Mr Ken B. Hanscombe  BSc MSc
PhD student

biography

Ken is a PhD student at the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, working with Professor Robert Plomin and Dr Claire Haworth.

In 2008 he graduated from Goldsmith’s College, University of London, with a BSc (Hons) in Psychology. He joined the SGDP centre in 2008, and was awarded an MSc with distinction in Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry in 2009. Ken’s research uses quantitative and molecular genetic techniques to disentangle the effects of nature and nurture on complex traits.

teaching activities

Course tutor - Introduction to R, SGDP Summer School, King’s College London, 2012

Course co-director - Twin Model Fitting, SGDP Summer School, King’s College London, 2011

Visiting tutor - R and OpenMx, Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH), 2011

Visiting tutor - twin model fitting, OpenMx and R, International Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Investigations into Individual Differences in Learning (InLab), Goldsmith’s College, 2011

publications

Hanscombe, K.B., Trzaskowski, M., Haworth, C.M.A., Davis, O.S.P., Dale, P. S., & Plomin, R. (2012). Socioeconomic status (SES) and children’s intelligence (IQ): In a UK-representative sample SES moderates the environmental, not genetic, effect on IQ. PLoS ONE, 7(2). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0030320

*Jaffee, S.R., *Hanscombe, K.B., Haworth, C.M.A., Davis, O.S.P., & Plomin, R. (2012). Chaotic homes and children’s disruptive behavior: a longitudinal cross-lagged twin study. Psychological Science. doi:10.1177/0956797611431693

Hanscombe, K.B., Haworth, C.M.A., Davis, O.S.P., Jaffee, S.R., & Plomin, R. (2011). Chaotic homes and school achievement: A twin study. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 52(11), 1212-1220. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2011.02421.x

Hanscombe, K.B., Haworth, C.M.A., Davis, O.S.P., Jaffee, S.R., & Plomin, R. (2010). The nature (and nurture) of children’s perceptions of family chaos. Learning and Individual Differences, 20(5), 549-553. doi:10.1016/j.lindif.2010.06.005

Viding, E., Hanscombe, K.B., Curtis, C.J.C., Davis, O.S.P., Meaburn, E.L., & Plomin, R. (2010). In search of genes associated with risk for psychopathic tendencies in children: A two-stage genome-wide association study of pooled DNA. Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry, 51(7), 780-788. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7610.2010.02236.x

Under review
Hanscombe, K.B., Haworth, C.M.A., Davis, O.S.P., Petrill, S., Dale, P.S., Plomin, R., & Kovas, K. (submitted). Why do spatial abilities predict mathematical performance?

Haworth, C.M.A., Davis, O.S.P., Hanscombe, K.B., Kovas, Y., Dale, P.S, & Plomin, R. (submitted). Understanding the science-learning environment: a genetically sensitive approach