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Dr Lynne McKerr

Research Assistant

Room 02.002
101 Botanic Avenue
School of Education
Queen's University Belfast

Email: l.mckerr@qub.ac.uk
Fax: +44 (0)28 9097 5066

Lyn McKerr was appointed as a Research Assistant in the School of Education in June 2010, working on childcare issues and disability with Dr Karola Dillenburger. Her background is in education and in archaeology, with a specific interest in childhood and disability. She completed her doctorate, The archaeology of children and childhood in post-medieval Ireland, at QUB and has previously worked on a Changing Ageing Partnership research project examining the circumstances of older carers; she has a number of publications on disability issues (particularly autism) and also on historical aspects of childhood in Ireland.

Research area
Childcare issues for parents of children with disabilities. A research project funded by the Office of the First Minister/ Deputy First Minister (OFM/DFM)

Publications

  • Dillenburger K. and McKerr, L. 2010. ‘“How long are we able to go on?” Issues faced by ageing family caregivers of adults with disabilities’. British Journal of Learning Disabilities doi:10.1111/j.1468-3156.2010.00613.x
  • Dillenburger K. and McKerr, L. 2009. ‘Unpaid older carers: The backbone of community care. What community care?’ Generations Review Newsletter, 19, http://www.britishgerontology.org/09newsletter3/research4.asp
  • Dillenburger, K. and McKerr, L. 2009. ‘ “ 40 years is an awful long time”: Parents Caring for Adult Sons and Daughters with Disabilities’. Behavior and Social Issues 18.
  • Dillenburger K. and McKerr, L. 2009. What the Future Holds: Older people caring for adult sons and daughters with disabilities. (Final report, pp 151). Belfast: Changing Aging Partnership (CAP)
  • McKerr, L. Murphy, E. and Donnelly, C. 2009. ‘I am not dead, but do sleep here: The Representation of Children in Early Modern Burial Grounds in the North of Ireland’. The Journal of the Society for the Study of Children In the Past 2, 109-131.
  • McKerr, L. 2008. ‘Towards an archaeology of childhood: Children and material culture in Historic Ireland’. In L-H. Dommasnes and Wrigglesworth, M. (eds) Children, Identities and the Past, 36-50. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  • McKerr, L. and S. Gallagher 2006. ‘More about Colin: Setting up an ABA-based Pre-school Group for Children with Autism’. In M. Keenan, M. Henderson, K.P. Kerr and K. Dillenburger (eds), Applied Behaviour Analysis and Autism: Building a Future Together, 133-145. London: Jessica Kingsley
  • Johnston, H., Hanna, B., McKerr, L. [McKay, L., pseud.] and O’Cahan, M. 1999. ‘Applied Behaviour Analysis: A Parent’s Perspective’. In M. Keenan, K.P. Kerr and K. Dillenburger, Parent’s Education as Autism Therapists: Applied Behaviour Analysis in Context, 15-31. London: Jessica Kingsley
  • McKerr, L. [Laura McKay, pseud.], M. Keenan and K. Dillenburger 1999. ‘Colin’s Story’. In M. Keenan, K.P. Kerr and K.Dillenburger (eds), Parent’s Education as Autism Therapists: Applied Behaviour Analysis in Context, 63-131. London: Jessica Kingsley