Our Lunch & Learn webinar series is online and usually takes place every 4th Monday of the month, 1-2pm UK time.
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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 particular aspects of their work. The second half (30 mins) then opens the floor for discussion.
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Future Lunch & Learn webinar schedule 2025 – Pump Prime Series
These webinars are now showcasing the funded projects by R4N and their future directions.
| Date |
Presenter |
Title |
| 24 November 2025 |
Professor Sam Wass |
Developing low-cost wearables to track early home environments in neurodivergent children. |
| 15 December 2025 |
Dr Jannath Begum Ali |
Sleepystaars: Measuring sleep in infants enriched for autism. |
| 26 January 2026 |
Dr Tobias Wood |
Comfortable conformal coils for children. |
| 23 February 2026 |
Dr Borja Blanco |
The effect of early adversity on neurodevelopment: Defining a biological poverty line through social brain fingerprinting. |
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If you have missed a Lunch and Learn Webinar you can watch it on demand. All direct links are posted on our internal membership page.
Previous RESPECT 4 Neurodevelopment Webinars
2025:
- 27 October 2025
Dr Teresa Del Bianco, London Metropolitan University
Through their eyes: Empowering neurodivergent perspectives with eye-tracking.
- 22 September 2025
Professor Jo Hajnal, Kind’s College London
Immersive virtual reality for MRI scanning of awake young children with neurodevelopmental conditions.
- 28 July 2025
Dr Julia Föcker, University of Lincoln
W.I.S.E. (Wheelchair Integrated Sensory Education).
- 16 June 2025
Mirko Uljarevic, Standford University
Utilizing dimensional frameworks to advance the understanding of autism and other neurodevelopmental conditions.
- 02 June 2025 – cancelled (bank holiday)
Dr Sarah Chan, University of Edinburgh
Topic: Ethics.
- 28 April 2025
Theodora Gliga, University of East Anglia
Understanding why hypersensitive children struggle to sleep: the need for “hard” and “soft” science.
- 31 March 2025
Fredrick Shic, University of Washington
Moving targets: The evolving study of attention at the intersection of Autism, AI, and Early Development.
- 24 February 2025
Professor Bhisma Chakrabarti, University of Reading
Digitally phenotyping neurodevelopment through non-specialist.
- 20 January 2025
Professor Matthew Goodwin, Northeastern University
Wearable biosensing to predict imminent aggressive behaviour in psychiatric inpatient youths with autism.
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2024:
- 25 November 2024
Professor Ben Seymour, University of Oxford
Neurodevelopment and changes in behavioural homeostasis.
- 28 October 2024
Dr Ryan Field, CEO of Kernal
Time-domain fNIRS – an advanced technology for studying brain function.
- 22 July 2024
Dr Anna Gui, University of Essex
Personalising experimental designs to appreciate diversity in social attention.
- 24 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.
- 20 May 2024
Professor Nick Puts, King’s College London
Sensory perception in the context of neurodevelopmental conditions.
- 22 April 2024
Dr Virginia Carter Leno, Birkbeck, University of London
Differences in sensory responsivity in young children: underlying mechanisms and impact on mental health.
- 25 March 2024
Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox, Cambridge University
Taking fNIRS out of the research lab to study infant development.
- 26 February 2024
Dr Nicolo Pini, Columbia University, Irving Medical Center
Wearables for Sleep Health Research: Opportunities and Challenges.
- 22 January 2024
Dr Dafnis Batallé, University College London
Functional brain dynamics in the early developing brain.
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2023:
- 27 November 2023
Professor Luca Pollonini, University of Houston
A holistic approach towards reliable subject-level fNIRS imaging.
- 23 October 2023
Professor David Edwards, King’s College London
Macroscopic connectomics in the developing brain.
- 25 September 2023
Professor Judith Gervain, University of Padua, Italy and CNRS, Paris, France
How deaf and cochlear implanted infants perceive speech?
- 2023-2024 RESPECT 4 Neurodevelopment Webinars
- 24 July 2023
Professor Clare Elwell, University College London
Brain Imaging for Global Health
- 26 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.
- 22 May 2023
Dr Paola Pinti, Birkbeck, University of London.
Mapping functional brain activity in ecological settings with mobile fNIRS: opportunities and challenges.
- 24 April 2023
Dr Robert Cooper, University College London.
Anywhere, anytime, and any baby: functional mapping of the developing brain using light.
- 27 March 2023
Dr Louisa Gossé, Birkbeck, University of London.
Sleeping like a baby – how can we study infant sleep and why should we care?
- 27 February 2023
Professor Mayada Elsabbagh, University of Montreal
Community engagement in autism research: Finding the common ground.
- 23 January 2023
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.
