ARC ROLE

Principal Investigator 

PROFESSIONAL ROLE

Research Fellow, City, St George's, University of London

EXPERTISE AND INTERESTS

Fiona is a Research Fellow in the School of Health & Psychological Sciences. Her current work focuses on brief solution focused approaches to promote wellbeing amongst school students and staff. She also recently worked on a study adapting the video feedback intervention for positive parenting (VIPP) for mothers using perinatal mental health services. She is interested in child and adolescent mental health, particularly children with experiences of trauma or adversity, and the professionals who work with them.
Prior to joining City, Fiona worked on several research projects at the Anna Freud National Centre for Children & Families, University of Hertfordshire, and St. George’s University of London, with children and the professionals surrounding them in social care, CAMHS and education. She completed her PhD at University College London, which explored psychoanalytic ways of working with children living in foster care.