Projects

Core

Our core projects stem from our three research themes and three cross-cutting themes

Inequalities in health trajectories to adulthood of vulnerable adolescents

Dates: July 2022 - December 2023
Lead: Professor Ruth Gilbert

Access to primary care

Dates: January 2022 - December 2023
Lead: Professor Steve Morris

Domestic abuse and mental health of parents and children

Dates: October 2021 - September 2023
Lead: Professor Gene Feder

Start for Life: Tackling inequalities in child development at age 2

Dates: January 2022 - December 2023
Leads: Professor Jane Barlow and Dr Jenny Woodman

Chronic health conditions, school absence and attainment

Dates: September 2021 - August 2023
Leads: Professor Ruth Gilbert and Dr Ruth Blackburn

Early intervention for mental health of 10–16 year olds: examining the impact of funded area-level interventions across England

Dates: April 2019 – March 2022
Lead: Dr Jess Deighton

Development of core outcome sets for family and child-focused interventions for child maltreatment and domestic violence 

Dates: April 2019 – September 2021
Leads: Professor Gene Feder and Dr Emma Howarth 

Measuring costs and cost effectiveness to inform family interventions for child maltreatment or adversity, or domestic violence or abuse

Dates: April 2019 – September 2021
Lead: Professor Steve Morris

Variation in mental and physical health of children with learning disability or autism, their mothers and siblings

Dates:  February 2019 – January 2022
Lead: Dr Pia Hardelid

Rapid response

Projects carried out in rapid response to evidence need by our responsive facility.

Measuring child development at the 2-2½ year health review in England: available tools, stakeholder priorities and feasibility of implementation 

Dates: October 2022 - September 2023
Lead: Dr Jenny Woodman

Promoting safer sleeping for babies in high risk groups in England

Dates: January - December 2022
Lead: Professor Jane Barlow

A review of the effectiveness of community-based and out of education interventions in promoting the mental health and wellbeing of 11–25 year-olds

Dates: June 2022 - November 2022
Lead: Professor Jessica Deighton

Assessing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on vulnerable children 

Dates:  July 2020 - September 2021
Lead: Professor Ruth Gilbert

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on services from pregnancy through age 5 years for families who are high risk or have complex social needs

Dates:  April 2020 - July 2020
Lead: Professor Jane Barlow

How can we use the community services dataset (CSDS) for research into health visiting?

Dates:  March 2020 - August 2020
Lead: Dr Jenny Woodman

Dyslexia and allied reading difficulties and their relationship with mental health problems

Dates:  February 2020 - April 2020
Lead: Professor Jess Deighton

What do young people with multiple long-term conditions and carers of children with complex care needs regard as important areas of research?

Dates:  May 2019 - December 2019
Lead: Dr Erin Walker