Dr Michelle O'Reilly
Associate Professor - University of Leicester, United Kingdom
Email: mjo14@le.ac.uk
Profile
Dr Michelle O’Reilly (BSc [hons], MSc, MA, PhD, PGCAPHE, SFHEA, C.Psychol, AFBPsS) is an Associate Professor of Communication in Mental Health at the University of Leicester and a Research Consultant and Quality Improvement Advisor for Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust. Michelle is also a Chartered Psychologist in Health and a visiting lecturer at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.
Research
Publications
There are over 150 of these but some of the relevant recent ones are:
O’Reilly, M., Levine, D., Adams, S., Batchelor, R., and Sinclair, N. (in press). Schrödinger’s cat and digital empathy: How primary school children understand and respond to others’ feelings in online spaces. Children & Society,
Celik, H.C., and O’Reilly, M. (in press). Exploring the challenges and difficulties experienced by survivors of the Kahramanmaras earthquake in Türkiye: A qualitative examination. Natural Hazards,
O’Reilly, M., Adams, S., Cumper, P., and Onyejekwe, K. (in press). Teaching children about ‘toxic relationships’ in Relationship and Sex Education: Children aged 10-11-years old and teachers’ perspectives in England. Pastoral Care in Education,
Levine, D., O’Reilly, M., Adams, S., and Batchelor, R. (in press). How might children’s online experiences be understood through a digital ethics of care framework? Technology, Pedagogy and Education,
O’Reilly, M., Kiyimba, N., and Levine, D. (2025). Promoting a digital ethics of care: A digital cognitive interruption to facilitate UK adolescent empathy in online spaces. Journal of Children and Media, 19(2), 307-326
O’Reilly, M., Levine, D., Batchelor, R., and Adams, S. (2024). Digital ethics of care and digital citizenship in UK primary schools: Children as interviewers. Journal of Children and Media,18(4), 585-604