Category: PEDAL PhD Alumni
Sydney Conroy
29 June 2022
Sydney's doctoral research examined play therapists' experiences and perceptions of children's wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic, collective trauma, and child-centred play therapy.
Sabilah Eboo Alwani
27 July 2022
Sabilah's multi-method research focused on parent support for early learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Chika Ezeugwu
29 June 2022
Chika's scientific interests focused on integrating neuroscience, cognition, child development, and education to improve educational practice and the experience of children from a low-income context.
Dina Fajardo-Tovar
13 October 2022
Dina is a 3rd year PhD student exploring Mexican teachers' perspectives on using playful learning in their practice, particularly in urban and rural preschools.
Morgan Healy
1 July 2022
Morgan explored how play-based parent interventions and home visiting programs could promote a range of child outcomes including executive function and self-regulation.
Krishna Kulkarni
1 July 2022
Krishna's research examined parent-child playfulness, and its importance in child outcomes.
Stephanie Nowack
1 July 2022
Stephanie's PhD project looked at a participatory research approach to understanding autistic children’s experience of playful interventions in South Africa.
Domnick Okullo
1 July 2022
Domnick's doctoral research focused on teachers’ and parents’ perceptions of the use of play-based learning in Kenya.
Yanwen Wu
1 July 2022
Yanwen is a 2nd year PhD student, investigating the relationship between pretend play and counterfactual reasoning from a temporal perspective.
Vicky Yiran Zhao
1 July 2022
Vicky's doctoral research project looks at the relationship between communication disorders and psychosocial adversities.