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Dr Oliver Perra

School of Nursing and Midwifery
Dr Oliver Perra

Dr Oliver Perra

School of Nursing and Midwifery

Dr Perra's research revolves around the factors and causal mechanisms that may explain differences in children's behaviour development, including:

  • Associations between parental mental health, parenting behaviour, and children's development;
  • Learning and development of infants born preterm;
  • Early interventions to improve preterm infants' learning and social learning;
  • Development outcomes of Cerebral Palsy children.

Contact info

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  • askmhls@qub.ac.uk
  • +44 (0)28 9097 2313
  • @oliver_perra

Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in the field 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

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Current Research Opportunities

  • Developing and validating eye-tracking based Executive Functions tests for children with Cerebral Palsy

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 Queen's University 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
   

 

 


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