Academic Interests
Dr Stella Choy has recently completed her PhD at the School of Education, Trinity College Dublin. She achieved her Master's degree from The University of Hong Kong when she explored ‘Play Therapy’ outcomes in 2008.
I am an active member of the research community in the School of Education, Trinity College Dublin and have co-authored a number of articles which have a particular focus on various aspects of wellbeing, inclusion, early intervention, autism, and play therapy.
"As long as a child is anxious, no real learning can happen." Goleman (1995) said in his book EQ.
Publication
Book on Amazon.ie
Systematic Literature Review on the available intervention for children with both anxiety and autism for the outcome of anxiety reduction
https://pub.analytrics.org/article/15/
Peer-review article
https://diamondopen.com/journals/index.php/ijce/article/view/38
Conference
Choy, W. -w. S., Mc Guckin, C., & Lynam, A. (2024). A novel school-based constructive play approach to enhance young children’s well-being: Insights from a 14 to 33 week investigation. European Conference on Educational Research (ECER): “Education in an Age of Uncertainty: memory and hope for the future”, The University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, 27th – 30th August, 2024. Abstracts not published.
Choy, W. -w. S., Lynam, A., & Mc Guckin, C. (2024). An innovative school-based constructive play approach for young children’s well-being: Evidence from a 14 to 33-week study. The Educational Studies Association of Ireland (ESAI) Annual Conference: Education For More Just Societies: The Roles of Imagination, Innovation and Collaboration. Maynooth University, County Kildare, Ireland, 4th – 6th April, 2024. Abstracts not published.
https://www.worldte.org/speaker/ms-stella-wai-wan-choy/
https://www.dpublication.com/abstract-of-3rd-worldte/18-80027/
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/education/special_issues/Autism_intervention
2021 Postgraduate Educational Research Conference
While working from home in 2021, I acted as a Co-Chair of the organising committee (5 ladies from around the world) for the 2021 Postgraduate Educational Research Conference in Trinity College Dublin. The conference was a great success with over 120 delegates from around the world! To open the conference we made a short video introducing ourselves and our research work. Please feel free to have a look!