Bio

Professor Miranda Wolpert MBE

Miranda Wolpert is a Professor in Evidence Based Practice and Research at the Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology at University College London (UCL). Her work focuses on the mental health, resilience and wellbeing of children and young people.

Miranda is the Founder and Director of the Evidence Based Practice Unit (EBPU), which bridges research and practice in child mental health as a collaboration between UCL and child mental health charity, the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families. She is also the Co-Founder and Director of the Child Outcomes Research Consortium (CORC), the UK’s leading membership organisation that collects and uses evidence to improve children and young people’s wellbeing.

Increasingly, Miranda Wolpert’s work focuses on prevention and early intervention for mental health difficulties in young people, including measuring mental health and wellbeing in schools and colleges and developing and trialling interventions in schools and colleges to support better working between agencies, increase mental health literacy and enhance best models of support and management.

Miranda advises the Department of Health on research evidence to inform policy as part of the  Children’s Policy Research Unit and the Mental Health Policy Research Unit, and advises UCLPartners on child mental health. She is also the National Informatics Advisor on Child and Adolescent Mental Health for NHS England.

In 2017, Miranda was awarded an MBE for founding EBPU, co-founding CORC and for services to child and adolescent mental health.

For a full list of academic publications, please click here. For a full list of publications and resources for professionals, families and young people, click here.

Charlotte Payne

Charlotte Payne is Miranda’s Wolpert’s Assistant. She works primarily on consultancy project management, client liaison and editing.

Charlotte is also Miranda’s PA and Project Coordinator at the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families and works with Miranda across her roles at CORC, the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families, UCL and NHS England.

Before working with Miranda, Charlotte was an Early Years and Key Stage 1 Teacher and worked in the UK and Thailand. In 2014, she joined CORC as Project Officer, working primarily on CORC membership, event coordination and project support.