Institute for Education Policy Research

Children's Drawing: Development and teaching

Richard Jolley has led the programme of work in children's drawing, supported by two grants from the Leverhulme Foundation. His main collaborators within the Centre for Educational Psychology Research have been David Galbraith and Claire Barlow.

Recent Publications

• Barlow, C. M., Jolley, R. P., White, D. G. and Galbraith, D. (2003) 'Rigidity in children's drawings and its relation with representational change', Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 86: 124-152.
• Bekhitt, N. S., Thomas, G. V. and Jolley, R. P. (2005) 'The use of drawing for psychological assessment in Britain: Survey findings', Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice 78: 1-14.
• Bekhitt, N. S., Thomas, G. V., Lolande, S. and Jolley, R. P. (2002) 'Psychological assessment in clinical practice in Britain', Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy 9: 285-291.
• Jolley, R. P., Fenn, K. and Jones, L. (2004) 'The development of children's expressive drawing', British Journal of Developmental Psychology 22: 545-567.
• Jolley, R. P. and Vulic-Prtoric, A. (2001) 'Croatian children's experience of war is not reflected in the size and placement of emotive topics in their drawings', British Journal of Clinical Psychology 40: 107-110.