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Julia Badger

Departmental Lecturer of Child Development and Education | Harris Manchester College

julia.badger@education.ox.ac.uk

About me

Julia teaches and supervises on the MSc in Education and is involved in the Cognitive Development and Educational Attainment; Core Principles of Child Assessment, and the Foundation Learning and Wellbeing papers.

Before joining the Department of Education she worked in the Department of Experimental Psychology (2013-2023) and continues collaborations there, including co-leading the WISDOM (working in schools to deliver on mental health) Network: https://wisdom.mhid.org.uk.

Her research is concerned with child development, primarily peer relationships, bullying and mental health. She works with primary, secondary and special education schools across the UK and with children aged 4-18. She is also an advocate for public and community engagement, especially with school staff and parents.

Julia wants to support every child to achieve their potential in school.

Recently funded PI projects:

Feasibility trial of an anti-bullying programme for children in special schools.
Pupil interactions and networks in special schools.
Mental health in schools with diversity.
Special schools, mental health and bullying.
Teaching staff perspectives: Using VR to enhance PSHE learning.

Research

Conference papers

Unger, L., Kim, J., Huppert, T., Badger, J., & Fisher, A. (2016). The Role of the Prefrontal Cortex in Inductive Reasoning: An fNIRS Study. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2016, 199-204.

Journal articles

Thompson, P., Moody, G., Coulman, E., Owen-Jones, E., Patel, F., Gray, K., Hastings, R., Longman, A., Lugg-Widger, F., Segrott, J., Badger, J., Flynn, S., Langdon, P., & Playle, R. (2024). Correction: Statistical analysis plan for the SOLUTIONS randomised controlled trial with internal pilot: Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) in 10-17-year-olds presenting at police custody. Trials, 25(1), 675.

https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-024-08529-4
Thompson, P., Moody, G., Coulman, E., Owen-Jones, E., Patel, F., Gray, K., Hastings, R., Longman, A., Lugg-Widger, F., Segrott, J., Badger, J., Flynn, S., Langdon, P., & Playle, R. (2024). Statistical analysis plan for the SOLUTIONS randomised controlled trial with internal pilot: Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) in 10–17-year-olds presenting at policy custody. Trials, 25(1).

https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-024-08457-3 https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:69f69b84-8558-4b30-8721-a675b1bae20b
Norris, J., Tales, A., Badger, J., Cousins, A., & Richards, E. (2024). Autistic trait level and reaction time in older adults: the influence of sex and task upon study outcome. Autism in Adulthood.

https://doi.org/10.1089/aut.2023.0120 https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:eb8598a2-6ed0-4f8b-951f-202a7bf1b417
Badger, J., Holst, C., Thompson, P., Bowes, L., Hayes, R., Clarkson, S., Hutchings, J., & Hastings, R. (2024). Effects of educational disruption and changes in school context on children’s mental health: Associations with school level disadvantage and individual bullying involvement. British Educational Research Journal.

https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.4022
Badger, J., Nisar, A., & Hastings, R. (2024). School‐based anti‐bullying approaches for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities: a systematic review and synthesis. Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 24(3), 742-757.

https://doi.org/10.1111/1471-3802.12665 https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f672b6e9-7bb3-48e1-9608-6cc481d50902
Moody, G., Coulman, E., Crocker-White, E., Gray, K., Hastings, R., Longman, A., Lugg-Widger, F., Playle, R., Segrott, J., Thompson, P., Badger, J., Langdon, P., & Flynn, S. (2024). Solutions trial: Solution focused brief therapy (SFBT) in 10–17-year-olds presenting at police custody: a randomised controlled trial. Trials, 25(1).

https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-024-07904-5 https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:fb05b7b4-0dcc-4cf4-8927-4ddf36897cb0
Badger, J., Zaneva, M., Hastings, R., Broome, M., Hayes, R., Patterson, P., Rose, N., Clarkson, S., Hutchings, J., & Bowes, L. (2023). Associations between school-level disadvantaged, bullying involvement and children’s mental health. Children, 10(12).

https://doi.org/10.3390/children10121852 https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:77a254c0-1602-4222-a9f2-ca5b6cb1bb4f
Badger, J., Bowes, L., Salmivalli, C., & Hastings, R. (2023). Adapting an anti-bullying programme for UK special schools. Support for Learning, 38(4), 178-182.

https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9604.12457 https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:9379a72f-2b90-4522-b87e-f71dab870b8a
Badger, J., Rovira, A., Freeman, D., & Bowes, L. (2023). Developing a virtual reality environment for educational and therapeutic application to investigate psychological reactivity to bullying. Virtual Reality, 27(3), 2623-2632.

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10055-023-00829-5 https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:9116b728-e6ba-447d-ac81-b1f66cfb1409
Badger, J., Howarth, B., Svirko, E., & Mellanby, J. (2022). Underachievement at school relative to potential: links between reasoning, phonological decoding, short-term memory, and complex grammar. Educational Psychology, 42(8), 952-971.

https://doi.org/10.1080/01443410.2022.2115978 https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:c460eabe-0b69-40e8-b164-6b0da3c7f437
Clarkson, S., Bowes, L., Coulman, E., Broome, M., Cannings-John, R., Charles, J., Edwards, R., Ford, T., Hastings, R., Hayes, R., Patterson, P., Segrott, J., Townson, J., Watkins, R., Badger, J., & Hutchings, J. (2022). The UK stand together trial: protocol for a multicentre cluster randomised controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of KiVa to reduce bullying in primary schools. BMC Public Health, 22.

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-12642-x https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:844be5ee-15a9-44ab-868b-0456ac6fea50
Badger, J., Pascoe, E., Jagmetti, L., Baldwin, E., & Mellanby, J. (2020). The developmental trajectory of English conditional grammar in 4- to 11-year-old children. Journal of Child Language Acquisition and Development, 8(1), 1-21.

https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:cad78e96-40f7-443f-aebf-d484538dd0aa
Svirko, E., Gabbott, E., Badger, J., & Mellanby, J. (2019). Does acquisition of hypothetical conditional sentences contribute to understanding the principles of scientific enquiry?. Cognitive Development, 51(July–September 2019), 46-57.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2019.05.008 https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3f2d6620-88ea-439a-a0f0-80017ccc7113
Badger, J., & Shapiro, L. (2018). We’re going to the zoo: Interactive educational activities with animals boost category-based induction in children. Cognitive Development, 49, 1-10.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2018.10.003 https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:5074c6a2-70f4-48b7-a31c-342446788835
Badger, J., & Mellanby, J. (2018). Producing and understanding conditionals: When does it happen and why does it matter?. Journal of Child Language Acquisition and Development, 6(1), 21-41.

https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:da6502b9-d6ce-4b83-91dc-dda99dd60a34
Badger, J., & Mellanby, J. (2017). Revealing hidden talents: The development, use, and benefit of VESPARCH. British Journal of Educational Psychology.

https://doi.org/10.1111/bjep.12189 https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:dfc75625-f3e3-4ea2-8134-0dcadef83533
Bammens, A.-S., Adkins, T., & Badger, J. (2015). Psycho-educational intervention increases reflective functioning in foster and adoptive parents. Adoption & Fostering, 39(1), 38-50.

https://doi.org/10.1177/0308575914565069
Badger, J., & Shapiro, L. (2015). Category structure affects the developmental trajectory of children’s inductive inferences for both natural kinds and artefacts. Thinking and Reasoning, 21(2), 206-229.

https://doi.org/10.1080/13546783.2014.952338
Mulcahy, G., Badger, J., Wright, H., & Erskine, C. (2014). ‘What happened next’: a study of outcomes for maltreated children following care proceedings. Adoption & Fostering, 38(4), 314-330.

https://doi.org/10.1177/0308575914553362
Badger, J., & Shapiro, L. (2012). Evidence of a transition from perceptual to category induction in 3- to 9-year-old children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 113(1), 131-146.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2012.03.004
Badger, J., & Shapiro, L. (2010). Development of reasoning: Behavioral evidence to support reinforcement over cognitive control accounts. Cognitive Neuroscience, 1(2), 138-139.

https://doi.org/10.1080/17588921003786598
Badger, J., & Reddy, P. (2009). The effects of birth order on personality traits and feelings of academic sibling rivalry. Psychology Teaching Review, 15(1), 45-54.

https://doi.org/10.53841/bpsptr.2009.15.1.45 https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:a18925f6-9a9d-4a8c-a427-8f489e257cf0
Senior, C., Thomson, K., Badger, J., & Butler, M. (2007). Interviewing strategies in the face of beauty: A psychophysiological investigation into the job negotiation process. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1118, 142-162.

https://doi.org/10.1196/annals.1412.005