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Overview

Martyn Barrett is affiliated with the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the Social Sciences and Psychology, with a particular focus on Education, Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Literature and Literary Theory, as well as Political Science and International Relations.

Their work covers a range of topics including Higher Education Learning Practices, Second Language Learning and Teaching, COVID-19 and Mental Health, Global Education and Multiculturalism, Youth Development and Social Support, Cultural Differences and Values, and Early Childhood Education and Development.

Barrett has published in several academic journals, including:

  • London Review of Education
  • Intercultural Communication Education
  • Journal of Community Psychology
  • Stress and Health
  • European Journal of Developmental Psychology

Notable papers authored or co-authored by Barrett include:

  • The Council of Europe's Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture: Policy context, content and impact (2020, London Review of Education)
  • Errors by Simpson and Dervin (2019) in their description of the council of Europe's reference framework of competences for democratic culture (2020, Intercultural Communication Education)
  • Aligning personal and collective interests in emerging adults during the COVID-19 emergency in Italy (2021, Journal of Community Psychology)
  • Can we increase children's rights endorsement and knowledge?: A pilot study based on the reference framework of competences for democratic culture (2022, European Journal of Developmental Psychology)
  • The role of late adolescents' emotion regulation in the experience of COVID-19 lockdown: A longitudinal study (2024, Stress and Health)

Frequent collaborators include Sonia Ingoglia, Cristiano Inguglia, Harriet R. Tenenbaum, Nora Wiium, and Francesca Liga.

Best Publications

  • Early Lexical Development and Maternal Speech: A Comparison of Children's Initial and Subsequent Uses of Words.

    Martyn Barrett;Margaret Harris;Joan Chasin

  • Children's Knowledge, Beliefs and Feelings about Nations and National Groups

    Martyn D. Barrett

  • Early Lexical Development

    Martyn Barrett

  • Political and Civic Engagement and Participation: Towards an Integrative Perspective

    Martyn Barrett;Ian Brunton-Smith

  • Early Semantic Representations and Early Word-Usage

    Martyn D. Barrett

  • Children's subjective identification with the group and in-group favoritism.

    Mark Bennett;Evanthia Lyons;Fabio Sani;Martyn Barrett

  • Linguistic input and early word meaning.

    Margaret Harris;Martyn Barrett;David Jones;Susan Brookes

  • Children's colour choices for completing drawings of affectively characterised topics

    Esther Burkitt;Martyn Barrett;Alyson Davis

  • Young children's evaluations of the ingroup and of outgroups: A multi -national study

    Mark Bennett;Martyn Barrett;Rauf Karakozov;Giorgi Kipiani

  • Images of European people in a group of 5–10‐year‐old English schoolchildren

    Martyn Barrett;Janis Short

  • Lexical development and overextension in child language

    Martyn D. Barrett

  • The relationship between children's geographical knowledge and travel experience: an exploratory study

    Yaniv Poria;Naama Atzaba-Poria;Martyn Barrett

  • The Development of Word Meaning

    Stan A. Kuczaj;Martyn D. Barrett

  • Children's single-word speech

    Martyn D. Barrett

  • The development of national in-group bias: English children's attributions of characteristics to English, American and German people

    Martyn Barrett;Hannah Wilson;Evanthia Lyons

  • How Schools Can Promote the Intercultural Competence of Young People

    Martyn Barrett

  • SYMBOLISM AND INTELLECTUAL REALISM IN CHILDREN'S DRAWINGS

    M. D. Barrett;P. H. Light

  • Children's understanding of society

    Martyn D. Barrett;Eithne Buchanan-Barrow

  • The effect of affective characterizations on the size of children's drawings

    Esther Burkitt;Martyn Barrett;Alyson Davis

  • Findings, theories and methods in the study of children's national identifications and national attitudes

    Martyn Barrett;Louis Oppenheimer

  • National identifications and attitudes to national ingroups and outgroups amongst children living in the Basque country

    Luixa Reizábal;Jose Valencia;Martyn Barrett

Frequent Co-Authors

David T. Jones
David T. Jones University College London
Rosario Ortega-Ruiz
Rosario Ortega-Ruiz University of Córdoba
Alison Pike
Alison Pike University of Sussex
Luigi Castelli
Luigi Castelli University of Padua
Orla T. Muldoon
Orla T. Muldoon University of Limerick
Fabio Sani
Fabio Sani University of Dundee
Teresa Farroni
Teresa Farroni University of Padua
Daniel Bar-Tal
Daniel Bar-Tal Tel Aviv University

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