implanted infants perceive speech?
24th July 2023
Professor Clare Elwell, University College London
Brain Imaging for Global Health
26th June 2023
Dr Shruit Garg and Dr Caroline Lea-Carnall, University of Manchester.
Use of non-invasive brain stimulation for the amelioration of learning difficulties
in rare genetic conditions
22nd May 2023
Dr Paola Pinti, Birkbeck, University of London.
Title: Mapping functional brain activity in ecological settings with mobile fNIRS:
opportunities and challenges
24th April 2023
Dr Robert Cooper, University College London.
Anywhere, anytime, and any baby: functional mapping of the developing brain
using light.
27th March 2023
Dr Louisa Gossé, Birkbeck, University of London.
Sleeping like a baby – how can we study infant sleep and why should we care?
27th February
Professor Mayada Elsabbagh, University of Montreal
Community engagement in autism research: Finding the common ground.
23rd January
Professor Sam Wass, University of East London
Why scaffolding is a bad metaphor: what using dual EEG to observe the
microdynamics of dual adult-child play can tell us about how attention develops.