Dr. Ed Baines
Ed Baines is Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Education at the UCL Institute of Education, London. He has an extended record in educational and psychological research and has a long-standing interest in children’s interactions and relationships with peers within school classroom and playground settings, and collaborative group work in classrooms. Ed recently completed a third national survey of school breaktimes/ recess in England, an international survey of breaks/ recess, and is currently working with schools in London to make better and more sustained use of collaborative group work. Ed has written articles on these topics and is co-author of ‘The Child at School’ published by Routledge. He is a founding member of the RISE (Relationships and Interactions in School Environments) research group.
Understanding emotions from other people’s faces and from social situations is essential for daily social interaction. But how is that for children with hearing loss? Can they learn to understand emotions just as easily as hearing children?Through a collaboration between Developmental Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, and Otorhinolaryngology (LUMC and Chang-Gung Memorial Hospital Taiwan), Yung-Ting’s unique eye-tracking studies show that daily "exposure" in the social environment in which emotions take place is essential for the development of this aspect of emotional intelligence. The results are now published in 
