Meet the Children Helping Science team

Core Team

Parent Researcher Collaborative

If you are a parent who has participated with your child in a study on this website, or a university-based researcher who has posted a study on Children Helping Science (or its previous incarnation as Lookit), then we consider you a member of the Parent Researcher Collaborative! The team who created the original Children Helping Science platform includes Laura Schulz, Mark Sheskin, as well as:

Affiliated Universities and Researchers

As of May 2026, there are over 3,000 researchers in our community, and around 200 universities affiliated with Lookit/Children Helping Science, including:

United States:

• American University
• Appalachian State University
• Arizona State University
• Boston Children's Hospital
• Boston College
• Boston University
• Bowdoin College
• Boystown
• Brown University
• Bryn Mawr College
• Bucknell University
• California State University, Fresno
• Center for Scholars and Storytellers
• Christopher Newport University
• Clark University
• Cornell University
• Davidson College
• Duke University
• Duke University School of Medicine
• East Tennessee State University
• Elms College
• Emerson College
• Emory University
• Fairleigh Dickinson University
• Florida International University
• Florida State University
• Fordham University
• Franklin & Marshall College
• Furman University
• Gallaudet University
• George Mason University
• George Washington University
• Georgetown University
• Hamilton College
• Harvard Graduate School of Education
• Harvard University
• Haskins Laboratories, Yale University
• Hope College
• Indiana University
• Iowa State University
• James Madison University
• Johns Hopkins
• Keene State College
• Kennedy Kreiger Institute, Johns Hopkins University
• Kent State University
• Lafayette College
• Lehigh University
• Loyola University Chicago
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Miami University
• Middlebury College
• Minerva University
• Montclair State University
• Morgan State University
• New York University
• North Carolina State University
• Northeastern University
• Northern Illinois University
• Northwestern University
• Occidental College
• Ohio State University
• Pacific Lutheran University
• Princeton University
• Purdue University
• Rhodes College
• Rochester Institute of Technology
• Rutgers University - New Brunswick
• Rutgers University - Newark
• Sacred Heart University
• San Diego State University
• Sarah Lawrence College
• Skidmore College
• Smith College
• Southern Methodist University
• Stanford University
• Stephen F. Austin State University
• Stony Brook University
• Swarthmore College
• Teacher's College, Columbia University
• Temple University
• Texas A&M
• The City University of New York (CUNY)
• The College of New Jersey
• The New School
• Trinity University
• Tufts University
• University at Albany, State University of New York
• University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
• University of Alabama
• University of Arizona
• University of California, Berkeley
• University of California, Davis
• University of California, Irvine
• University of California, Los Angeles
• University of California, Merced
• University of California, Riverside
• University of California, San Diego
• University of California, Santa Barbara
• University of California, Santa Cruz
• University of Chicago
• University of Colorado, Boulder
• University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
• University of Connecticut
• University of Delaware
• University of Houston-Downtown
• University of Illinois, Chicago
• University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• University of Kansas
• University of Louisville
• University of Maryland, College Park
• University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• University of Massachusetts, Lowell
• University of Michigan
• University of Minnesota, Duluth
• University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
• University of Missouri, Kansas City
• University of New Hampshire
• University of North Carolina, Asheville
• University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• University of North Carolina, Greensboro
• University of North Dakota
• University of Oregon
• University of Pennsylvania
• University of Rochester
• University of South Carolina
• University of South Dakota
• University of South Florida
• University of Southern California
• University of Southern Illinois
• University of Tennessee, Knoxville
• University of Texas, Austin
• University of Texas, Dallas
• University of Virginia
• University of Washington
• University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Utah State University
• Vanderbilt University
• Vassar College
• Villanova University
• Virginia Tech
• Wake Forest University
• Washington University in St. Louis
• Wayne State University
• Wellesley College
• Wesleyan University
• William Paterson University
• William and Mary
• Williams College
• Yale School of Medicine
• Yale University
• Yeshiva University - Stern College for Women
• foundry10

Canada:

• Brock University
• Concordia University
• Dalhousie University
• Kwantlen Polytechnic University
• McGill University
• McMasters University
• Mount Royal University
• Ryerson University
• Toronto Metropolitan University
• University of British Columbia
• University of Toronto
• University of Waterloo

United Kingdom:

• Birkbeck, University of London
• Goldsmiths, University of London
• Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (UCL)
• Nottingham Trent University
• Nottingham University
• St Andrews University
• Ulster University
• University College London
• University of Birmingham
• University of East Anglia
• University of Edinburgh
• University of Essex
• University of Leeds
• University of Lincoln
• University of Reading
• University of Surrey
• University of York

Worldwide:

• Aix-Marseille Université/CNRS (France)
• Boğaziçi University (Turkey)
• CEMIC-CONICET (Argentina)
• Free School (Brazil)
• Institute Jean Nicod (France)
• Leiden University (Netherlands)
• Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (Germany)
• Max Planck Institute for Human Development (Germany)
• Osaka University (Japan)
• Paris Brain Institute (France)
• Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Colombia)
• Sabancı University (Turkey)
• Technical University of Munich (Germany)
• University of New South Wales, Sydney (Australia)
• University of Tokyo 東京大学 (Japan)
• Université Paris Cité (France)
• Western Sydney University (Australia)

Coming soon (Agreements in process):

• Ambrose University
• Amherst College
• Amsterdam UMC
• Amsterdam University
• Angelo State University
• Auburn University
• Birmingham University
• Brigham & Womens Hospital
• California Institute of Technology
• Capella University
• Carleton College
• Carnegie Mellon University
• Carroll College
• Case Western University
• Chatham University
• Colgate University
• East Carolina University
• East Texas A&M University
• Education University of Hong Kong
• Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
• Florida Center for Reading Research
• Griffith University
• HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics
• Haverford College
• Hebrew University
• Hofstra University
• Hunter College
• Illinois State University
• John Jay College of Criminal Justice and CUNY Graduate Center
• Leeds Beckett University
• Liverpool John Moores University
• Louisiana State University
• MGH Institute of Health Professions
• Marquette University
• Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
• Memorial University of Newfoundland
• Michigan Medicine
• Michigan State University
• Monroe-Woodbury High School, with University at Albany
• Mount Holyoke
• Mount Sinai Hospital
• National University of Singapore
• Oakland University
• Oklahoma State University
• Ontario Tech University
• Oregon State University
• Oxford University
• Pace University
• Penn State University
• Queens College, CUNY
• Royal Holloway University of London
• Ruhr Universität Bochum
• SUNY New Paltz
• Saint Joseph's University
• Saint Martin's University
• Santa Clara University
• Scranton University
• Silent Spring Institute
• Simon Fraser University
• State University of New York, Purchase
• Stirling University
• Sussex University
• TERC
• The College of Staten Island, The City University of New York
• Tulane University
• University of Arkansas
• University of Calgary
• University of California, East Bay
• University of Cambridge
• University of Central Florida
• University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
• University of Dayton
• University of Dundee
• University of Galway
• University of Guelph
• University of Hawaii, Manoa
• University of Huddersfield
• University of Iowa
• University of La Verne
• University of Manchester
• University of Maryland, Baltimore County
• University of Minnesota, Morris
• University of Missouri
• University of Montana
• University of Nebraska, Lincoln
• University of Oklahoma
• University of Oslo, Norway
• University of Ottawa
• University of Pittsburgh
• University of San Francisco
• University of Utah
• University of Winchester
• University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
• University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
• Webster University
• Western University
• Western Washington University
• Wingate University
• Yeshiva University

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