School of Education

Dr Angeliki Kallitsoglou

Dr Angeliki Kallitsoglou

Senior Lecturer in Education and Psychology, Psychology (Conversion) MSc Programme Co-director

 A.Kallitsoglou@exeter.ac.uk

 North Cloisters NC126

 

North Cloisters, University of Exeter, St Luke's Campus, Heavitree Road, Exeter, EX1 2LU, UK

Overview

Dr Angeliki Kallitsoglou is a Senior Lecturer in Education and Psychology and a Chartered member of the British Psychological Society. She is interested in children's social and emotional outcomes including mental health and wellbeing at home and school. At home she looks at aspects of the family environment that might be implicated in children's social and emotional difficulties including caregiver-child relationships, parenting and caregiver mental health and wellbeing. At school she is interested in identifying ways to support the learning of children who experience special educational needs often as a result of poor social and emotional outcomes and mental health difficulties. Dr Kallitsoglou has experience in the evaluation of community-based intervention programmes designed to support the outcomes of children and young people at risk for social and emotional difficulties using a randomised control trial design.

Angeliki is a member of the SoE Research Centre for Special Educational Needs, Disability and Inclusive Education (SENDIN) and the inter-disciplinary cross-faculty research network, Children and Young People’s Wellbeing.

As well as research, Dr Kallitsoglou teaches across different modules including (EFPM011Z3 SP23A) SEN: Learning, Teaching and Assessment and ERPM006 Cognitive and Developmental Psychology and she mentors prospective PhD candidates. Students receive hands on training on qualitative and quantitative research methods and the use of tools to assess childrens's outcomes and parenting.

Dr Kallitsoglou has substantial experience and training in psychometric testing and can support students and research teams work with a range of measures including:

  • Academic ability: British Ability Scales – BPS; Wechsler Individual Achievement Test - WIAT 
  • Social and emotional outcomes: Boxall Profile (BP; Ruby, 2020); Parental Account of Children's Symptoms (PACS; Chen & Taylor, 2006); Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire
  • Parenting and Parent-Child relationship: Berkeley Puppet Interview (BPI: Measelle, Ablow, Cowan, & Cowan, 1998); Manchester Child Attachment Story Task (MCAST; Goldwyn, Stanley, Smith, Green, 2000).; Parent Development Interview for Parent Reflective Functioning/Mentalisation (Slade, 2005)

Qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.): Special Education and Psychology, Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London, UK  - Fully Funded

Career

Dr Kallitsoglou received her PhD from the Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London (now University College London), London, UK. Before joining the School of Education, UoE she was a senior lecturer in the School of Education, University of Roehampton, London, UK. She is a former research fellow of the Dartington Social Research Unit, and post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK. 

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Research

Research interests

Dr Kallitsoglou supervises student research projects in the following areas:

  • parenting, caregiving and child social and emotional outcomes in the home and school setting
  • children's representations of caregiver - child relationships (e.g., drawings and doll play methodology) 
  • maternal wellbeing, social formal/informal supports ( e.g., formal caregiving, grandparenting, paternal involvement in children's upbringing) and child social and emotional outcomes
  • parental invovement in children's education/schooling and child conduct problems/antisocial behaviour
  • academic outcomes of children with conduct problems/antisocial behaviour 
  • school-based nurturing intervention approaches for children with poor social and emotional outcomes
  • implementation and evaluation of community/school/home-based approaches to promote social and emotional outcomes in children.
  • cross-cultural perspectives 

PhD students with an interest in secondary analysis using the Millennium Cohort Study are strongly encouraged to get in touch. https://cls.ucl.ac.uk/cls-studies/millennium-cohort-study/

Research projects

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Publications

Journal articles

Kallitsoglou A, Topalli P-Z (2024). Home-schooling and caring for children during the COVID-19 lockdown in the UK: emotional states, systems of support and adaptive coping strategies in working mothers. Frontiers in Sociology, 9 Abstract.  Full text.
Panula V, Lyyra N, Kallitsoglou A, Acquah E, Topalli PZ (2024). Psychosocial strain and coping of Finnish working mothers during the COVID-19 lockdown: a job demand-control approach. Frontiers in Public Health
Morgul E, Kallitsoglou A, Essau C (2023). Caregiver worry of infection and family co-existence difficulty and association with change in children’s internalizing and externalizing symptoms during the initial COVID-19 lockdown in the UK and Turkey. Psychological Reports
Kallitsoglou A, Arif M (2023). Teacher attitudes towards evidence-based practices for social, emotional and mental health difficulties in school and association with teacher academic research engagement. Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties
Morgül E, Kallitsoglou A, Essau C (2023). The impact of the initial COVID-19 lockdown. on the mental health and lifestyle of children. in Turkey. Revista de Psicología Clínica con Niños y Adolescentes Abstract.
Atış Akyol N, Atalan Ergin D, Kallitsoglou A (2023). The pathway from grandparental support with childcare in the early years to child socioemotional outcomes in middle childhood: Evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study. Early Child Development and Care
Morgül E, Kallitsoglou A, Essau CA, Castro-Kemp S (2022). Caregiver-Reported Changes in the Socioemotional Wellbeing and Daily Habits of Children with Special Educational Needs During the First COVID-19 National Lockdown in the United Kingdom. Frontiers in Education, 7 Abstract.
Kallitsoglou A, Repana V, Shiakou M (2022). Children's family drawings: association with attachment representations in story stem narratives and social and emotional difficulties. EARLY CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND CARE, 192(8), 1337-1348.  Author URL.
Kallitsoglou A, Repana V (2021). Attachment disorganisation and poor maternal discipline in early childhood: independent contributions to symptoms of conduct problems. Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties, 26(4), 436-448. Abstract.
Kallitsoglou A (2020). Implementation of evidence-based practices for early childhood social learning: a viewpoint on the role of teacher attitudes. Journal of Children's Services, 15(2), 61-74. Abstract.
Morgül E, Kallitsoglou A, Essau CA (2020). Psychological effects of the COVID-19 lockdown on children and families in the UK. Revista de Psicologia Clinica con Ninos y Adolescentes, 7(3), 42-48. Abstract.
Axford N, Bjornstad G, Matthews J, Whybra L, Berry V, Ukoumunne O, Hobbs T, Wrigley Z, Brook L, Taylor R, et al (2020). The effectiveness of a community-based mentoring program for children aged 5-11 years: results from a randomized controlled trial. Prevention Science
Axford N, Bjornstad G, Matthews J, Heilmann S, Raja A, Ukoumunne OC, Berry V, Wilkinson T, Timmons L, Hobbs T, et al (2020). The effectiveness of a therapeutic parenting program for children aged 6–11 years with behavioral or emotional difficulties: Results from a randomized controlled trial. Children and Youth Services Review, 117, 105245-105245.
Psychogiou L, Kallitsoglou A, Dimatis K, Parry E, Russell AE, Yilmaz M, Kuyken W, Moberly NJ (2018). Children's emotion understanding in relation to attachment to mother and father. British Journal of Developmental Psychology
Kallitsoglou A (2018). Executive Function Variation in Children with Conduct Problems: Influences of Coexisting Reading Difficulties. JOURNAL OF LEARNING DISABILITIES, 51(2), 168-180.  Author URL.
Whybra L, Warner G, Bjornstad GJ, Hobbs T, Brook L, Wrigley Z, Berry V, Ukoumunne O, Matthews J, Taylor R, et al (2018). The effectiveness of Chance UK’s mentoring programme in improving behavioural and emotional outcomes in primary school children with behavioural difficulties: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. BMC Psychology, 6, 9-9.
Axford N, Warner G, Hobbs T, Heilmann S, Raja A, Berry V, Ukoumunne O, Matthews J, Eames T, Kallitsoglou A, et al (2018). The effectiveness of the Inspiring Futures parenting programme in improving behavioural and emotional outcomes in primary school children with behavioural or emotional difficulties: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. BMC Psychology, 6, 3-3.
Psychogiou L, Moberly N, Parry E, Russell A, Nath S, Kallitsoglou A (2017). Does fathers’ and mothers’ rumination predict emotional symptoms in their children?. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 56, 431-442.
Psychogiou L, Moberly NJ, Parry E, Nath S, Kallitsoglou A, Russell G (2017). Parental depressive symptoms, children’s emotional and behavioural problems, and parents’ expressed emotion - critical and positive comments. PLoS ONE, 12, e0183546-e0183546.
Kallitsoglou A (2014). Inattention, hyperactivity and low parental education in children with conduct problems and poor reading skills. Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 14(4), 239-247. Abstract.
Kallitsoglou A (2013). An investigation of the usefulness of the Conner's Continuous Performance Test II in the assessment of inattention and hyperactivity in the school. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SPECIAL NEEDS EDUCATION, 28(3), 348-361.  Author URL.
Stateva M, Minton J, Beckett C, Doolan M, Ford T, Kallitsoglou A, Scott S (2012). Challenges recruiting families with children at risk of anti-social behaviour into intervention trials: Lessons from the Helping Children Achieve (HCA) study. Journal of Children's Services, 7(4), 285-302. Abstract.
Scott S, Sylva K, Beckett C, Kallitsoglou A, Doolan M, Ford T (2012). Should parenting programmes to improve children's life chances address child behaviour, reading skills, or both? Rationale for the Helping Children Achieve trial. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 9(1), 47-60. Abstract.

Reports

Joel S, Kallitsoglou A, Towell P (2023). The benefits of creative dance workshops for supporting the wellbeing of children with special educational needs in school. University of Exeter. Abstract.
Scott S, Sylva K, Kallitsoglou A, Ford T (2014). Which type of parenting programme best improve child behaviour and reading. Nuffield Foundation, Nuffield Foundation.
Beckett C, Kallitsoglou A, Doolan M, Ford T, Sylva K, Scott S, HCA study teams (2012). Helping Children Achieve: Summary of the study 2007-2010- Interim Report. Department for Education, Department for Education.
Scott S, Sylva K, Beckett C, Doolan M, Kallitsoglou A, Beecham J, Ford T, HCA Teams (2012). Which type of parenting programme best improves child behaviour and reading? the Helping Children Achieve trial. Department for Education, Department for Education.

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External Engagement and Impact

Memberships and affiliations

  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy 
  • Chartered member (CPsychol) and Associate Fellow (AFBPsS) of the British Psychological Society 

Peer review

  • National Science Centre (NCN, Poland) ׀ March 2022
  • SPECTRUM Database, Education Endowment Foundation ׀ April 2017
  • Cochrane Developmental, Psychosocial and Learning Problems Group 2016
  • Associate Editor @ Frontiers in Education

Advisory roles

  • Member of the board of trustees and chair of research ׀ NurtureUK https://www.nurtureuk.org/ ׀ January 2020 – September 2022
  • Scientific Committee ׀ International Conference on Modern Education Studies ‘School Dropout’, Necmettin Erbakan University, Konya, Turkey ׀ ERASMUS + ׀ June 2022
  • Steering committee ׀ Supporting good mental health and wellbeing (MHWB) for Londoners, Wandle Early Years Hub Core Partnership, Greater London Authority ׀ February – April 2021

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Supervision / Group

Postgraduate researchers

  • Abdullah Saeed S Al Madath
  • Raedah Awid R Alofi
  • Sabaa Hejazi
  • Katie Jackson
  • Milly Sidaway

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