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Overview

Jane Hurry is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences and psychology, with significant contributions in education and developmental and educational psychology.

Their recent publications address topics in reading and literacy development, parental involvement in education, early childhood education and development, youth substance use and school attendance, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, youth education and societal dynamics, and education systems and policy.

Selected recent papers by Jane Hurry include:

  • Understanding and Reducing NEET: Perspectives of Schoolteachers and Career Advice Service Providers (2023), published in Youth
  • Reading intervention at age 6: Long-term effects of Reading Recovery in the UK on qualifications and support at age 16 (2021), published in British Educational Research Journal
  • The Effects of Choice on the Reading Comprehension and Enjoyment of Children with Severe Inattention and no Attentional Difficulties (2021), published in Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
  • The effects of manipulating choice on children's enjoyment and performance in a reading task (2025), published in Current Psychology
  • Longitudinal association of conduct and emotional problems with school exclusion and truancy: A fixed effect analysis of the UK Millennium Cohort Study (2023), published in Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Jane Hurry has collaborated frequently with the following co-authors:

  • Andrew Holliman
  • Myrofora Kakoulidou
  • Lisa Fridkin
  • Aase Villadsen
  • John Evans

Their work has appeared in multiple publication venues, including:

  • Youth
  • Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
  • Current Psychology
  • British Educational Research Journal
  • Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Jane Hurry's research spans social sciences and psychology, with an emphasis on education-related fields:

  • Social Sciences
  • Psychology

Within these broader fields, their subfields of study include:

  • Education
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • General Health Professions
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Sociology and Political Science

The main topics explored in their research cover:

  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Parental Involvement in Education
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Youth Substance Use and School Attendance
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
  • Education Systems and Policy

Best Publications

  • The List of Threatening Experiences: a subset of 12 life event categories with considerable long-term contextual threat.

    Traolach S. Brugha;Paul E. Bebbington;Christopher Tennant;Jane Hurry

  • Epidemiology of mental disorders in Camberwell

    Paul Bebbington;Jane Hurry;Christopher Tennant;Elizabeth Sturt

  • Adolescents choosing self-harm as an emotion regulation strategy: the protective role of trait emotional intelligence.

    Moïra Mikolajczak;K. V. Petrides;Jane Hurry

  • Basic calculation proficiency and mathematics achievement in elementary school children.

    Richard Cowan;Chris Donlan;Donna-Lynn Shepherd;Rachel Cole-Fletcher

  • PARENTAL DEATH IN CHILDHOOD AND RISK OF ADULT DEPRESSIVE-DISORDERS - A REVIEW

    Christopher Tennant;Paul E. Bebbington;Jane Hurry

  • The role of life events in depressive illness: is there a substantial causal relation?

    Christopher Tennant;Paul Bebbington;Jane Hurry

  • Teachers' use of questioning and modelling comprehension skills in primary classrooms

    Mary Parker;Jane Hurry

  • Misfortune and resilience: A community study of women.

    P. E. Bebbington;Elizabeth Sturt;C. Tennant;Jane Hurry

  • Psychiatric disorders in selected immigrant groups in Camberwell.

    Paul Bebbington;Jane Hurry;C Tennant

  • Adversity and the nature of psychiatric disorder in the community.

    P.E. Bebbington;C. Tennant;J. Hurry

  • Long-Term Outcomes of Early Reading Intervention.

    Jane Hurry;Kathy Sylva

  • Objective confirmation of crying durations in infants referred for excessive crying.

    I. Saint James-Roberts;J. Hurry;J. Bowyer

  • The contextual threat of life events: the concept and its reliability

    Christopher Tennant;Alan Smith;Paul Bebbington;Jane Hurry

  • The short-term outcome of neurotic disorders in the community: the relation of remission to clinical factors and to "neutralizing' life events.

    Christopher Tennant;Paul Bebbington;Jane Hurry

  • The relation of childhood separation experiences to adult depressive and anxiety states.

    Christopher Tennant;Jane Hurry;Paul Bebbington

  • Deliberate self-harm in children and adolescents

    Jane Hurry

  • Parental Loss in Childhood: Relationship to Adult Psychiatric Impairment and Contact With Psychiatric Services

    Christopher Tennant;Alan Smith;Paul Bebbington;Jane Hurry

  • Supplementary carrying compared with advice to increase responsive parenting as interventions to prevent persistent infant crying.

    Ian St. James-Roberts;Jane Hurry;Josephine Bowyer;Ronald G. Barr

  • Counselling the relatives of the long-term adult mentally ill. I. Evaluation of the impact on relatives and patients.

    Brigid MacCarthy;Liz Kuipers;Jane Hurry;Rod Harper

  • Political, religious and occupational identities in context: placing identity status paradigm in context.

    Olga Solomontos-Kountouri;Jane Hurry

  • CONTEXTUAL THREAT OF LIFE EVENTS - CONCEPT AND ITS RELIABILITY

    C Tennant;A Smith;P Bebbington;J Hurry

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher Tennant
Christopher Tennant University of Sydney
Kathy Sylva
Kathy Sylva University of Oxford
Peter Bryant
Peter Bryant University of Oxford
Eirini Flouri
Eirini Flouri University College London
Konstantinos V. Petrides
Konstantinos V. Petrides University College London
Julie E. Dockrell
Julie E. Dockrell University College London
Moïra Mikolajczak
Moïra Mikolajczak Université Catholique de Louvain

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