Funding

The Medical Research Council and the University of Cambridge are the primary sponsors of the project. The MRC provides intra-mural support for core CALM staff (Head of CALM – Dr Joni Holmes; Investigator Scientist – Dr Jacalyn Guy; Research Assistant – Fánchea Daly; and Research Support Tina Emery). Clinic testing is conducted by Fánchea Daly and Jacalyn Guy and by a team of researchers supported either by the MRC or external grants/ studentships associated with the research programmes of Astle, Kievit, Baker, Manly and Gathercole.

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Ethics

The local  NHS Research Ethics Committee granted ethical approval for CALM and its longitudinal follow-up, CALM II.

Gathercole SE, Astle D, Holmes J, Manly T. Centre for Attention Learning and Memory: A research-based assessment of cognition in children with specific learning difficulties of cognitive origin. 13/EE/0157. 2015. Chief Investigator: Holmes.

Holmes, J., Astle, D., Gathercole, S.E., Kievit, R., Baker, K., Manly, T. Centre for Attention Learning and Memory II (CALM II): a longitudinal study of children with specific learning problems of cognitive origin. 19/EE/0010. Chief Investigator: Holmes.