Research with Children: Theory and Practice

About Michelle OReillyNisha DograPablo Daniel Ronzoni

Michelle OReilly (BSc hons MSc MA PhD PGCAPHE) is an Associate Professor of Communication in Mental Health at the University of Leicester and a Research Consultant for Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust. Michelle is also a Chartered Psychologist in Health. Michelle has specific interest in child and adolescent mental health and has been investigating the relationship between mental health and social media as part of that work. Michelle has made several media contributions about the research with adolescents educationalists and parents as funded by the Wellcome Trust. Additional to her research interests in mental health and social media Michelle also undertakes research in self-harm and suicidal behaviour neurodevelopmental conditions and child mental health services such as mental health assessments and family therapy. Michelle recently won the Anselm Strauss Award for Qualitative Family Research for her co-authored contribution on discursive psychology in this area. Michelle has expertise in qualitative methodologies and specialises in discursive psychology and conversation analysis.    Nisha Dogra (BM DCH FRCPsych MA Socio-legal studies children Postgraduate Certificate in Systemic Practice PhD) is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry Education at the Greenwood Institute of Child Health University of Leicester. She is an external lecturer on the MMedSci Medical Education Masters at the University of Nottingham. She was until her retirement working as a generic child and adolescent psychiatrist. Currently her work in child mental health is focused on how young people see the relationship between mental health and social media. Throughout her career Nisha was been involved in the development and delivery of a wide variety of teaching and training events in undergraduate and postgraduate education locally nationally and internationally in both psychiatry and diversity.  She has published widely including peer reviewed publications edited and written books as well as contributing chapters to edited books related to psychiatry and education.