Published Research and Studies

Published Research & Conference Proceeding

Study Reveals Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Young Children’s Mental Health in Jordan

We Love Reading Empowers Emirati Women: A New Study on Agency and Social Innovation

Exploring Factors Related to the Development and Implementation of a Local Intervention Program for Syrian Refugee Children

Effectiveness of a community-led shared book reading intervention in Syrian refugee children: a randomised controlled trial

Volunteer programs, empowerment, and life satisfaction in Jordan: mapping local knowledge and systems change to inform public policy and science diplomacy

Does volunteering impact refugee women’s life satisfaction, empowerment, and wellbeing? Experimental evidence, local knowledge, and causal reasoning.

Father Involvement and Child Development: A Prospective Study of Syrian Refugee Families

Social networks, empowerment, and wellbeing among Syrian refugee and Jordanian women: Implications for development and social inclusion

Facial emotion recognition in refugee children with a history of war trauma

From Readers to Changemakers: Reading Aloud to Develop Learners Who Love to Read – Childhood Education International

International Journal of Early Childhood

Predictors of Literacy and Attitudes Toward Reading Among Syrian Refugee Children in Jordan 2022.

War-related trauma linked to increased sustained attention to threat in children the COVID- 19 pandemic 2022.

international journal of social research methodolgy

Comparing online and in-person surveys: assessing a measure of resilience with Syrian refugee youth 2021.

Adrenocortical and psychosocial responses of families in Jordan to the COVID- 19 pandemic 2021.

The effects of a reading-based intervention on emotion processing in children who have suffered early adversity and war related trauma 2021.

Reading for pleasure among Jordanian children: a community-based reading intervention 2020.

The Value of the We Love Reading Program for Executive Functions In Jordanian Children (MIT Conference) 2020

Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society in San Francisco 2022 (Conference)

Exploring a newly developed measure to assess children’s interest in school in Jordan. Presented at the 63rd Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society in San Francisco 2019 (Conference).

Knowledge management in the development of ‘We Love Reading’ (Master Thesis) 2019.

Evaluation of the We Love Reading program 2017.

Impact Assessment We Love Reading 2017.