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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.

Vicky Yiran Zhao

1 July 2022

Vicky's doctoral research project looks at the relationship between communication disorders and psychosocial adversities.