Anglia Ruskin University

Dr Roxana Anghel, Research Associate, Academic Tutor and Supervisor Dept. of Family & Community Studies FHSCE

Research Interests:

• Qualitative methodology
• Longitudinal research
• Outcomes evaluation
• Transitions from public care to adulthood
• Residential child care
• Resilience
• Coherence
• Social work education

Dr Allister Butler, Senior Lecturer Social Work, FHSCE

Research Interests:

• Adolescent Mental Health
• Homophobia, Heterosexism and Anti-Oppressive Practice
• Young Carers
• International Social Work Practice
• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Youth
• Innovative teaching practices

Peter Cook BA (Hons), MA (Dist), Cert FE, PG Cert HE Senior Lecturer Pathway Leader, PGCE Art and Design

Research interests:

• Notions of Childhood in Literature and Art, 1770 - the present
• Romanticism and its Legacy

Ditty Dokter, Pathway Leader MA Dramatherapy

Research Interests:
Ditty has researched areas relating to intercultural and evidence based arts therapies practice and has published widely on this and related subjects. Her edited books include Arts Therapies and Clients With Eating Disorders (Jessica Kingsley Pubs); Arts Therapies, Refugees and Migrants (Jessica Kingsley Pubs); Supervision of Dramatherapy (Routledge) and Dramatherapy and Destructiveness (Routledge). She has delivered papers and key notes on these areas at a variety of (inter) national conferences.

Her research includes a variety of issues concerning trauma in adult and childhood, inclusion and migration. She is especially interested in the relationship between the arts and therapy in intercultural practice.

Clare Dorothy, BEd, MEd, Partnership Director for the FHSCE

Research Interests:

• Working with parents and carers of children with Special Educational Needs
• Inclusive practice in schools with particular regard to Special Educational Needs and English as an Additional Language
• Community cohesion and developing community schools
• Protective factors in education for children at risk

Dr Roberto Filippi, Lecturer in Psychology, Faculty of Science and Technology

Research Interests:
My research focuses on second language acquisition and its effects on attention and executive control. Does bilingualism affect cognitive functioning in childhood and adulthood? How do bilinguals manage to control their two languages? Will brain structure change as a function of increased ability to control both languages? These are some of the most important questions that I address in my research by using a combination of behavioural, computational and neuroimaging techniques

Professor Eugene Giddens, Skinner-Young Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature, Faculty Director of Research

Research Interests:

• Digital humanities
• History of the book
• Scholarly editing

Dr Mick Gowar, Senior Lecturer, Contextual Studies; University Teaching Fellow CSA

Research Interests:

• Story-telling
• Twentieth-century and contemporary poetry
• The future of book creation, illustration, writing, design, production and distribution
• Encouraging children's story making and sharing by means of narrative environments and open source software tools

Sara Knight, Senior Lecturer in Early Years CEd., BA (Hons), MA, PGCE, Fellow of Higher Education Academy FHSCE

Research Interests:
Sara's PhD research is on Forest School and its wider place in Outdoor Experiences.

Dr John Lambie, Reader Psychology, Faculty of Science and Technology

Research Interests:
My research is mainly on emotion and consciousness. In particular:

• Theoretical conceptualizations of emotional experience
• The role of emotional awareness in rational action & moral decision making
• Factors which influence the development of emotional awareness
• The effects of different reflective styles (e.g. lack of reflection vs. good reflection) on mental health

Dr Pauline Lane, Reader in Mental Health, MH/LD FHSCE

Dr Paulette Luff, BEd (Hons), MA (Education), PgDip (Child Development), PhD Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Studies, head of Early Childhood Research Group, FHSCE

Research Interests:

• Observation and documentation in early years settings
• Educators' philosophies of pedagogy
• Learning journals as tools for reflection and relational pedagogy

Dr Rachel Manning, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Science and Technology

Research Interests:
My research interests are informed by relationships between social and environmental psychology and are broadly focussed on issues of pro- and anti-social behaviour. My current research includes analyses of the impact of regulation on young people's participation in public spaces, and the implications of collective socio-spatial identities and intergroup relations for charitable, volunteer and other prosocial behaviours.

Professor Farah Mendlesohn, Head of Department of English, Communication, Film and Media, ALSS

Research Interests:

• Science Fiction and Fantasy
• Teen 'genre' publishing
• Constructions of childhood.

Dr Tina Moules, Director of Research, Acting Director, Childhood & Youth Research Institute, FHSCE

Reserach Interests:
Participatory research with children and young people in the field of Health and Social Care; children and young people as researchers; children and young people's views on services; children's and young people's participation.

Nhlanganiso Nyathi, Senior Lecturer, Social Work, FHSCE

Research Interests:

• The effectiveness of contemporary Safeguarding work;
• Strategic decision-making in Social Care;
• Inter-agency and multi-disciplinary partnership working;
• Benchmarking good practice in Social Care,
• Qualitative and Quantitative (measurable and non measurable) outcomes in Social Care
• Quality and Performance improvement in Social Care
• Monitoring, Review and Evaluation of Social Care Service Delivery
• The interface between the Business and Social Care models during service delivery
• International perspectives to Social Care and Safeguarding
• The transferability of the contemporary British Social Care model to developing countries
• Children's Rights

Niamh O'Brien, Researcher, FHSCE

John Rayment, Principal Lecturer, Accounting AIBS

Dr Poul Rohleder, Senior Lecturer Department of Psychology, S&T

Research Interests:
My research interests are varied, but can broadly be classified as focusing on critical health psychology. I am particularly interested in psychosocial aspects of HIV/AIDS, partly due to having trained and worked in South Africa, where HIV is such a pressing health issue. I have done some research on HIV and stigma, as well as HIV and public health, looking for example at the role of counsellors, and the inclusion (or exclusion) of persons with disabilities. I am also interested in mental health, and psychoanalysis. I predominantly use qualitative research methods, as I think such an approach is more appropriate for a critical perspective on health and social issues.

Professor Martin Salisbury, Professor of Illustration; Pathway Leader, MA Children's Book Illustration Director of The Centre for Children's Book Studies CSA

Christine Such, BSc, MA Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood FHSCE

Research interests:
Chris has completed work on the use of learning technologies to enhance students' collaborative learning. She has developed a model for learning to support students' investigations of early years settings and researched its use as part of a funded project supported by Inspire (Anglia Ruskin University) in 2009/10. This early work also informs her doctoral studies into professional learning. She is a member of the specialist interest group in the faculty on early childhood and her interests are in exploring aspects of pedagogy and early years provision.

She is lead researcher with colleagues in the Faculty of Education on a study which is exploring the impact of training on the use of interactive whiteboards (IWB) and how lecturers' integrate their use in higher education classrooms. This work is funded under the university learning and teaching projects scheme.

Steven Walker, Principle Lecturer Child & Adolescent Mental Health FHSCE

Research Interests:

• Child & Adolescent Mental Health
• CAMH Service Evaluation
• Partnership Approaches
• Black & Ethnic Minority Children.

Dr Susan Walker, Senior Lecturer in Sexual Health FHSCE

Research interests:

• Contraception
• Sexual health
• Gender
• Sociology of Health and Illness
• Psychoanalytical theory

Dr Hazel Wright, BA (Hons) Geography, MA (Education), PhD, PGCE (Pce) Senior Lecturer and Pathway Leader, BA (Hons) Early Childhood Studies FHSCE

Research Interests:

• The enabling role of education, Inclusive practice
• Philosophy and practice within adult education, Student identity, Professionalism
• Sociology of education, Educational policy, Capability approach
• Childhood, Family and community contexts
• Children's interactions during play
• Exploring methodological perspectives, Biographical approaches to research