Project
Title: A Longitudinal
Cross-Cultural
Investigation
on the Role
of Pretend
Play in Children's
Socio-Cognitive
Development
Supervisors:
Dr
Joanne Williams, Dr
Katie Cebula and Dr Dagmara Annaz
Research
topic:
My research interest is on young children's understanding of pretence and mental states. My PhD project focuses on the development trajectory of pretence and theory of mind skills. This project attempts to cross over two boundaries: from the child's ordinary everyday world to their fantasy pretend world and across the cultural boundary between the East and West. By following children longitudinally from toddlerhood to preschool years, the research seeks to establish a better explanation for the association between early mental states understanding and later socio-cognitive skills. A cross-cultural dimension is added to broaden our understanding of and gain deeper insights into the beliefs surrounding children's theory of mind development.
Publications
& presentations:
A. K.
Lim, D. Annaz, K. R. Cebula and J. M. Williams
(2008) Going on a Picnic with the Loch Ness Monster.
Toddlers' Understanding of Pretence and Mental
States. Poster presented at the annual meeting
of the British Psychological Society Developmental
Section, 1-3 September 2008, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Grants & awards:
University of Edinburgh, College of Humanities and Social Science Studentship (2007 - present)
University of Edinburgh, Overseas Awards (2007 - present)
The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland Research Grant (2007)
Experimental Psychology Society Grindley Grant (2008)
British Psychological Society Developmental Section Postgraduate Bursary (2008)
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