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Dr James Hall

Deputy Director

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Email: j.e.hall@soton.ac.uk


Centre activities

  • NCRM impact (strategy, activities, reporting)
  • Strategic role in supporting the core responsibilities of NCRM, in supporting the delivery of training and sharing of good research methods practice
  • Identification of emerging research methods training needs
  • Ensuring the Centre responds with agility, flexibility and proactivity to the changing training landscape
  • Provision of experience and knowledge in area of research methods expertise

Research interests

  • Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC)
  • Educational Effectiveness and Equity
  • Developmental Psychopathology
  • Psychology of Education
  • Structural Equation Modelling (SEM)

Recent publications

  • Hall, J. (in press). Airbag Moderation: Definition, explanation, and real-world examples [Video]. Sage Research Methods
  • Hall, J. (in press). How to statistically test hypotheses of Airbag Moderation [Video]. Sage Research Methods.
  • Carr, H.R., Brandt, V.C., & Hall, J. (2023). Linked head injury and conduct problem symptom pathways from early childhood to adolescence and their associated risks: Evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study. Development and Psychopathology. DOI: 10.1017/S0954579423001062
  • Carr, H.R., Hall, J., Eisenbarth, H., & Brandt, V.C., (2023). The bidirectional relationship between head injuries and conduct problems: Longitudinal modelling of a population-based birth cohort study. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 10.1007/s00787-023-02175-y
  • Junker, J., Hall, J., Berman, B.D., Vidailhet, M., Roze, E., Baeumer, T., Malaty, I.A., Shukla, A.W., Jankovic, J., Reich, S.G., Espay, A.J., Duque, K.R., Patel, N., Perlmutter, J.S., Jinnah, H.A., Dystonia Coalition Study Group, Brandt, V., Bruegemann, N. (2023). Longitudinal predictors of health-related quality of life in isolated dystonia. Journal of Neurology. DOI: 10.1007/s00415-023-12022-4
  • Brandt, V., Hall, C., Eisenbarth, H., Hall, J. (2022). Mutual relationships between head injury and conduct problems in children aged 9 months to 14 years in the UK Millennium Cohort Study. medRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2022.01.09.22268970
  • Sammons, P., Sylva, K., Hall, J., Evangelou, M. & Smees, R. (2022). Challenges facing interventions to promote equity in the early years: Exploring the ‘impact’, legacy and lessons learned from a national Evaluation of Children’s Centres in England. Oxford Review of Education, 49(1), 114-135. DOI: 10.1080/03054985.2022.2125371
  • Hall, J., Allan, A., Tomlinson, M., Kelly, A., & Lindorff, A (2021). Negative Capital: A generalised definition and application to educational effectiveness and equity. Oxford Review of Education, 47(3), 316-334. DOI: 10.1080/03054985.2020.1835626
  • Hall, J., Sylva, K., Sammons, P., Smees, R., Evangelou, M., Smith, T., & Goff, J. (2021). Investigating the reliability and validity of the Toddler Home Learning Environment (THLE) scale. Frontiers in Education: Assessment, Testing, and Applied Measurement, 6(581005), 222. DOI: 10.1080/03054985.2020.1835626
  • Junker, J., Berman, B.D., Hall, J., Wahba, D., Brandt, V., Perlmutter, J.S., Jankovic, J., Malaty, I.A., Shukla, A.W., Reich, S.G., Espay, A.J., Duque, K.R., Patel, N., Roze, E., Vidailhet, M., Jinnah, H.A., Bruegemann, N. (2021). Quality of life in isolated dystonia: Non-motor manifestations matter. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, 92(6), 622-628. DOI: 10.1136/jnnp-2020-325193
  • Hall, J., Lindorff, A., & Sammons, P. (Eds.). (2020). International perspectives in educational effectiveness research. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-44810-3
  • Hall, J., & Malmberg, L-E. (2020).The contribution of Multilevel Structural Equation Modelling to contemporary trends in educational research. International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 43(4), 339-347. DOI: 10.1080/1743727X.2020.1796066
  • Hall, J., Malmberg, L-E., Lindorff, A., Baumann, N., & Sammons, P. (2020). Airbag Moderation: The definition and implementation of a new methodological model. International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 43(4), 379-394. DOI: 10.1080/1743727X.2020.1735334
  • Hall, J., Sammons, P., & Lindorff, A. (2020). Continuing towards international perspectives in Educational Effectiveness Research. In J. Hall, A. Lindorff, & P. Sammons. (Eds.). International perspectives in educational effectiveness research. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-44810-3
  • Lindorff, A., Sammons, P., & Hall, J. (2020). International perspectives in educational effectiveness research: A historical overview. In J. Hall, A. Lindorff, & P. Sammons. (Eds.). International perspectives in educational effectiveness research. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-44810-3_2
  • Hall, J., Khalil, L., Kelly, A., & Galbraith, D. (2019). An upstream evaluation of the prototype coaching e-books that will form part of Oxford Reading Buddy: Findings from a Mixed Methods Randomized Control Trial. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press
  • Hall, J., & Kreppner, J. (2019). Editorial: How can education better support the mental health & wellbeing of young people? Contributions from developmental psychopathology & educational effectiveness research. Frontiers in Educational Psychology, 4(93). DOI: 10.3389/feduc.2019.00093
  • Hall, J., & Kreppner, J. (Eds.). (2019). How can education better support the mental health & wellbeing of young people? Contributions from developmental psychopathology & educational effectiveness research. Lausanne, Switzerland: Frontiers Media. DOI: 10.3389/978-2-88963-146-9
  • Hall, J., Sammons, P., Smees, R., Sylva, K., Evangelou, M., Goff, J., Smith, T., & Smith, G. (2019). Relationships between families’ use of Sure Start Children’s Centres, changes in home learning environments, and preschool behavioural disorders. Oxford Review of Education, 45(3), 367-389. DOI: 10.1080/03054985.2018.1551195
  • Herrero Romero, R., Hall, J., Cluver, L., & Meinck, F. (2019). Exposure to violence, teacher support and school delay amongst adolescents in South Africa. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 89(1), 1-21. DOI: 10.1111/bjep.12212
  • Lindorff, A., Hall, J., & Sammons, P. (2019). Investigating a Singapore-based mathematics textbook and teaching approach in classrooms in England. Frontiers in STEM Education. DOI: 10.3389/feduc.2019.00037
  • Zha, M., & Hall, J. (2019). Understanding adolescent mathematical progress in China: Significant impacts from socioeconomic status and the academic expectations of primary caregivers. Learning and Instruction, 64, 101224. DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc. 2019.101224
  • Herrero Romero, R., Cluver, L., Hall, J., & Steinert, J.I. (2018). Socioeconomically disadvantaged adolescents and educational delay in South Africa: Impacts of personal, family and school characteristics. Education as Change, 22(1). DOI: 10.25159/1947-9417/2308
  • Herrero Romero, R., Hall, J., Cluver, L., Meinck, F., & Hinde, E. (2018). How does exposure to violence affect school delay and academic motivation for adolescents living in socioeconomically disadvantaged communities in South Africa? Journal of Interpersonal Violence. DOI: 10.1177/0886260518779597
  • Smith, G., Sylva, K., Smith, T., Sammons, P., & Hall, J. (2018). Counting numbers of Children’s Centres in the most disadvantaged areas in England and assessing their impact. Evidence submitted to the evidence-based early-years intervention inquiry of the Science and Technology Select Committee HC (2017-18). London, UK: The Stationary Office
  • Crampton, A., & Hall, J. (2017). Unpacking socioeconomic risks for reading and academic self-concept in primary school: Differential effects and the role of the preschool home learning environment. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 87(3), 365-382. DOI: 10.1111/bjep.12154
  • Hall, J., & Lindorff, A. (2017). Children’s transition to school: Relationships between preschool attendance, cortisol patterns, and effortful control. The Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 34(1), 1-18. DOI: 10.1017/edp.2017.3
  • Herrero Romero, R., Hall, J., Cluver, L., & Meinck, F. (2017). Can supportive parenting protect against school delay amongst violence-exposed adolescents in South Africa? Child Abuse & Neglect, 78, 31-45. DOI: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2017.09.025
  • Sammons, P., Sylva, K., Hall, J., Siraj, I., Melhuish, E., Taggart, B., & Mathers, S. (2017). Establishing the effects of quality in early childhood: Comparing evidence from England. Occasional Paper, March 2017. London, UK: Early Education
  • Winsper, C., Hall, J., Strauss, V.Y., & Wolke, D. (2017). Aetiological pathways to Borderline Personality Disorder symptoms in early adolescence: Childhood dysregulated behaviour, maladaptive parenting and bully victimisation. Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation, 4(10). DOI: 10.1186/s40479-017-0060-x
  • Chiorri, C., Hall, J., Casely-Heyford, J., & Malmberg, L-E. (2016). Evaluating measurement invariance between parents using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) Assessment, 23(1), 63-74. DOI: 10.1177/1073191114568301
  • Evangelou, M., Goff, J., Sylva, K., Sammons, P., Smith, T., Hall, J., & Eisenstadt, N. (2016). Children’s Centres: an English intervention for families living in disadvantaged communities. In Cabrera, N.J. & Leyendecker, B. (Eds.) Handbook on Positive Development of Minority Children and Youth. Pp. 455-470. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-43645-6_27
  • Hall, J., Lindorff, A., & Sammons, P. (2016). Evaluation of the impact and implementation of Inspire Maths in year 1 classrooms in England: Research Report. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
  • Hall, J., Sammons, P., Sylva, K., Evangelou, M., Eisenstadt, N., Smith, T., & Smith, G. (2016). Disadvantaged families are at greatest risk from austerity cuts to Children’s Centres. British Medical Journal, 352:i897. DOI: 10.1136/bmj.i897