Dr Angeliki Kallitsoglou (She/hers)

Dr Angeliki Kallitsoglou is a Senior Lecturer in Education and Psychology and a Chartered member (CPsychol) and Associate Fellow (AFBPsS) of the British Psychological Society and co-director of the Psychology (Conversion) MSc | Postgraduate Taught | University of Exeter.

She is interested in children's social and emotional outcomes including mental health and wellbeing at home and school. At home she looks at aspects of the family environment that might be implicated in children's social and emotional difficulties including caregiver-child relationships, parenting and caregiver mental health and wellbeing. At school she is interested in identifying ways to support the learning of children who experience special educational needs often as a result of poor social and emotional outcomes and mental health difficulties. Dr Kallitsoglou has experience in the evaluation of community-based intervention programmes designed to support the outcomes of children and young people at risk for social and emotional difficulties using a randomised control trial design.

Angeliki is a member of the SoE Centre for Special Educational Needs, Disability and Inclusive Education and the inter-disciplinary cross-faculty research network, Children and Young People’s Wellbeing.

As well as research, Dr Kallitsoglou teaches across different modules including (EFPM011Z3 SP23A) SEN: Learning, Teaching and Assessment and ERPM006 Cognitive and Developmental Psychology and she mentors prospective PhD candidates. Students receive hands on training on qualitative and quantitative research methods and the use of tools to assess childrens's outcomes and parenting.

Dr Kallitsoglou has substantial experience and training in psychometric testing and can support students and research teams work with a range of measures including:

• Academic ability: British Ability Scales – BPS; Wechsler Individual Achievement Test - WIAT
• Social and emotional outcomes: Boxall Profile (BP; Ruby, 2020); Parental Account of Children's Symptoms (PACS; Chen & Taylor, 2006); Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire
• Parenting and Parent-Child relationship: Berkeley Puppet Interview (BPI: Measelle, Ablow, Cowan, & Cowan, 1998); Manchester Child Attachment Story Task (MCAST; Goldwyn, Stanley, Smith, Green, 2000); Parent Development Interview for Parent Reflective Functioning/Mentalisation (Slade, 2005)

Qualifications:

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.): Special Education and Psychology, Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London, UK - Fully Funded

Career:

Dr Kallitsoglou received her PhD from the Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London (now University College London), London, UK. Before joining the School of Education, UoE she was a senior lecturer in the School of Education, University of Roehampton, London, UK. She is a former research fellow of the Dartington Social Research Unit, and post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.