About me
My name is Dr Charlotte Louise Bagnall and I am a Lecturer at the University of Manchester in Manchester’s Institute of Education. I currently teach on the MEd Psychology of Education programme and the BSc Educational Psychology programme.
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Education
I achieved a first class honours degree in BSc English and Psychology at Keele University in 2016 (Psychology final year project title: Does social support matter? What factors predict children’s psychosocial adjustment during primary-secondary school transition?) I achieved a distinction in MSc Child Development at Keele University in 2017 (MSc dissertation title: “Too little too late” Comparing the effectiveness of an emotion-centred intervention across two time points in the Year 6 transfer year). I submitted my PhD (Keele and Manchester Metropolitan University) in September 2020 and passed my viva in December 2020. My PhD was the first study to design and evaluate a universal emotional-centred support intervention, which is called Talking about School Transition (TaST), to specifically improve children’s emotional wellbeing over primary-secondary school transition. TaST was informed by a thorough literature review in addition to preliminary focus group and case study research conducted in the UK and US.
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Current research
My research is mainly focused on improving children's emotional well-being over primary-secondary school transition. See Projects above to find out more information. I am currently working on two research projects in the area of primary-secondary school transition. The first is a scale development project, which I am working on with Professor Jindal-Snape at the University of Dundee. The second is a longitudinal research project working with Sandwell council, and specifically Liz Stevenson to evaluate the local authority’s Year 5 to Year 8 transition programme.
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Additional Responsibilities
I sit on the International Transformative Change: Educational and Life Transitions (TCELT) Research Centre Committee, the British Psychological Society Developmental Committee, the British Psychological Society Educational Psychology Committee and co-lead the Early Career Researcher (ECR) Developmental Network. Aside from academia. I also work as an Applied Behaviour Analyst Tutor.
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