Dr Sarah Christie

Research Projects

• Preventing and countering CSE in SE Kent school-based peer mentorship schemes. Researcher(s): Professor Robin Bryant, Dr Sarah Christie, Mr Rob Heaton, Dr Katarina Ozcakir Mozova, Ms Becky Thomson. [Project report]

Research Supervisor

• ‘An investigation to explore how gentle teaching can be embedded and sustained in a school culture.’. Researcher(s): Mr Paul Gorham. Supervisor(s): Dr Sarah Christie, Dr Judy Durrant. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• 'Co-production confusion: An exploration of parent and SENCO experiences of participatory decision-making in the management of Education, Health and Care plans.'. Researcher(s): Ms Lorna Hughes. Supervisor(s): Dr Sarah Christie, Dr Sue Soan. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• A Matricentric Feminism Study of Mothers Narratives: Caring for an Adolescent with Self-Harm Behaviour... Researcher(s): Ms Janine Hamilton. Supervisor(s): Dr Sarah Christie, Dr Ruth Rogers. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis: Exploring the experiences of four special education teachers in demonstrating resilience and the identities influencing their performance in Algeria.. Researcher(s): Ms Zineb Boudiba. Supervisor(s): Dr Sarah Christie, Dr John-Paul Riordan. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• Doctoral Research Project. Researcher(s): Mrs Fay Chambers. Supervisor(s): Dr Sarah Christie, Dr Anne Chant. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• Exploration of parental perceptions of Grammar Schools among Asian (Nepalese, Indian) and white British ethnic communities in Kent.. Researcher(s): Mrs Sunita Lamsal Poudel. Supervisor(s): Dr Emily Lau, Dr Sarah Christie. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• Investigating Barriers to Parental Engagement in Primary Education for Pakistani Parents who speak English as an Additional Language (EAL) in England.. Researcher(s): Ms Mariya Zain. Supervisor(s): Dr Sarah Christie, Dr Kevin Balchin. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• Is my mind my own? Inside managing self-diagnosed insomnia in a mixed economy: A critical autoethnography. Researcher(s): Mrs Anne Martin. Supervisor(s): Professor Douglas MacInnes, Dr Sarah Christie. [Postgraduate Research Project]

• The social networks of migrant women and the important roles of schools and community groups in supporting integration. Christie, S., (2026), NULL, NULL. NULL: NULL. [contributionToJournal]
• Away from hospital and into the community. A research report into alternative options for young people’s mental health crisis care. Ahead, L., (NaN), NULL, NULL. NULL: NULL. [other]
• Divided Kingdom: Inequalities in Parental Involvement in the UK Christie, S., Apps, J., (NaN), Parental Involvement: Commonalities and Differences Across Europe, NULL. NULL: Routledge. [chapterInBook]
• Evaluating the impact of the United Mothers programme Christie, S., (2019), NULL, NULL. Canterbury: Canterbury Christ Church University. [book]
• First in family to attend University: understanding and enabling the parent-child support relationship Apps, J., Christie, S., (2018): European Research Network About Parents in Education. [Journal article]
• Student Mental Health and Wellbeing Project report: A cross-university briefing Christie, S., Westgate, C., Anang, S., (NaN), NULL, NULL. NULL: NULL. [book]
• Positivist scientific exploration – can universal truths and grand narratives be discovered in research about human beings? Christie, S., (2015), The Routledge International Handbook of Philosophies and Theories of Early Childhood Education and Care.. Abingdon: Routledge. [Book chapter]
• The experience of pregnancy and early parenting for women who are addicted to heroin Christie, S., Shanghai Baoshan Education Bureau Conference in Early Childhood Education. [Speech]
• Theorizing the Relationship between UK Schools and Immigrant Parents of Eastern and Central European Origin: the Parents’ Perspective Christie, S., Szorenyi, A., (NaN), NULL, NULL. NULL: NULL. [contributionToJournal]
• Theorizing the relationship between UK schools and migrant parents of Eastern European origin: the parents’ perspective Christie, S., Szorenyi, A., (2015): European Research Network About Parents in Education. [Journal article]
• A preliminary report exploring the need for and development of a coherent Personal and Social Education curriculum Maynard, T., Moss, J., Bowie, R. A., Christie, S., Bainbridge, A., Barnes, J., Blamires, M., Hassett, A., Powell, S., Robinson, S., Canterbury Christ Church University. [Report]
• Intentional psychology, accidental biography: using a post hoc lens of biography to view the development of a psychological theory of learning and evolution during simultaneous life transitions of becoming a mother and recovering from heroin addiction. Christie, S., ESREA Life History and Biographic Research Network Conference. [Conference paper]