Research Associate wins award for Outstanding Doctoral Research Contributions to Psychology 2025
A Research Associate from Manchester Met has received a prestigious award for Outstanding Doctoral Research Contributions to Psychology 2025 from The British Psychological Society (BPS) for her research into emotion dysregulation in middle childhood.
Dr Evelyn Mary-Ann Antony, who joined Manchester Met in October 2025 as a Research Associate in the School of Psychology after completing her PhD in Education at Durham University, received the prestigious award which celebrates outstanding doctoral research in the UK that demonstrates significance, rigour and originality.
The award recognises her award-winning research, which she undertook during her PhD at Durham University, exploring how to reconceptualise emotion dysregulation – difficulty in regulating emotions – in middle childhood (ages 6-12 years), a period that is often viewed as the forgotten years.
Dr Antony said: “I feel very privileged and honoured to have won the award, especially in an area of research that is often overlooked. It’s rewarding to see research on middle childhood and emotion dysregulation gaining recognition and I’m hoping more researchers will see the importance of this area of work.”
Jonathan Hill, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Manchester Met, said: “This award is a great tribute to the innovative and rigorous work that Evelyn conducted for her PhD. We are very pleased that she has joined our team here at Manchester Met.”
She worked with datasets from the UK Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) and the Zurich Project on Social Development from Childhood to Adulthood (z-proso) to examine the associations between emotion dysregulation, parenting practices, and ADHD symptoms.
Her research was published in JCPP Advances, a journal from the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health and she was interviewed by BBC Future about her research.
Since joining Manchester Met, Dr Antony is continuing to focus her research on child and adolescent mental health. She is currently working with data from the Wirral Child Health and Development Study, a birth cohort now following young people through adolescence led by Manchester Met.
