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Dr Katrina Lloyd

Lecturer

20 College Green
School of Education
Queen's University Belfast

Tel: 028 9097 5962
Fax: 028 9097 5066
Email: k.lloyd@qub.ac.uk

Dr Katrina Lloyd is a Lecturer in the School of Education. She has a DPhil in Developmental Psychology and her areas of research expertise include developing and running large-scale surveys of children and young people (including online surveys in schools), analysis of secondary datasets in the Social Sciences, and the emotional health and well-being of children and young people. Along with ARK colleagues from the School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work at Queen’s she runs Kids’ Life and Times, which is an annual online survey of Primary 7 children in Northern Ireland.

Katrina is Coordinator of the Improving Children’s Lives Special Interest Group on Children's Well-being and Quality of Life and is a member of the Centre for Effective Education (CEE) and the Centre for Children’s Rights (CCR) based within the School of Education.

She is currently involved in the following projects:

Longitudinal Survey of Children’s health, wellbeing and educational outcomes (with Professor Paul Connolly, Professor Frank Kee (Centre of Excellence in Public Health) and Dr Laura Dunne)  This research project is based within CEE and involves following up a cohort of Year 8 pupils in a random sample of schools from across Northern Ireland.

Developing a Children’s Right’s Questionnaire (CRQ) (with Ms Lesley Emerson and Dr Elizabeth Welty) This research project is based within CCR and involves designing a CRQ in conjunction with a group of primary school children and piloting the measure in the 2013 Kids’ Life and Times survey.

Legal Needs of Children and Young People (with Professor Laura Lundy, Ms Lesley Emerson and Dr Karen Orr) This research project is based within CCR and involves using a mixed-method, child-rights based approach, to engage with children and young people in order to gather their views and input on the legal needs of children in Northern Ireland. This project is being carried out on behalf of the Department of Justice.

Kids’ Life and Times (KLT) survey (with Dr Paula Devine and Dr Dirk Schubotz from ARK) This is an annual online survey of Primary 7 children in schools across Northern Ireland. The aim is to give children a voice on issues that affect their lives.

Publications
Journal Articles

  • Lloyd, K. (2012) Happiness and well-being of young carers: Extent, nature and correlates of caring among 10 and 11 year old school children, Journal of Happiness Studies, DOI 10.1007/s10902-011-9316-0
  • Lloyd, K. & Devine, P. (2012) Psychometric properties of the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS) in Northern Ireland, Journal of Mental Health, 21 (3), 257-263.
  • Devine, P. & Lloyd, K. (2012) Internet Use and Psychological Well-being among 10-year-old and 11-year-old Children, Child Care in Practice, 18 (1), 5-22
  • Lloyd, K. (2011) Health-related quality of life and children's happiness with their childcare, Child: care, health and development DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2214.2011.01254.
  • Lloyd, K. (2011) Kids' Life and Times: Using an Internet Survey to Measure Children's Health-Related Quality of Life, Quality of Life Research, 20 (1), 37-44.
  • Lloyd, K. & Robinson, G. (2011) Intimate mixing – bridging the gap? Catholic-Protestant relationships in Northern Ireland, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 34 (12) 2134-2152.
  • Lloyd, K. & Devine, P. (2010) Using the internet to give children a voice, Field Methods, 22 (3), 270-289.
  • McNamee, H., Lloyd, K. & Schubotz, D. (2008) Same sex attraction, homophobic bullying and mental health of young people in Northern Ireland, Journal of Youth Studies, 11 (1), 33-46.
  • Murphy, H. & Lloyd, K. (2007) Civil Conflict in Northern Ireland and the Prevalence of Psychiatric Disturbance across the United Kingdom, International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 53 (5), 397-407.
  • Lloyd, K., & Devine, P. (2006) Parenting practices in Northern Ireland: evidence from the Northern Ireland Household Panel Survey, Child Care in Practice 12, 365-376,


Edited Books

  • Lloyd, K., Devine, P., Gray, A. M. & Heenan, D. (2004) Social Attitudes in Northern Ireland: The Ninth Report (Pluto Press).
  • Gray, A. M. Lloyd, K., Devine, P., Robinson, G. & Heenan, D. (2002) Social Attitudes in Northern Ireland: The Eighth Report (Pluto Press).


Book Chapters

  • Lloyd, K. L, Cairns, Ed, Doherty, C., Ellis, K. (2008) Adolescent Mental Health: Empirical Evidence from the Young Life and Times Survey, Young People in Post-conflict Northern Ireland (Russell House Publishing) pp 17-27.
  • Heenan, D., Lloyd, K. (2002) Housing and Social Exclusion, Social Attitudes in Northern Ireland: The Eighth Report (Pluto Press) pp. 102-119.