To explore the research areas and questions, we use a range of research methods, including paper and pencil tasks such as self-report questionnaires, interviews, and drawings.

Some of our recent projects include a focus on young people’s understanding of the personal moral domain, spirituality, and also shyness and social withdrawal within the classroom.

Representative recent projects include a study of adolescents’ emotional experiences of artistic learning and arts engagement (music) within the classroom, teachers’ beliefs about children’s shyness in the classroom; a project that explores the use of psychological language in children who are both aggressive and withdrawn; and a study of children’s understandings of parental rules, personal choice, and sense of self.