Annie Brookman-Byrne

Annie Brookman-Byrne
Deputy Editor BOLD

Annie Brookman-Byrne is a science writer and editor specialising in psychology and education. Annie was a researcher in both disciplines, and holds an MSc in educational neuroscience and a PhD in psychological sciences. She is a Chartered Psychologist. For three years, Annie was Deputy Editor of The Psychologist, the magazine from the British Psychological Society. Annie has been Deputy Editor of BOLD since 2021.


Contributions by Annie

A child and an adult play a cup game with a hidden toy rabbit.
A child explains to a researcher how an excluded child in a picture feels.
A man and a boy bake together, looking at numbers for the recipe.
A child looks at their crops growing in the rain, and another child whose crops are dry waters them with the help of a researcher.
A girl is looks out of the window while a lesson is taking place in the classroom.
A researcher works with children and great apes.
A woman and a child scale a climbing wall.
A researcher observes how a group of students navigate school.
A computer scientist helps a child thrive with digital technology.
A researcher analyses graphs linked to how children learn.
Children huddle round a teacher who is writing on paper.
A student learns collaboratively using EdTech.
A researcher observes a child losing and keeping hold of some memories.
A researcher puts a bridge down so a preschool child can enter the classroom.
A researcher shows children decision pathways in the brain.
A researcher guiding children through a tunnel on an adventure.
A researcher holds an infant wearing a brain scanning cap with neurons firing out.
A multilingual class of students learn together.
A researcher and children in a boat use a fishing rod to catch digital solutions to challenges.
A researcher and a child interact with a robot.
A researcher helps children walk up a line graph.
A teacher and researcher analyse data captured from the classroom.
A scientist watches children playing basketball together.
Children jump over a blackboard of math problems.
Children paint images of brains with the help of a neuroscientist.
A child and an adult read together, engaging all senses.
A researcher plants young saplings next to a tree that children have climbed and are learning in.
A young girl looks through a telescope, as a researcher stands next to her.
A researcher studies parents who use technology to support their children's development.
A young girl thinks while working on her homework.
A child lies on the floor reading.
Annie Brookman-Byrne and Gemma Wirz / 27 April 2023
Characters playing outdoors together in nature.
Annie Brookman-Byrne and Gemma Wirz / 20 April 2023
Characters of diverse backgrounds and demographics standing together in harmony.
Characters standing in a forest noticing and connecting with nature.
Annie Brookman-Byrne and Gemma Wirz / 30 March 2023
Characters closely observing a caterpillar as it crawls on a leaf.
Gemma Wirz and Annie Brookman-Byrne / 28 March 2023
A caregiver and young child read together.
Children running down a school corridor.
Photo by Daniel Macharia, Kidogo
Photo provided by Sabre Education
Photo by conzorb on shutterstock.com
Photo by Ato Aikins, unsplash.com, CC0
Photo by Amy Humphries, unsplash.com, CC0
Photo by Maria Sbytova from shutterstock.com
Park Troopers, unsplash.com, CC0
Photo by Olivia Bauso, unsplash.com, CC0
Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash
Photo by Sam Poullain on Unsplash.com, CC0
Photo by Monkey Business Images from shutterstock.com
Children sit on a wall reading.
Gemma Wirz and Annie Brookman-Byrne / 11 January 2022
Photo by MemoryMan from shutterstock.com
Tonee Ndungu
Photo by Akil Mazumder from Pexels
Photo by Keira Burton from Pexels
Photo by 14995841 from Pixabay
Annie Spratt, unsplash.com
Eric Tompkins, unsplash.com
Photo by Jerry Wang on Unsplash
Annie Brookman-Byrne / 11 September 2020
Meghan Schiereck, unsplash.com
Kelly Sikkema, unsplash.com
an_photos, pixabay.com, CC0
Don Harder, flickr.com, CC BY-NC 2.0
Photo by Evan Dvorkin on Unsplash
Image: Jacobs Foundation
Artwork "Park/Parking" by Banksy
Wolfgang Lonien,flickr.com, CC BY 2.0
Image: Jacobs Foundation
Image: Jacobs Foundation
Image: Jacobs Foundation
woodleywonderworks, flickr.com, CC BY 2.0
Wokandapix, pixabay.com, CC0
Illustration: Mrzyk & Moriceau for BOLD
Image: Jacobs Foundation
Image: Jacobs Foundation
Norton Gusky, flickr.com, CC BY 2.0
_Alicja_, Pixabay.com, CC0 1.0
Alexas_Fotos, Pixabay.com, CC0 1.0
Image: Jacobs Foundation
Liza, flickr.com, CC BY 2.0
Luis Marina, flickr.com, CC BY 2.0
Annie Brookman-Byrne / 21 January 2019
akshayapatra, Pixabay.com, CC0 1.0
stuxx, Pixabay.com, CC0 1.0
Andrew Moore, flickr.com, CC BY-SA 2.0
Photo: US Department of Education, flickr.com, CC-BY 2.0
Annie Brookman-Byrne / 8 October 2018
sweetlouise, Pixabay.com, CC0 1.0
GPS, flickr.com, CC BY-SA 2.0
Lady Orlando, flickr.com, CC BY 2.0
''Nobody likes me', artwork by Banksy
skeeze, Pixabay.com, CC0 1.0
Bruce Guenter, flickr.com, CC BY 2.0
A flourishing brain in a snow globe.
geralt, Pixabay.com, CC0 1.0
Virginia State Parks, flickr.com, CC BY 2.0
HeyouRelax, pixabay.com, CC0 1.0
SciArt by Nora Maria Raschle, www.bornascientist.wordpress.com
"Maybe, Knowledge will Win after all", by Nora Maria Raschle, www.bornascientist.wordpress.com
markuspiske, pixabay.com, CC0 1.0

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