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Core
Our core projects stem from our three research themes and three cross-cutting themes
Health, education and social care utilisation and costs across the life course for children with additional or high needs
Dates: January 2024 - June 2026
Leads: Professor Matt Sutton and Professor Ruth Gilbert
Access to services related to adolescent mental health
Dates: January 2024 - June 2026
Leads: Dr Ruth Blackburn and Dr Dan Lewer
Identifying young carers and levels of support
Dates: January 2024 - June 2026
Leads: Dr Claire Powell and Professor Jenny Woodman
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
How can we use the data on child development age two in the Community Services dataset?
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.
Updating the Best start in speech, language and communication (SLC) gov.uk guidance
Dates May 2026 - March 2027
Leads: Professor Jenny Woodman & Professor Cristina McKean
Patterns of health visiting contacts and child development in England 2020 - 2024
Dates May 2025 - July 2026
Leads: Professor Jenny Woodman & Dr Louise McGrath-Lone
Parents' experiences of shared decision-making in the care of critically ill children
Dates: February 2025 - October 2025
Leads: Professor Jenny Woodman & Professor Lorna Fraser (KCL)
Start for Life Outcomes Framework: identifying candidate indicators
Dates: May 2024 - September 2024
Lead: Professor Jenny Woodman
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
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