Dr Julie-Ann Jordan
Senior Researcher, NHSCT
Research Associate, Ulster University
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Julie-Ann has worked in the IMPACT Research Centre since 2019. In March 2022 she took up the role of Senior Researcher in the Forensic Managed Care Network (a post commissioned to the IMPACT Research Centre). Working across Health and Social Care services and Criminal Justice Agencies, the Forensic Managed Care Network aims to positively shape future service planning and delivery by, promoting collaboration, good practice examples, informing commissioners of priority areas of need and sharing learning and research to make evidence-based service improvements across the region. Her forensic research interests span several areas: prevention of offending; causes of offending; outcomes of offenders; co-morbidities of offenders (e.g. brain injury; learning disability); prevalence of mental health problems among offenders; understanding victims of crimes; and forensic staff wellbeing. In her regional role she facilitates research collaborations between universities and Forensic Services in Northern Ireland. Further, she offers research advice and practical hands on support to forensic staff seeking to engage in research. Julie-Ann is keen to further promote a culture of research within Forensic Services and is happy to assist staff in their research from the stage of idea formulation all the way through to dissemination. She is currently the principal investigator (alongside co-lead Theresa Ormandy from Extern) on a project funded by National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) [Programme Development Grants (NIHR207058); £116,477.96]. The project aims to develop a framework for conducting and prioritising research on the mental health and neurodiversity needs of those with offending histories or who are at risk of offending. For more information on the project click here: https://www.impactresearchcentre.co.uk/research-projects/psp/
In previous roles she worked as a Teaching Fellow in Statistics (2007-2009; Queen’s University Belfast), an Assistant Statistician (2009-2012; Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and then as a researcher (2012-2018; Queen’s University Belfast). In these roles she analysed large administrative and survey datasets, performed data linkage, used qualitative methods, and conducted complex quantitative analysis (e.g. multi-level modelling; latent class analysis; growth curve modelling). Recently she was the analytical lead on a project that linked the Psychological Therapies Service – Routine Outcome Measurement Database (PTS-ROMD) with hospital admission and prescription data. She is currently collaborating with Ulster University on a research programme focusing on awareness of and attitudes towards coercive control amongst the general public.
Selected publications
Jordan, J., Elliott, A., Mongan, D., & Dyer, K.F.W. (2024). Measuring the impact of therapy on medication use: A data linkage study. British Journal of Psychiatry, 224(1):13-19. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2023.130
McCartan, C.J., Roberts, J. Jordan, J-A. (2023). Centre-based early education interventions for improving school readiness: A systematic review. Cambell Syst Rev, 19(4):e1363. DOI: 10.1002/cl2.1363
Jordan, J-A., Shannon, C., McCarthy, T., Hannan, S., Kerrigan, K., Maguire, J., Carroll., E., Browne, D., Tully, M-A, Mulholland, C., & Dyer, K. (2023). Healthcare staff mental health trajectories during the COVID-19 pandemic: Findings from the COVID-19 Staff Wellbeing Survey. BJPsych Open, 9(4): e112. DOI: 10.1192/bjo.2023.497
Lagdon, S., Klencakova, L., Schubotz, D., Shannon, C., Tully, M.A., Armour, C., Jordan, J-A. (2023) Young People’s Understanding of Coercive Control in Northern Ireland. Journ Child Adol Trauma. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40653-022-00508-8
Potts, C., Bond, R., Jordan, J-A., Mulvenna, M., Dyer, K., Moorhead, A., Elliott, A. (2023). Process mining to discover patterns in patient outcomes in a Psychological Therapies Service. Health Care Management Science. doi: 10.1007/s10729-023-09641-8
Dyer, K.F.W., Shannon, C., McCann, L., Mitchell, S., Kerrigan, K., McClements, R., Kelly, C., & Jordan, J-A. (2022). Psychological support for healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed methods study involving support providers. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 13(2). DOI: 10.1080/20008066.2022.2151282
Lagdon, J-A., Jordan, J-A., Shannon, C., Tully, M.A., Armour, C., & Devine, P. (2022) Public understanding of coercive control. Journal of Family Violence.
Jordan, J-A., Shannon, C., Browne, D., Carroll., E., Maguire, J., Kerrigan, K., Hannan, S, McCarthy, T., Tully, M.A., Mulholland, K., & Dyer, K.F.W. (2021). The COVID-19 Staff Wellbeing Survey: a longitudinal survey of psychological wellbeing amongst health and social care staff in Northern Ireland during the COVID-19 pandemic. BJPsych Open. DOI: 10.1192/bjo.2021.988
Kelly, G., Jordan, J-A., & Higgins, K. (2021). Re-contacting participants from the longitudinal Belfast youth development study (BYDS) after a decade using electronic tracing. International Journal of Social Research Methodology. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2021.1943219
Rauch, R., & Jordan, J-A. (July, 2021). Staff involvement in Health and Social Care Teams: exploration using a 4-dimensional model. Clinical Psychology Forum.
Higgins, K., O’Neill, N., O’Hara, L., Jordan, J-A., McCann, M., O’Neill, T., Clarke, M., O’Neill, F., Kelly, G., & Campbell, A. (2021). New psychoactives within polydrug use trajectories – evidence from a mixed-method longitudinal study. Addiction, 116(9): 2454-2462. DOI: 10.1111/add.15422
Mullen, M. Hanna, D., Bradley, M., Rogers, D., Jordan, J-A., Dyer, K. (2020). Attentional bias in individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder: A preliminary eye-tracking study. Journal of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbct.2020.10.005
Higgins, K., Perra, O., Jordan, J-A., O’Neill, T., McCann, M. (2020). School bonding and ethos in the trajectories of offending. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 90(2):424-448. DOI: 10.1111/bjep.12303
Higgins K, O’Neill N, O’Hara L, Jordan J-A, McCann M, O’Neill T, et al. (2019). Evidence for public health on novel psychoactive substance use: a mixed-methods study. Public Health Research, 7(14). DOI: 10.3310/phr07140
McCann, M. , Jordan, J.-A., Higgins, K. and Moore, L. (2019) Longitudinal social network analysis of peer, family and school contextual influences on adolescent drinking frequency. Journal of Adolescent Health, (doi:10.1016/j.jadohealth.2019.03.004) (PMID:31196786) (Early Online Publication).
Jordan, J-A., McCann, M., Katikireddi, V., & Higgins, K. (2018). Harmonising alcohol consumption, sales and related outcomes across the UK and Ireland: An insurmountable barrier to policy evaluation? Drugs: Education, prevention and policy.
Higgins, K., Perra, O., McCartan, C., McCann, M., McLaughlin, A., Percy, A., Jordan, J-A., (2018). The Belfast Youth Development Study (BYDS): a prospective cohort study of the initiation, persistence and desistance of substance use from adolescence to adulthood in Northern Ireland. PLOS ONE.
Jordan, J.A., & Dyer, K. (2017). Psychological wellbeing trajectories of individuals with dyslexia aged 3-11 years. Dyslexia, 23(2), 161-180.
Dillenburger, K., Jordan, J-A., McKerr, L., Lloyd, K., & Schubotz, D. (2017). Autism awareness in children and young people: surveys of two populations. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research. 61(8), 766-77.
Jordan, J-A & Coulter, L. (2016). Individual differences in speech and language ability profiles in areas of high deprivation. Child Care in Practice, 1-14.
Dillenburger, K., Jordan, J-A., & McKerr, L. (2015). Creating and inclusive society. How close are we in relation to Autism Spectrum Disorder? A general population survey. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 28(4), 330-40.
Dillenburger, K., Jordan, J-A., McKerr, L., & Keenan, M. (2015). The Millennium child with autism: Early trajectories for health, education and economic wellbeing. Developmental Neurorehabilitation, 18, 1, 37-46.
Jordan, J. A., McGladdery, G. & Dyer, K. (2014). Dyslexia in higher education: Implications for statistics anxiety and psychological wellbeing, Dyslexia, 20 (3), 225-240.
Dillenburger, K., Jordan, J-A., & McKerr, L., Devine, P., & Keenan, M. (2013). Awareness and knowledge of autism and autism interventions: A general population survey. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 7, 1558-1567.
Jordan, J. A., McRorie, M. & Ewing, C. (2010). Gender differences in the role of emotional intelligence during the primary-secondary school transition. Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties.
Funding
Department of Justice. Review and rapid priority setting exercise of civil legal aid for cases of domestic abuse in Northern Ireland (Co-applicant, Funding awarded 2024, £6100).
NIHR Programme Development Grant. Developing Innovative, Inclusive and Diverse Public Partnerships call. A methodological framework for conducting and prioritising research on the mental health and learning disability needs of offenders (Lead Applicant, Funding awarded 2024, £116,477.96)
HSC R&D Division. The Belfast Youth Development Study (Co-applicant, Funding awarded 2024, £249,000 approx)
HSC R&D Research Fund. Early risk factors of trauma and substance misuse in young adulthood: A longitudinal cohort tracing study. (Co-lead investigator, Funding awarded 2024, £7500).
HSC R&D Research Fund. The usability of digital stories as a tool to help young people understand coercive control (Lead investigator, Funding awarded 2023, £5571.83).
MRC-PHIND. Healthy Young Adult Relationships (HYAR) (Co-Investigator, Funding awarded 2022, £150,000)
The Executive Office (NI) tender. Lived Experience Research – Violence Against Women in Northern Ireland (Co-Investigator, Funding awarded 2022, £30,000).
HSC R&D Research Fund. Predictors of public’s attitudes towards coercive control in LGBTQ and heterosexual relationships (Lead investigator, Funding awarded 2022, £5000).
HSC R&D Research Fund. Designing future interventions to educate young people about healthy relationships including how to recognise coercive control behaviours. (Lead investigator Funding awarded 2021; £3,500).
HSC R&D Division COVID-19 Funding call. Effectiveness of staff-wellbeing interventions in response to COVID-19 in Northern Ireland. (Shannon, Jordan, Dyer; 2020; £68,274).
HSC R&D Research Fund. Impact of psychological supports during the COVID-19 pandemic in NHSCT (Dyer, Jordan, Carroll, Kerrigan, McClements, Elliott & Shannon; 2020; £3834).
Public Health Agency. Understanding of coercive control and psychological abuse in Northern Ireland: A survey of young people and adults (Shannon, Jordan, Lagdon, Tully, Shorter, & Armour; 2019; £40,000).
HSC R & D Research Fund. The association between bullying victimisation and psychosis and the mediating role of peer and family support. (Shannon, Jordan, Higgins, Kelly & Mulholland; 2019; £3,000).
HSC R & D Research Fund. A path analysis of the childhood trauma-PTSD relationship and a Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (Dyer, Shannon, Jordan, Hanna, Curran, & Moore; 2019; £6,400).
HSC R & D Research Fund. Investigating loneliness in people with acquired brain injury in Northern Ireland: A qualitative study. (Rauch, Taylor, Pogue, Jordan, Pedlow & Duffy; 2019; £3,041).
HSC R & D Research Fund. Linking Psychological therapies data with hospital admissions, prescriptions and self-harm data (Dyer, Jordan, & Elliott; 2019; £4,560).
DARUG funding. Dementia data analytics project. Data analytics regarding dementia in people with a learning disability: developing the full picture in the Northern Health and Social Care Trust. (Bravey, Jordan et al., 2019; £62,000).
Match funding from HSC R & D Division and Faculty at Queen’s University Belfast. HSC R & D Division Opportunity-Led Commissioned Research. Tracing the longitudinal Belfast Youth Development Study cohort: A feasibility study. (Higgins & Jordan; 2018; £90,000).
Q-Step Teaching Dataset Competition (Higgins, Jordan & McLaughlin; 2018; £4,000)
Faculty Research Initiatives Fund. Maximising personal and public involvement in the design of future Belfast Youth Development Study sweeps. (Higgins & Jordan; 2017; £1,410).
HSC R & D Division Enabling Research Award to compare NI and RoI alcohol-related data (Higgins, Jordan, McCann, Leyland, Lewsey, McLaughlin, Campbell, Kee, & Katikireddi; 2016; £39,992)
Project ABLE Evaluation co-applicant (Dillenburger, Jordan, & McKerr; 2013; £5,998)
