Rachael W. Cheung
Visiting Research Fellow

Profile

Biography

Rachael is a Research Associate working with Born in Bradford’s Better Start (BiBBS). She is the Lead Research Fellow at the Better Start Bradford Innovation Hub for Language/Communication interventions, working with community-based early years practitioners. She is also the Lead Research Fellow in charge of planning the next phase of the BiBBS birth cohort around funding and research data strategy. Her PhD is in Developmental Psychology with a focus on language development in typical and atypical populations. She was previously a junior doctor working across Paediatrics, Psychiatry, and A&E.

Qualifications

PhD Developmental Psychology, Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Scholar (Lancaster University)
MSc Developmental Neuroscience & Psychopathology (UCL / Yale University)
MSc Healthcare Ethics & Law (University of Manchester)
MBChB Medicine (University of Manchester)

Research

Overview

Rachael is a quantitative researcher who investigates the relations between socioemotional and language domains in children, with a focus on early development (0 – 5 years). She has a special interest in early language delay and in the effects of social inequality on early language. Her methods include behavioural experiments, longitudinal cohort methods (e.g. structural equation modelling), behavioural genetics, computational modelling, and the evaluation of early life interventions in public health. She has previously worked with fMRI.