Dr Sarah Christie

Research Projects

• ‘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 tender cut: The parents’ voice. How parents of autistic adolescents, without intellectual disability (‘ID’), who self-harm and have suicide ideation, navigate and access support for themselves as parents.. Researcher(s): Ms Janine Hamilton. Supervisor(s): Dr Sarah Christie, Dr Alison Ekins. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• An Exploration of Initial Teacher Education in Special Educational Needs and Disability: A Qualitative Case Study of an Algerian context.. Researcher(s): Ms Zineb Boudiba. Supervisor(s): Dr Sarah Christie, Dr John-Paul Riordan. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• Doctoral Research Project. Researcher(s): Mrs Lorna Linton-Hemmings. Supervisor(s): Dr Sarah Christie, Dr Ruth Rogers. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• Doctoral Research Project. Researcher(s): Mrs Fay Chambers. Supervisor(s): Dr Alison Ekins, Dr Sarah Christie. [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]
• 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]

• 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]
• 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 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]