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Teaching & Research Supervision

• Family diversity, child development, risk and resilience across the lifespan:
• Military and veteran families: family dynamics, risk and resilience
• Children growing up in military and veteran families
• Military trauma and its effects on family relationships
• Fathering in Military fathers and their children

Parenting in adverse circumstances

• Parenting with trauma
• Child abuse and neglect
• Children and domestic violence
• Children caring for a parent suffering from mental health

Substitute parental care

• Adoption, foster care, residential/institutional care, looked after children, orphan children

New forms of family formation

• Intercountry adoption
• Global surrogacy
• LGBTQ parenting

PhD supervision – recent examples

• A psychosocial exploration of family: meaning and shared experience
• The effect of a transitionary lifestyle on Service children’s social and emotional development
• Supporting parents of adolescents with autism growing up in a military family
• The journey of international adoption from Romania. A narrative study.

Dr Misca welcomes enquiring regarding PhD supervision in the above areas

Research Projects

For up to date information see:

• Misca, G (PI) in partnership with (2020-2021), Griffith University and Relationship Australia - Families Un-locked: Relationships Emerging from COVID-19 into the “New Normal”
• Misca, G. (PI) in collaboration with Farrell, D. (2020) - The Use of Eye-Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy in Treating Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in Military and Veterans; Funded by College of Business, Psychology and Sport Research Support Fund (RSF), ÃÛÌÒÖ±²¥
• Misca, G (PI) in collaboration with the Center of Excellence for Research on Returning War Veterans, TX, USA (2019-ongoing) Interventions to support parenting in military connected families: an international evidence review
• Sarbu, R. (PI), Misca, G. (Co-PI) and Unwin. P. (2019-ongoing) – Moral injury in social work professional practice: a scoping study, Funded by the School of Allied Health and Community Research Fund, ÃÛÌÒÖ±²¥
• Misca, G. (PI) (2015-16) - Parenting under fire: cross-cultural examination of child maltreatment in military families, Fulbright Scholar Award (10-months); funded by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
• Misca, G. (PI) (2014-15) An exploration of military ex-service and veterans experiences of mental health services and the support needs of their families, Funded by the NHS Foundation Trust
• Scherman, R. and Misca, G. (Principal Co-I) (2013-16) - Professionals attitudes toward placing adoptive children with gay/lesbian couples: A cross-national study, Funded by Contestable Small Project Grant awarded by the AUT University, New Zealand
• Misca, G. (PI) (2012) Same-gender couples choosing parenthood through adoption and fostering: a scoping study, Funded by Vacation Research Assistantship, ÃÛÌÒÖ±²¥
• Misca, G. (PI) (2004-2005) - Romanian orphans: A follow-up study, Post-doctoral Fellowship funded by ESRC (UK Economic and Social Research Council)

Professional Experience

Visiting Research Fellowships

• 2019-2022: King’s Centre for Military Health Research at Kings College London 
• 2015-17: Center of Excellence for Children, Families and the Law, William James College, Boston, USA
• 2016: Center for Children, Families, and the Law, Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, USA

Professional bodies

• Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (AFBPsS)
• Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol)
• American Psychological Association (APA) International Affiliate
• The Science Council: Chartered Scientist (CSci)
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)

Funding and Manuscript Reviews

Competitive Research Proposals and Grant Reports for:

• UKRI and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
• NSPCC
• Big Lottery Fund Research Program;
• UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
• US-UK Fulbright Commission

Proposals and manuscripts reviews and endorsements for: Routledge, SAGE, McGraw Hill, Palgrave, Polity, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Journal peer reviews and editorial appointments

See:

Publications

For up to date list of publication and access to full text go to:

Media and Public Engagement

International

• Podcast: “Dr. Gabriela Misca on Children in Military Families” - Rutgers Center on Violence Against Women and Children, NJ, USA (6 July 2016)
• (23 July 2015) Newton Patch, Massachusetts, USA
• (1 Nov 2017) The Worcester Sun, MA, USA
• , Radio New Zealand National: Nine To Noon (10 April 2014) Wellington, New Zealand.
• Webcast “I’m adopted” - Leading a group discussion of adult adoptees on their experiences of growing up adopted. Live webcast (12 Jan 2016, Auckland, NZ)

Regional & National

• 21 May 2019   A Pint of Science Festival (Worcester UK) Parenting in the Military Family (public lecture, co-presenter Prof M Nolan).
• 23 Oct 2018    (Worcester, UK) Parenting Under 5-Year Olds in Military Families: Risk and Resilience (public lecture, co-presenter Prof M Nolan)
• All Party Parliamentary Group for Strengthening Couple Relationships, Palace of Westminster, London (21 May 2018) invited talk on Strengthening couple relationships in military and veteran families
• (31 December 2018) Worcester News and key regional newspapers (UK).
• (15 Feb 2017) Worcester News and key regional newspapers (UK)
• Worcester Psychologist Wins Renowned Fulbright Award for Research into Children and Military Families (11 May 2015) Featured story in key UK regional newspapers
• (12 November 2015) Worcester News 
• ÃÛÌÒÖ±²¥ Psychologist to Join the International Forum on Intercountry Adoption and Global Surrogacy at The Hague (24 June 2014)
• Worcester Lecturer to Co-Lead Major Adoption Study (15 October 2013)
• Mentees featured in the media:
• (13 January 2015)
• (17 Sept 2014)
• Career Feature:
• , The Psychologist, March 2017.