So What Have We Learnt From Our Research in 2026?

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 Camilla Rosan

Dr Camilla Rosan is a consultant clinical psychologist, psychosexual couples therapist and associate professor. She works at Anna Freud leading a clinical research group that focuses on reproductive health, perinatal mental health and health inequalities. She has a particular interest in translating evidence into policy and service improvements. She is currently the Chair of the BPS Faculty of Perinatal Psychology.

Dr Larissa Pople

Dr Larissa Pople is a Senior Research Fellow and Survey Manager at UCL’s Centre for Longitudinal Studies. She has over 20 years’ experience conducting and managing research with children and young people, having previously held research roles at The Children’s Society, UNICEF and the Police Foundation. Her expertise includes survey and qualitative research with children, and measuring child-reported socioeconomic disadvantage, family relationships and subjective wellbeing - the focus of her PhD. She has also taught survey design and statistics modules at UCL and the University of Essex.

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