Pastoral Care

  • McMullen (2014) A pilot study of a family focused, psychosocial intervention with war-exposed youth at risk of attack and abduction in north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

    Rural communities in the Haut-Uele Province of northern Democratic Republic of Congo live in constant danger of attack and/or abduction […]

  • McMullen (2015) Comparing a trauma focused and non trauma focused intervention with war affected Congolese youth: a preliminary randomised trial

    While there is broad consensus about the need for interventions to help psychologically distressed, war affected youth, there is also […]

  • Jones, S. (2015) Newcomer pupils in Northern Ireland: a pastoral perspective

    Rapid changes in Northern Ireland’s demographic, resulting in an increasingly multicultural and multilingual school population, are presenting new opportunities and […]

  • Jones, S. et al (2018) Multilingual Minds: the Mental Health and Wellbeing of Newcomer Children and Young People in Northern Ireland and the role of the Education Authority Youth Service

  • Purdy, N. (2019) Cartoons as visual representations of the development of primary school children’s understanding of bullying behaviours

    This study adopts a creative methodology to investigate how cartoons can serve as visual representations of primary school children’s understanding […]

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Gibson, K et al, (2025) Pathways to Inclusion: Exploring Higher Education Opportunities for People with Intellectual Disabilities

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Purdy et al (2025) Effective School Leadership in Disadvantaged Communities

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