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Dr. Elizabeth Nixon

Associate Professor (Psychology)
ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH
      
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Dr. Elizabeth Nixon

Associate Professor (Psychology)
ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH

 enixon@tcd.ie

 3531896 2867


Elizabeth Nixon is a Lecturer in Developmental Psychology based in the School of Psychology and a Senior Research Fellow at the Children's Research Centre. Elizabeth received a BA and MLitt Degree in Psychology from UCD and a PhD in Psychology and Post-graduate Diploma in Statistics from TCD. Her doctoral research explored how parenting practices and family relationships are negotiated and experienced by children and their mothers within lone-mother households and was carried out at the Children's Research Centre. Prior to taking up her lectureship in psychology in October 2006, Elizabeth worked as a Research Fellow at the Children's Research Centre where she was involved in the First National Study of Intercountry Adoption in Ireland, funded by the Adoption Board (published in 2007). Her research focuses onparenting and family as a context for children's development.
  Adoption   CHILDREN'S EXPERIENCES   Developmental Psychology   Irish childhoods, change and diversity   PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS   PARENTING
Project Title
 Parental Ethnotheories among Immigrant and Irish Parents of Infants in Ireland
From
December 2008
To
March 2011
Summary
Principal Investigator. Co-investigators: Prof. Sheila Greene, Children's Research Centre, TCD; Prof. Imelda Coyne, School of Nursing, TCD & Prof. Kevin Nugent, University of Massachusettes at Amherst, USA.
Funding Agency
Irish Research Council for Humanities & Social Sciences (€99,970)
Person Months
27
Project Title
 National Longitudinal Study of Children in Ireland - Growing up in Ireland
From
2006
To
2013
Summary
Member of the Management Team of the Study. The study is being conducted by a consortium led by the Economic and Social Research Institute (Principal Investigator Prof. James Williams) and the Children's Research Centre (Lead Co-Investigator, Prof. Sheila Greene).
Funding Agency
Office of the Minister for Children
Project Type
Longitudinal Study
Person Months
84
Project Title
 Discourses of Masculinity, Sexual Responsibility and Fatherhood among Disadvantaged Young Men in Ireland
From
October 2007
To
September 2009
Summary
Principal Investigator
Funding Agency
Crisis Pregnancy Agency (€90,000)
Person Months
23
Project Title
 Children's Perspectives on Parenting Styles & Discipline: A Developmental Perspective
From
December 2006
To
October 2007
Summary
Principal Investigator
Funding Agency
Office of the Minister for Children (€17,000)
Person Months
10
Project Title
 A National Survey of Parenting Styles in Ireland
From
June 2007
To
June 2009
Summary
Co-investigator with Dr. Ann Marie Halpenny (PI) from School of Social Sciences, Dublin Institute of Technology
Funding Agency
Office of the Minister for Children (€125,000)
Person Months
24

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Member of the Governing Council of the Psychological Society of Ireland 2008
Member of the Board of Professional Conduct, Psychological Society of Ireland 2008
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Member of the Psychological Society of Ireland 1997
Member of the British Psychological Society 1997
Member of the Society for Research in Child Development 2000
Member of the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health 2000
Member of the United States National Council for Family Relations 2004
Elizabeth Nixon, Conn Dorai-Raj, Anna McInerney, Mary E. Keegan, Mary Creaner, Parenting in Legal Limbo: Parenting Identity Among Gay and Lesbian Parents in Ireland, 2025, p87 - 108, p87-108 , Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  DOI
Brennan MM, Cavallaro M, Mongan D, Doyle A, Millar SR, Zgaga L, Smyth BP, Nixon E, Ivers JH, Galvin B, Walsh C, McCrory C, McCarthy ND., Factors Associated With Cocaine Use at 17 and 20 Years Old: A Longitudinal Analysis of a Nationally Representative Cohort., The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine, 2025, pS1054-139X(24)00551-2 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Byrne, Sadhbh J., Nixon, Elizabeth, Swords, Lorraine, Depression Literacy in Parents of Adolescents in Ireland: Exploring Associations with Gender, Age of Adolescent, and Empathy, Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2025, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Blacam, Catherine de, Geoghegan, Bridget, Nixon, Elizabeth, Nolan, Anne, Lives of Irish Adolescents Who Were Born With a Cleft (LIA-Cleft), The Cleft Palate Craniofacial Journal, 2025, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Brennan, Margaret M and Mongan, Deirdre and Doyle, Anne and Millar, Se{\'a, Early and risky adolescent alcohol use independently predict alcohol, tobacco, cannabis and other drug use in early adulthood in Ireland: a longitudinal analysis of a nationally representative cohort, BMC Public Health, 25, (1), 2025, p1--10 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Brennan M.M., Mongan D., Doyle A., Millar S.R., Cavallaro M., Zgaga L., Smyth B.P., Nixon E., Ivers J.-H., Galvin B., Walsh C., McCrory C., McCarthy N.D., Polysubstance use in early adulthood and associated factors in the Republic of Ireland: An analysis of a nationally representative cohort, Addiction, 2025, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Katie McClean, Nicola Mitchell, Peter Hanlon, Elizabeth Nixon, Suzanne Guérin, Experiences of bereaved parents with no surviving children in Ireland: Parents" and professionals" perspectives, Death Studies, 2025, p1 - 12, p1-12 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Margaret M. Brennan, Ciara Corrigan, Deirdre Mongan, Anne Doyle, Brian Galvin, Elizabeth Nixon, Lina Zgaga, Bobby Smyth, Jo-Hanna Ivers, Noel D McCarthy, Predictors and outcomes of adolescent alcohol and drug use: a scoping review, European Journal of Public Health, European Public Health Conference, Lisbon, 11-15 November 2024, 34, (S3), Oxford Academic, 2024, ppiii232 - iii232, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  URL
Coughlan, S., Quigley, J., & Nixon, E., Assessing the Language Abilities of Preterm-Born Infants: An Examination of Standardised Testing and Language Sample Analysis., American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2024, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Quigley, J. & Nixon, E., Parent-toddler play talk: Toddler speech is differentially associated with paternal and maternal speech in interaction., First Language, 44, (1), 2024, p23-43 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
  

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Halpenny,Ann Marie; Nixon,Elizabeth; Watson,Dorothy, Parents' Perspectives on Parenting Styles and Disciplining Children, Dublin, Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, October, 2010, Report, PUBLISHED
Greene, S., Kelly, R., Nixon, E., Kelly, G., Borska, Z., Murphy, S., Daly, A., Whyte, J., Murphy, C., A Study of Intercountry Adoption Outcomes in Ireland , Dublin, The Adoption Board, 2007, 361, Report, PUBLISHED
Byrne, T., Nixon, E., Mayock, P., Whyte, J., Research Briefing - Free Time and Leisure Needs of Young People Living in Disadvantaged Communities. , Dublin, Children's Research Centre, TCD., 2006, Report, PUBLISHED
Cleary, A., Fitzgerald, M. & Nixon, E., From child to adult: A longitudinal study of Irish children and their families., Dublin, Department of Social & Family Affairs, 2004, 96, Report, PUBLISHED

  


Award Date
Best Research Article Finalist (2012) - One of my papers: Nixon, E. Greene, S. & Hogan, D.M. (2012, June). "Like an uncle but more, but less than a father"-Irish children's relationships with nonresident fathers. Journal of Family Psychology, 26(3), 381-390 was selected by the United States National Council of Family Relations Men in Families Group as a finalist for the 2012 "Best Research Article by a New Professional" award for research advancing scholarship on men in families. The Men in Families awards committee considered 30 articles from 2012 and this paper was judged to be one of the top three. 2012
British Psychological Society Annual Conference Poster Prize (2008) - I was awarded the Prize for Best Poster Presentation at the British Psychological Society Annual Conference (out of approximately 250 poster presentations). 2008