黑料吃瓜网

• Child development
• Family psychology
• Clinical and counselling psychology
• Quantitative research
• Qualitative research

• PGCE: Birmingham City University
• PhD: Developmental Psychology, Middle East Technical University
• MA: Clinical Psychology, 陌stanbul Bilgi University
• BA: Psychology, Bo臒azi莽i University

International Association of Applied Psychology - Member, 2026 - Present

Society for Research in Child Development

• Student and Early Career Council Member, 2023-2027
• International Affairs Committee Member, 2023-2027
• Member, 2019-2020; 2022-Present

Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health

• West Midlands Committee Member, 2026鈥揚resent
• Member, 2023鈥揚resent

Dr Akay co-leads the following undergraduate modules:

• PSY 6116 Intellectual Disabilities, Developmental Disorders, and Mental Health
• PSY 6107 Counselling Psychology

She also supervises BSc and MSc students on the following courses:

• BSc (Hons) Psychology
• BSc (Hons) Psychology and Counselling
• BSc (Hons) Psychology with Criminology
• MSc Applied Child Psychology
• MSc Counselling Children and Young People
• MSc Psychology (online)

• Parenting, parent-child relationships
• Family dynamics
• Child well-being and psychopathology
• Nanny-child relationship
• Grandparenting
• Father involvement
• Intergenerational transmission of psychopathology
• Impact of developing technologies on families
• Migration and parenting

• Birmingham City University - PhD in Psychology (1 student)
  Exploring the Psychological and Social Influences on Postnatal Depression in the Digital Age
  Second Supervisor

• Birmingham City University - PhD in Computing (1 student)
  Understanding the Role of Immersive Technologies in Community-Driven Approaches to Support Maternal Mental Health
  Second Supervisor

Recent publications

Oliveira, P., Vaillancourt, K., Gin茅, A., Akay, N., Barlow, J., & Fearon, P. (2025). Psychosocial interventions for edge of care families in the early years: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 0(0), 1-21.

Turk, F., Acet, P., Karabulut, G., & Akay, N. (2025). Psychometric properties of the Turkish version of the Eating Pathology Symptoms Inventory (EPSI-T). Cogent Psychology, 12(1), 2562870.

Recent conference presentations

Fearon, P., Dainesi, A., Akay, N., & Viding, E. (2026, July 7-9). Behavior genetic perspectives on attachment security and its correlates: Research from across the life span. International Conference on Attachment 2026, Leuven, Belgium.

Akay, N., Samur-Teraman, S. B., Morales De Labra, E., Ozturk, 陌. (2026, July 21-25). Migrant mumpreneurs: Navigating multiple roles and well-being [oral presentation]. 31st International Congress of Applied Psychology, Florence, Italy.

Recent book chapters

Akay, N. & Ebanks, J. (2026). Parental phubbing. In Fullwood, C., Branley-Bell, D., Carter, P., Orchard, L., & Limniou, M. (Eds.), The Palgrave encyclopedia of cyberpsychology. Springer Nature.

艦ahin-Acar, B. & Akay, N. (2024). 脟ocuklukta duygu ve bellek ili艧kisi. In A. Kapucu & F. C. Pala (Eds.), 脟ocukluktan yeti艧kinli臒e duygu ve bili艧 (pp. 54-67). Nobel Akademik Yay谋nc谋l谋k.

Dr Akay was featured at .

Dr Akay has ongoing collaborations with , leading to a co-creation of three workshops and one research study