Dr Amy Bidgood
School of Psychology
Faculty of Health
Email: A.Bidgood@ljmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0151 904 6975
I am a Senior Lecturer in Psychology. I joined LJMU in 2022 from the University of Salford, where I had been a Lecturer in Developmental Psychology for the previous four years. I have also been a researcher at the Universities of Liverpool and York, including working on the Language 0-5 Project, a longitudinal project following children's language development over the first five years of life.
My research focuses on young children's language and communicative development. I have studied phonological development (the sounds of speech) and syntax (grammar) development, as well as the impact of play and gesture. My PhD looked at how children learn to stop making certain grammatical mistakes in their speech. In collaboration with colleagues at the University of Salford, I have been studying children's digital media use, including how this can affect parent-child interaction and language development. I also led the Salford Autism Exercise Project, which investigated the effect of swimming lessons on the sleep of autistic children, and whether this could have an impact on their ability to learn new words.
I am interested in hearing from potential PhD students who would like to investigate language and communicative development in infancy/early childhood. This might include spoken language and/or gesture, parent-child communication (including in play), and/or factors affecting these. I am happy to discuss any ideas you might have, so that I can support you in developing you research proposal.
Degrees
University of Liverpool, United Kingdom, PhD Psychology
University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, MA Applied Linguistics
University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom, PGCE Post-Compulsory Education with ESOL Subject Specialism
University of York, United Kingdom, BA (Hons.) Languages and Linguistics
Academic appointments
Lecturer in Developmental Psychology, University of Salford, 2018 - 2022
Research Assistant/Associate, University of Liverpool, 2011 - 2018
Research Assistant/Linguistic Assistant, University of York, 2007 - 2011
Postgraduate training
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, United Kingdom, Higher Education Academy, ? - present
Highlighted publications
Rowland CF, Bidgood A, Jones G, Jessop A, Stinson P, Pine JM, Durrant S, Peter MS. 2024. Simulating the Relationship between Non-word Repetition Performance and Vocabulary Growth in 2-year-olds: Evidence from the Language 0-5 Project Language Learning, DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Baatz A, Bidgood A, Taylor G, Young R. 2023. The trouble with a cuddle: Families’ experiences of supervising interactions between children in middle childhood and the family dog Human-Animal Interactions, DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Bidgood A, Taylor G, Kolak J, Bent EM, Hickman N. 2022. A balanced digital diet for under 5s: A commentary on Orben (2021) Infant and Child Development, 31 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Bidgood A, Pine J, Rowland C, Sala G, Freudenthal D, Ambridge B. 2021. Verb argument structure overgeneralisations for the English intransitive and transitive constructions: grammaticality judgments and production priming Language and Cognition, 13 :397-437 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Journal article
Rowland CF, Bidgood A, Jones G, Jessop A, Stinson P, Pine JM, Durrant S, Peter MS. 2024. Simulating the Relationship between Non-word Repetition Performance and Vocabulary Growth in 2-year-olds: Evidence from the Language 0-5 Project Language Learning, DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Smusz M, Birkbeck C, Bidgood A, Allely C. 2024. Exploring the Experience of Romantic Relationships and Sexuality Education in Neurodivergent and Neurotypical Young Individuals Sexuality and Disability, DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Smusz M, Allely CS, Bidgood A. 2024. Broad Perspectives of the Experience of Romantic Relationships and Sexual Education in Neurodivergent Adolescents and Young Adults Sexuality and Disability: a journal devoted to the psychological and medical aspects of sexuality in rehabilitation and community settings, DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Baatz A, Bidgood A, Taylor G, Young R. 2023. The trouble with a cuddle: Families’ experiences of supervising interactions between children in middle childhood and the family dog Human-Animal Interactions, DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Monaghan P, Donnelly S, Alcock K, Bidgood A, Cain K, Durrant S, Frost RLA, Jago LS, Peter MS, Pine JM, Turnbull H, Rowland CF. 2023. Learning to generalise but not segment an artificial language at 17 months predicts children’s language skills 3 years later Cognitive Psychology, 147 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Lee C, Jessop A, Bidgood A, Peter MS, Pine JM, Rowland CF, Durrant S. 2023. How executive functioning, sentence processing, and vocabulary are related at 3 years of age Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 233 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Galpin A, Bidgood A, Taylor G. 2023. The multiple roles of media use within the family system during lockdown: A thematic analysis of parental reports from the UK Children and Society, 37 :1233-1251 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Home J, Bidgood A, Kalipershad S. 2023. The Junior Doctor Shadow Board British Journal of Healthcare Management, 29 :1-8 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Ambridge B, Doherty L, Maitreyee R, Tatsumi T, Zicherman S, Mateo Pedro P, Kawakami A, Bidgood A, Pye C, Narasimhan B, Arnon I, Bekman D, Efrati A, Fabiola Can Pixabaj S, Marroquín Pelíz M, Julajuj Mendoza M, Samanta S, Campbell S, McCauley S, Berman R, Misra Sharma D, Bhaya Nair R, Fukumura K. 2022. Testing a computational model of causative overgeneralizations: Child judgment and production data from English, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese and K’iche’ Open Research Europe, 1 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Bidgood A, Taylor G, Kolak J, Bent EM, Hickman N. 2022. A balanced digital diet for under 5s: A commentary on Orben (2021) Infant and Child Development, 31 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Bidgood A, Pine J, Rowland C, Sala G, Freudenthal D, Ambridge B. 2021. Verb argument structure overgeneralisations for the English intransitive and transitive constructions: grammaticality judgments and production priming Language and Cognition, 13 :397-437 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Ambridge B, Doherty L, Maitreyee R, Tatsumi T, Zicherman S, Mateo Pedro P, Kawakami A, Bidgood A, Pye C, Narasimhan B, Arnon I, Bekman D, Efrati A, Fabiola Can Pixabaj S, Marroquín Pelíz M, Julajuj Mendoza M, Samanta S, Campbell S, McCauley S, Berman R, Misra Sharma D, Bhaya Nair R, Fukumura K. 2021. Testing a computational model of causative overgeneralizations: Child judgment and production data from English, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese and K’iche’ Open Research Europe, 1 :1-1 DOI Publisher Url
Bidgood A, Pine JM, Rowland CF, Ambridge B. 2020. Syntactic Representations Are Both Abstract and Semantically Constrained: Evidence From Children’s and Adults’ Comprehension and Production/Priming of the English Passive Cognitive Science, 44 :e12892 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Durrant S, Jessop A, Chang F, Bidgood A, Peter MS, Pine JM, Rowland CF. 2020. Does the understanding of complex dynamic events at 10 months predict vocabulary development? Language and Cognition, 13 :66-98 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Ambridge B, Bidgood A, Thomas K. 2020. Disentangling syntactic, semantic and pragmatic impairments in ASD: Elicited production of passives Journal of Child Language, 48 :184-201 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Frost RLA, Jessop A, Durrant S, Peter MS, Bidgood A, Pine JM, Rowland CF, Monaghan P. 2020. Non-adjacent dependency learning in infancy, and its link to language development Cognitive Psychology, 120 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Peter MS, Durrant S, Jessop A, Bidgood A, Pine JM, Rowland CF. 2019. Does speed of processing or vocabulary size predict later language growth in toddlers? Cognitive Psychology, 115 :101238 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Ambridge B, Bidgood A, Pine JM, Rowland CF, Freudenthal D. 2015. Is Passive Syntax Semantically Constrained? Evidence From Adult Grammaticality Judgment and Comprehension Studies Cognitive science, 40 :1435-1459 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Ambridge B, Bidgood A, Twomey KE, Pine JM, Rowland CF, Freudenthal D. 2015. Preemption versus entrenchment: Towards a construction-general solution to the problem of the retreat from verb argument structure overgeneralization PLoS ONE, 10 :e0123723 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Bidgood A, Ambridge B, Pine JM, Rowland CF. 2014. The retreat from locative overgeneralisation errors: A novel verb grammaticality judgment study PLoS One, 9 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Ambridge B, Pine JM, Rowland CF, Chang F, Bidgood A. 2012. The retreat from overgeneralization in child language acquisition: Word learning, morphology, and verb argument structure Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 4 :47-62 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
preprint
Rowland CF, Bidgood A, Jones G, Jessop A, McLaughlin P, Pine J, Durrant S, Peter M. 2023. Simulating the relationship between non-word repetition performance and language growth in 2 year olds: Evidence from the Language 0-5 Project Center for Open Science DOI Publisher Url
Lee C, Jessop A, Bidgood A, Peter M, Pine J, Rowland CF, Durrant S. 2022. Executive Function and Sentence Processing Ability: Evidence from the Language 0-5 Project Center for Open Science DOI Publisher Url
Durrant S, Jessop A, Chang F, Bidgood A, Peter M, Pine J, Rowland CF. 2019. Does the understanding of complex dynamic events at 10 months predict vocabulary development? Center for Open Science DOI Publisher Url
Bidgood A, Pine J, Rowland CF, Sala G, Freudenthal DT, Ambridge B. 2018. Verb argument structure overgeneralisations for the English intransitive and transitive constructions: Grammaticality judgments, production priming and a meta-analytic synthesis Center for Open Science DOI Publisher Url
Bidgood A, Rowland CF, Pine J, Ambridge B. 2018. Syntactic representations contain semantic information: Evidence from forced-choice comprehension and syntactic-priming studies of the passive with adults and children Center for Open Science DOI Publisher Url
Conference publication
Home J, Bidgood A, Kalipershad S. 2021. 67 The junior doctor shadow board, lessons learned from the corporate sector Abstracts, DOI Publisher Url
Chapters
Kidd E, Bidgood A, Donnelly S, Durrant S, Peter MS, Rowland CF. Individual differences in first language acquisition and their theoretical implications Current Perspectives on Child Language Acquisition :189-219 John Benjamins Publishing Company DOI Publisher Url
Other Professional Activity:
Reviewer, Athena Swan national review panel (Advance HE).