This Library was launched on 26th August, 2020 during COVID-19 pandemic to provide a repository for **FREE, VALID** methods suitable for **REMOTE** (i.e., telephone, online, via app etc.) data-collection in developmental and family psychological research.
**It's time for innovation and collaboration. It's time to share.**
**ALWAYS LOOKING FOR METHOD CONTRIBUTORS!**
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***Rationale***
Research across numerous psychological domains (cognitive, educational, socio-emotional, behavioural mental health etc.) helps us understand human development. Since Covid-19, this research is crucial for considering the psychological impacts of the pandemic, as well as how to best support children and families in need -- now, and in the unknown times to come.
Many common methods for data collection in developmental or family psychological research require lab or home visits. These methods are expensive and ecologically unsound. Moreover they may be out of the question in the pandemic era. Questionnaires offer important perspective-dependent data, and are easy to put online, but are not a complete solution.
Open-source child and family assessments that can be used remotely (by phone, online, through apps etc.) are key. Here, they are readily and freely accessible.
**This is your library -- let it be an opportunity for long-term change. Share your methods, improve our field.**
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Bonamy R. Oliver
Launched: 26 August 2020
Lab: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/departments-and-centres/departments/psychology-and-human-development/nurture-lab
Contact: b.oliver@ucl.ac.uk