Projects per year
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Research interests
- Mental Health research including children and adolescents, personality disorders and the impact of trauma
- Children in the care system
- Demographic factors, such as sex, level of education and previous occupation, affecting cognitive deficits in Alzheimer's Disease
- Developmental - autism, looked after children
- Using robots with children with autism
Overview
Senior Research Fellow and Clinical Trial Manager with experience of working on NIHR funded research investigating interventions to help: improve the social skills of children with ASD (using Kaspar the robot); depression in adolescents; foster carers increase mentalization leading to better outcomes for the Foster carer, the children they care for and better relationships with these children.
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Projects
- 3 Finished
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RFP: The Reflective Fostering Programme – improving the wellbeing of looked after children through psychoeducation groups for foster carers: a randomised controlled trial
Wyatt, S., Wellsted, D. & Irvine, K.
1/04/20 → 31/07/23
Project: Research
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YEF-FI: Youth Endowment Foundation Family Interventions
Adler, J. R., McSweeney, T., Wellsted, D., Littlechild, B., Munro Wild, H., Wyatt, S., Sabbagh, M., Twumasi, B., Mengoni, S., Irvine, K. & Hall, N.
3/12/19 → 31/01/23
Project: Research
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Feasibility study of a RCT to investigate the effectiveness of a humanoid robot to support social skills development in children with ASD
Sharma, S., Thakur, D., Irvine, K., Wellsted, D., Robins, B. & Mengoni, S.
1/12/16 → 30/11/18
Project: Research
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A scoping review of the complementary feeding practices and early eating experiences of children with Down syndrome.
Hielscher, L., Irvine, K., Ludlow, A., Rogers, S. & Mengoni, S., 5 Sept 2023, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of Pediatric Psychology .Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The experiences of new mothers accessing feeding support for infants with Down syndrome during the COVID-19 pandemic
Hielscher, L., Ludlow, A., Mengoni, S., Rogers, S. & Irvine, K., 14 Aug 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: International Journal of Developmental Disabilities. 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Childhood trauma and schizotypy in non-clinical samples: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Toutountzidis, D., Gale, T. M., Irvine, K., Sharma, S., Laws, K. R. & Lincoln, S. H. (ed.), 29 Jun 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: PLoS ONE. 17, 6, 32 p., e0270494.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The use of social robots with children and young people on the autism spectrum: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Kouroupa, A., Laws, K. R., Irvine, K., Mengoni, S. E., Baird, A., Sharma, S. & Vassalle, C. (ed.), 22 Jun 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: PLoS ONE. 17, 6, 25 p., e0269800.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Paranormal beliefs and cognitive function: A systematic review and assessment of study quality across four decades of research
Dean, C. E., Akhtar, S., Gale, T. M., Irvine, K., Grohmann, D. & Laws, K. R., 4 May 2022, In: PLoS ONE. 17, 5, 31 p., e0267360.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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