Research Interests
Supervising PhD students in the fields of
- Charting, monitoring, and understanding the development of learning and behaviour of term and pre-term infants
- Interventions to improve term and pre-term infants’ learning and social learning skills
- Developmental outcomes of Cerebral Palsy children
Public outreach & key achievements
- Presentations to midwifery conferences
- Study day with paediatricians
Research students
| PhD Title | Women experiences of intrapartum care during labour and delivery at the childbirth facilities in Saudi Arabia |
| Name | Rachael Bell |
| Country | UK |
| Year of Study | 3 |
| PhD Title | Sustaining Palliative Care Teams that Provide Home-based Care in a Shared Care Model |
| Name | Reem Alghamdi |
| Country | Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) |
| Year of Study | 3 |
| PhD Title | Sleep Disturbances in Children with Cerebral Palsy |
| Name | Mary Elaine McCavert |
| Country | UK |
| Year of Study | 3 |
| PhD Title | Can Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), administered during or after a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit admission, reduce the everity of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in parents of premature babies: a feasibility study. |
| Name | Kadisha Lagan |
| Country | UK |
| Year of Study | 1 |
Alumni: Where are they now
| PhD Title | A longitudinal study of the links between alcohol problems and depressive symptoms during adolescence |
| Name | Lina Homman |
| Year of Study | 3 |
| Country | Sweden |
| Current Position | Research Fellow Áù¾ÅÉ«Ìà Belfast | QUB · Centre for Public Health |
| PhD Title | Family and socio-economic factors affecting the development of problem behaviour in children: secondary analyses of the Growing Up in Ireland study |
| Name | Anne-Marie Brooks |
| Year of Study | 2003-2007 |
| Country | China |
| Current Position | Department of Children and Youth Affairs, Dublin, Republic of Ireland |