Dr Nikita Hayden
School of Education
Research Associate
n.hayden@sheffield.ac.uk
The Wave
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Dr Nikita Hayden
School of Education
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
Sheffield
S10 2AH
School of Education
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
Sheffield
S10 2AH
- Profile
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I am a Research Associate with iHuman and the School of Education at the University of Sheffield. I am working on the ESRC funded project 'Humanising Healthcare', where we are employing ethnographic methods, narrative interviews, and co-production to explore examples of humanising healthcare for people with learning disabilities.
- Research interests
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My research work to date has been situated in applied psychology, with a particular focus on families and siblings. My sibling research focuses on siblings of children and adults with learning and developmental disabilities. I am a volunteer Research Associate for the UK charity Sibs and am collaborating with colleagues from various disciplines to establish the Sibling Studies Network. I have experience of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research approaches.
- Publications
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Journal articles
- “I Would Not Change [My] Sibling for the World, Maybe the World Can Change for My Sibling”: The Experiences of Adult Siblings of People With Developmental Disabilities. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 34(6).
- A narrative review on analysing and reporting research conducted using Talking Mats®, an inclusive communication tool. Technology and Disability, 1-16.
- Sibling Relationship and Behavioral Adjustment in Families of Disabled Children: Cross-Lagged Associations. American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 129(1), 73-85.
- Behavioural adjustment of children with intellectual disability and their sibling is associated with their sibling relationship quality. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 67(4), 310-322.
- Subjective poverty moderates the association between carer status and psychological outcomes of adult siblings of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 53(3), 987-999.
- A realist review of programs for siblings of children who have an intellectual/developmental disability. Family Relations.
- A systematic review and narrative synthesis of mental imagery tasks in people with an intellectual disability: implications for psychological therapies. Clinical Psychology Review, 96.
- Access to and use of health and social care services for people with learning disabilities during COVID-19: a longitudinal study. Tizard Learning Disability Review: Practice, management, research and innovation, 27(1), 57-66.
- 1000 Families Study, a UK multiwave cohort investigating the well-being of families of children with intellectual disabilities: cohort profile. BMJ Open, 10(2).
- Supporting siblings of children with a special educational need or disability: An evaluation of Sibs Talk, a one‐to‐one intervention delivered by staff in mainstream schools. Support for Learning, 34(4), 404-420.
- Characters with autism spectrum disorder in fiction: where are the women and girls?. Advances in Autism, 5(1), 50-63.
- A Population-Based Study of the Behavioral and Emotional Adjustment of Older Siblings of Children with and without Intellectual Disability. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 47(8), 1409-1419.
- Transforming the community, transforming the self: young people, social action and community leadership. The Sheffield Student Journal for Sociology, 2.
- Failing ethnographies as post-qualitative possibilities: reflections from critical posthumanities and critical disability studies. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 1-24.
- Co‐producing ethics guidelines together with people with learning disabilities. British Journal of Learning Disabilities.
- Construct validity of the Lifespan Sibling Relationship Scale measuring adult sibling relationship quality where one sibling has intellectual or developmental disabilities. International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 1-9.
- Development and initial psychometric properties of the Warwick–Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale‐Intellectual Disability version. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research.
Chapters
- Working with siblings of autistic CYP, Improving Mental Health Therapies for Autistic Children and Young People (pp. 115-132). Routledge
- Family theories and siblings of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, International Review of Research in Developmental Disabilities (pp. 1-49). Elsevier
Conference proceedings papers
- PERSPECTIVES OF YOUNG PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES AND THEIR SIBLINGS ON THEIR SIBLING RELATIONSHIPS. JOURNAL OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY RESEARCH, Vol. 68(7) (pp 737-737)
- HUMANISING HEALTHCARE AND PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES: A CO-PRODUCED NARRATIVE STUDY. JOURNAL OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY RESEARCH, Vol. 68(7) (pp 815-815)
- PERSPECTIVES OF YOUNG PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES AND THEIR SIBLINGS ON THEIR SIBLING RELATIONSHIPS. JOURNAL OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY RESEARCH, Vol. 67(10) (pp 929-929)
Reports
- Adult siblings of people with intellectual disabilities and/or a diagnosis of autism: An evidence review
- Coronavirus and people with learning disabilities study Wave 3 Results: September 2023
- Special Educational Needs in Mainstream Schools: Evidence Review
- Research to understand successful approaches to supporting the most academically able disadvantaged pupils
Presentations
- Understanding the Experiences of Siblings of People with Disabilities Webcast Script: Webcast Script. Online.
- “I Would Not Change [My] Sibling for the World, Maybe the World Can Change for My Sibling”: The Experiences of Adult Siblings of People With Developmental Disabilities. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 34(6).
- Professional activities and memberships
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- Research Associate, School of Education and iHuman, University of Sheffield, Mar 2023 – present
- Honorary Research Fellow, CEDAR, University of Warwick, Apr 2023 – present
- Research Associate, Sibs Charity, Jan 2020 - present