Get Involved!

We have been running the York BabyLab since 2007. This has given us the chance to meet hundreds of families from York and the surrounding areas – and we have learned a lot! However, each research study not only teaches us something about how babies learn to talk but raises many new questions as well. So we always have new studies going on – and we would love to have you and your baby come take part in one!

For some of our studies we invite you to visit the York BabyLab for a short session. In other cases we would like to come visit you at home, to record you and your child playing together. Since the COVID-19 pandemic we have also been running a number of studies on Zoom, where we might record you and/or your baby over a webcam. And in a third type of study we give you the ‘LENA device’, for you to record your child and all the speech the child hears over a set period of time (without any of us being present). And then again we sometimes combine two of these study-types in one – depending on what questions we are asking.

• To find out what studies we are currently carrying out in the York BabyLab, visit our 'Current Projects’ tab.

• For information on getting to the York BabyLab, go to the 'About Your Visit' tab. 

To take part in one of our studies, please complete our online ‘Sign up for a Study’ form below!