Dr Sarah Ball
Dr Emma Madden
I joined the CIDDRG in May, 2009. Before this, I was at the University of Ulster at Coleraine, where I completed my Ph.D. In my thesis I used qualitative perspective within a quantitative framework to examine retrospective accounts, and the perceived long-term consequences, of being bullied at school. Before this, I gained an Honours degree in Social Psychology, also from the University of Ulster at Coleraine, and a Diploma in Industrial Studies, awarded following a research placement based in the School of Nursing, University of Ulster at Jordanstown. During this placement, I was involved in several projects relating to people with intellectual disabilities, including investigations of their careers experiences, the prevalence of intellectual disabilities in Northern Ireland, current day service provision, future housing needs, and parental reactions to mainstream education and the statementing process for pupils with special educational needs. I am now working with Professor Tony Holland and Dr Isabel Clare as a Research Associate on the Adult Theme of the NIHR’s CLAHRC for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.
Dr Merel Pannebakker
I joined the CIDDRG in May 2009, to work with Marcus Redley and Tony Holland, and others, on an MRC-funded project (http://www.mrc.ac.uk/Fundingopportunities/Closedcalls/LLHW/index.htm), investigating the lifelong health and wellbeing of adults with neurodevelopmental disorders associated with intellectual disabilities. Our aim is to examine whether disorder-specific information can be used in later life to improve the wellbeing of men and women with intellectual disabilities. Before joining the CIDDRG, I carried out the empirical work for a Ph.D. at the Cognitive Psychology Unit at Leiden University (http://www.socialsciences.leiden.edu/psychology/organisation/cognitivepsychology/), where I was supervised by Bernhard Hommel, Guido Band & Richard Ridderinkhof. In the project I used behavioural and EEG techniques to investigate the limitations of dual-task performance. When two tasks are being performed at the same time, the response to both tasks is slower than it is when only one task is being carried out, which is a consequence of the limited capacity of working memory. I found that the extent of the delay in responding depends not only on the difficulty of the tasks but also on the compatibility of the activated processes involved.
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