Claire McDowell

Claire McDowell (she/her) is a member of the project management group. Claire is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst and Lecturer in Behaviour Analysis in the School of Psychology at Ulster University, Northern Ireland. Upon completion of her PhD in 2000, Dr McDowell went on to work as Director of Education for Saplings School for Children with Autism, before returning to Ulster University in 2006 to direct the MSc in Applied Behaviour Analysis. She teaches, degree and postgraduate level, and is the schools Active Learning Champion. She also supervises research by PhD and MSc students. Her research has primarily been in the area of: Evidence based education for children at risk of academic failure; Precision teaching and generative instruction.

https://www.ulster.ac.uk/staff/ce.mcdowell.html

Selected publications

McWilliams, G, McDowell, C & Leslie, J.C., (2022). Evaluating Headsprout as an Intervention for Improving Literacy. Journal of Behavioral Education.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10864-022-09489
Employing the theory of planned behaviour to design an e-cigarette education resource for use in secondary schools. Simpson, L.,Davison, J., Doherty, J.,Dunwoody, L.,McDowell, C.,McLaughlin, M.,Butter, S. &Giles, M., 11 Feb 2022, (Published online) In:BMC Public Health. 22, p. 1-22 22 p., 276.
Prevalence, knowledge and factors associated with e-cigarette use among parents of secondary school children.Simpson, L., Doherty, J.,Davison, J.,McLaughlin, M.,Giles, M., Dunwoody, L, McDowell, C., Butter, S. & Wilmont, E., 31 Dec 2022, In: Public Health in Practice. 4, p. 1-6 6 p., 100334.

Bohan, C., Smyth, S. & McDowell, C. (2021). Does the immediacy of feedback matter in game based classroom management? Analysis of the Caught Being Good Game with adolescent students. Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions. https://Doi.org/ 1177/10983007211068534
Bohan, C., Smyth, S. & McDowell, C. (2020). An Evaluation of the Caught Being Good Game with an Adolescent Student Population. Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions https://doi.org/10.1177/1098300720928455
O'Neill, S., McDowell, C., & Leslie, J. C. (2020). A Comparison of Variations of Prompt Delay During Instruction on an Expressive Labeling Task. Journal of Behavioural Education, 1-19.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10864-020-09407-0
Skelly, L., Smyth, P., Donnelly, MP., Leslie, J. C., Leader, G., Simpson, E., & McDowell, C. (2020). Factors that potentially influence successful weight loss for adults with intellectual disabilities: a qualitative comparison. Journal of Intellectual Disabilities.https://doi.org/10.1177/1744629520931681

Recent invited Events

Invited Speaker at the ABAI 11^th International Conference Dublin 2022

Keynote Speaker at the Standard Celeration Society International Precision teaching Conference, Galway 2023