The Moray House School of Education
Staff Profiles

Child and Adolescent Health Research Unit
Dept of PE, Sport & Leisure Studies
The Moray House School of Education,
The University of Edinburgh,
St Leonard's, Holyrood Road,
Edinburgh EH8 8AQ
Scotland, UK

 Email: janine.muldoon@ed.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 131 651 6561

Qualifications

• BSc (Hons) Psychology, Lancaster University
• PhD in Educational Research, Lancaster University

Principal Interests

• Transitions (particularly primary to secondary school)
• Relationships, attachment, social support & social capital
• School culture & teacher-pupil relationships
• Self-perceptions and emotional well-being during early adolescence
• Evaluating interventions

Research Supervision

I currently supervise the following students:

• Fiona Mitchell (Fit for Girls programme evaluation)

Current and Recent Research

I am currently coordinating two main research projects, having previously carried out an evaluation of an initiative introducing dance into schools in Scotland and a project investigating children and young people's perceptions of health in school:

• Promoting a Duty of Care towards animals among young people: a project funded by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
• Validation of existing measures of mental well-being in the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) Study

Publications

Selected Publications:

Warin, J. and Muldoon, J. (Advance Access 28 July 2008) Wanting to be 'known': redefining self-awareness through an understanding of self-narration processes in educational transitions. British Educational Research Journal. [DOI: 10.1080/01411920802043000]

Inchley, J., Muldoon, J. & Currie, C. (2007). Becoming a Health Promoting School: Evaluating the process of effective implementation. Health Promotion International, 22(1), 65-71.

More on the School's Publications Database

Further Information

Further information on Janine's page on the CAHRU website