Sheila Greene is co-founder of the Children′s Research Centre (with Professor Robbie Gilligan). She has been actively involved in the Centre in various capacities since 1991 and became the Centre′s Director on 1st October 2004. Sheila graduated from Trinity in Psychology and Philosophy and trained as a clinical psychologist at the Institute of Psychiatry in London. She was the Head Psychologist on the Maternal and Infant Health Study at the Children′s Hospital in Boston and a staff member of Harvard Medical School before returning to the Psychology Department in Trinity as a lecturer. She has been involved in the establishment and direction of postgraduate courses in clinical and counselling psychology and women′s studies. She was elected to serve as Dean of Arts (Humanities) on two occasions and from August 2001 to July 2004 held the office of Senior Lecturer (chief academic officer) of the College. In March 2005 she was appointed to the AIB Chair in Childhood Research.

Research Interests:
Developmental psychology, parenting and parent-child relationships, research methods with children, developmental psychopathology.

PART ONE: CONCEPTUAL, METHODOLOGICAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES IN RESEARCHING CHILDRENS EXPERIENCE
Researching Childrens Experience - Sheila Greene and Malcolm Hill
Methods and Methodological Issues
Researching `The Child in Developmental Psychology - Diane Hogan
Researching Children and Childhood - Pia Christensen and Alan Prout
Sociological and Anthropological Perspectives
Ethical Considerations in Researching Childrens Experiences - Malcolm Hill
PART TWO: METHODS FOR CONDUCTING RESEARCH WITH CHILDREN
Naturalistic Observations of Children in Their Families - Judy Dunn
An Ecological Approach to Naturalistic Observations of Childrens Everyday Lives - Jonathan Tudge and Diane Hogan
Ethnographic Methods with Children and Young People - Ruth Emond
PART THREE: THE GENERATION AND ANALYSIS OF TEXT
Exploring Meaning through Interviews with Children - Helen Westcott and Karen Littleton
Interviewing Children Using an Interpretive Poetics - Annie Rogers
Analysing Childrens Accounts using Discourse-Analysis - Pam Alldred and Erica Burman
Narrative Analysis of Childrens Experience - Susan Engel
Phenomenological Approaches to Research with Children - Tom Danaher and Marc Briod
Exploring Childrens Views through Focus Groups - Eilis Hennessy and Caroline Heary
Creative Methodologies in Participatory Research with Children - Angela Veale