Overview
Background
Annemaree Carroll is Associate Dean Research in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor of Educational Psychology within the School of Education at The University of Queensland. Her research activities focus on the social emotional learning of children and adolescents, and the importance of social connectedness, (dis)engagement, and social inclusion to their behavioural and educational outcomes. Student, teacher, and community voices and agency are key considerations in her research methodologies. She is known nationally and internationally for the development of innovative emotion regulation interventions for children and youth to bring about positive change in their lives. She has conceptualised and coordinated the development of the Mindfields Suite of Programs (www.mindfields.com.au), which encompasses a strengths-based approach to student well-being that targets school-wide practices to help young people take control of their lives. She has also led a team of researchers to develop the KooLKIDS Resources (www.kool-kids.com.au), an emotion resilience program to empower children to live well with themselves and others by learning social, emotional and cognitive skills that promote self-regulation and well-being. Her research has now extended to teacher emotion regulation strategies, demonstrating that improved teacher well-being has downstream benefits to students' well-being and the teacher-student relationship.
Professor Carroll has extensive experience managing large-scale, school-based projects across classroom settings and clinic-based research, in which she has excellent skills in test administration with children and adolescents. She has also been concerned with children with neurodevelopmental disorders (e.g., ADHD, speech-language disorders, Tourette Syndrome) to examine information-processing tasks that may demand intact executive functioning and that require dual-task performance and control of impulsive reactions.
From 2014 to 2020, Professor Carroll was Co-ordinator of Translational Outcomes within the Australian Research Council Science of Learning Research Centre. Building on this work, she is the co-founder and Head of the UQ Learning Lab, where multi-disciplinary researchers work in partnership with educational and industry professionals to identify and address important learning and training priorities. The Learning Lab’s primary objective is to transform education and learning across schooling and beyond, through partnered innovations and research translation initiatives.
Professor Carroll is a registered teacher and psychologist. She has experience teaching in primary and special education in Queensland and has engaged in research and higher education teaching at The University of Queensland and The University of Western Australia, where she was granted a Master of Education (1991) and PhD in Educational Psychology (1995). She was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia in 2018.
Availability
- Professor Annemaree Carroll is:
- Not available for supervision
- Media expert
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Postgraduate Diploma, Griffith University
- Bachelor of Education, Queensland University of Technology
- Masters (Coursework) of Education, University of Western Australia
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of Western Australia
- Bachelor (Honours) of Science (Advanced), University of Southern Queensland
Research interests
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Social emotional learning and well-being of teachers and students
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Attention and emotion regulation of children and adolescents
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Self-regulatory prevention and intervention approaches
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Student engagement and student attendance
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Reputation enhancement and social and self-identity
Research impacts
Professor Carroll's research has partnered with Queensland State High Schools to examine how embedding social and emotional well-being into school-wide policies, classroom practices, and self and social strategies of students enhances learning, behavioural, and social outcomes. A new model for embedding social and emotional learning into whole of schools approaches has emanated from the program of research. A new social and emotional learning program for senior secondary students (Mindfields Senior High school Program) which has adopted gamification principles has been developed. This research emanated from a previous three year research partnership with the same Queensland state schools which focused on the implementation of a model of social connectedness to improve the social well-being and the emotional self-regulatory capacities of high schools students. A new social and emotional learning program for junior secondary students (Mindfields Junior High school Program) was developed as part of this project.
Her ARC-funded research has also been concerned with the development of the KooLKIDS Whole of Class social and emotional learning program for 8 to 11-year-olds to develop the skills in children to live well with themselves and others. Other Western Australian Health Promotion Foundation (Healthway) funded research has concentrated on promoting positive mental health through the development of i-Connect (www.i-connect.uwa.edu.au), an interactive multimedia program for early adolescents designed to alleviate aloneness and develop self-awareness and empathy.
Research within the UQ Learning Lab have examined the nature of attention and self-regulation in the classroom and the role of feedback in the learning of children and adolescents with typical and atypical developmental trajectories. An ARC Linkage Project (2018-2020) scaled up a student-centered model of feedback coaching intervention for teachers to provide timely feedback to students. New technologies in the form of real time emotion apps for teachers and students have been developed to gather data on emotional states of teachers and students in classrooms.
Works
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Featured
2023
Journal Article
Autonomy-pressure profiles among teachers: changes over a school term, leadership predictors, and workplace outcomes
Collie, Rebecca J. and Carroll, Annemaree (2023). Autonomy-pressure profiles among teachers: changes over a school term, leadership predictors, and workplace outcomes. Teaching and Teacher Education, 124 103998, 1-12. doi: 10.1016/j.tate.2022.103998
Featured
2023
Journal Article
Compassion fatigue and secondary traumatic stress in teachers: how they contribute to burnout and how they are related to trauma-awareness
Oberg, Glenys, Carroll, Annemaree and Macmahon, Stephanie (2023). Compassion fatigue and secondary traumatic stress in teachers: how they contribute to burnout and how they are related to trauma-awareness. Frontiers in Education, 8 1128618, 1-10. doi: 10.3389/feduc.2023.1128618
Featured
2022
Journal Article
Schoolwide approaches for promoting social and emotional well-being in Australian school contexts: focus group interviews with system and school stakeholders
Carroll, Annemaree, Bower, Julie M., Chen, Holly, Watterston, Jim and Ferguson, Angela (2022). Schoolwide approaches for promoting social and emotional well-being in Australian school contexts: focus group interviews with system and school stakeholders. American Journal of Education, 129 (1), 109-138. doi: 10.1086/721798
Featured
2022
Journal Article
Exploring the emotions of disadvantaged adolescents in the classroom: Development of the S2* emotion application
Bourgeois, Amanda, Carroll, Annemaree and Bower, Julie (2022). Exploring the emotions of disadvantaged adolescents in the classroom: Development of the S2* emotion application. Frontiers in Education, 7. doi: 10.3389/feduc.2022.959673
Featured
2022
Journal Article
Neural activation during emotional interference corresponds to emotion dysregulation in stressed teachers
Fynes-Clinton, Samuel, Sherwell, Chase, Ziaei, Maryam, York, Ashley, O’Connor, Emma Sanders, Forrest, Kylee, Flynn, Libby, Bower, Julie, Reutens, David and Carroll, Annemaree (2022). Neural activation during emotional interference corresponds to emotion dysregulation in stressed teachers. npj Science of Learning, 7 (1) 5, 5. doi: 10.1038/s41539-022-00123-0
Featured
2022
Journal Article
Teacher stress and burnout in Australia: examining the role of intrapersonal and environmental factors
Carroll, Annemaree, Forrest, Kylee, Sanders-O’Connor, Emma, Flynn, Libby, Bower, Julie M., Fynes-Clinton, Samuel, York, Ashley and Ziaei, Maryam (2022). Teacher stress and burnout in Australia: examining the role of intrapersonal and environmental factors. Social Psychology of Education, 25 (2-3), 1-29. doi: 10.1007/s11218-022-09686-7
Featured
2021
Journal Article
Improving emotion regulation, well-being, and neuro-cognitive functioning in teachers: a matched controlled study comparing the mindfulness-based stress reduction and health enhancement programs
Carroll, Annemaree, Sanders-O’Connor, Emma, Forrest, Kylee, Fynes-Clinton, Samuel, York, Ashley, Ziaei, Maryam, Flynn, Libby, Bower, Julie Majella and Reutens, David (2021). Improving emotion regulation, well-being, and neuro-cognitive functioning in teachers: a matched controlled study comparing the mindfulness-based stress reduction and health enhancement programs. Mindfulness, 13 (1), 123-144. doi: 10.1007/s12671-021-01777-4
Featured
2021
Journal Article
The downstream effects of teacher well-being programs: improvements in teachers' stress, cognition and well-being benefit their students
Carroll, Annemaree, York, Ashley, Fynes-Clinton, Sam, Sanders-O'Connor, Emma, Flynn, Libby, Bower, Julie M., Forrest, Kylee and Ziaei, Maryam (2021). The downstream effects of teacher well-being programs: improvements in teachers' stress, cognition and well-being benefit their students. Frontiers in Psychology, 12 689628, 689628. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.689628
Featured
2020
Journal Article
Reflections on the Australian Research Council–Special Research Initiative Science of Learning Research Centre – the promise of a new narrative and evidence base for education
Carroll, Annemaree, Nugent, Annita, MacMahon, Stephanie and Hattie, John (2020). Reflections on the Australian Research Council–Special Research Initiative Science of Learning Research Centre – the promise of a new narrative and evidence base for education. ACCESS Contemporary Issues in Education, 40 (1), 34-40. doi: 10.46786/ac20.6232
Featured
2020
Journal Article
In their words: listening to teachers' perceptions about stress in the workplace and how to address it
Carroll, Annemaree, Flynn, Libby, O'Connor, Emma Sanders, Forrest, Kylee, Bower, Julie, Fynes-Clinton, Samuel, York, Ashley and Ziaei, Maryann (2020). In their words: listening to teachers' perceptions about stress in the workplace and how to address it. Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 49 (4), 1-15. doi: 10.1080/1359866X.2020.1789914
Featured
2020
Journal Article
Evaluating the effectiveness of KooLKIDS: An interactive social emotional learning program for Australian primary school children
Carroll, Annemaree, McCarthy, Molly, Houghton, Stephen and Sanders O'Connor, Emma (2020). Evaluating the effectiveness of KooLKIDS: An interactive social emotional learning program for Australian primary school children. Psychology in the Schools, 57 (6) pits.22352, 851-867. doi: 10.1002/pits.22352
Featured
2020
Journal Article
Who benefits most? Predicting the effectiveness of a social and emotional learning intervention according to children’s emotional and behavioural difficulties
Carroll, Annemaree, Houghton, Stephen, Forrest, Kylee, McCarthy, Molly and Sanders-O’Connor, Emma (2020). Who benefits most? Predicting the effectiveness of a social and emotional learning intervention according to children’s emotional and behavioural difficulties. School Psychology International, 41 (3), 014303431989874-217. doi: 10.1177/0143034319898741
2024
Journal Article
Using a stakeholder engagement approach to inform professional development programs to promote education for sustainability in schools
Hoang, April, Hepburn, Stevie-Jae, Tomizawa, Saya, Carroll, Annemaree, Edwards, Elizabeth and Sanders, Matthew (2024). Using a stakeholder engagement approach to inform professional development programs to promote education for sustainability in schools. Environmental Education Research, ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print), 1-19. doi: 10.1080/13504622.2024.2419903
2024
Other Outputs
‘School is boring’: what it means when your child says they’re bored in class, and how you can help
Bourgeois, Amanda and Carroll, Annemaree (2024, 10 01). ‘School is boring’: what it means when your child says they’re bored in class, and how you can help The Conversation
2024
Journal Article
‘What Good Looks Like’: Building a Shared Understanding of Quality Training and Learning in the Mining Industry
MacMahon, Stephanie J., Corbett, Brooklyn, Hassall, Maureen, Carroll, Annemaree and De Boer, Rodo (2024). ‘What Good Looks Like’: Building a Shared Understanding of Quality Training and Learning in the Mining Industry. Vocations and Learning, 17 (3), 509-536. doi: 10.1007/s12186-024-09353-2
2024
Journal Article
Assessing the interplay: teacher efficacy, compassion fatigue, and educator well-being in Australia
Oberg, Glenys, Macmahon, Stephanie and Carroll, Annemaree (2024). Assessing the interplay: teacher efficacy, compassion fatigue, and educator well-being in Australia. The Australian Educational Researcher, 1-25. doi: 10.1007/s13384-024-00755-8
2024
Journal Article
“It actually helped”: students’ perceptions of feedback helpfulness prior to and following a teacher professional learning intervention
Brooks, Cameron, Burton, Rochelle, Van der Kleij, Fabienne, Ablaza, Christine, Carroll, Annemaree, Hattie, John and Salinas, Jaime Garcia (2024). “It actually helped”: students’ perceptions of feedback helpfulness prior to and following a teacher professional learning intervention. Frontiers in Education, 9 ARTN 1433184, 1-12. doi: 10.3389/feduc.2024.1433184
2024
Other Outputs
Research to practice – helping educators set students up for success
Mac Mahon, Stephanie, Levitt, Jennifer, Bourgeois, Amanda and Carroll, Annemaree (2024, 06 03). Research to practice – helping educators set students up for success Teacher
2024
Journal Article
Inhibitory control training for anxiety and math achievement in primary-school children: protocol for a proof-of-concept study
Edwards, Elizabeth, Chu, Khanh Linh and Carroll, Annemaree (2024). Inhibitory control training for anxiety and math achievement in primary-school children: protocol for a proof-of-concept study. JMIR Research Protocols, 13 (1) ARTN e52929, 1-7. doi: 10.2196/52929
2024
Other Outputs
Adolescent Spontaneous Task Strategy Adjustment
Chidley, Kali, Matthews, Natasha, Dux, Paul, Fox, Amaya, Carroll, Annemaree and Macmahon, Stephanie (2024). Adolescent Spontaneous Task Strategy Adjustment. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.48610/5a5f23a
Funding
Current funding
Past funding
Supervision
Availability
- Professor Annemaree Carroll is:
- Not available for supervision
Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Student and Teacher Perceptions of Feedback in Year 7 and Year 9 Writing: A Peer Feedback Intervention
Principal Advisor
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Doctor Philosophy
Why go to school
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Marnee Shay
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Doctor Philosophy
Family-School-Community Conceptualisation of School Absenteeism
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Debby Lynch, Associate Professor Elizabeth Edwards
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Doctor Philosophy
Why Go To School: Why Students Disengaged From Learning Continue To Attend School Past Compulsory School Age
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Marnee Shay
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Doctor Philosophy
Reimagining feedback in secondary school English: An examination of the relationship between learner agency, feedback, and teacher professional learning
Principal Advisor
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Doctor Philosophy
Understanding Trauma- An exploration into beginning teachers and their perceptions of preparedness in working with children living with complex trauma
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Stephanie Macmahon
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Doctor Philosophy
Characterising Cognitive and Brain Changes Throughout Adolescence
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Dragan Rangelov, Professor Jason Mattingley
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Doctor Philosophy
Anxiety and cognitive control as predictors of primary-school student achievement in mathematics
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Emily Ross, Associate Professor Elizabeth Edwards
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Doctor Philosophy
The Development of Meta-Cognition in Adolescence
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Paul Dux, Dr Stephanie Macmahon, Dr Natasha Matthews
Completed supervision
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2023
Doctor Philosophy
Can Teacher Spatial Practices and Cognitions be Conceptualised to Realise the Impact of the Built Environment on Teachers¿ Professional Activities?
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Stephanie Macmahon
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2021
Doctor Philosophy
Linking learners and learning: Building teacher and school leader capacity in effective feedback to improve student outcomes.
Principal Advisor
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2021
Doctor Philosophy
Navigating the Mindfield of Social Emotional Learning in High School:Using Gamification to Enhance Learning and Well-being Outcomes
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Emma Antrobus, Professor Karen Nankervis
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2021
Doctor Philosophy
Conditions for Learning: Maximising Engagement for Student Learning and Wellbeing in Schools
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Julie Majella Bower
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2020
Doctor Philosophy
Self-Directed Speech and Self-Regulation in Typically Developing and Developmentally At-Risk Children
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Paul Dux, Dr Natasha Matthews
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2019
Doctor Philosophy
Emotions in the classroom: The role of student-teacher relationships and academic self-perceptions for disadvantaged adolescents
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Julie Majella Bower
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2018
Doctor Philosophy
Capturing the 'Vibe' in the Classroom: The role of social synchrony in developing connectedness
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Robyn Gillies
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2016
Doctor Philosophy
Feedback for learning: A mixed methods study in the upper primary classroom
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Robyn Gillies
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2016
Doctor Philosophy
Cooperative Learning and Student Engagement: A Collective Case Study in Six High School Classrooms
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Robyn Gillies, Dr Julie Majella Bower
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2015
Master Philosophy
Meaning in Life in Young Australian Adults: The Role of Volunteerism
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Adrian Ashman
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2015
Doctor Philosophy
Risk, Offending Behaviour and Young People in the Cook Islands: A Study of Cultural Resilience
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Robyn Gillies
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2014
Doctor Philosophy
Reputational Orientations, Masculinity and Student Motivation of Adolescent Males in an All Boys' School Context
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Honorary Professor Martin Mills
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2012
Doctor Philosophy
The Influence of Parental Power on the Development of Shame in Young Children
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Monica Cuskelly
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2011
Doctor Philosophy
The Development and Validation of the Contextualised Assessment Tool for Risk and Protection Management (CAT-RPM)
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Adrian Ashman
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2011
Doctor Philosophy
The Development of Executive Function and Self-Regulated Learning in Adolescent Males.
Principal Advisor
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2010
Master Philosophy
Adolescents with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Case Studies of the Academic, Behavioural, and Social Differences Over Time of Five Young People in a Flexible Learning Centre
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Mary McMahon
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2003
Doctor Philosophy
FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT OF CHALLENGING BEHAVIOURS IN THE HOME/SCHOOL/CLINIC
Principal Advisor
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2003
Doctor Philosophy
SOCIAL SKILLS AND THEORY OF MIND: THE EFFECTS OF PROGRAMMING ON DEFICITS IN STUDENTS WITH AN AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDER (ASD)
Principal Advisor
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2024
Doctor Philosophy
Characterising Cognitive and Brain Changes Throughout Adolescence
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Dragan Rangelov, Professor Jason Mattingley
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2021
Doctor Philosophy
Cognitive Acceleration and the Science of Learning: In Search of the Plasticity of Intelligence
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Robyn Gillies
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2020
Doctor Philosophy
The Strategies and Practices of Resilience: What Everyone Can Learn from Resilient Undergraduate Students from Low Socioeconomic Backgrounds
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Robyn Gillies
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2019
Doctor Philosophy
Learning from Memory Retrieval Attempts and Corrective Feedback
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Jenny Burt
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2018
Doctor Philosophy
Following writing around: Encountering ethical responsibilities in pre-service teachers' reflective journals in Indigenous education
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Julie Majella Bower, Dr Liz Mackinlay
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2018
Doctor Philosophy
Communication disorders in primary school students with school refusal behaviour
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Robyn Gillies
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2017
Doctor Philosophy
Developing Social and Emotional Learning Competencies in Classrooms Implementing the Schoolwide Positive Behaviour Support Program: Three Case Studies.
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Robyn Gillies
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2016
Master Philosophy
Evaluating disability service managers' beliefs about performance improvement strategies: An exploratory study using Gilbert's Behavior Engineering Model
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Monica Cuskelly
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2015
Doctor Philosophy
Sri Lankan Senior Secondary School Teachers' Practices that Foster Students' Science Achievement: Towards Developing Self-Regulated Learning
Associate Advisor
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2014
Doctor Philosophy
Understanding the out-of-field teaching experience
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Robyn Gillies
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2011
Doctor Philosophy
Experiences of Family Carers of Adults with Intellectual Disabilities: Demands, Stressors and Satisfactions
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Monica Cuskelly
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2011
Doctor Philosophy
Male ex-inmates living crime-free: A phenomenological study.
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Robyn Gillies
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2007
Doctor Philosophy
THE INFLUENCE OF CHILDREN'S PERCEPTIONS OF CONNECTEDNESS TO THEIR FAMILIES, SCHOOL, AND PEERS ON THEIR PSYCHOSOCIAL FUNCTIONING
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Monica Cuskelly
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2006
Doctor Philosophy
EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS IN CHILDREN WITH TOURETTE SYNDROME: THE CONFOUNDING EFFECTS OF COMORBID ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER
Associate Advisor
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