Category: PEDAL Students
Abbas AlAbbas
13 November 2024
Abbas is a second year PhD student. His research explores how child engagement can be facilitated in the context of divorce and separation.
María Alejandra Álvarez Taborda
19 November 2024
Alejandra is a second year PhD student. Her research explores play through a neurodiversity-affirming lens, with a focus on Latin America.
Belinda Henderson
16 October 2025
Belinda is a final year PhD student and is supervised by Professor Jenny Gibson as part of the PacLab research group.
Debbie Kwan
1 July 2022
Debbie is a third year PhD student exploring ways to promote and measure empathy.
Zijia Li
27 November 2024
Zijia is a second year PhD student. Her doctoral research focuses on how pretend play can afford children’s counterfactual reasoning abilities.
Sammi Liang
16 October 2025
Sammi Liang is a first year PhD student researching language delays and differences in early childhood.
Stuart Macalpine
16 November 2023
Stuart is a part-time doctoral student, researching the conceptualisation of learning goals in policy.
Carolyn Mazzei
1 July 2022
Carolyn is a PhD student examining play and classroom talk, and how these are related to children's cognitive development.
Hannah Miller
16 October 2025
Hannah is a first year PhD student researching the cultivation of “herd” resilience in children through play to highlight techniques for caregivers and applications for policy makers.
Rebecca Reid
18 February 2025
Rebecca is a second year PhD student researching play and adolescence in the context of school exclusions.