Nicole Baumann, building on existing work with Professor Dieter Wolke on the outcomes of preterm birth, has been awarded a prestigious 3 year Marie Curie Global Fellowship to allow her to work at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (USA) with Dr Julia Jaekel and at TNO (the Netherlands) with Professor Stef van Buuren. Nicole will then return to the UK to Leicester University working with Professor Samantha Johnson on research into trajectories of social, emotional and attention problems following very preterm birth.