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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. (CoI), Wellsted, D. (CoI) & Irvine, K. (PI)
1/04/20 → 31/12/24
Project: Research
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YEF-FI: Youth Endowment Foundation Family Interventions
Adler, J. R. (PI), McSweeney, T. (CoI), Wellsted, D. (CoI), Littlechild, B. (CoI), Munro Wild, H. (CoI), Wyatt, S. (CoI), Sabbagh, M. (CoI), Twumasi, B. (CoI), Mengoni, S. (CoI), Irvine, K. (CoI) & Hall, N. (Researcher)
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. (PI), Thakur, D. (CoI), Irvine, K. (CoI), Wellsted, D. (CoI), Robins, B. (CoI) & Mengoni, S. (Researcher)
1/12/16 → 30/11/18
Project: Research
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Promoting inclusive recruitment within children’s social care research trials: lessons from the Reflective Fostering Study’s InCLUDE project
Izzidien, S., Stemp, R., Ahmed, S., Akram, S., Flanagan, R.-L., Irvine, K., Sharma, S. & Midgley, N., 13 Oct 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Diversity & Inclusion Research.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Group Dynamics in the delivery of the Reflective Fostering Programme: managing "face-threat" risks in a mentalization-based intervention for foster carers.
Ruby, P., seeley, C., Katangwe-Chigamba, T., Anyiam-Osigwe, A., Cresswell, C., Irvine, K., Midgley, N. & Murdoch, J., 31 Dec 2025, In: SSM - Mental Health. 8, 15 p., 100523.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Mothers’ experiences of nasogastric tube feeding for young children with Down syndrome
Hielscher, L., Irvine, K., Ludlow, A., Rogers, S., Enoch, N. & Mengoni, S., 23 Aug 2025, In: International Journal of Developmental Disabilities.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Conducting a large-scale randomised controlled trial in children’s social care: reflections on challenges, successes and lessons learned from the Reflective Fostering Study
Irvine, K., Rider, B., Cresswell, C., Izzidien, S., Sims, E., Smith, C., Stemp, R. & Midgley, N., 30 Jul 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Public Health Research.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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How inclusive and representative is research on foster caring in the UK? Findings from a scoping review
Stemp, R., Izzidien, S., Sharma, S., Irvine, K. & Midgley, N., 19 Mar 2025, In: Adoption and Fostering. 49, 1, p. 7-34 28 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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