#2 Helen Wareham - Child development and the future workforce. 

In today’s episode with Helen Wareham, we talk about how the better start a child has, the more opportunities and the better outcomes when leaving school.

Key points from this discussion:

• The importance of routines and parent/child interactions in positive child outcomes. 
• Upward movement in education giving an upward movement in child development. 
• The opportunities for business support in such development with a better workforce in the future. 

Helen has been working from home in Weardale since March 2020 sharing an office with her wife, 2 dogs, and occasionally their cat. 

She is a Research Associate at Newcastle University working on a European funded project looking at social inequality and its effects on child development. The project makes use of data in the UK, Germany, and the Netherlands, which has followed households since children were born, to try and understand the mechanisms behind different child outcomes. 

Ultimately Helen likes playing with numbers, making pretty graphs, and trying to work with people and data to make practical, evidence-based changes.

Key Resources:

Helen on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/helen-wareham-887215181/ 

ESRC - Economic & Social Research Council - https://esrc.ukri.org/ 

NINE Doctoral Training Partnership Website / ABC (Accelerating Business Collaboration)- https://www.ninedtp.ac.uk/

Inspiration North Website - www.inspirationnorth.com