About Dr Nicole Gridley
Nicole is a Senior Lecturer within the School of Education. She has a background in Psychology and completed her PhD at Bangor University in 2014.
Prior to joining the university, Nicole was employed as a research assistant at the Centre for Evidence Based Early Interventions (Bangor University) for five years. Nicole then took up a postdoctoral research fellow post in the Research Centre for Children Schools and Families (University of Greenwich) for one year. Most recently, Nicole was employed as a Research Fellow within the Department of Health Sciences at the University of York for three years.
Nicole has a particular interest in evaluating the impact of parenting programmes on parent and child outcomes, most specifically the relationship between parenting skills and children’s language development during infancy, as well as parent-child attachment. Nicole has a particular expertise in using observational methodology as part of evaluation design and is a trained coder of the Dyadic Parent Child Interaction Coding System (DPICS) and the CARE Index Infant measure of attachment (Level 2 for research).
In addition to the above, Nicole is also interested in the use of psychosocial and sports interventions for the management of child emotion and behaviour problems.
Current Teaching
Module leader for (including teaching on these modules):
Level Four:
Level Six:
- Children, Crime and Social Justice
Level Seven:
- Theorising Childhood
- Developing Early Language and Communication
Research Interests
Currently, Nicole is working with colleagues based in the Department of Education at the University of York and the National Literacy Trust on a Nuffield Foundation funded project. The Early Words Together project is a randomised controlled trial seeking to evaluate the impact of a short language and literacy programme delivered by volunteers to parents of children aged between 3 and 4 years old. It is hoped that the project will provide evidence to support the roll out of the programme nationally.
Nicole is also working with colleagues at the Universities of York and Durham evaluating the Parent-Child Plus programme with parents of children aged 2 to 4 years to establish the benefits on language development. The programme is being trialled across Yorkshire and Humber via a randomised controlled trial. To find out more please visit https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/projects-and-evaluation/projects/parentchild/
Selected Publications
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Journal articles (14)
- Gridley N; Blower S; Dunn A; Bywater T; Bryant M (2019), Psychometric Properties of Child (0-5 Years) Outcome Measures as used in Randomized Controlled Trials of Parent Programs: A Systematic Review
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10567-019-00277-1
View Repository Record - Blower SL; Gridley N; Dunn A; Bywater T; Hindson Z; Bryant M (2019), Psychometric Properties of Parent Outcome Measures Used in RCTs of Antenatal and Early Years Parent Programs: A Systematic Review
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10567-019-00276-2
View Repository Record - Gridley N; Blower S; Dunn A; Bywater T; Whittaker K; Bryant M (2019), Psychometric Properties of Parent-Child (0-5 years) Interaction Outcome Measures as Used in Randomized Controlled Trials of Parent Programs: A Systematic Review
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10567-019-00275-3
View Repository Record - Bywater T; Berry V; Blower S; Cohen J; Gridley N; Kiernan K; Mandefield L; Mason-Jones A; McGilloway S; McKendrick K (2018), Enhancing Social-Emotional Health and Wellbeing in the Early Years (E-SEE): A Study Protocol of a Community-based Randomised Controlled Trial with Process and Economic Evaluations of the Incredible Years Infant and Toddler Parenting Programmes, delivered in a Proportionate Universal Model
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-026906
View Repository Record - Gridley N; Hutchings J; Bywater T (2018), Comparing Live and Video Observation to Assess Early Parent-child Interactions in the Home
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-018-1039-y - Bywater T; Gridley N; Berry V; Blower S; Tobin K (2018), The Parent Programme Implementation Checklist (PPIC) : The development and testing of an objective measure of skills and fidelity for the delivery of parent programmes
https://doi.org/10.1080/13575279.2017.1414031 - Maras P; Gridley N; Thompson T; Moon A (2016), The 'About Me' Questionnaire: Factorial Structure and Measurement Invariance
https://doi.org/10.1177/0734282916682909 - Gridley N; Baker-Hennigham H; Hutchings J (2016), Measuring Parental Language to Target Families for Early-intervention Services
https://doi.org/10.1080/13575279.2016.1188761 - Maras P; Moon A; Gridley N; Gupta T (2014), The role of materialism on social, emotional and behavioural difficulties for British adolescents
https://doi.org/10.1080/13632752.2014.989055 - Gridley N; Hutchings J; Baker-Henningham H (2014), The Incredible Years Parent-Toddler Programme and parental language: A randomised controlled trial
https://doi.org/10.1111/cch.12153 - Maras P; Moon A; Gridley N (2014), Attribution style of adolescents with school-reported social, emotional and behavioural difficulties
https://doi.org/10.1080/13632752.2014.913760 - Gridley N; Hutchings J; Baker-Henningham H (2013), Associations between Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Parenting Behaviours
https://doi.org/10.1108/JCS-02-2013-0004 - Hutchings J; Bywater T; Gridley N; Whitaker C (2012), The incredible years therapeutic social and emotional skills programme: A pilot study
https://doi.org/10.1177/0143034311415899 - Bywater T; Hutchings J; Gridley N; Jones K (2011), Incredible Years Parent Training Support for Nursery Staff Working within a Disadvantaged Flying Start Area in Wales: A Feasibility Study
https://doi.org/10.1080/13575279.2011.575353
