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Celebrating Excellence: Professor Olympia Palikara Wins Supervision Award

Tue, 15 Apr 2025 15:21:00 GMT

We’re thrilled to share that Professor Olympia Palikara, has been awarded the Excellent Supervision Award for Social Sciences at the Warwick Research Celebration 2025.

Professor Palikara’s mentorship blends professional excellence with unwavering personal support. She has guided her students to co-author peer-reviewed publications, present at international conferences and influence policy and practice. Her dedication to growth, resilience and integrity has profoundly shaped her students' academic journeys. Her impact extends beyond academia, inspiring her students to thrive both professionally and personally.

Congratulations, Professor Palikara!

Publication of new open-access peer reviewed journal paper

Fri, 28 Mar 2025 10:02:00 GMT

A new open-access journal paper has recently been published by Professor, Olympia Palikara:

Palikara, O., Bonneville-Roussy, A., & Allen, K. A. (2025). Individual and Contextual Factors Determining School Belonging of Adolescents in the UK: Evidence from PISA. School Mental Health, 1-16. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12310-024-09725-y

Professor Olympia Palikara's BERA blog post published on how children with neurodevelopmental conditions experienced transition from primary to secondary school during COVID-19

Fri, 06 Jan 2023 13:45:36 GMT

The latest British Educational Research Association (BERA) blog post by Professor Olympia Palikara, Vassilis Sideropoulos and Dr Jo Van Herwegen, is titled School transitions and adjustment of children with neurodevelopmental conditions during the Covid-19 pandemic: Who was caught up in a worldwind?

Read the full blog post on the BERA website.

Online event: Supporting school transitions for children with special educational needs and disabilities

Tue, 14 Jun 2022 08:48:18 GMT

Online event: Supporting school transitions for children with special educational needs and disabilities: Resources for children, families and professionals

We are delighted to invite you to our online event on supporting the transition from primary to secondary school for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). The event will take place on 11^th of July at 16.00 (UK time).

The aim of the session concerns how we can best support school transitions for children with neurodevelopmental disorders. The session will include talks concerning the experiences of children with SEND and their families during school transitions, including recent research findings about transition from primary to secondary school during the times of COVID-19 pandemic. There will also be the opportunity to share your views concerning evidence-based resources for children, families and professionals

The event is free to attend but registration is essential. Register at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-impact-of-covid-19-for-send-children-and-families-registration-332998335987

The impact of COVID-19 on children and families with special educational needs and disabilities: What's next?

Thu, 12 May 2022 11:52:25 GMT

We are pleased to invite you to our online event on the impact of COVID-19 for children and families with special educational needs and disabilities. The event will take place on Tuesday 24^th May from 4pm.

The session will include talks discussing what research has under-covered so far on the topic, followed by panel discussion concerning next steps on how to best support children and families during the recovery phase from COVID-19. There will also be the opportunity to share your own experiences, helping us to develop evidence-based resources to support children and their families during the recovery phase from COVID-19 and in any related crisis in the future.

The event is free to attend but registration is essential. To register, please visit: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-impact-of-covid-19-for-send-children-and-families-registration-332998335987

If you have any questions about the event, please contact Dr Olympia Palikara: Olympia.Palikara@warwick.ac.uk

Journal publication - Dr Olympia Palikara

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 14:15:44 GMT

Consistency of Parental and Self-Reported Adolescent Wellbeing: Evidence from Developmental Language Disorder, Frontiers in Developmental Psychology. Frontiers | Consistency of Parental and Self-Reported Adolescent Wellbeing: Evidence From Developmental Language Disorder | Psychology (frontiersin.org)
Gough-Kenyon, S., Palikara, O., Lucas, R., (2021)

Frontiers | Consistency of Parental and Self-Reported Adolescent Wellbeing: Evidence From Developmental Language Disorder | Psychology

Research on adolescent wellbeing in Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) has previously been examined through measures of parent (proxy) or self-reported wellbeing, but never has a study included both and enabled comparison between the two. The current study reports parent and self rated wellbeing of adolescents with DLD and Low Language (LL) ability, as well as their typically developing (TD ...

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Journal publication - Dr Olympia Palikara

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 14:14:51 GMT

Online and face-to-face performance on two cognitive tasks in children with Williams syndrome. Frontiers in Developmental Psychology Frontiers | Online and Face-to-Face Performance on Two Cognitive Tasks in Children With Williams Syndrome | Psychology (frontiersin.org)
Ashworth, M. Palikara, O., Burchell, E., Purser, H., Nikolla, D., Van Herwegen, J (2021)

Frontiers | Online and Face-to-Face Performance on Two Cognitive Tasks in Children With Williams Syndrome | Psychology

There has been an increase in cognitive assessment via the Internet, especially since the coronavirus disease 2019 surged the need for remote psychological assessment. This is the first study to investigate the appropriability of conducting cognitive assessments online with children with a neurodevelopmental condition and intellectual disability, namely, Williams syndrome.

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Journal publication - Dr Olympia Palikara

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 14:13:33 GMT

The match between provision, outcomes and functioning needs in statutory documents for young children with disabilities in England, Research in Developmental Disabilities. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S089142222030247X

Castro-Kemp, S. Grande, C., Gaona, C. Palikara, O. (2021)

Dr Olympia Palikara elected as co-chair elect of the Division of Educational and Child Psychology of the British Psychological Society

Thu, 28 Jan 2021 07:47:44 GMT

Dr Olympia Palikara has also been appointed as member on the Research Board of the British Psychological Society

Dr Olympia Palikara contributes to briefing guidance for education professionals published by the BPS

Mon, 01 Jun 2020 14:09:23 GMT

Dr Olympia Palikara has contributed as co-author to the briefing guidance for education professionals published by the British Psychological Society about meeting the needs of children during transition back to school following the COVID-19 pandemic.

Read the resource here https://www.bps.org.uk/coronavirus-resources/public/back-to-school