Colleen McLaughlin
Position/Status
Deputy Head of Faculty
Director, International Initiatives
E-mail Address
cm10009@cam.ac.uk
Phone
01223 767628
Qualifications
BEd, MEd, MA (Cantab), PhD
Membership of Professional Bodies/Associations
- Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts
- Fellow of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
- National Association of Pastoral Care in Education
- British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy
Academic Area/Links
- Commonwealth Centre for Education
- Education, Equality and Development
- Care in education, counselling, psychology and well-being
- Teacher and practitioner research
- Personal, social and emotional development and education
Profile
Colleen McLaughlin is Deputy Head of Faculty and Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Education. She is also a fellow of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and the RSA. Her current responsibilities include being Director of International Initiatives as well as directing the therapeutic counsellor training and SUPER (Schools University Partnerships for Educational Research). She taught in secondary schools and worked as an advisor in a local education authority before coming to the then Institute of Education in 1985. Her current research focuses on HIV education in Africa (with the Commonwealth Centre for Education); bullying and pupils with special educational needs and disabilities; counselling in schools; and aspects of personal, social and emotional development in schools. Support for international educational reform is also now a major area of work. She edited the journal Pastoral Care in Education for ten years and is now an editor of the Educational Action Research Journal. She has been involved as an advisor to governments and NGOs on the personal and social dimensions of schooling. She has researched care and counselling in schools, positive alternatives to school exclusion, bystander behaviour in bullying and how universities can work in partnership with schools to generate useful educational knowledge.
Research Topics
- Emotional well-being and adolescent mental health
- Counselling in schools
- Health and HIV/Aids education, particularly in African contexts
- School-university partnerships in educational research
- School exclusions
- Personal, social and emotional education in schools
- Bystander behaviour in school bullying
Current Research Projects
- 2010-11 With Carol Holliday and Barbie Clark. A systematic literature review on Research on Counselling Children and Young People for the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
- 2010-11 With Richard Byers, Caroline Oliver and Rosie Peppin Vaughan. Literature Review on bullying and special educational needs and disability for the Department of Children Schools and Families’ response to the Lamb Inquiry Special Educational Needs and Parental Confidence. Consultant to the project. In association with the National Children’s Bureau, London.
- 2008-13 With Susan Kiragu and Mary Cobbett, University of Cambridge Faculty of Education: Sharlene Swartz at the HSRC Cape Town: and Shelina Walli and Mussa Mohammed at the Institute for Educational Development, Aga Khan University, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania: Gina Oduro , Cape Coast University, Ghana. ASKAIDS, African Sexual Knowledges of AIDS. Commonwealth Centre for Education.
- Part 1.2008-10 A three country study in South Africa, Kenya and Tanzania, which examines the sources, contents and processes of young people’s community-based sexual knowledges and asks how these knowledges interact with AIDS’ education programmes in school.
- Part 2. 2011-12. The development and research of a curriculum development process using the research above. Six country study (Botswana, Kenya, Ghana, Tanzania, Swaziland and South Africa). Visit the Faculty's Centre for Commonwealth Education Initiatives. - Ongoing: Research on teachers learning from research and pupil engagement in School-university Partnerships in Educational Research.
- Recently Completed Project - 2007- 2009 School Experiences and Mental Health Outcomes Amongst 10-14 Year Olds: A Review of the Effects of School Transfers, Transitions and Other Potentially Relevant School-Related Factors. This is one strand of a national programme of research on the time trends in Adolescent Mental Health commissioned and funded by the Nuffield Foundation.
Prospective PhD Applications
Colleen would welcome informal contact from prospective PhD students on any of the research topics mentioned above.
Course Involvement
- Counselling Courses - Introductory, Diploma and Masters
- SUPER partnership MEd
- MPhil and PhD supervision
Recent Publications
Books
Gray, J., Galton, M. and McLaughlin, C., Clark, B. and Symonds, J. (2011) The Supportive School: Wellbeing and the Young Adolescent. Cambridge: Scholars Press
McLaughlin, C., Swartz, S., Kiragu, S., Walli, S. and Muhamed, M. (2011) Old Enough To Know: Consulting Children on African Sexualities. Cape Town, SA: HSRC Press
McLaughlin, C., Black-Hawkins, K., and McIntyre, D. (2008) Networking Practitioner Research. London: Routledge
McLaughlin, C., Black Hawkins, K., Brindley, S., McIntyre, D. and Taber, K. (2006) Researching Schools: Stories from a Schools–University Partnership for Educational Research. London: Routledge
McLaughlin, C. with Alexander, E. (2005) Reframing Personal, Social and Emotional Education: Agency, Participation and Dialogue. London: NAPCE for the National Children's Bureau
McLaughlin, C and Byers, R. (2001) Personal and Social Development For All. London: David Fulton
Articles
McLaughlin, C. and Swartz, S. (2011) Can we use young people’s knowledge to develop teachers and HIV related education? Prospects, December 2011
Kiragu, S. and McLaughlin, C. (2011) Unveiling their worlds: The use of dialogue as a health promotion tool for HIV/AIDS education in a poor community in Kenya. Sex Education 11(4)
McLaughlin, C. (2010) Relational Matters: a review of the impact of school experience on mental health in early adolescence, Educational and Child Psychology. 27(1), pp. 95-107
McLaughlin, C. (2008) 'Emotional Well-Being And Its Relationship To Schools And Classrooms: A Critical Reflection', British Journal of Guidance and Counselling.36, (4), 353-366
McLaughlin, C. and Black-Hawkins, K. (2007) 'School-university partnerships for educational research - distinctions, dilemmas and challenges. The Curriculum Journal, 18(3), 327-341
McLaughlin, C. (2007) Turning the Tanker Around. Raising Achievement. May 2007, London: Optimus Publishing for Antidote. Pp. 8-9
Chapters in books
McLaughlin, C, and Kiragu, S. (2011) ‘Voices for Change: Student Voices on Sexuality and HIV/AIDS Education.’ In G. Czerniawski and W. Kidd (Eds.) The Student Voice Handbook: Bridging the Academic/Practitioner Divide. Bradford, UK: Emerald
McLaughlin, C. (2011) ‘Participatory Action Research – Practice and Effects,’ In B. Huddson and M. Meyer Beyond Fragmentation: Didactics, Learning and Teaching in Europe", Barbara Budrich: Opladen, Germany and Farmington Hills, USA
McLaughlin, C. (2011) ‘Practitioner research and School Practices,’ In I.M. Saleh and M.S. Khine (Eds.) Practitioner Research in Teacher Education: Theory and Best Practices. Peter Lang Publishing.
McLaughlin, C., Waterhouse, J., McLellan, R. and Morgan, B. (2011) ‘Collaborer dans la recherché: etude de l’action dans un tiers-espace. In Masson P. (Dir.), Baumfield, V., Otrel- cass, K., Pilo, M., (Re)thinking Partnership in Education / (Re) penser le partenariat en Education (bilingual publishing) Book Edition, Lille
McLaughlin, C. (2011) ‘Towards an ecology of teacher collaboration on research.’ In J. Sachs and N. Mockler. Rethinking Educational Practice Through Reflexive Research: Essay in Honour of Susan Groundwater-Smith. Dordrecht: Springer
McLaughlin, C. (2009) 'Teacher Research in the UK: Its Architecture and Development. In Hollenbach, N. & Tillmann, K.-J. (Eds.) (2009) Schulpraxis entwickeln: Praxisforschung aus nationaler und internationaler Perspektive. Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt
McLaughlin, C. (2008) 'Re-forming the connections: the personal, social and cognitive in learning and young people's lives' in Kerry, T. and Huat, CM. (Eds.) International Perspectives in Education. London: Continuum
McLaughlin, C. (2007) 'Pastoral Care: Care for Pupils as Learners, Persons and Citizens' in Genderwatch. Still watching… London: Trentham books