So What Have We Learnt From Our Research in 2026?
Join our webinar as we share highlights from recent research studies exploring children and young people's mental health, and what the findings mean for prevention and support.
About this webinar
Join us as we unpack our key research findings from the last 12 months. We will share highlights from recent studies exploring challenges and opportunities in supporting children and young people’s mental health. Then we will explore how insights from our research have direct relevance for practice and policy.
After the presentations, the researchers, young people, parents and carers on our panel will reflect with our audience on the implications of these findings.
This webinar celebrates the launch of the Evidence Based Practice Unit’s 2026 ‘Key findings’ booklet, which attendees will be invited to download.
Our ‘So What?’ webinar series
The So What? webinar series builds the bridge between evidence and practice in children and young people’s mental health. Each webinar, we ask "So what does this mean?" in response to research findings, project outcomes and the work of our collaborators.
Who is this webinar for?
This webinar is suitable for anyone interested children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing. This includes researchers, policymakers and practitioners working in mental health services, schools and colleges and community settings. Young people, parents and carers are also welcome to join us.
Speakers
Jess Deighton
Director of the Evidence Based Practice Unit and Director of Research at Anna Freud
Julian Edbrooke-Childs
Director of the Evidence Based Practice Unit and Head of Evaluation at Anna Freud
Tanya Lereya
Senior Research Fellow
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Introduction from Jess Deighton
Key findings summary, presented by Jess Deighton and Julian Edbrooke-Childs
Recent findings from Growing up in the 2020s, presented by Tanya Lereya
Q&A panel with speakers along with parent and young champions
Closing remarks from Jess Deighton
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Professor Jess Deighton
Jess Deighton is Director of the Research Division at Anna Freud, Director of the Evidence Based Practice Unit and Professor in Child Mental Health and Wellbeing at UCL. Her expertise focuses on the evaluation of programmes to support children’s mental wellbeing, factors that promote resilience and the interplay between mental wellbeing and educational outcomes.
Professor Julian Edbrooke-Childs
Julian Edbrooke-Childs is Director of the Evidence Based Practice Unit. He is Head of Evaluation in the Research Division at Anna Freud and Professor in Evidence-Based Child and Adolescent Mental Health at UCL. Julian’s research focuses on empowering young people to actively manage their mental wellbeing and mental health care, with an emphasis on social inequalities.
Dr Tanya Lereya
Tanya Lereya is a Senior Research Fellow at Anna Freud. Her work focuses on quantitative research. She has a PhD from the University of Warwick and her thesis focused on the precursors and consequences of bullying.
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