Children, Youth, Family Life, and Learning

At the Department of Psychology we have a number of researchers who work in the field of children, youth, family life, and learning. Our researchers have expert knowledge on several different topics, including parenthood, perinatal depression, learning with VR, and the wellbeing and mental health of children and young people.

Below you will find an overview of our researchers and their areas of expertise. You can also read the latest news and watch films about our research.

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Researcher	Contact	Subject
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Guido Makransky Professor	gm@psy.ku.dk Phone: +45 35 32 62 76	Educational Psychology Virtual reality and technology enhanced learning Learning and interest within natural science
Jesper Dammeyer Professor	jesper.dammeyer@psy.ku.dk Phone: +45 35 32 48 68	Disability, deaf and deaf-blind Clinical Child Psychology, Infant Psychology, and Educational Psychology Language development
Mette Skovgaard Væver Professor	mette.vaever@psy.ku.dk Phone: +45 35 32 49 06 Mobile: +45 28 74 19 66	Infant and young children's mental development Attachment and care of caregivers Parenthood Early intervention and prevention
Victoria Southgate Professor	victoria.southgate@psy.ku.dk Phone: +45 35 33 43 40	Early child development Cognitive development Brain development and neuroimaging Social cognition
Johanne Smith-Nielsen Associate Professor	johanne.smith-nielsen@psy.ku.dk Phone: +45 35 32 49 44 Mobile: +45 23 98 43 03	Infants' mental health Early attachment and intervention Early mother-infant interaction Perinatal depression
Katrine Røhder Associate Professor	katrine.rohder@psy.ku.dk Phone: +45 35 32 48 00	Social and emotional development in early childhood (0-5 years) Congenital developmental disabilities, including cerebral palsy Attachment and caregiving Early detection and intervention Pedagogical-psychological counselling (0-5 years) Parenthood
Sonja Breinholst Associate Professor	sonja.breinholst@psy.ku.dk Phone: +45 35 32 48 92	Anxiety, depression, school refusal behaviour, and wellbeing Cognitive behavioural therapy Clinical Child Psychology Parental behaviour and parent-based interventions Early intervention and prevention Parent-child interaction
Xuan Li Associate Professor	xuan.li@psy.ku.dk Phone: +45 35 33 26 38	Fatherhood Parenting Socio-emotional development Gender socialization
Dora Kampis Assistant Professor	dk@psy.ku.dk Phone: +45 35 33 39 85	Social cognition Early childhood cognition Social and cognitive development Neuroimaging
Ida Egmose Pedersen Assistant Professor	ida.pedersen@psy.ku.dk Phone: +45 35 33 05 28	Social and emotional development Perinatal depression Children and parental use of screens Day care for children Quality of interaction and attachment Early detection and intervention
Katarina Begus Assistant Professor	khb@psy.ku.dk	Infant cognitive development Curiosity Information seeking Active (social) learning Neuroimaging Eye-tracking Caregiver-child interaction
Monika Walczak Assistant Professor	monika.walczak@psy.ku.dk Phone: +45 35 32 49 43	Anxiety, depression and school refusal behaviour Metacognitive therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy Parent-based interventions
Emanuela Yeung Assistant Professor	eyeung@psy.ku.dk	Developmental psychology and infancy Cognitive development and social understanding Eye tracking, pupillometry and EEG
Cécile Gal Postdoc	cgg@psy.ku.dk Phone: +45 35 33 40 79	Brain development Infancy Learning and curiosity Neuroimaging, EEG, and eye-tracking
Charlotte Bjerre Meilstrup Postdoc	cbm@psy.ku.dk Phone: +45 35 32 20 67	Mental health promotion and wellbeing Partnerships ABCs of Mental Health Intervention research Bridging between research and practice
Katrine I. Wendelboe Postdoc	katrine.isabella.wendelboe@psy.ku.dk Phone: +45 35 33 46 58	Early intervention and attachment Mentalizing and parental mentalizing Perinatal depression Clinical psychology
Line Nielsen Postdoc	ln@psy.ku.dk Phone: +45 35 32 21 03	Public mental health, mental health promotion and wellbeing Partnerships Social inequality
Nicolas François René Goupil Postdoc	nrg@psy.ku.dk Phone: +4535336422	Social cognition Early childhood cognition Social and cognitive development Developmental cognitive neuroimaging Social perception Higher vision
Anne Marie Hastrup Kristensen PhD student	amhk@psy.ku.dk Mobile: +45 50 59 35 25	Attention difficulties Initiatives in primary school Academic and social wellbeing Childhood and school days in a digital age
Emilie Hestbæk PhD student	emilie.hestbaek.jacobsen@regionh.dk ehj@psy.ku.dk	Early detection and intervention Parents with mental illness Mentalisation Psychiatry Psychotherapy Personality disorders and trauma Vulnerable pregnant women

Grant

New parenting programme to help children in families with complex psychosocial problems

GRANT

Research project focuses on children's attention in an everyday life filled with distractions

COGNITION

Department of Psychology

Children, Youth, Family Life, and Learning

New parenting programme to help children in families with complex psychosocial problems

Research project focuses on children's attention in an everyday life filled with distractions

Infants are not egocentric: Trust other people's attention more than their own

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Research groups

Centre for Anxiety

Centre for Early Childhood Cognition

Centre of Excellence in Early Intervention and Family Studies

The ABCs of Mental Health

Virtual Learning Lab