Speakers from Carphone Warehouse, TOTP Magazine, CBBC, Morrisons, Brook, Soreen, Immediate Media, Complete Control, The Walt Disney Company, Egmont Publishing – MRS

Family Kids and Youth take part in discussion on children and social media at Social Media Week Conference.

Results presented by AA’s Karen Fraser at the ‘Marketing and Children: What Next?’ event on 17 October at which Minister for Children and Families Edward Timpson MP formally launched the Bailey Review’s ‘stock take’.

Launching the Digital Kids day Barbie presented Family Kids and Youth’s latest digital survey carried out with parents, children and teachers. Blog

The report looks at the cognitive, social and psychological benefits of children’s interaction with music.

to present Family Kids and Youth’s study on child development for Unilever and Unicef.

Their paper ‘Ethics of Research with Children’ won the IJMR Collaborative Research Best paper Award, presented by Matthew Coombes, Publishing Director of WARC

Barbie was made a Fellow at the MRS Excellence Awards at Haberdashers Hall, London, on 12 July. MRS Fellowships are awarded ‘in recognition of an exceptional contribution to market research.

Family Kids and Youth’s research – based on focus groups, ethnography and quantitative research -demonstrates the way in which Tablets are opening up new opportunities for children’s creativity, motivation to learn, and social skills. Children’s Media Conference

Family Kids and Youth’s research in homes and in schools has shown widespread use of Apps. Barbie will summarise the research that has looked at the way children are using Apps for information, entertainment and communication.