Hello! Welcome to our CHAMP project website.
Who are we?
We are researchers from the University of Luxembourg. Our names are Pascale, Robert, Melina and Cyril. There are men and women on our team. Boys and girls can both become researchers. Anyone can!
We study psychology. Psychology is the science of how people think and feel.
Sometimes, you feel nervous, like when you speak in front of a class. Other times, you feel very happy, like when you get a great gift. Psychology helps us understand why we feel this way.
Psychology explains what happens in our brain, our feelings, and our body.
What do we do?
Researchers look for new things that we do not yet know. When they find something new, people say: “That is what science has found out!”
There are different types of research.
We study what children and young people do, think and feel. This helps us understand them better.
To do this, we ask children and young people questions, do fun tasks or observe how they behave.
We work on different projects. It’s like school projects, where we work on something for a long time and learn new things. Each project has a goal. We often find out new things. When we discover something new, we usually have many new questions after.
Everyone can choose if they want to join our projects. We always explain what we want to do and ask for permission before we start.
What is CHAMP?
CHAMP is our new project.
It will last 4 years.
We are working with many children and young people from Luxembourg.
There are different parts to CHAMP.
In one part, we give many children and young people a questionnaire.
They answer questions,
like: “How do you feel?”
or “Are you being bullied at school?”.
In another part, we do fun tasks with the children.
For example, we play a memory game on the computer
or solve a puzzle.
We also ask some children to gently rub inside their mouth with a soft stick. This helps us collect tiny parts from the body. Our body is made of many tiny parts called cells. Inside these cells is our DNA, which is like a big instruction book for our body. DNA has special switches that can turn things on or off. These switches help control how our body works and how we feel. We want to learn more about how these switches work.
Some children only do some parts of CHAMP. For example, some children just fill out the questionnaire. Other children just solve tasks.
At the end, we put together everything we have found
from all the parts of CHAMP. This helps us answer our big question.
What does CHAMP want to find out?
When children go through difficult times, it can change how they feel and think. Some children might then have problems with behaviour or learning.
We are trying to find out why this happens. CHAMP helps us understand this better.
For example: How difficult situations affect how children feel and learn. CHAMP wants to help children who go through difficult times.
We carefully study how experiences affect children’s feelings, behaviour, and learning. Our project is special, because we look at many things together, like feelings, school, the environment, and the body.
We write about what we find in magazines for scientists. We also write articles for everyone to read. We also write texts for children. We tell many people what we have found out.
It might take a while until the results are ready, because research needs to be done very carefully. You can read more about what we have already learned.
If you want to know more about CHAMP, you can write to us!
Here is our email address: champy@uni.lu
