Emily is a Research Fellow in the Evidence Based Practice Unit at the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families and UCL. Her research interests include child and adolescent mental health, parenting, and mixed methods research. Emily’s doctoral research at UCL focused on qualitatively exploring the experience of being the parent of an adolescent diagnosed with depression. Before starting her PhD, Emily worked as a research assistant on three large research projects, one called the Child Outcomes Research Consortium (CORC) based at the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families, and two at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health: the Meningococcal Outcomes Study in Adolescents and In Children (MOSAIC) and a randomised controlled trial of a Healthy Eating and Lifestyle Programme (HELP) for adolescents and their families.