RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Research ethics and qualitative methods

• Conversation analysis

• Child mental health evaluation of services and interventions

 RESEARCH PROJECTS

• Decision Making in Child Mental Health Assessments: A Pilot Study
•  'Pre-protocol award for Autism research' National Institute for Health Research - £300 (2011) (Ref: RMG62G0289/O'Reilly).
  Michelle O'Reilly
• A qualitative study of the views of clinicians involved on the on-call or acute mental health assessmentof deliberate self harm in children and adolescents. University of Leicester (2010) £1350 Khalid Karim, Hannah Fosker, and Michelle O'Reilly
• MSc Evaluation. UK Research Network (2010) £30,000 Panos Vostanis with Nisha Dogra, Michelle O'Reilly and Khalid Karim

• ESRC Research Governance Project

• Improving quality in patient information sheets for cancer trial   participation
• I am involved in the dissemination process for the project What can schools teach CAMHS
• "Disabling Essentialism": Accountability in Family Therapy: Issues of Disability. Complaints and Child Abuse.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Research Consultant for Leicester NHS Trust CAMHS

 Information on the Language & Interaction Research Assesmbly (LIRA)

http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/health-sciences/about/lira

POSTGRADUATE SUPERVISION

• Khalid Karim: How do care professionals in a child mental health service know what is normal behaviour in adolescents?
• Tania Morris:  Helping Educational Staff to strengthen their Interpersonal Relationships and Communication with 'emotionally needy' pupils.
• Sarah Hogan (Second Supervisor) - Partnerships: Are Children's Services Ready?
• Pallab Majumder (Second Superviser) - Experience of Unaccompanied refugee Minors of their contact with a Tier 3 Specialist Mental Health Service
• Victoria Stafford  (Primary Supervisor) - exploring child psychiatry consultations utilising a conversation analytic framework.
• Elizabeth Hale Psy D (Secondary Supervisor) - Children of parents with chronic inflammatory musculoskeletal diseases: Experiences,needs and resources.

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

• Module leader for Module  3 (Research methods in child mental health) of the MSc in child mental health
• Research consultancy for clinical staff in CAMHS
• Guest teaching for:
  • MSC in Health Studies
  • DClinPsy - Clinical Doctorate, Clinical Psycholgy
  • MRes in Applied Health Research

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

O'Reilly, M., Vostanis, P., Taylor, H., Day, C., Street, C., and Wolpert, M. (in press). Service user perspectives of multi-agency working: A qualitative study with parents and children with educational and mental health difficulties. Child and Adolescent Mental Health, X, XXX 

Parker, N. and O'Reilly, M. (2012). Gossiping' as a social action in family therapy: The pseudo-absence and pseudo-presence of children. Discourse Studies, 14 (6) XX 

Parker, N. and O'Reilly, M. (2012, in press) "We are alone in the house": A Case Study Addressing Researcher Safety and Risk. Qualitative Research in Psychology, X-XX

O'Reilly, M. and Parker, N. (2012 - in press) "She needs a smack in the gob": negotiating what is appropriate talk in front of children in family therapy. Journal of Family Therapy X XX

O'Reilly, M., Cook, L., and Karim, K. (2012 - in press). Complementary or controversial care? The opinions of professionals on complementary and alternative interventions for Autistic Spectrum Disorder. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, X XX

O'Reilly, M and Parker, N. (2012 - in press). Unsatisfactory Saturation': A critical exploration of the notion of saturated sample sizes in qualitative research. Qualitative Research X XX

O'Reilly, M. Parker, N. and Hutchby, I. (2011 - in press). Ongoing processes of managing consent: the empirical ethics of using video-recording in clinical practice and research. Clinical ethics, X-XX

O'Reilly,M., Karim K.,Taylor,H., and Dogra, N (2011-in press) Parent and child views on anonymity: I've got nothing to hide'. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, X XX

O’Reilly, M., Dogra, N. Williams, R., Edwards, R., and Vostanis, P. (2010). Turning policy into practice: an evaluation for and delivery of education and training for the staff of specialist child and adolescent mental health services in England. Evidence and Policy, 6 (4), 505-525

Hutchby, I. and O’Reilly, M. (2010). Children’s participation and the familial moral order in family therapy. Discourse Studies, 12 (1), 49-64.

Yadav, V., O’Reilly, M. and Karim, K. (2010). Secondary school transition: does mentoring help ‘at risk’ children? Community Practitioner, 83 (4), 24-28.

O’Reilly, M., Armstrong, N. and Dixon-Woods, M. (2009). Subject positions in Research Ethics Committee letters: A discursive analysis. Clinical Ethics, 4, 187-194.

O’Reilly, M., Dixon-Woods, M., Angell, E., Ashcroft, R., and Bryman, A. (2009). Doing accountability: A discourse analysis of Research Ethics Committee letters. Sociology of Health and Illness. 31 (2), 246-291.

O’Reilly, M., Taylor, H., and Vostanis, P. (2009). “Nuts, schiz, psycho”: an exploration of young homeless people’s perceptions and dilemmas of defining mental health. Social Science and Medicine, 68, 1737 - 1744

O’Reilly, M. (2008). ‘What value is there in children’s talk?’ Investigating family therapist’s interruptions of parents and children during the therapeutic process. Journal of Pragmatics. 40: 507-524.

O’Reilly, M. (2008). “I didn’t violent punch him”: Parental accounts of punishing children with mental health problems. Journal of Family Therapy. 30: 272-295.

Edwards, R., Williams, R., Dogra, N., O’Reilly, M., and Vostanis, P. (2008). Facilitating and limiting factors of training available to staff of Specialist CAMHS. The Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice, 3 (3), 22-31.

O’Reilly, M. (2007). Who’s a naughty boy then? Accountability, family therapy and the ‘naughty’ child. The Family Journal: Counseling and therapy for couples and families. 15 (3): 234-243.

Giordano, J., O’Reilly, M., Taylor, H., and Dogra, N. (2007). Confidentiality and autonomy: The challenge(s) of offering research participants a choice of disclosing their identity. Qualitative Health Research. 17 (2): 264-275.

O’Reilly, M. (2006). Should children be seen and not heard? An examination of how children’s interruptions are treated in family therapy. Discourse Studies. 8 (4): 549-566.

Johnson, R., O’Reilly, M., and Vostanis, P. (2006). Caring for children with learning disability who present problem behaviours: a maternal perspective. Journal of Child Health Care 10 (3): 188-198.

O’Reilly, M. (2005). The complaining client and the troubled therapist: A Discursive investigation of family therapy.  Journal of Family Therapy 27: 371-393.

O’Reilly, M. (2005). Active Noising: The use of noises in talk, the case of onomatopoeia, abstract sounds and the functions they serve in therapy. TEXT 25 (6): 745-761.

O’Reilly, M. (2005). “What seems to be the problem?” A myriad of terms for mental health and behavioural concerns. Disability Studies Quarterly. 25 (4) (online journal article) www.dsq-sds.org

Anderson, L., Vostanis, P., and O’Reilly, M. (2005). "Three-year follow-up of a family support service cohort of children with behavioural problems and their parents" Child Care, Health & Development. 31 (4): 469-477.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS 

O'Reilly, M., Parker, N., Stafford, V., and Karim, K. (2012). "I think the University is doing some project": The challenge of convincing the NHS of the value of CA. Paper presented at 'Discourse, communication, conversation: An anniversary conference' March Conference. Loughborough: Loughborough University. PDF 

O'Reilly, M. and Parker, N. (2011). 'The invisible paradigm war': civil unrest within qualitative inquiry and the problems of sample saturation. Paper presented at '7th International Mixed Methods Conference; June Conference': Leeds: Leeds University. PDF

O'Reilly, M. (2008). Getting ethics approval: A study on Research Ethics Committees' responses. Paper presented at 'The Research Fair': October Fair in conjunction with Leicestershire NHS Trust. PDF



O'Reilly, M. (2007). Constructing children's half-membership through question-answer sequences in family therapy. Paper presented at 'Conversation Analysis of Questions and Answers: December conference', Loughborough University. PDF



O'Reilly, M. (2006). Methodology, epistemology and ontology: a micro investigation of the natural versus artificial debate. Paper presented at 'Mixed Methods in Health Care: July conference' Cambridge, HSHS: Fitzwilliam college.



O'Reilly, M. and Taylor, H. (2006). 'T' be 'onest wiv ya: Explorations of orientations to honesty in the face of authority figures. Paper presented at 'International Conference on Conversation Analysis: May conference: Helsinki University. PDF



Anderson, L., Vostanis, P. and O'Reilly, M. (2005). 'Three Year Follow-Up of a Family Support Service Cohort of Children with Behavioural Problems and their Parents: Parental perspectives.' Poster presented at Faculty of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residential Meeting': The Royal College of Psychiatrists. September Conference: Harrogate International Centre.

O'Reilly, M. (2005). 'What Seems to be the Problem? Locating the Child as the Problem in Family Therapy'. Paper presented at 'The Research Fair': June Fair in conjunction with Leicestershire NHS Trust.

Anderson, L., Vostanis, P. and O'Reilly, M. (2005). "Three-year follow-up of a family support service cohort of children with behavioural problems and their parents" Poster presented at 'The Royal College of Psychiatrists Annual Meeting'. June Conference: Edinburgh International Centre.

O'Reilly, M. (2003). The Complaining Client and the Troubled Therapist. Paper presented at 'The Research Fair': December fair in conjunction with Leicestershire NHS Trust. PDF



O'Reilly, M. (2001). 'Accidental Violence': Constructing Disability and Responsibility in Family Therapy. Paper presented at 'language and therapeutic interaction: International Conference in Discourse Analysis and Conversation Analysis.' August Conference: Brunel University.