Our Research Projects
School Wellbeing Project
A 6-week preventative emotional health programme was delivered by MMU students to primary schools across Greater Manchester and delivered to 1,780 pupils across 27 schools.
International Projects
Collaborative research in Brazil, Chile, India, Norway and Canada examining cross-cultural processes in child and parent mental health across multi-generational longitudinal cohort studies.
Breastfeeding & Mental Health
A mixed-methods study exploring the links between breastfeeding experiences and maternal mental health, including genetic risk, epigenetic mechanisms and co-designed trials for parents of premature infants.
Parenting & Endometriosis
Exploring the longitudinal impact of endometriosis on parenting, child mental health, and child development using ALSPAC cohort data.
Adoption, Kinship Care and Family Wellbeing
A developing programme exploring the experiences of children and families affected by early adversity, adoption and kinship care to inform policy and practice.
Wearable Cams and Parent-Child Interactions
Developing novel ways to understand parent-child synchrony in real-time home settings, using wearable cameras and AI-powered emotional analysis to uncover relational signatures in child development.
Wirral Child Health and Development Study
A longitudinal birth cohort of 1,233 families followed from pregnancy to age 16, investigating the earliest origins of mental health problems in children and young people.
Engagement and Involvement of Families as Experts by Experience
Creative, co-produced research that places children, young people and families with lived experience at the centre, shaping our research questions, methods and outputs.