Profile
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My CV
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Education:
I went to school in my local town where I was born, in Belgium
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Qualifications:
MSc and PhD in Psychology
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Work History:
Helping out in the kitchen of a care home
Postdoctoral researcher
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Current Job:
Lecturer in Psychology
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About Me:
I live in Larbert, Scotland, with my husband and 3 dogs. I am a huge disney fan and love traveling.
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I was born in Belgium 🇧🇪 and lived there for most of my live. I left Belgium when I was 27 and have since then lived in a lot of different countries ☺️. I first moved to Canada 🇨🇦 , then Ireland 🇮🇪 and I now live in Larbert 🏴 with my husband and our 3 dogs 🐶 (see pictures below of the cuties). So as you can see I love traveling and discovering different countries! I am also a huge fan of all things Disney and have lost count how many times I have visited a Disney Park. We have visited Disneyland Paris and Walt Disney World but my favourite Disney park is in Japan! When I am not travelling I like to spend time walking my dogs, playing board games ♟ or crocheting 🧶 .
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In my work I am passionate to find better ways to deal with pain in children. This can be pain that is short in duration, from example when you get a needle or when you hurt yourself during playtime, or pain that lasts for a long time, for example because of you have a medical illness. To find better ways to deal with pain, I find it important to not only find out how children feel when they are in pain, but also how their parents, teachers, and friends feel and react when a child is in pain. We know from our research that the way in which others (such as parents, teachers and friends) act when a child is in pain can increase or reduce the child’s pain! So it is important that everyone knows how to react in a helpful manner to reduce child pain.
I do my research using a variety of ways such as
- asking children and parents to fill in questions about the pain and their reaction
- talking with children, parents, teachers and their friends to find out more details
- videotaping how children and parents react when children get a needle
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My Typical Day:
On a typical day I spend time on answering emails, teaching, reading up on the latest research and running a study or writing a report on the findings of a study. As you can see, I spend a lot of time behind a computer ☺️.
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What I do on each day tends to differ a bit from day to day but always includes answering emails. The rest of my day includes a variation of all the below:
- preparing the lessons for our psychology students and giving these lectures
- meeting with students to give them advice and feedback
- meeting with colleagues to discuss ongoing research or future research ideas about our research
- reading up on the latest research
- running a study
- writing up our latest findings to share with others
- writing applications to receive money for our next studies
- giving presentations on studies we’ve done.
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What I'd do with the prize money:
Together with children, I aim to create a fun way (for example a quiz) to teach parents about the most helpful response to their children when they are in pain.
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What question could we try to answer together?:
The main question I want to explore with the students is: How can your parents best help you when you are in pain?
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What do we already know about this area?:
We know from our own research that not all parents act in a way that is helpful for their child when they are in pain, and some parental responses can make the pain even worse. But we do not know yet how we can best teach parents to be more helpful when their child is in pain.
I’m excited to hear the students’ own stories on how their parents respond when they are in pain and how helpful they find this response.
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What do I need help with from students?:
I am looking forward to hear from the student’s own experiences with pain and how their parents have responded to their pain. With this project I want to find out more on1) which parental responses children find helpful and not helpful2) how children could tell their parents what was helpful or not helpful.Together we can develop and test a fun way (maybe something like a quiz?) to teach parents how to be helpful when their child is in pain. -
Why you should vote for this project::
I think it will be a lot of fun to share stories with each other and find the best way to teach parents how to help their children when they are in pain.
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My Interview
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How would you describe yourself in 3 words?
enthusiastic, caring and curious
What did you want to be after you left school?
a midwife
Were you ever in trouble at school?
Yes, I talked too much ☺️
Who is your favourite singer or band?
Vampire Weekend
What's your favourite food?
Pitta
If you had 3 wishes for yourself what would they be? - be honest!
1. never worry again 2. eliminate all chronic illnesses 3. make everyone in the world be kind to another
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