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Dr. Elizabeth Nixon

Associate Professor (Psychology)
ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH

 enixon@tcd.ie

 3531896 2867


Biography

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.

Research Tags

  Adoption   CHILDREN'S EXPERIENCES   Developmental Psychology   Irish childhoods, change and diversity   PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS   PARENTING

Research Projects

 Parental Ethnotheories among Immigrant and Irish Parents of Infants in Ireland
 National Longitudinal Study of Children in Ireland - Growing up in Ireland
 Discourses of Masculinity, Sexual Responsibility and Fatherhood among Disadvantaged Young Men in Ireland
 Children's Perspectives on Parenting Styles & Discipline: A Developmental Perspective
 A National Survey of Parenting Styles in Ireland

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Representations

Details Date
Member of the Governing Council of the Psychological Society of Ireland 2008
Member of the Board of Professional Conduct, Psychological Society of Ireland 2008

Memberships

Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

Details Date From Date To
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
Sarah Coughlan, Jean Quigley, Elizabeth Nixon, The Synergistic Effects of Preterm Birth and Parent Gender on the Linguistic and Interactive Features of Parent"Infant Conversations, Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024, p1-14 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Ataman-Devrim, Merve, Quigley, Jean, Nixon, Elizabeth, Preterm toddlers" joint attention characteristics during dyadic interactions with their mothers and fathers compared to full-term toddlers at age 2 years, Infant Behavior and Development, 74, 2024, p101915 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Coughlan, S., Quigley, J., & Nixon, E., Parent-infant conversations are differentially associated with the development of Preterm- and Term-born infants, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 239, (105809), 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, 2023, p1-21 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Georgina Heffernan, Elizabeth Nixon, Experiences of Hearing Children of Deaf Parents in Ireland, Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 28, (4), 2023, p399-407 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Conica, M., Nixon, E., & Quigley, J. , Talk outside the box: Parents" decontextualised language during preschool years relates to child numeracy and literacy skills in middle childhood., Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 236, (105746), 2023, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Coughlan, S., Quigley, J., & Nixon, E, Preterm Birth and Expressive Language Development across the First 5 Years of Life: A Nationally-Representative Longitudinal Path Analysis. , Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 65, 2023, p417 - 427, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Conica, M., Kelly, L., Nixon, E., Quigley, J. , Father and Toddler Language During Shared Book Reading with Text"Based and Wordless Picture Books, Reading Research Quarterly, 2023, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Conica, M., Nixon, E. & Quigley, J., Interparental Relationship Satisfaction from Nine Months to Nine Years and Children"s Socioemotional Competencies at Nine Years, Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2023, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Del Rosario, C., Nixon, E., Quigley, J., Whitehouse, A. & Mayberry, M., Parent-child interaction and developmental outcomes in children with typical and elevated likelihood of autism., Infant Behaviour & Development. , 71, (101830), 2023, 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

  

Awards and Honours

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