Summer Seminar Series - Dr Steven Papachristou + Áine McAllister

IOE Early Career Network

This seminar series highlights the research of early career academics at UCL IOE (London) and NIE (Singapore).

The impact of school compositional characteristics on mental ill-health (Dr Steven Papachristou) There is little research on the role of school and its composition in explaining individual children’s psychological outcomes. This study examined for the first time the role of several primary-school compositional characteristics, and their interactions with individual level characteristics, in the development of two such outcomes, internalising and externalising problems, at ages 7, 11 and 14 years in 4794 children in England participating in the Millennium Cohort Study. Using multilevel regression models, we found that, even after adjusting for individual and family characteristics, children in schools with higher proportions of pupils eligible for free school meals had more externalising problems. In general, children with special educational needs, lower academic performance, more distressed mothers, and those in non-intact families had more internalising and externalising problems. Our results underline the importance of targeting schools with less affluent overall intakes, but also highlight the key role of individual and family characteristics in the development of their pupils’ psychological functioning.Listening with an ethnopoetic ear; uncovering voice at the intersection of gender, class and culture in the academy, a collaborative poetic and socio-linguistic autoethnography (Áine McAllister)In 2021, Aine McAllister along with Nicole Brown set up an International Poetry as research/Poetic Inquiry Group for academics. Through that research group a collective was formed in response to an invitation to participate in a collaborative autoethnographic poetic inquiry to examine what it means to be a female marginalized in academia. Divided into three groups, each group explored the topic and drafted a poetic response dialogically and collaboratively – leading to a presentation at the International Symposium for Poetic Inquiry, a number of poems published in a poetry (as research) anthology and a book chapter. I will present extracts of one sub group’s (Aine McAllister, Margaret Buchanan and Dr Jenny Van der Aa) poem ‘Working Class Hecate’. The presentation will then explore the writing process; the approach to dialogue, the influence of our separate research in the field of applied ethnopoetic analysis and our rationale for using the mythic voice as a vehicle. Finally, insights into how and why females are marginalised in academia, and how they have been arrived at through this collaborative process will be offered.

S﻿peaker BiographiesSteven PapachristouSteven is a Lecturer in Psychology at UCL IOE, Dept. of Psychology &amp; Human Development. His research focuses mainly on the identification of social, cognitive, and biological precursors of mental ill-health in childhood and adolescence. He has a long-standing interest in applying advanced quantitative methods to life-course research and much of his work involves use of longitudinal secondary data (mostly MCS, BRHS, ELSA, and Understanding Society). Steven is also the Year 2 lead for the BPS accredited BSc Psychology with Education programme, and he teaches across numerous undergraduate and postgraduate modules at UCL IOE.Áine McAllisterÁine is a Lecturer in Languages in Education. She is also the Academic Head of Learning and Teaching for the department of Culture, Communication and Media at IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society and a UCL Public Policy, Policy Engagement and Impact Fellow through which she is working to develop engagement pathways with policy makers to reduce barriers to refugee and asylum seeker access to Higher Education. She is the Programme Leader for ReConnect - Preparation for Higher Education, a programme for highly skilled refugees and asylum seekers. In her pedagogy and research, she uses dialogue to elicit poetry to uncover marginalised voices and to disrupt silencing, she draws on collaborative critical autoethnographic poetic inquiry and on applied ethnopoetic analysis from the field of linguistic ethnography to arrive at her own poetic representations and to facilitate others' poetic representations of their intercultural experiences.

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