Dr Connie Buckingham (PhD) is a research supervisor with the Educational and Developmental Psychology Masters Program at the University of Melbourne. Each year Connie works with Masters students to engage in formal research to continually examine the impact of Social Stencil in schools.
2025 Research Projects
Listening to Neurodivergent Adolescents: Experiences and Insights from a Social-Emotional Learning Program.
Research Student: Tarsha Nowell
Outcomes to be published this month.
Evaluating the Impact of Social Stencil
Research Student: Azul Hussain
Outcomes to be published this month.
Social Stencil has been evaluated across Victorian Schools as part of funded Department of Education Projects annually, since 2019. These results will be compiled and published in the coming year. Email connie@socialstencil.com if you would like to discuss these outcomes prior to release.
Connie’s PhD thesis examined the Impact of an early version of Social Stencil as part of her PhD. This study examined the impact of teaching social-emotional skills over 12 weeks in classrooms. The results indicated that;
students improved in encoding social cues (visual and auditory/overt and subtle).
students that choose submissive problem solving strategies pre-intervention, choose help-seeking strategies post-intervention.
students that choose help-seeking problem solving strategies pre-intervention, choose assertive strategies post-intervention.
students that choose assertive problem solving strategies pre-intervention, choose assertive strategies post-intervention.
All students increased in positive, helpful self-talk post-intervention
Buckingham, C (2020). Evaluating a Universal Social Information Processing Skills Program for Girls: The Friendship Saver Program. University of Melbourne.
