Research
Child mental health problems - risks, protective factors and psychological interventions to reduce distress.
Intergenerational transmission of risk or resilience for psychopathology; parenting, mental health and child development; Perinatal psychology; Social, emotional and biological risks in emergent conduct disorders; Evaluation and development of psychological interventions to help vulnerable families; Shared and distinctive risk and protective factors for mental health problems across cultures.
Perinatal and Parental mental health problems - risks, protective factors and psychological interventions to reduce distress.
Shared and distinctive risks for mental health problems in Uk and South Asia.
Research groups
Research grants
ESMI-II: The Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness of Community Perinatal Mental Health Services
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK)
June 2019 - May 2023
Children Growing up in Liverpool (C-GULL)
WELLCOME TRUST (UK)
October 2020 - December 2029
NIHR ARC 2 national social care implementation projects
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK), LCCG - LIVERPOOL CLINICAL COMMISSIONING GROUP (UK)
October 2019 - March 2026
Evaluating RSA reactivity as a moderator of environmental adversity for child and adolescent mental health
MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY (UK)
April 2022 - June 2022
Psychological, social & biological predictors of child mental health and development: shared and distinctive risk and protective factors in UK & India
MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
July 2019 - March 2025
Team of Life: A narrative approach to building resilience in UK school children
HEALTH EDUCATION ENGLAND (UK)
March 2016 - August 2017
Psychosocial and nutritional predictors of child mental health: longitudinal study of shared and distinctive risk and protective factors in UK & India. MRC-ICMR
DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND SKILLS (UK)
October 2015 - April 2019
Pragmatic in-service evaluation of Mellow Parenting Program: a pilot study.
WIRRAL AND WEST CHESHIRE COMMUNITY NHS TRUST (UK)
May 2001 - May 2003
Prenatal and infancy origins of biological and social-cognitive processes in disruptive behaviour problems in children aged 7 - 9 years.
MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
August 2014 - January 2020
Predicting the development of early aggressive behaviour: pathways to reactive aggression and callous unemotional responding.
CHESHIRE AND WIRRAL PARTNERSHIP NHS FOUNDATION TRUST (UK)
September 2011 - December 2020
A pilot study of the new intervention for hard to treat children with conduct disorders.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK)
September 2003 - December 2006
Research collaborations
Dr Claire Hughes
University of Cambridge
Collaborator on MRC grant
Prof Micheal Meaney
McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Respiratory Research Group
University of Manchester, UK
Dr Rachel Calam
University of Manchester, UK
Professor Adrian Angold
Duke University
collaborator on longitudinal MRC grant
John Quinn
Collaborator on MRC grant
Professor Vivette Glover
Imperial College London
Collaborator on MRC funded study advisor on maternal and infant cortisol reactivity and HPA axis function
Professor Dale Hay
University of Cardiff
Collaborator on MRC funded study
Prof Andrew Pickles
Institute of Psychiatry, University of London
Co-investigator on MRC grants
Prof Jonathan Hill
University of Manchester, UK
Multiple collaborative grants, submissions and other unfunded research