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Hal Cooper
@halcooper.bsky.social
Interested in: early child development, playful parenting, foundational skills development.
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Plus politics and football! ⚽
Doctoral researcher - Dept. of Social Policy & Intervention - University of Oxford
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🤔 How can #AI be used to understand parent-child interactions? How can these tools be used accurately & ethically for research?
Recap Global Parenting Initiative's event 'Seeing Parenting Clearly? The challenges & potential of AI in early childhood assessment'
🔗 www.spi.ox.ac.uk/article/how-...
How AI is reshaping how we understand parent-child interactions
Hosted by DSPI, the Global Parenting Initiative (GPI) webinar bought together researchers to explore how scalable, ethical and accurate AI tools are in understanding parent-child interactions.
www.spi.ox.ac.uk
July 11, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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How Billionaires Took Over The World @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
How Billionaires Took Over The World | George Monbiot
There’s a Sickness at the Heart of Politics & It’s Called Oligarchy
www.doubledown.news
January 9, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Reminds me of the finding that more socially deprived families benefitted less, or were even adversely affected by Sure Start- pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Highlights the need to carefully develop delivery strategies for the most vulnerable, to avoid increasing existing social inequalities!
New research from @ippr.bsky.social and Save The Children UK highlights the wide gaps in access to childcare by class and occupation.

The Government must do more to widen access to quality childcare for all families, particularly to those in more deprived areas.

www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
Two-thirds of England’s poorest families miss out on childcare, report finds
IPPR and Save the Children call for measures including new not-for-profit nursery trusts and increased funding for deprived areas
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2024 at 12:36 PM
There is rightly a considerable focus on promoting development in the first 1000 days of life, but the next 1000 days are also incredibly important! For health, cognitive outcomes, learning and more, it's essential to give this period attention. Great to see this addressed in this Lancet series.
💡Paper 1 shows that the next 1,000 days are a window of opportunity to promote healthy development.

Yet, only 62 million children (25·4%) currently receive adequate nurturing care, leaving 181·9 million children exposed to risks that threaten their healthy development
November 19, 2024 at 2:23 PM
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Some of my stellar social science colleagues at Oxford 📝

go.bsky.app/LMFL2EG
November 19, 2024 at 8:47 AM