Congratulations to Dr Evelyn Mary-Ann Antony, a PhD student in our School of Education, who has won a prestigious award for her research in child psychology.
Evelyn was presented with The Outstanding Doctoral Research Contributions to Psychology Award from the British Psychological Society. The award recognises postgraduate research in the UK that demonstrates significance, rigour, and originality.
Evelyn's award-winning research was carried out at Durham, where she investigated an often-neglected area of scientific study: middle childhood and emotion dysregulation.
As part of her research, she worked with longitudinal data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) and the Zurich Project on the Social Development from Childhood to Adolescence (z-proso). Evelyn examined the associations between emotion dysregulation, parenting practices, and ADHD symptoms.
The PhD study reconceptualises emotion dysregulation as a relational, developmentally specific process in middle childhood, showing how ADHD symptoms interact with parenting practices across middle childhood.
Evelyn’s research was published in JCPP Advances, a high-impact journal from the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health. Her doctoral research also gained recognition through an interview with BBC Future.
At Durham, she worked under the supervision of Professor Nadin Beckmann, Professor Steve Higgins, and Dr Sarah Walker within our School of Education.
Evelyn was a recipient of the Durham Doctoral Studentship for her PhD study.
Receiving this award is an honour and it is encouraging to see research in a traditionally underappreciated area acknowledged. I’m sincerely grateful to my supervisors and the Psychology and Education Research Cluster in the School of Education.
This is a well-deserved achievement that recognises the sustained commitment involved in completing a PhD. Evelyn’s research makes a valuable contribution to understanding emotion dysregulation in middle childhood, and it is excellent to see this work recognised at a national level.
This fantastic achievement reflects Evelyn's dedication and enthusiasm for her work, culminating in an outstanding thesis. Supervising her has been a pleasure.
Following the completion of her PhD at Durham, Evelyn is continuing to focus on child and adolescent mental health research at Manchester Metropolitan University, working with data from the Wirral Child Health Development Study (WCHADs).
Durham’s School of Education is one of the leading departments for education in the UK, recognised regionally, nationally and internationally for excellence in research, scholarship and teaching.
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