Dr Karen Orr is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Research in Educational Underachievement at Stranmillis University College. Karen has worked across a range of research centres since graduating with a PhD in Psychology from QUB in 2011. Karen’s research interests span several disciplines across psychology, education, and children’s rights, with a particular interest in: educational disadvantage and underachievement; improving children’s and community’s outcomes; children’s wellbeing, both in school and the wider community; the psychological factors related to wellbeing and social and emotional learning (including for example, self-efficacy, resilience, self-management, and decision-making etc.); children’s participation rights and empowerment.