Dr Angeliki Kallitsoglou
Senior Lecturer in Education and Psychology, Psychology (Conversion) MSc Programme Co-director
A.Kallitsoglou@exeter.ac.uk
North Cloisters NC126
North Cloisters, University of Exeter, St Luke's Campus, Heavitree Road, Exeter, EX1 2LU, UK
Overview
Dr Angeliki Kallitsoglou is a Senior Lecturer in Education and Psychology and a Chartered member of the British Psychological Society. 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 Research Centre for Special Educational Needs, Disability and Inclusive Education (SENDIN) 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.
Research group links
Research
Research interests
Dr Kallitsoglou supervises student research projects in the following areas:
- parenting, caregiving and child social and emotional outcomes in the home and school setting
- children's representations of caregiver - child relationships (e.g., drawings and doll play methodology)
- maternal wellbeing, social formal/informal supports ( e.g., formal caregiving, grandparenting, paternal involvement in children's upbringing) and child social and emotional outcomes
- parental invovement in children's education/schooling and child conduct problems/antisocial behaviour
- academic outcomes of children with conduct problems/antisocial behaviour
- school-based nurturing intervention approaches for children with poor social and emotional outcomes
- implementation and evaluation of community/school/home-based approaches to promote social and emotional outcomes in children.
- cross-cultural perspectives
PhD students with an interest in secondary analysis using the Millennium Cohort Study are strongly encouraged to get in touch. https://cls.ucl.ac.uk/cls-studies/millennium-cohort-study/
Research projects
- A scoping review protocol of the Boxall Profile: a whole-school based model of capturing unmet social and emotional needs in children and young people, Project registration @ OSF https://osf.io/7cj4r/- supported by TÜBİTAK - Fellowships for Visiting Scientists 2216 - Research Fellowship Programme for International Researchers | THE SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF TÜRKİYE (tubitak.gov.tr): 204/25
- The benefits of school-based creative dance interventions to support wellbeing in children with special educational needs - PI - supported by Sadler's Wells Theatre, London sadlerswells.com and Roger Ascham Primary School, London: 2023/24
- Increasing research capacity in the prevention and treatment of anxiety and depression in young people – Co-I; PI: Prof. Cecilia A. Essau, UKRI – Enhancing Research Culture Fund: 2022/23
- Pathways of Care: the role of grandparenting in the association between maternal mental health in early childhood and children's social and emotional outcomes in primary school - supported by TÜBİTAK - Fellowships for Visiting Scientists 2216 - Research Fellowship Programme for International Researchers | THE SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF TÜRKİYE (tubitak.gov.tr): 2019/20
- The impact of COVID-19 school and childcare closures on maternal mental health and wellbeing at home and work - PI - ERASMUS + Staff Mobility grant Home | Erasmus+ (europa.eu): 2019/20
- What role does parenting style play in supporting child development – a think piece - PI - supported by Action for Children Action For Children | Children's charity | For safe and happy childhoods: 2017
- Children’s attachment and parenting in preschool children, PI - supported by a Santander Research Mobility Support Grant and a Research Start-Up Grant, Centre for Learning, Teaching and Human Development, SoE, UoR, UK - PI: 2016/17
- The Helping Children Achieve Trial - Postdoctoral Researcher; PI Scott, S - IoP, KCL - DfE/Nuffield - November 2007 - February 2014
Publications
Journal articles
Reports
External Engagement and Impact
Memberships and affiliations
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- Chartered member (CPsychol) and Associate Fellow (AFBPsS) of the British Psychological Society
Peer review
- National Science Centre (NCN, Poland) ׀ March 2022
- SPECTRUM Database, Education Endowment Foundation ׀ April 2017
- Cochrane Developmental, Psychosocial and Learning Problems Group 2016
- Associate Editor @ Frontiers in Education
Advisory roles
- Member of the board of trustees and chair of research ׀ NurtureUK https://www.nurtureuk.org/ ׀ January 2020 – September 2022
- Scientific Committee ׀ International Conference on Modern Education Studies ‘School Dropout’, Necmettin Erbakan University, Konya, Turkey ׀ ERASMUS + ׀ June 2022
- Steering committee ׀ Supporting good mental health and wellbeing (MHWB) for Londoners, Wandle Early Years Hub Core Partnership, Greater London Authority ׀ February – April 2021
Teaching
Modules
2023/24
- EFPM010Z3 - Critical International Perspectives on Special and Inclusive Education
- EFPM011Z5 - Special Educational Needs: Learning, Teaching and Assessment
Supervision / Group
Postgraduate researchers
- Abdullah Saeed S Al Madath
- Raedah Awid R Alofi
- Sabaa Hejazi
- Katie Jackson
- Milly Sidaway