A clinical psychologist by background, Professor Miranda Wolpert's work focuses on improvement and prevention science combined with social entrepreneurship. She is committed to understanding how best to support and evaluate effective service delivery to promote resilience and meet children and young people’s mental health needs, including the development of online, digital and face-to-face tools and training resources for young people, carers and practitioners.

Professor Wolpert is Professor of Evidence Based Practice at UCL, and Director of the Evidence Based Practice Unit, a service development and academic unit across UCL and the Centre which works to bridge evidence and practice in child mental health.

Professor Wolpert is also Director of Innovation, Evaluation and Dissemination at the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families. The programme works on four streams of work; Resilience Research and Evaluation, Digital Development and Evaluation, Innovation and Dissemination, and the Child Outcomes Research Consortium (CORC). 

Professor Wolpert is 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 mental health and wellbeing. Members include mental health service providers, schools, professional bodies and research institutions from across Europe and beyond.

In her other roles, Miranda is National Informatics Advisor for Children and Young People’s Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (CYP IAPT) with NHS England, Consultant Clinical Psychologist at Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust, and Children and Young People Mental Health Clinical Pathway Lead at UCL Partners.