Dr Sinead Rhodes
Senior Research Fellow, SMC Research Centre
- Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences
- Child Life and Health, MRC Centre for Reproductive Health
- SMC Research Centre
Contact details
- Tel: 0131 536 0642
- Email: sinead.rhodes@ed.ac.uk
Qualifications
2008: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Dundee, Neuropsychopharmacology of ADHD
1996: Master of Letters, University College Dublin
1993: Bachelor of Arts, University College Dublin
Research summary
Sinéad is a developmental psychologist who is interested in the cognitive factors underlying behaviour and learning. Her research has principally focused on cognition, especially memory and associated executive functions, in children with neurodevelopmental disorders, including ADHD, ASD and Williams syndrome.
She also examines cognitive factors underlying mental health especially depression and anxiety, and is particularly interested in cognition and depression within the context of neurodevelopmental disorders.
Sinéad is extensively involved in public engagement activities: she is the founder of the Research the Headlines project and was awarded the 2017 Royal Society of Edinburgh Innovators Public Engagement Prize.
Sinead is an Emeritus member of the Young Academy of Scotland.
Research aims & areas of interest
- Executive functions in ADHD and Williams syndrome
- Cognitive predictors of mathematics and literacy in ADHD
- Effects of stimulant medication on cognition and behaviour in ADHD
- Tailored interventions to improve learning in ADHD
- Autobiographical memory, executive control and depression
- Cognitive factors underlying depression in ASD
- Social cognition in neurodevelopmental disorders
Research activities
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A prospective investigation of rumination and executive control in predicting overgeneral autobiographical memory in adolescence
In:
Memory and Cognition
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-017-0779-z
Contribution to journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Investigating the development of executive functions in adolescence
Contribution to conference › Poster (Published) -
A narrative synthesis of the applicability of the CaR-FA-X model in child and adolescent populations: A systematic review
In:
Memory
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2016.1275699
Contribution to journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Executive functions predict conceptual learning of science
In:
British journal of developmental psychology, vol. 34, no. 2
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/bjdp.12129
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
Checking behaviours, prospective memory and executive functions
(19 pages)
In:
Behaviour Change, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 74-92
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/bec.2015.1
Contribution to journal › Article (Published)