Completed Research Projects
Below are DECAP's research projects completed since 2020.
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Cohort 15 - 2021-2024
Expectations, attributions and responses to pupil behaviour: does gender play a role? by Michael Carroll
Exploring the accessibility of Educational Psychology (EP) written feedback for parents/carers by Megan Douglas
“Some people don’t really believe in it”: the discursive construction of dyslexia among adolescents identified as dyslexic by Aimee Keenan
Pause for thought: a constructivist grounded theory exploration of parental and carer decision-making regarding school start deferral by Louise McDougall
Exploring emotionally based school non-attendance among autistic children and young people in Northern Ireland by Aoife O'Donnell
Exploring parent/carer and child experiences of a home-based reading intervention for struggling readers by Aislinn Whyte
- Cohort 14 - 2020-2023
Exploring the coming out experiences of female adolescents who identify as bi+: an interpretative phenomenological analysis by Connie Anderson
A mixed-methods exploration of Northern Irish primary school teachers’ experience of stress and burnout within the context of the school environment by Rachel McAllister
Exploring the lived experiences of adolescent autistic females including how they make meaning and sense of their diagnoses: an interpretative phenomenological analysis by Sarah McConnell
Academic achievement of adolescents with chronic pain: the mediating role of sleep by Darragh Mullen
- Cohort 13 - 2019-2022
Parental knowledge and experience of nurture groups: A mixed methods study by Sarah Cassidy
Changing interactions, relationships and behaviour: Exploring the use of child-directed play and coaching skills in the primary classroom by Jennifer Chandler
Syrian refugee pupils’ experiences of education, support systems, and community in Northern Ireland by Jonathan Heaney
Social media follows you everywhere: The social media use of adolescents accessing counselling support within Post-Primary schools in Northern Ireland by Eavan Hennessy
Sixth Formers’ views and suggestions for relationships & sexuality education in Northern Ireland by Ellen Parish
Exploring children's experience of child-practitioner relationships in Nurture Group settings: A multi-method approach by Emma Speers
- Cohort 12 - 2018-2021
An investigation into camouflaging behaviour in pupils with Autism Spectrum Disorder and its impact on their education, from the perspective of their parents by Fionuala Boyle
NI teachers’ views of their roles, knowledge and training in supporting student mental health: a mixed-methods study by Lily Chuah
Talk and transfer: How parents' discourse about the Northern Ireland transfer tests constructs an ideological dilemma by Clare Kidston
Using a mosaic-based approach to construct children's understanding of safe space in school by Maria Mearns Macdonald
Does compassionate mind training reduce test anxiety in adolescents? A school-based pilot study by Dean O’Driscoll
- Cohort 11 - 2017-2020
Supporting adolescent mothers using Video Interaction Guidance (VIG) by Carly Elliott
Exploring the views of adolescent boys in school about how they cope with their worries or concerns by Aine Fitzpatrick
“I’ve learned more about myself than I thought I would”: Using Video Enhanced Reflective Practice to train school-based mentors by Simon McNally
Exploring the use of video interaction guidance (VIG) with hearing parents of deaf / hard of hearing children by Susannah Robinson
Exploring teachers' experiences of working with transgender young people in Northern Ireland by Zara Simmons
An insight into the experiences of teachers educating children with Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders in Northern Ireland by Charlene Tennyson