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Kathryn Higgins is the Director of the Centre for Evidence and Social Innovation (CESI), and a reader in the school of Social Science Education and Social Work Queen’s University Belfast. Kathryn is an experienced research leader having previously led the Institute for Child Care Research for ten years. Kathryn has an established research reputation in the areas of substance use and addictive behavior and also has been active in the field of programme evaluation/implementation science. She continues to lead the now 18-year longitudinal study, known as the Belfast Youth Development Study, which has it has acted as a focal point for collaborations with external partners and for new, policy led research. In a field that changes rapidly Kathryn has stayed at the forefront of emerging issues; for example, she was recently funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) to undertake research in the developing field of new psychoactive substances (legal highs). She has developed a cadre of work over the past ten years on Programme evaluation & implementation Science, evaluating interventions designed to improve child and adolescent development. These include RCTs of school- and community-based interventions. Her research programmes, publications and international conference contributions have examined the policy and evidence base for interventions including substance misuse, mental health, alcohol prevention and the mechanisms for implementing evidence based practice and policy more generally.
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Projects
R9232CHC: Glasgow/Belfast Collaboration - Social network research and social network intervention development
23/02/2016 → …
Project: Research
R4748CHC: Parenting Northern Ireland 'Odyssey: Parenting your teen': A Pilot Non-Randomised Trial
18/02/2016 → …
Project: Research
R4731CHC: Variation and Determinants of Novel Psychoactive Substance (NPS) use
Higgins, K., Campbell, A., Clarke, M., O'Hara, L., O'Neill, T., O'Neill, N. & O'Neill, F.
18/09/2015 → …
Project: Research
R4604CHC: Parental Alcohol Use and Resilience
McLaughlin, A., Higgins, K., Percy, A. & Perra, O.
01/08/2012 → …
Project: Research
Research Output
School bonding and ethos in trajectories of offending: Results from the Belfast Youth Development Study: Results from the Belfast Youth Development Study
Higgins, K., Perra, O., Jordan, J-A., O'Neill, T. & McCann, M., 17 Feb 2020, In : British Journal of Educational Psychology.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
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A feasibility study of Barnardo’s Pharos group work programme to build resilience in children affected by parental substance abuse.
McLaughlin, A., Devlin, L., Mullan, C., McLaughlin, K., Macdonald, G., O'Neill, T., Higgins, K., Percy, A. & Hayes, D., 2019, p. 11-11. 1 p.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
Evidence for Public Health on novel psychoactive substances: a mixed method study
Higgins, K., Campbell, A., O'Hara, L., O'Neill, T., Clarke, M., O'Neill, F., O'Neill, N. & Mc Cann, M., 14 Aug 2019, 14 ed. National Institute of Health Research Public Health Research Programme. 143 p.Research output: Book/Report › Scholarly edition
Longitudinal Social Network Analysis of Peer, Family, and School Contextual Influences on Adolescent Drinking Frequency
McCann, M., Jordan, J. A., Higgins, K. & Moore, L., 10 Jun 2019, In : Journal of Adolescent Health. 65, 3, p. 350-358 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Public Health Evidence on Novel Psychoactive Substances -
Higgins, K., 18 Jun 2019.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
Prizes
Qstep teaching set competition
Higgins, Kathryn (Recipient), 09 Jan 2018
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
Evidence Gathering Session
Kathryn Higgins (Participant)
14 Feb 2020
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Professor Dennis Mc Carty
Anne Campbell (Host), & Kathryn Higgins (Host)
May 2020
Activity: Hosting a visitor types › Hosting an academic visitor
Advisory Council for Misuse of Drugs ACMD (External organisation)
Kathryn Higgins (Board Member)
14 Oct 2019
Activity: Membership types › Membership of public/government advisory/policy group or panel
Advisory Council for The Misuse of Drugs (External organisation)
Kathryn Higgins (Board Member)
10 Oct 2019 → 10 Oct 2021
Activity: Membership types › Membership of public/government advisory/policy group or panel
Twenty-first Century Contact: How young people in care make use of mobile communication technologies for contact
Kathryn Higgins (Examiner)
01 May 2019
Activity: Examination types › PhD external examination
Press / Media
Tackling the harms of New Psychoactive Substances (NPS) – We need to look at the bigger picture. Blog 1 NIHR 29th January 2020
29/01/2020
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
Thesis
An exploration of a new heroin outbreak
Author: Higgins, K., Jul 2007Supervisor: Kilpatrick, R. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy
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Young people, school exclusion and substance abuse
Author: Duncan, L., Dec 2012Supervisor: Higgins, K. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Masters Thesis › Masters
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