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2023

  • Ain, Q. U., Thurston, A., MacKenzie, A., & Ozkaya, C. (2023). What does previous research tell us about the effects of peer tutoring on metacognition in primary and secondary schools? International Journal of Educational Research Open4, [100248]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedro.2023.100248
  • Anderson, P., Davidson, G., Doherty, F., Hanna, H., Harper, C., Lynch, G., McClelland, R., & McKenna, C. (2023). Legal capacity, developmental capacity, and impaired mental capacity in children under 16: Neurodevelopment and the law in Northern Ireland. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 87, [101872]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlp.2023.101872
  • Belluigi, D. Z. & Thondhlana, G. (2023) Transformation or ‘Training the Dog’? Approaches to Access Within an Historically White University in South Africa. In: Gutman, M., Jayusi, W., Beck, M., Bekerman, Z. (eds) To Be a Minority Teacher in a Foreign Culture . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25584-7_30
  • Belluigi, D. Z., Arday, J. and O’Keeffe, J. (2023) Education: The State of the Discipline: an exploration of existing statistical data relating to staff equality in UK higher education. London: British Educational Research Association (BERA). https://www.bera.ac.uk/publication/education-the-state-of-the-discipline-staff-equality
  • Byrne, B. (2023). An analysis of the UNCRPD concluding observations on the rights of children with disabilities. In A. E. Beckett, & A-M. Callus (Eds.), Routledge international handbook of children's rights and disability
  • Bennwik, I.H.B., Oterholm, I., & Kelly, B. (2023) ‘My disability was my own responsibility’: An institutional ethnography of the transitional experiences of disabled young people leaving care, Children and Youth Services Review, 28 (2), 443-453, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cfs.12975
  • Bunting, L., McCartan, C., Davidson, G., Grant, A., Mulholland, C., Schubotz, D., Hamill, R., McBride, O., Murphy, J., Nolan, E., & Shevlin, M. (2023). The influence of adverse and positive childhood experiences on young people’s mental health and experiences of self harm and suicidal ideation. Child Abuse and Neglect, 140, [106159]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2023.106159
  • Carney, G. M., Lugea, J., Fernandez-Quintanilla, C., & Devine, P. (2023) ‘Sometimers, Alzheimer’s? I love that! That’s definitely me’: Readers’ responses to fictional dementia narratives. The Gerontologist, 12 May 2023 (Early online date)
  • Chiang, T-H., MacKenzie, A., Zeng, W., Thurston, A., Fu, S., & Yao, Y. (2023). Configuring governmentalized teachers through introspective panopticism inscribed within their subjectivities in the regime of performativity from the Foucauldian perspective. International Journal of Educational Research118, [102158]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2023.102158
  • Devaney, J., Power, L., Jacobs, P., Davidson, G., Hiller, R., Martin, J., McCartan, C., McCusker, P., McGuire, R., Phillips, A., Roesch-Marsh, A., & Thapar, A. (2023). An agenda for future research regarding the mental health of care experienced young people. Child and Family Social Work. https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.13015
  • Kelly, B., Farrelly, N., Batool, F., Kurdi, Z & Stanley, N. (2023) Speak Out, Stay Safe: Including children with special educational needs and disabilities in an evaluation of an abuse prevention programme, Child Abuse Review, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/car.2816
  • Hodge, N., Douglas, P., & Byrne, B. (2023). Developing the right(s) approach for autism. In A. E. Beckett, & A-M. Callus (Eds.), Routledge international handbook of children's rights and disability
  • Cockerill, M., Thurston, A., & O’Keeffe, J. (2023) Reading for meaning: reciprocal reading secondary for struggling readers (KS3). A randomized controlled trial and process evaluation. Queen’s University Belfast. 46 p. https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/publications/reading-for-meaning-reciprocal-reading-secondary-for-struggling-r
  • Lagdon, S., Jordan, J.-A., Devine, P., Tully, M. A, Armour, C., & Shannon, C. (2023). Public Understanding of Coercive Control. Journal of Family Violence, 38, 39–50 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-021-00355-5
  • McCartan, C., Davidson, G., Bradley, L., Greer, K., Knifton, L., Mulholland, A., Webb, P., & White, C. (2023). ‘Lifts your spirits, lifts your mind’: a co-produced mixed-methods exploration of the benefits of green and blue spaces for mental wellbeing. Health Expectations. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.13773
  • Nolan, E., Bunting, L., McCartan, C., Davidson, G., Grant, A., Schubotz, D., Mulholland, C., McBride, O., Murphy, J., & Shevlin, M. (2023). Prevalence of probable eating disorders and associated risk factors: An analysis of the Northern Ireland Youth Wellbeing Survey using the SCOFF. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 62(1), 180-195. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjc.12401
  • O'Hagan, G., & Byrne, B. (2023). Children's lives and rights under lockdown: a Northern Irish perspective by autistic young people. Children and Society, 37(1), 29-54. https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12651
  • Ortega, (2023a). Charlas y Comidas: Humanising focus groups and interviews. Qualitative Research, 14687941231176948. https://doi.org/10.1177/14687941231176947
  • Ortega, Y. (2023b). Symbolic annihilation: Processes influencing English language policy and teaching practice. Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/15427587.2023.2215361
  • Ortega, Y., & Oxford, R. (2023). Immigrants’ and refugees’ ‘funds of knowledge(s)’ on the path to intercultural competence. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 0(0), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2023.2170389
  • Sung, S. (2023) ‘Teaching Qualitative Research in Comparative Social Policy’, Irving, Z. (ed) Teaching Social Policy: International, Comparative and Global Perspectives, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar. https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/teaching-social-policy-9781035302000.html

 

2022

  • Al Halaibi, H., & Thurston, A. (2022). The Effects of IWB Use on Mathematical Attainment: An Evidence Synthesis of the Literature. Scholarum1(2), 29-39. https://scholarum.dlsl.edu.ph/volume-1-issue-2-the-effects-of-iwb-use-on-mathematical-attainment-an-evidence-synthesis-of-the-literature/
  • Belluigi, D. Z., Czerniewicz, L., Gachago, D., Camps, C., Agherdien, N., & Marx, R. (2022). ‘Deeply and deliciously unsettled’? Mis-reading discourses of equity in the early stages of Covid19. Higher Education, 18(1). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-022-00847-3
  • Belluigi, D. Z., Dhawan, N.B. and Idahosa, G.E.-O. (2022) "“Like King, Like Subject”? The Conditions for Transformative Leadership in India and South Africa", Sengupta, E. and Blessinger, P. (Ed.) Role of Leaders in Managing Higher Education (Innovations in Higher Education Teaching and Learning, Vol. 48), Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 25-42. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2055-364120220000048003
  • Belluigi, D. Z. & Thondhlana, G. (2022) “Your skin has to be elastic”: The politics of belonging as a selected Black academic at a ‘transforming’ South African university. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 35(2): 141-162. https://doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2020.1783469
  • Bennwik, I.H.B., Oterholm, I., & Kelly, B. (2022). ‘Disability is not a word we use’: Social workers' professional judgements about support for disabled young people leaving care. Child & Family Social Work, 1–11. https:// doi.org/10.1111/cfs.12975.
  • Blair, C., Best, P., Burns, P., Campbell, A., Davidson, G., Duffy, J., Johnston, A., Kelly, B., Killick, C., MacDermott, D., Maddock, A., McCartan, C., McFadden, P., McGlade, A., Montgomery, L., Patton, S., Schubotz, D., Taylor, B., Templeton, F., Webb, P., White, C. & Yap, J. (2022) Getting involved in Research: A co-created, co-delivered and co-analysed course for those with lived experience of health and social care services, BMC, Research Involvement and Engagement.
  • Bunting, L., McCartan, C., Davidson, G., Schubotz, D., Grant, A., Mulholland, C., Murphy, J., McBride, O., Nolan, E., & Shevlin, M. (Accepted/In press). Prevalence and Risk Factors of Mood and Anxiety Disorders in Children and Young People: Findings from the Northern Ireland Youth Wellbeing Survey. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry.
  • Bunting, L., McCartan, C., Davidson, G., Grant, A., Mulholland, C., Schubotz, D., McBride, O., Murphy, J., & Shevlin, M. (2022). Rationale and Methods the ‘Northern Ireland Youth Wellbeing Survey’ and Initial Findings from the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry.
  • Byrne, B.(2022). How inclusive is the right to inclusive education? An assessment of the UN convention on the rights of persons with disabilities’ concluding observations. International Journal of Inclusive Education26(3), 301-318 . https://doi.org/10.1080/13603116.2019.1651411
  • Carney, G. M., Maguire, S., & Byrne, B. (2022). “Oldies come bottom of Grim Reaper hierarchy” : A framing analysis of UK newspaper coverage of old age and risk of dying during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Social Policy. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279422000708
  • Chiang, T. H., & Thurston, A.(2022). Designing enhanced pedagogy based on Basil Bernstein's code theory. International Journal of Educational Research111, [101914]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2021.101914
  • Chiang, T-H., Thurston, A., & Cockerill, M.(2022). Examining Basil Bernstein's rules of recognition and realization in the case of underachieving students in math tests. International Journal of Educational Research115, [102021]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2022.102021
  • Chiang, T. H., Trezise, D., Wang, Y. Z., & Thurston, A.(2022). Policy reconfiguration as enactment in the strategy of recontextualized neoliberalism: Paradigmatic shift in teacher education policy reform. International Journal of Educational Research117, [102098]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2022.102098
  • Chiang, T-H., Toh, C-W., Zhang, R., Thurston, A., & MacKenzie, A. (2022). The embeddedness of visionary agency within the economic-cultural-capital formation: A case of Sino-Malaysian high school graduates. International Journal of Educational Research112, [101946]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2022.101946
  • Cockerill, M., O’Keeffe,J., Thurston,A., & Taylor,A. (2022) Reciprocal Reading for struggling readers: An exemplar of evidence implementation in schools. Review of Education,Vol10,Issue1/e3332. 1002/rev3.3332
  • Devine, P., Kelly, G., & McAuley, M. (2022). Equality and Devolution in the United Kingdom: A Story in Three Acts and a Sequel. Social Policy and Society, 21(4), https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474746421000191
  • Dhawan, N., Belluigi, D. Z., & Idahosa, G. (2022) “There is a hell and heaven difference among faculties who are from quota and those who are non-quota”: Under the veneer of the ‘New Middle Class’ production of Indian public universities. Higher Education, online first. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-022-00932-7
  • Duffy, J., Cameron, C., Casey, H., Beresford, P., McLaughlin, H. (2022) ‘Service User Involvement and COVID-19 – An Afterthought?’ British Journal of Social Work https://academic.oup.com/bjsw/advance-article/doi/10.1093/bjsw/bcac007/6527952?searchresult=1
  • Early, E., Miller, S., Dunne, L. & Moriarty, J. (2022). The Influence of Socio-Demographics and School Factors on GCSE Attainment: Results from the First Record Linkage Data in Northern Ireland. Oxford Review of Education, 49(2), 171-189. doi: 10.1080/03054985.2022.2035340
  • Farrell, A-M., Davidson, G., Donnelly, M., Agnew, E., Forbes, T., & Frowde, R. (2022). Mental health policies and laws on the island of Ireland. (pp. 1-42). (Edinburgh School of Law Research Paper Series). The University of Edinburgh.
  • Hassan, J., Shannon, S., Tully, M., McCartan, C., Davidson, G., & Breslin, G. (2022). Systematic review of physical activity interventions assessing physical and mental health outcomes on patients with severe mental illness (SMI) within secure forensic settings. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing.
  • Johnston, A., Davidson, G., Webb, P., McCartan, N., McAllister, K., Broughton, R., Sutherland, D., & Kennedy, C. (Accepted/In press). Physical Design of Supported Accommodation for People With Mental Health Problems and Intellectual Disabilities. A Scoping Review. Architecture Media Politics Society Proceedings Series.
  • Kelly, B., Webb, P., Davidson, G., Pinkerton, J. and McShane, T. (2022) Raising the profile of care leavers with mental health and/or intellectual disabilities: A contribution from Northern Ireland, Children and Youth Services Review, 136, doi: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0190740922000706
  • Lagdon, S., Jordan, J.-A., Devine, P., Tully, M. A, Armour, C., & Shannon, C. (2023). Public Understanding of Coercive Control. Journal of Family Violence, 38, 39–50 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-021-00355-5
  • Lawrence, S., & Devine, P. (2022). Health and wellbeing needs of older men held in Northern Ireland Prisons. International Journal of Men’s Social and Community Health (Special edition on Men’s Health Across the Lifespan), 5 (SP1):e66-e82 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.22374/ijmsch.v5iSP1.70
  • MacKenzie, A., Chiang, T-H., & Thurston, A.(2022). New insights on the persistence and reproduction of educational inequality and injustice: Towards a synthesis of Nussbaum's capabilities approach and Bourdieu's theories. International Journal of Educational Research115, [102032]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2022.102032
  • MacKenzie, A., O'Keeffe, J., Thurston, A., & O'Neill, N. (2022). The challenges of teaching maths in Irish in Irish-medium education. Irish Educational Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/03323315.2022.2090985
  • McCartan, C., Davidson, G., Donaghy, M., Grant, A., Bunting, L., Devaney, J., & Duffy, J. (2022). Are we starting to ‘think family’? Evidence from a case file audit of parents and children supported by mental health, addictions and children's services. Child Abuse Review31(3), [e2738]. https://doi.org/10.1002/car.2738
  • McDaid, D., Park, A-L., Davidson, G., John, A., Knifton, L., McDaid, S., Morton, A., Thorpe, L., & Wilson, N. (2022). The economic case for investing in the prevention of mental health conditions in the UK. Mental Health Foundation.
  • Montgomery, L., Kelly, B., Campbell, U., Davidson, G., Gibson, L., Hughes, L., Menham, J., McKendry, L., Newton, L-A., Parkinson, A., Redmond, E., Turnbull, J., Webb, P., & Wood, L. (2022). Getting our voices heard in research: a review of peer researcher’s roles and experiences on a qualitative study of adult safeguarding policy. BMC Research Involvement and Engagement, 8(1), 64. [64]. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40900-022-00403-4
  • Ortega, Y. (2022a). Defying the abyssal line: Towards el Buenvivir in English language Teaching in Colombia. In S. Makoni, A. Kaiper-Marquez, & L. Mokwena (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Language and the Global South/s (pp. 323–334). Routledge.
  • Ortega, Y. (2022b). Late capitalism and the commodification of English in Colombia: The shaping of language education policy and practice. In N. Miranda, A.-M. de Mejía, & S. V. Giraldo (Eds.), Language Education in Multilingual Colombia: Critical Perspectives and Voices from the Field (pp. 131–148). Taylor & Francis.
  • Ortega, Y. (2022c). Trans[cultura]linguación: An intercultural approach to the revitalization of Indigenous languages. In A. Salmon & A. Clavijo-Olarte (Eds.), Handbook of research on socio-cultural and linguistic perspectives on language and literacy development (pp. 216–238).
  • Sung, S. & Smyth, L. (2022) ‘Gendered Families: States and Societies in Transition’, Contemporary Social Sciences, August, Taylor & Francis. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21582041.2022.2091155?src=
  • Thurston, A., Bernal, G., Cockerill, M., Nisperuza, L., MacKenzie, A., O’Keeffe, J., Orellana, P. & Chiang., T-H. (2022) Results from a Phase 2 exploratory trial of paired reading in Spanish language in Colombia. International Journal of Educational Research Open. Vol 4. 100244. 1016/j.ijedro.2023.100244
  • van Bortel, T., Lombardo, C., Guo, L., Solomon, S., Martin, S., Hughes, K., Weeks, L., Crepaz-Keay, D., McDaid, S., Chantler, O., Thorpe, L., Morton, A., Davidson, G., John, A., & Kousoulis, A. (2022). The mental health experiences of ethnic minorities in the UK during the Coronavirus pandemic: A qualitative exploration. Frontiers in Public Health, 10, [875198]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.875198
  • Vicary, S., McCusker, P., Davidson, G., & Stone, K. (2022). Conducting research online using surveys: an exploratory survey of mental health social work in Europe. Sage Research Methods Cases, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529603705
  • Webb, P., Falls, D., Keenan, F., Norris, B., Owens, A., Davidson, G., Edge, R., Kelly, B., McLaughlin, A., Montgomery, L., Mulvenna, C., & Irvine, R. S. (2022). Peer researchers’ experiences of a co-produced research project on supported decision-making. Research Involvement and Engagement, 8, [70]. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40900-022-00406-1