Dr Caitlyn Donaldson

BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD

2025

• Donaldson, C., Hawkins, J. and Moore, G. 2025. Individual and school environment predictors of mental health and wellbeing across the primary-to-secondary school transition. School Mental Health (10.1007/s12310-025-09776-9)
• Evans, R. et al. 2025. Peer support and community interventions targeting breastfeeding in the UK: Systematic review of qualitative evidence to identify inequities in participants’ experiences. Maternal and Child Nutrition, article number: e70041. (10.1111/mcn.70041)
• Donaldson, C., Morgan, K., Ouerghi, S., Lewis, J. and Moore, G. 2025. Associations of perceived school and year group climate with mental health among children aged 7-to-11 years. Child Indicators Research 18(2), pp. 885-904. (10.1007/s12187-024-10213-7)
• Donaldson, C., Hawkins, J., Rice, F. and Moore, G. 2025. Trajectories of mental health across the primary to secondary school transition. JCPP Advances 5(1), article number: e12244. (10.1002/jcv2.12244)

2024

• Moore, G., Donaldson, C., Querghi, S., Hawkins, J., Anthony, R., Angel, L. and Morgan, K. 2024. School and family level socioeconomic status, school connectedness and health and wellbeing among 9-11 year olds: cross sectional analysis of the Student Health and Wellbeing Survey in Wales. Child Indicators Research (10.1007/s12187-024-10179-6)
• Donaldson, C., Morgan, K., Page, N., Angel, L. and Moore, G. 2024. Mental health, bullying and school connectedness: a comparative analysis of school transition at age 11 from within the Welsh education system. British Educational Research Journal 50(3), pp. 1533-1555. (10.1002/berj.3985)

2023

• Donaldson, C., Moore, G. and Hawkins, J. 2023. Conceptualising the primary to secondary school transition within the theoretical framework of ecosocial theory. International Journal of Educational and Life Transitions 2(1), pp. 1-17., article number: 19. (10.5334/ijelt.61)
• Donaldson, C., Moore, G. and Hawkins, J. 2023. A systematic review of school transition interventions to improve mental health and wellbeing outcomes in children and young people. School Mental Health 15, pp. 19-35. (10.1007/s12310-022-09539-w)
• Littlecott, H. J. et al. 2023. Perceptions of friendship, peers and influence on adolescent smoking according to tobacco control context: A systematic review and meta-ethnography of qualitative research. BMC Public Health 23, article number: 424. (10.1186/s12889-022-14727-z)

2022

• Donaldson, C. 2022. Transition from primary to secondary school and young people’s mental health. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.