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Dr Nicole Hart

Head of Subject

Nicole is Head of Subject for Interdisciplinary Studies based within the Carnegie School of Education. She gained her BSc, MSc, and PhD in Psychology at Bangor University, graduating in 2014. Her doctoral thesis used observational data collected over an 18-month period to explore the association between parental language used within free-play sessions in the home on children’s later language outcomes.

Nicole continues to research in this area, with a particular focus on early preventative, and targeted interventions designed to enhance parental wellbeing and children’s social-emotional and behavioural outcomes. Her work is multidisciplinary, bringing together academics from Education, Psychology and Health, to work in collaboration with practitioners and policy makers. She has been working in the field of research for ten years, having previously held posts at Bangor University, Wales, University of Greenwich, and the University of York.

Current Teaching

Nicole is the Course Leader for the BA(Hons) Educational Psychology degree and teaches modules across the course.

Level 4

What is Psychology?
Learner Focused Teaching
Understanding Research in Educational Psychology

Level 5

What is Normal?
Mind, Brain and Education
Becoming a Researcher in Educational Psychology

Research Interests

Nicole’s research interests are centred around improving the life chances for children considered at a greater risk for poor outcomes. This encompasses the study of children within their home environment, and across different childcare settings, to ascertain the specific risk and protective factors in which to target for intervention. She is also interested in conducting rigorous evaluations of psychosocial interventions in order to inform the evidence base of their utility with this population.

Nicole has been involved in a number of randomised controlled trial evaluations of parenting support programmes, and is currently working with colleagues at the Universities of York and Durham evaluating the impact of the Parent-Child Plus programme on children’s (aged 2 to 4 years) language development. The programme is being trialled across Yorkshire and Humber. More information can be found on the education endowment foundation website.

In addition, Nicole is a keen methodologist, having specific expertise in observational and quantitative methodology. She has been involved in the development and validation of measurement tools commonly used in the field and has undertaken a number of systematic reviews within this area.